Graham Solutions Intro Letter To Inventors & Product Developers
Graham Solutions and www.cargocatch.com not only develop, manufacture, sell, license and market cargo management products for vehicles of all sorts, we also help inventors get their newly developed inventions and products in a box, without exorbitant cost to the inventor or a great deal of investment depending on their respective project, and without a bunch of expensive hype.
There is one simple reason we do this. We’ve been there and done that! Coming up with an idea, making prototypes, soliciting license agreements and selling via small manufacturing, internet marketing, etc…is something that we’ve been very involved in on many levels since we started 7 years ago with CargoCatch, now known in the multitude of market niches as Bully Motorsports’ Pac Mule Cargo Holder.
If you’re an inventor and you think you’ll be a millionaire tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, you’re sorely mistaken. Product development, research and marketing of that new product will take years of hard work, dedication and persistence, especially in the new world of internet marketing. The amount of research that is involved, depending on your project, is significant if not unbelievable. Don’t get us wrong, the hard work does pay off in many various ways over time, and when you finally get that first sale, or that first licensing agreement, it really is rewarding. Even if you’ve invested quite a bit of time and money in developing your product, once something good happens, it just seems to make so much sense, and you’ll want to keep going, researching, expanding and expanding your business model, selling…it’s an addiction really.
Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your product or invention won’t work or make money. There are always those who are willing to listen and give you worthwhile advice. And if it turns out that it doesn’t work for some reason, as happens to many inventors, who’s to say another slightly different version wouldn’t work, or a minor modification to your idea won’t work. You’re the expert, take the experience and ride with it, don’t get frustrated. Be patient!! Inventing is not about making money necessarily, it’s about filling a hole that needs to be filled.
If you concentrate on making money too much, you’ll get nowhere, unless you’re lucky. Of course, there are stories about other people who make a killing on the internet, and elsewhere, with their new products, but they’re few and far between and there are MANY factors that play into success, not just money. One thing that we’ll seriously warn you about are companies that claim to be able to take your patent to licensing, to make you a killing, etc…if you pay them upwards of $5-20K or more for their supposed superior services. We have one word of advice for you, skepticism. If you contract with a “marketing” or “licensing” company as a new inventor, and that particular company doesn’t work in the industry that your product would sell in, you have most likely made a big mistake.
If you’re the inventor of a hot new automotive aftermarket accessory product, or even a product that you think OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer, like
Get your stuff in a box, we’ll run a special on it and test it in the marketplace and see how it does! We’ve already done this with numerous inventors and since the internet has unlimited virtual shelf space, their stuff is selling more than you would think!!
Cheers and we welcome your comments!
Graham Solutions
619-884-8563
