Books and Helpful Items

Our two free guides:

For the patent searching guide click here.

For the guide to preparing your product presentation

click here.

 

Inventing On a Shoestring Budget!

Insider Tips for Bringing Your Product to Market without Breaking the Bank!

· How to maximize your chances for success!

· Where to find free help!

· How to pace your expenditures!

· How to get the most out of your invention budget!

· Whom you can trust and whom you can't!

· Where to find money to help pursue your invention!

· Tips for toy inventors!

· Plus…almost $1000 dollars in coupons for discounts on essential inventor services!

What industry leaders have to say about Inventing on a Shoestring Budget! . . .

“Inventing on a Shoestring Budget™ is a most comprehensive and well-planned guide for inventors!  It addresses every possible topic an inventor needs to consider during each phase of product development, and is written in a clear, easy-to-understand format.  I especially enjoyed the chapter on “Bargains and Freebies;” show me one gal that doesn't love a bargain!  Mary and Barb truly did the groundwork to help you succeed.  Purchase this book, and you will not need any other reference guide – AND – you will save money on your Project!”

- Edie Tolchin

EGT Global Trading

Inventor Resource

“This book is a MUST HAVE for every inventor's bookshelf and workshop.  In my 35 years of dealing with inventors, this is the one to read.”

- Ronald E. Brown, President

Patent Search International

“I think that the book is a ‘must read' for independent inventors, especially for those with a minimum of inventing experience and also, for those that want to do as much of the process as possible to save money.  I think that inventor groups across the country would be wise to promote the book to their members as the easy-to-read book provides basic and essential inventing knowledge from concept to market/licensing.”

- George Burkhardt

Inventor, Technology Advocates of San Antonio

“ Inventing on a Shoestring Budget!™ tells the inventor, in simple language, how to evaluate an idea, how to protect it, and how to get it to market without going broke.  The book tells inventors where they can cut corners and where they mustn't, where to find trusted cost-effective resources and how to steer clear of ‘get rich quick' scams.  Inventing on a Shoestring Budget!™ is the essential resource for every successful inventor.”

- Alan Beckley, Business Consultant, SBDC of Plano , TX ,

Former President, Texas Inventors' Association

Inventor, Savvy Caddy®

“As with your previous book, The Everything Inventions & Patents Book, I have found this book exceedingly reader friendly and inventor helpful.  It nails the issues squarely and to the point, while maintaining a very supportive and ‘can-do' tone, which all of us need to hear, especially when the going gets rough.”

- Carol Oldenburg

Administrator, United Inventors Association

“The ‘Sisters of Inventing' have really done it this time!  Barbara Pitts and Mary Sarao have reduced the complex world of inventing down to a series of practical steps that anyone could follow.  At every step, they give crucial information on how to proceed in the most economical way – and you'll be surprised how little money is needed.  Inventing on a Shoestring Budget! i s an amazing piece of work that I highly recommend to anyone who is or wants to be an inventor.”

-     Randall Landreneau

President, Final Phase Product Placement

Former President, Tampa Bay Inventor's Council

Buy this book at your local bookstore or on Amazon!

#2

The Everything "Inventions and Patents" Book

This handy, accessible book gives you all you need to know to move forward with your great idea. Buy it at your local bookstore or on Amazon!

FREE GUIDES

Patent Searching Guide

Super Easy Guide to Step-by-Step Patent Searching Online

Did you try to do an online patent search but found the process difficult and confusing? Many people have written to us complaining about how un-user friendly the USPTO website is to novice inventors. We have the answer! We have compiled a very complete simple-to-understand guide for doing an online patent search. It tells you how to navigate your way around the site to find the very information you need in an easy to understand step-by-step way.  After you have "Your GREAT idea", the first thing you must do is a preliminary patent search to be certain that it has not been patented previously. This is a MUST HAVE guide for novice inventors!  Get it now and get started! We offer this guide FREE . . .our gift to you!  We hope it helps you to protect your great idea. If you would like to receive your copy click on the link listed above.   Compelling Presentations

Create a Compelling Presentation

You have your prototype, your patent has been granted or is in progress and you are ready to present your product to prospective licensees. What now? We offer the ultimate guide to preparing a compelling presentation. It provides you with the format, the step-by-step instructions, the questions to ask and answer and a sample successful presentation. (The sample we include got two large manufacturers in a 'bidding war' for the invention!) Make your presentation the BEST it can be!  It could make the difference between having your product licensed, or not. If you would like to receive your copy click on the link at the top of this page. If you are looking for a legitimate licensing agent to represent your product, toy or game with prospective licensees we can help (and steer you clear of the scam artists who are so prevalent in this industry!).  You will find information on how to contact legitimate agents by click on the "Licensing Referrals" link on the left.

 

Free Publicity - by Jeff Crilley

Free publicity!  An inventors dream!  Now, thanks to Jeff Crilley , a Dallas, Texas TV reporter, the things previously known only by insiders in the newsrooms about how to get free publicity, are available to all of us.  What a treasure this is!  This book is a 'must have' for inventors and it pays for itself many times over the first time you use it. Price: $ 12.95 Purchase Via Amazon Click Here to Purchase Now!

How to License Your Million Dollar Idea - Harvey Reese

In this book, successful new product developer Harvey Reese reveals his system for creating commercially profitable ideas and his secrets for turning them into lucrative licensing agreements. It shows how to exploit your idea without risking your own money, explains the licensing process, offers examples, includes sample patent forms, and more. This revised edition covers changes in patent law and technology and includes an appendix of publications, forms, organizations, and contact information Price: $ 19.95 Purchase Via Amazon Click Here to Purchase Now!