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Greetings!
This issue has part 3 of our great new series called: How Can I Sell My Product. Everyone eventually wants to sell their product and this series will give you a lot of good options for that. Don't miss out on this great information.
We also have part 4 of our taste of Sourcing Smarts. Read this taste to see if Sourcing Smarts is a something you need.
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How Can I Sell My Product? - Part 3
Businesses You have a great idea, you
do the market research, product design, apply for a patent, find a
manufacturer to make your product and then you think: How do I sell my
product? There are many ways to sell products, really you are limited
only by creativity, yet many inventors get stuck in thinking they need
to sell to retailers. What other options are there? We will discuss
some of these options, and which products work best with them, in a
four-part series called How Can I Sell My Product. Read on...
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A Taste of
Sourcing Smarts
Taken from Chapter 2 of "Sourcing
Smarts: Keeping it Simple with China Sourcing and Manufacturing"
by Edie Tolchin, Don Debelak and Eric Debelak, here we address preparing your prototype
for sourcing...
"Perfected"
prototype: You have heard that all you need to begin the
sourcing process are detailed drawings or sketches of your product?
Sometimes yes, but frequently NO! It is always better to have
a perfect prototype to send to China. You have obtained
your Design Evaluation from the safety/testing lab, so why on earth,
after doing the ground work, would you send just the drawings?
If you do, you will spend much time and energy on back-and-forth e-mails,
attempting to convey the intricate details of your product, which unfortunately
a sketch just cannot address. With China sourcing, what you see
is what you get. So, even if you send over a rough prototype,
it will take you many long e-mails trying to explain the modifications
you want done, before placing an order. You will frequently encounter
communication difficulties, as mentioned before. Yes, you most
certainly can hire a translator to list all of the modifications in
Chinese. This is what I would consider a good back-up plan, though
it can be expensive. But the easiest, quickest and most efficient
method for a pleasant sourcing experience is to have a perfect prototype
done in the USA. There are many capable prototype specialists
in all commodities, and many can be found at the website for the United
Inventors Association (www.uiausa.org). USA prototype costs may be
expensive, but will save you money in the long run, thus avoiding the
costly Fedex charges for numerous back-and-forth submissions to and
from China until they get it right, not to mention possible delays in
launching your product, before your prototype is exactly as you want
it.
Stay tuned for more of a
Taste of Sourcing Smarts in our next newsletter! To purchase
"Sourcing Smarts: Keeping it Simple with China Sourcing and Manufacturing"
by Edie Tolchin, Don Debelak and Eric Debelak, go to www.egtglobaltrading.com, www.sourcingsmarts.com, or www.amazon.com.
Here is a picture of Don and Edie at the 2008 Yankee Invention Expo
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