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Postby annabella » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:56 am

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Just curious...Now that the auditions are over, what are you going to do with your inventions?

Are you going to hang onto them for next year's AI, or try to find investors/companies that could help you develop?

Postby Average Inventor » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:25 am

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If you have a prototype and have at least done a professional patent search and determined your idea is worth making then you should exhibit at INPEX or the Minnesota Invention exhibition this year. Both are coming up in a few months.

Postby annabella » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:37 am

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That's a GREAT idea! I don't have a prototype yet...not sure if I can make one that quickly. But, what a great idea for next year.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Postby Tinkering Wit » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:49 am

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I am planing on checking with Rubbermaid. I am also going to meet with some investors that I put on hold until after the AI audition. When Season 3 audtions for Everyday Edisons are announced I plan on taking some of my ideas there. I did not really know about Everyday Edisons until after I joined this site. I wish I could have auditioned for Season 2.
This site has really brought me up to speed on EE and I now realize that EE would have been a better opportunity for me based on what I have learned here.

Good Luck to all who auditioned to AI and I hope that you guys that auditioned for Season 2 of EE hear something soon, good luck to you all too.

Postby pedi ot » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:39 pm

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Can anyone shed some more light on INPEX? I would love to hear from inventors who have exhibited before.

Thanks,

Robynne

Postby Scrupulous » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:52 pm

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Why don't you guys just exhibit your projects here, on this forum?

You never know what kind of opportunities may arise (with respect to development, networking, and advertising) as a result of your deliberate exposure.

You may be surprised by the number of people who actually encounter this site.

Postby Road Show » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:26 am

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Ya, too bad there isn't a hit counter!

Postby Michelle » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:25 am

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Here are some stats on AmericanInventorSpot.com to give you perspective on our site:

In terms of site traffic, we are currently rated today by Alexa.com at the top 71,968 most popular websites in the world out of the top 2 million or so tracked by them. (They count things like google.com, yahoo.com, nytimes.com etc. so we are in great company)

In terms of most linked and referenced websites in the world, according to Technorati.com today, we are in the top 3,456 most referenced websites in the world out of the 55 million or so tracked by them.

In Google search, we have a search ranking currently of 6 out of 10.

Under adstats.com, we have a average page views of 9,842 per day this year (but its very lumpy with high traffic and low traffic days - so ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 page views a day)

Under adstats.com, we have an average monthly visitors of about 200,000 to 250,000 visitors a month coming to our site.

I don't have complete info as our system hit counter works differently, and we have been on various versions of the site software but since we have been in existance, I think we we have had about 2.7 million visitors and about 5 or so million page views.

We do not have data on the number of visitors to our Invention Gallery, and we will work to put something up there to help us track that. More for our todo list. :)

The vast majority of our traffic comes from popular articles like the ones written by Amused and Rodd that get linked by other websites, but our google and other search engine traffic and our bookmark traffic for the site as a whole is growing steadily. We are trying to build a base of visitors who come to the site more frequently and build us our core fan base. To do that, we are trying to get good content on the site daily, but its a real challenge for us to do that. We're very lucky we have some really great writers on our site and wonderful contributions from the inventor community for our Geust Blog articles.

Hope this helps give perspective on our site and where we are at.

As far as we can tell, based on our research, there is no other website in the world focused on inventions that is more popular or has more authority (in terms of links or references from other websites) than AmericanInventorSpot.com and InventorSpot.com.

There are very popular start up business sites, innovation sites and gadgets and new product type sites, but none focused on independent inventors.

We do have a lot of work to do to continue to grow and to become the definitive and well known authority in the invention space and build our core base of visitors.

The support of inventors who actively help promote and build the site has been an invaluable resource in helping us grow.

Michelle

Postby DaddyMathis » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:13 pm

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I'm thinking about showing my invention at INPEX. I've spoken to a rep from there but the deadline is coming up soon and that's a big chunk of change after spending $500+ going to the Houston A.I. auditions. I'd like to hear anyone's opinion of INPEX (or those type of shows).