Edisson Nation

[Inventoy]

Have any toy and game inventors ever submitted toy and game products in any EN searches. I would be interested to know of your experience. The 'per submission' fee has put me off in the past. If it were free to submit I am certain they would do much better and launch far more products.

[Tesla]

Edison Nation is a scam, so is quirky too. I know I was a victim of theirs. As soon as I stop trying to licensing my inventions to them and approached toy companies on my own, without the need of a toy agent or broker also, I was able to license my toy invention to a toy company. The key to my breakthrough was attending Chitag where I was able to present my toy invention to toy companies directly and got a licensing deal. If you have what you believe is a big hit toy invention in your hands, you filed at the very least a ppa, and have a working prototype as finished as you can get it I would highly recommend you attend the inventors conference in chitag. You’ll have your best chance of licensing your toy invention there because most of the major toy companies go there and you’ll kill as many birds with one stone as you can while there.

[rogerbrown]

Tesla, let me start by saying I worked at Edison Nation for around three years as a Product Licensing Agent, as well as being a successful Serial Inventor and a freelance Product Licensing Agent. That said, I have seen the industry from all sides. One of the issues for Inventors is lack of knowledge of the industry they are trying to work within. Add to that the Inventors dream of seeing their product on a store shelf makes for a situation where the Inventor will jump at opportunity first and think about it later. This has caused a lot of Inventors to go deep in debt over products that are not marketable or ones that do not answer the Better Than question.
One thing that is also an issue for many Inventors and why they gravitate to various sites offering services to Inventors is they don't have the time to do all the things needed to learn to do it yourself. They would rather pay someone else to do the heavy lifting. Then you have others that can't afford to go to various conventions to run down leads/contacts. Not counting the expense of the travel. Then you have those that have awesome ideas but really stink at pitching their ideas. Which again pushes them to find someone else to do the work for them.
Another aspect of the issue is the Inventor that has unrealistic expectations and thinks because their family and friends love their idea they think a company would be stupid to pass up their million dollar idea and can't understand why they keep getting rejection letters/emails from companies.
I have dealt with a number of Inventors that were highly irrate their idea got rejected and would not listen to the feedback and examples of Better products on the market that made their idea unmarketable. Unfortunately there are Inventors that will throw money after money into an idea and even when they realize they may not have as great an idea as the thought they will still go with it because they are to deep in to stop and just call it quits on the idea.
Below are some article I have written on topics I thought you would like to read.


rogerbrown.net/invention-submission-firms-design-firms-patent-lawyers-are-they-all-a-rip-off/

rogerbrown.net/are-you-too-emotional-over-your-ideaproduct/

rogerbrown.net/does-your-ideaproduct-invention-answer-the-better-than-question/