FREE Stuff

FREE Stuff contains resources to help Open Innovation Inventors - from us and other great sources

We're constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help innovators accelerate their ideas.  Whether that means we create them or we find others that are great - here's where you'll find some of the best free things we can find to help you through your innovation efforts.

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Business Translation Workshop

Learn how to turn your existing product idea or technology into more profitable innovation offerings.  This free online video workshop takes teachs you both how to describe your invention so that others understand it's value and how to think about it's business potential.   Do the FREE online workshop >

TechMining101.com

One of our allianced connections - the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a division of the National Instutute of Standards and Technologies - has collected a short list of great sites for finding technologies to spark your open innovation efforts.  See the full list >


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Ready to be an Entrepreneur?

The Entrepreneurial Readiness Assessment survey that evaluates your personal readiness level as an entrepreneur.  "As they say, many entrepreneurs have great ideas, but only those that combine them with the true ability to lead a business end up triumphant."  Take the Assessment >

 

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Understanding Patents,™ and ©

Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights are an inventor's best friend for protecting ideas.  This is a great site for learning how they work and how to get them.  Visit Business.gov>

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Jump Start Your Business Brain

The Jump Start Your Business Brain Audio Book teaches you how to communicate your idea so that others understand it and buy into it.  Listen to Jump Start Your Business Brain >

 

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Great Aspirations! Parent Training

Ideas and Encouragement to Help You and Your Children.  Written and narrated by Doug Hall.  Listen to Great Aspirations! >

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"Nay-Say Proof" Your Idea

Chick Thompson is one of the brightest minds in the world of innovation.  If you're looking for a keynote speaker on innovation, there are none better.  HIs e-book, "Yes, But..." is a classic or how to bullet-proof your idea from the nay sayers.  Download "Yes, But..." >

 

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Jump Start Your Marketing Brain

The Jump Start Your Marketing Brain Learning Excerpts are, "50,000 volts of ideas and advice designed to guide business owners and managers toward smarter systems of marketing thinking.  

Chapter 1:  Marketing Strategy:  Marketing Strategy myths and misconceptions are exposed and NEW SYSTEMS of strategic thinking are detailed in this extensive review of what really drives marketing success.  Download Marketing Strategy Excerpts >

Chapter 2:  Marketing Message:  The focus here is on how to create more Meaningful Marketing Messages - the kinds of markeitng messages that generate significant, sustained success in the marketplace.  Download Marketing Message Excerpts >

Chapter 3:  Mindless Marketing:  Here you will find a collection of Persuasion Tricks that are very effective at persuading customers to do that which they don't consciously choose to do.  Just understand that customers who come to you mindlessly will also leave just as mindlessly.  In effect, you are renting customers. Download Mindless Marketing Excerpts >

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