Inventors are often struggling with little or no money to bring their invention to market. This often leaves inventors broke looking for anyone to pay them anything for their idea. When someone else takes their idea and makes millions of dollars, this often leaves those inventors heart broken. Does it need to be like this? Absolutely not. There are many ways for inventors to make money from their idea, even if they have no money to invest.

Working out a fair licensing agreement will take time and money and if you are broke you won't be able to sign a deal that is fair for you. So you need to plan ahead and not leave licensing as a last ditch effort. While it can be much cheaper than producing the product on your own, in some cases very low cost, there are still expenses you need to plan for and it may be a long haul before your product gets licensed. But certainly it is better to struggle with your idea for awhile and get royalties then to sell it for a modest price only to see it become a huge success with billions of dollars in sales.

Shengle and Beltezore had mischievous dogs. They liked to chew about anything thing they could get a hold of. Then Shengle and Beltezore had the idea of freezing food and treats in an ice cream pail with water and leaving them for the dogs to chew. The dogs loved these treats, but they would often drag them everywhere, including into the house. That's when they realized they needed to mount the frozen treats and secure them on a little platform and the Kool Dogz Ice Treat Maker was born.

Well, we are into the New Year and everyone is making resolutions on how to improve in 07. It's time to think about your product and it's packaging too. Just like we do with our mental, emotional and physical aspects of our lives, think about improving and updating your packaging. You want it to mesh with consumer wants and needs. Consumers are a moving target and what worked last year may not work in the years to come.

Here are 10 simple things you can do to ensure your product packaging is on target and delivers the right message to the right audience.

Two services are the survey monkey which is a great way to create surveys and

the sample network is an easy way to reach large groups of target customers.

For more information check out those websites.