| Feb, 2007 How To Sell
Your Ideas And Earn Royalties
Here is a way to cash-in on your ideas you may never
have thought of but there are people who do nothing
but this and earn lots of passive income!
IMPORTANT:
This report is not meant to replace solid, competent
legal advice, nor is it to be seen as legal advice.
Please seek competent legal counsel before signing or
preparing any legally binding document. The purpose of
this report is for entertainment and informational
purposes only in regard to the subject matter.
Having said that, here’s the way this business generally
works:
If your ideas are unique, some company just may be
willing to pay big bucks for some of them. Let’s talk
about how to protect your ideas to make sure that you
get paid for them.
Your saleable ideas can be something tangible or
intangible. Ideas include such things as mechanical
methods, chemical compounds, designs, works of art,
advertising and business plans, ideas for improving
a design, flavor, etc. of an existing product or
service.
Millions are paid out to idea men each year by various
industries. If your idea will increase production,
increase sales or improve the product they might be
willing to pay substantial money when they accept it
either through a single lump-sum payment or royalties,
or a combination of both.
First, you need to know how to protect the ideas that
you generate. Ideas that are made public by word of
mouth or even in writing become public property unless
you first make an agreement to retain all rights to
the expression of your ideas.
You can further protect the expression of your ideas
through a copyright, trademark or patent, but in most
cases that is not necessary for this plan.
Let’s say that you have an idea for increasing the sales
of an existing product for company XYZ. Write them a
letter similar to this one in duplicate:
SAMPLE:
Gentlemen, I have developed a new idea for increasing
the sales of your product. This new method might not
increase your costs in any manner. If you are interested
in the full details I shall forward them to you upon
receipt of the below signed agreement.
AGREEMENT TO REVIEW IDEA.
We the undersigned agree to receive, in confidence,
full details about an idea for increasing the sales of
widgets as submitted by (your name).
It is further understood that we assume no
responsibility whatever with respect to features which
can be demonstrated to be already known to us. We also
agree not to divulge any details of the idea submitted
without permission of (your name) or to make use of any
feature of information of which (your name) is the
originator without payment of compensation to be fixed
by negotiation with (your name) or his lawful
representative. It is specifically understood that in
receiving the idea of (your name) it will be
reviewed in confidence and within a 30 day period we
will report to (your name) the results of our findings
and will advise whether or not we are interested in
negotiating for
the purchase of the rights to use said idea.
Have them sign both copies and return one to you.
Why would they sign this? Number one, if it is a really
valuable, new idea it could significantly increase their
profits or reduce costs if your idea does both, then
even better!
Once the company has signed this you must submit
complete detailsof your idea to the company. After they
review your idea they must, by law, follow the
instructions of the agreement.
There are a number of people earning a really good
living ($100K+/yr) just thinking of new ways to help
market or improve other people’s products and services!
Some are earning substantial money, $1 Million and more.
Just imagine one small improvement made to an existing
product that pays you just 1 cent per unit in royalties.
If millions of these are sold each year, you’ll make
money non-stop for years to come - all passive income.
The sky is the limit but just be sure that you first get
the agreement signed prior to disclosing your idea or
submitting any details at all. It’s true though, many
companies will be reluctant to sign these agreements,
but those that do can be your path to a whole new
(passive) way to make money.
To increase your chances of having ideas accepted, spend
lots of time preparing complete (and I mean complete)
details before you submit them. This is the key!
Include illustrations of drawings if it’s necessary, or
even complete 3D ‘models’ to help sell your idea or
flow-charts, etc the more professional your presentation
the better your chances are of getting it accepted.
Nick Marks

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