Licensing Ideas Using LinkedIn: Ditch Cold Calling Forever! Connect with companies looking for new products.
About this book
Do you have great ideas, but don’t know how to get them to the right people at open innovation companies so you can license you inventions? Start using LinkedIn®, the professional networking platform with nearly 700 million members, but you have to use it the right way.LinkedIn® has fundamentally changed the game for inventors, product developers, entrepreneurs, and anyone with an idea. Now creative people can identify, research, and get in touch with the right employees at the right companies within a matter of seconds, anytime and anywhere, day or night. Never waste your time hunting down a marketing manager’s phone number again!In fact, by using LinkedIn®, you can license your idea for a new product without making a single cold call.But, there’s a right way and a wrong way to use this unbelievably powerful tool. This book will teach you how to present yourself as the kind of professional open innovation companies want to work with, and not an amateur.Let Stephen Key, the world's leading expert on licensing inventions, and LinkedIn® licensing expert Benjamin Harrison, creator of SmartPitch, show you how to take advantage of this uniquely awesome opportunity.What you will learn...• How to Use LinkedIn® to find companies looking for product ideas• How to Build your network of inventing industry leaders.• How to Pitch your product professionally.• How to Answer questions from potential licensees.• How to Work towards a licensing agreement.• How to Reach out to potential licensees anytime and anywhere!Also • 15 Pitching Scripts • Non-Disclosure Agreements •• Licensing agreement • Sell sheet examples •About the authorsStephen Key is a lifelong entrepreneur and a 2018-2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. Stephen achieved repeat success as an independent product developer, including licensing over 20 products and winning 15 industry awards. He is the inventor on over 20 patents. Read his articles online for Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur and watch him on inventRightTV.Benjamin Harrison is a lifelong entrepreneur and product developer who has worked with some of the top musicians in the world. He has been featured in publications ranging from No Treble and Vintage Guitar Magazine to Entrepreneur and Inc. His SmartPitch program has helped hundreds of product developers successfully get their ideas into companies of all sizes using methods he invented and perfected.