Are The Days of Inventing Something With “Q-Tips” Method Over?

There are many ways to invent something. No one knows this better than Thomas Alva Edison. Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the 21st century.

One of his famous quotes was about the response to the idea that he had failed after 10,000 experiments to develop a storage battery. There are many variants on this quote, with the numbers mentioned ranging from 97 to 10,000. The one that surely stands out is. “I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

One of Edison’s quote I like the most is: “There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”

If you ever tried to invent something or do something creative you would relate to this quote firmly.

The advancement of communications & technology has simplified data aggregation which in turn has helped the modern day inventors immensely. Inventors from the early days had their own way of approaching and solving problems. Some took numerous experiments and years to invent something while other just applied their genius to reach their end goal fairly quickly.

One such inventors was Alan Brite(aka Alan Bloom) who back in 1949 invented a metal cleaning liquid called “Copper Brite”. Allan never finished his college in fact he enlisted in army and went to war while he was still in his 11th grade. Soon he found his passion in inventing and went on to invent many things. One of his successful inventions was Copper Brite.

Here is the Genius of Alan Brite.

Alan went to the library one day and collected all the names of the chemicals that can be used to clean copper. He bought about 60 of them and lined all of them in bottles on a table and started dipping Q-tips in each one of them methodically to swab a copper coin till he found the perfect combination that cleaned copper the best.

He then went on to build a multimillion dollar business from this one solution.

In later years Alan modified the formula to meet several standards but used Q-tips approach to do that each time.

After nearly 50 years “Copper Brite” still stands as one of the best products in the market place. Alan is the president of the company and you can read about him on www.CopperBrite.com

Think about this.. Can you apply this method in your own business? Is there any way you can line up all possibilities and somehow juggle & mix them to find the right combination that can not only solve your problem but can make a huge impact in the society in a good way.

May be you can. Who knows one has to try and try hard I guess.

As I conclude one more quote of Edison comes to my mind: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

How To Create A Million Dollar Information Empire, The Jerry Clark Way!

About three year ago I had the rare opportunity to meet Jerry Clark at a live seminar in Florida. Jerry was there as an attendee but the minute he was asked to share some of his tips from the stage, he took everyone by surprise.

A year later I met Jerry again at a seminar in Austin, Texas. There were about 10 speakers in action, Jerry just spoke for about 10 minutes, this time in a panel. He blew everyone away with his wisdom and knowledge.

I was so curious about his success that I had to interview him.

Jerry readily agreed and I interviewed him for about 60 minutes over phone. This interview was so amazing that even to this date I listen to it over and over again. It shows how with determination and persistence Jerry was able to build a multimillion dollar information business ground up.

For one reason or other, I never published this interview before.

Most recently I met with Jerry at Ryan Lee’s Continuty Summit, where I was on the panels along with him (You need to get the DVD of the Continuity Summit to see what we both did on the stage). You can get the DVD’s by visiting here

I promised to make this interview available to all the Continuity summit attendees. Please fill your first name and email and you will instantly get the 60-minute Interview with Jerry Clark for FREE.

I am really humbled by this Gesture

This last weekend I attend Ryan Lee’s Continuty Summit in Stamford, CT.

While standing in the queue to check-in at the registration I met Dr. Ben Mack. It was a pleasure to meet him. We have exchanged all kinds of communication in the past but I never met him in person. That night we decided to meet early and have breakfast the following day.

While we were having breakfast and discussing some next generation influence strategies. One of my students Vickie Franecki walks up to us.

Vickie attended my King of Blogging workshop and one of the students who took massive action to get her blog up and running. I never met Vickie before, she did email me saying she was coming to the event but what was even more uprisings was, she got a gift for me.

Check it out on the video..

She had no clue it was Dr. Ben Mack with whom I was having breakfast with. All three of us had breakfast there after and went to attend the seminar. Sometime later during that day I told Vickie about Dr. Ben Mack.

She was like..what that was Dr. Mack? wow oh my God..You should have told me about him…

Thank You Vickie for this great gift & thank you Dr. Mack for capturing this rare moment on video.