The process.
One day I was explaining to my daughter the idea that I had for developing a product to shield the heat while using a hood style hair dryer. She bet me that I could not finish the product by the time she was in high school. She was right.
With trying to survive on my income and a small amount of child support from my ex-husband, I really did not have the money to even start thinking about developing a product. I knew that the idea that I was given was golden but the odds were stacked against me in terms of developing, producing and selling a product that didn’t exist.
The question that I had to ask myself was “what must I do with the limited resources that I have?”
First, I had to start searching uspto.gov just to find out if a product like mine existed. I had to read as many books about patents, trademarks and running my business that I could get my hands on. I also enrolled in “how to” classes on running a business etc which also helped tremendously.
When searching the uspto.gov for information, I used every key word that I could think of to describe my product. While searching I praid that no one had come up with the same idea as my product.
After searching uspto.gov, I began to “google” my idea. The name of my idea wasn’t out so I purchased the name of my products’ domain name but during this process I purchased a lot of domains.
At first I would have my son purchase every name that I could think of but he soon grew tired of me calling him so he gave me the instructions on how to purchase my own domains.
Do not believe the saying “It doesn’t take money to make it”. Believe me, it takes some money long before you even start to make any but that is another story.
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