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This is round two talking with Bob Serling on our podcast. Bob has worked with fun product ideas like skateboards and toys over the years and alongside guys like Tony Hawk. He’ll explain why it’s easier than you think to reach out to companies, big and small with your ideas and the best way to approach them, as well as why inventing is such a great side hustle for entrepreneurs.

On the low end, Bob has made $30-$40 thousand a year and on the high end and as much as $1.5 million. He’s got a proprietary process that has 37 questions which will stimulate ideas and discusses how he uses this method to come up with ideas for existing products that will make them better, easier to use or simply more fun the end user.

If you have any ounce of interest in inventing at all, you’ll want to listen to Bob’s take on his process and how he has succeeded without spending a lot of money upfront, hiring expensive patent attorneys or sourcing out costly prototypes.

“If you are developing products, you want to jump from thing to thing. It doesn’t hold you back, it actually advances you.” – Bob Serling

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Some Topics We Discussed Include:

Testing and having fun with invention ideas

How to capitalize on your squirreling brain as an entrepreneur

How to come up with an idea and sell it within days or months

How to license your idea and cash out

How to invent as a side hustle

Finding potential people to buy your idea

The specific kind of attorney you want working for you

Why being a product developer is the ideal side hustle for entrepreneurs

How much you can expect to make from royalty deals

And much, more more!

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