Let us take an example. I would like to give you an example of where to look for a new product idea, after which you will begin to see possibilities in every corner of your surroundings. Let us take a look at our cutleries like forks, spoons, cups, plates and glasses. When you have guests, you will normally offer them tea and coffee. You will normally wash and rinse the cups and plates before serving them. Sometimes, you might have to wipe them off with a table cloth.
The purpose is of course to clean it before you use them to serve your guests.
However, it is not always that you have clean cups after all the rinsing, and wiping because the
water or the cloth might have already being contaminated. I would
like to propose a secondary method of further cleaning of these
cutleries. Let me propose a portable oven like contraption that you
will place all the cutleries into.
This contraption has an electrically run ultra violet lamp.
Its main purpose is to expose all the cutleries for a
minute or two so that all the pathogens (germs and bacteria) can be
killed. It will render your cutleries doubly clean, so that when you use
them to serve your guest that cup of tea or coffee, you are confident
that your guest will not go home with stomach acres (assuming that
the other snacks are hygienically safe).
Further more, you can also
place the foodstuffs in this contraption for sanitizing, just like the
cutleries. The proposed contraption is a simple device with an
electrical wired violet light lamp and can be produced without much
effort. It uses already known technology. What is new is the concept
of sanitizing those cutleries that you use to serve your guests.
When your guest finds out that you have gone through great efforts to
ensure them safety, they will leave with great appreciation. Just
imagine if this thing take of in homes. It will spread to the other
outlets that serve foodstuffs to people! It could be a billion dollar
business! And you say you have no good idea? Want more ideas? So
you see there are many great possibilities even at places that you
normally take for granted! All you have to do is to use your imagining
power to visualize it. You can do it right in front of your eyes!
In case you still find it hard to come up with fresh ideas, you might
want to consider using advance visualization techniques to sharpen
your mind. Or perhaps you can get yourself a copy of my book
entitled Inventing: the moment before the spark came, which
teaches you how to condition your mind to spark creations. The
book's ISBN is 978-1-4303-1304-5 and is available online at LuLu,
Amazon, BarnsandNoble and Target.
Remember we were talking about those hundreds of suggested ideas
from free ebooks? Well, you can actually use some of those ideas
there as seed ideas. You then use your visualizing powers to turn
those seed ideas into something else. New ideas always come from
existing ideas. Smart people can use their inventiveness to turn a
stale product into an exciting product. So can you.
Products can either be categorized as tangible or intangible ones.
Intangible ones include information ebooks and computer programs
and they are easier to sell because they can be delivered
electronically and instantaneously. There is no shipping cost to talk
about. However, since it is easier to create, there is also more
competition out there. You should get into some niches that have
fewer competitions, or something that is completely new. As like
anything that is marketed through the internet, you will have to get to
terms on things like 'keywords'. We will touch on it later because it is
of great importance.