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I'm not sure i fully understand your question. What is your question about the guitar? Can you be more specific?

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7/24/08 at 1:43 PM

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7/24/08 at 11:35 AM

The spun version that is. A few years ago I **briefly** subscribed to a product called "Article Bot" just to experiment with it and to see how these software products worked. They operate under the assumption that there are really no original ideas out there and it's ok to swipe content off the web as long as your reform it. Aside from the ethical problem there, the software reforms it via a thesaurus-type database and it produces nonsense like the example you gave. I quickly learned that you would have to spend so much time manually tweaking the spun content that you may as well write your own version of it (or else end up with some piece of garbage paragraph that doesn't make much sense). I'm sure few people (if any) actually read the spun versions so it's kind of like Graffiti on the web. I'm almost afraid to look to see if I have any.
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7/14/08 at 5:38 PM

it makes sense on the why this idea and not something else from the easy to manufacture and preexisting market (granted you've leveraged it into new channels; e.g., 7-11). I even get the versioning ala licensing with other brands like Disney, but how about with the guitar ... is that "just" a licensing of your brand and not a manufacturing decision like with the picks (and doesn't come with the same $$ risks)?

7/13/08 at 1:52 PM

Quite frankly i just wanted to try manufacturing a product on my own. I'd licensed products for over 25 years and i wanted to try something new. The picks were cheap to make and one other guy was selling unique picks that confirmed there was a market for such a product. This showed me that there was most likely a market for my pick idea.

So. . .cheap product to make. Confirmed market. I figured my guitar picks were a good one to start with. Seemed like a low risk endeavor and I like low risk. So I moved forward.

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Stephen Key
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7/11/08 at 9:15 AM

Your welcome luke. We love doing the free conference calls you mentioned for inventors.

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Stephen Key
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7/11/08 at 9:06 AM

Thanks for the feedback Charlie. There is a big difference between being an Entrepreneur or an Inventor and I'd never seen anyone write about it before. Glad you liked the article.

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Stephen Key
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7/11/08 at 9:01 AM

I've enjoyed reading your posts (started last month or so and felt compelled to go all the way to the start to see what I'd missed!~)

I remember you talking about the decision to mfg on your Hot Picks and wonder how these 3 decision points played into that decision; it seems to me that aside from distribution (granted a major item) and capital to fund the start-up, if your invention was real great on these things then there would be more motive to do this yourself vs. license (other "life issues" aside) just based on the profit percentages.

7/9/08 at 5:01 PM

I appreciate you adding Just for Small Business to your blog network on FaceBook and made sure to join the Business.gov group. Looking forward to communicating with you.

7/4/08 at 6:59 PM