Hi there, so it seems, how many days without post? Hmm..7 is it.. Ok,ok.. Not so bad. First of all, I would like to thank all of our readers for your encouragement, especially your comments. We really appreciate it.. ;) And we would like to apologize for the lack of post recently, we are sitting for our final examination currently. Hehe.. ok, I’ve published a few posts which should made you occupied till the examination end. However, for Curixs… ahaxz.. I will try to persuade him to post something, however that’s tough. ;) You see.. we are different. Curixs likes to work under stress while I prefer a more relaxed and balanced approach. At SaifulSham.com, we complement each other. Haven’t I said? Redundancies is a waste of resources.

And don’t worry. We have a long term plan for SaifulSham.com. The strategies have been laid. The works is in progress. And I’m sure, one day, time will be the witness to our success.

Ok, enough with that, let’s get to today post. Entrepreneurs do a lot of things. Some come in guise of a network marketer, service provider, distributor, franchisee and even a shopkeeper. Today and for the next 4 posts we will look an example of a few inventors who did invent their product successfully, but have problems to market their ideas to public. Forget Colonel Sanders, he has become a cliche, we will give you a few fresh examples… ;)

You say your idea is the best thing since sliced bread.

Speaking of sliced bread. Do you know the story behind it? When Otto Rohwedder dreamed up the idea of selling sliced bread in 1912, however, all he got was a lot of carping and naysaying. How difficult was it to slice bread? And everyone knew that bread, even loaves of it, got stale quickly; in slices, it would spoil in a matter of minutes.

It took Mr. Rohwedder, a jeweler by trade, 16 years to produce a machine that could both slice and package the bread to prevent it from being exposed to air. Then he had to beg a Missouri baker to offer it for sale.

Once in a long while, an inventor comes up with an idea that is quickly recognized as brilliant and commercial — Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV dinner; Edwin Land and his instant camera; Erno Rubik and the cube puzzle. But more often, inventors’ pitches are greeted with skepticism, embarrassment, even ridicule. A box on a pole to collect change from people who want to park their cars on the street? Plastic food containers that burp when you seal them? A doll for boys? Pantyhose? Even the father of American invention, Thomas Edison, couldn’t persuade anyone to take seriously his first patented idea – an electric voting machine. “I failed my way to success,” Edison said later.

And let’s face it, people who call themselves inventors come up with some seriously nutty ideas. A pet-petting machine that will save you the trouble of stroking your own dog or cat? A portable nuclear shelter? A cheese-filtered cigarette? A fan that lets you ski uphill? Every inventor has to be a tiny bit crazy, not to mention stubborn, self-important and impervious to the slings and arrows of family and friends.

But the best thing is, you are not alone. Others before you have done many great things under the same circumstances… And why not you?

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