Recent content by innovator

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    Wales Innovators Network (WIN) and Innovate Product Design

    I agree. But I don't know of anyone doing what we do in Wales. Or in fact any nearer to Wales than Salisbury!
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    Prototyping and Patenting an Invention

    I work for a company called Innovate Design. We specialise in helping individuals protect, develop, prototype and manufacture their ideas. Have a look at our website and get in touch if you think we could help. We are in Salsibury so not a million miles from South Wales and your project sounds...
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    Any experience of handholding an inventor?

    I work for Innovate Design and we help individuals protect, develop, prototype, manufacture and sell their ideas. Have a look at our website if you are still looking for help: Innovate Design | Patent advice and Invention Development
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    Thought of an idea but not sure how to make it work...

    Probably much too late but for future reference - I work for a company that helps individuals develop their product ideas. We have specialist product designers and prototypers who can work out your invention for you prior to patenting. We normally suggest you do a patent search first and we can...
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    Patency Advice

    I work for Innovate Design so please take other opinions as well but, for what it is worth, here is my justification for the fee: What you are paying for is: the use of commercial patent databases rather than the more shoddy free to use ones, and also the opinion. You could do a patent search...
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    Wales Innovators Network (WIN) and Innovate Product Design

    Hi there, I am Head of Design for Innovate Design, so a little bias but just to give you our credentials: Approved consultant provider to Business Link in London Established for nearly 10 years Helped over 500 innovators on the route to successful innovation Previous clients now selling in...
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    3D designer - Cost

    Morraine, I work for a company called Innovate Product Design. We specialise in helping individuals such as yourself by providing affordable, product design and engineering. We should be able to beat your Polish quote and provide a much better, higher quality result. Feel free to contact me...
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    idea protection

    Joseph, If you haven't done anything with your idea by now you could do a self filed patent application for in the region of 200 pounds. They would give you a grace year if the application is acceptable to sell the idea to industry before the fees really start adding up. The problem with...
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    Outsource Adwords management?

    ok great response guys thanks! The real business problem is the time I spend managing the adwords account. I keep adjusting and adding to the adgroups, keywords etc. but it just takes more and more time. But I don't want to pay say £150 a month for some untrained person who just uses an...
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    When is next update? (Google pr)

    From what I have read on various SEO website the estimates are sometimes in the next 3 weeks. However all the above comments about it not being that important etc. seem to hold true. Phil http://www.innovate-design.co.uk
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    Hi from Phil

    Ok i'll stick it up on another section. Thanks for the advice. There is a downloadable confidentiality agreement on our website: http://www.innovate-design.co.uk/mailcontact.asp I wouldn't want to discuss any idea with one of these in place really. After that then we will happily offer a...
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    Hi from Phil

    Hi i'm Phil and I graduated as a product designer from Loughborough University. Since graduating I got a job in the inventions industry helping individuals and small companies to develop their ideas. It is obviously quite a interesting job and I have learnt lots about patenting and developing...
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    Outsource Adwords management?

    Is it worth outsourcing my adwords account? I spend around £1500 every month and currently I manage our account personally. Occasionally I get calls from companies saying they can save me money etc etc. Is this is good idea? Does anyone have any experience of these companies doing a good job for...
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    Dragons Den (yet again)

    I am trained in product design from loughborough uni and spent 3 summers in mozambique. It will look very different when finally launched i'm sure. There are some good parts of it but the following needs considering: Wheel would only work on nice smooth surface not flooded area, rocky terrain...
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    Your opinion is needed...

    Number 4 for me although it does err slightly on the tacky side!