Topic:
How To Bring Your Product Ideas To Market While Keeping Your Day Job

Jeff Sallee and Dr. Mark Schnose are great friends and have known each other for over 35 years.

They are both musicians and decided 2 years ago to work on a few of the musical instrument invention ideas they came up with. They tinkered around with more than a few prototypes and in the beginning had no real strategy other than to do something every day to move their idea forward.

Now they have several licenses under their belt, a story, strategies and first hand advice to share with you.

Here's a picture of one of the products that Jeff and Mark licensed. It's a musical product called the Qube Shaker.

Here you can see Kim Thompson (Beyonces Drummer) promoting Mark's and Jeff product in an ad.

Jeff and Mark will share with you:

• How they find the time to license ideas even though they both have super busy day jobs;
• How they keep the costs of licensing their ideas ridiculously low;
• The art of closing a licensing deal and how the've done both a long drawn out deal and a quick deal when selling their ideas;
   
• Their experiences with patents and prototypes;
• How Mark pulled one nighters to file PPA's in a hurry;
• How to present an idea in a simple straight forward manner so companies can easily understand your ideas;
   
• How Jeff practiced his pitch on his commute to work before making calls during his lunch break:
• How to be persistant and follow through even when on the surface, things don't look like they are going to work out;
• Get in the game! Fail forward and keep momentum moving;
• How to keep the "idea funnel" full and know when to move on to next idea. "It ain't your Baby".

Jeff and Mark's product the Qube Shaker wins best of show at the NAMM music show in Los Angeles. 

About This Months Speakers
Mark Schnose is a licensed clinical psychologist and a lifelong percussionist/drummer that is actively perusing his interest in inventing products and bringing them to market.

Jeff Sallee is a lifelong drummer and currently works at a full time job managing an office machine repair crew. He also enjoys working on his product ideas.

Together they are a great team that has made a name for themselves in the world of musical inventions.

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