Invention Idea Submission and Contest - Get Free Information http://www.ideanextstep.com Copyright 2007 Idea Next Step Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our fourteenth contest and the closest contest thus far... We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Rich Melton" inventor of "The Projector Screen". Rich's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, he will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $1000.00. Congratulations Rich !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=86 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:54 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=86 Invention Contest Finals !!! Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? The judges have selected the top five finalist. 1. Projector Screen 2. Safety Caps 3. X-Skin 4. Fishing Lure 5. Baby Changing Table. These items can be voted on in the Polling Center until 6:00 p.m. central time this coming Saturday (9-27-08). Please log in and access your account to receive your 25 vote credits and support the finalist of your preference. Help your favorite inventor win the $1000.00 grand prize award. www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=85 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:46:29 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=85 Hello Members, Just a brief reminder of a great tool available at your disposal. There are several biographies of great inventors available in the member video section. Simply click on the member video tab and then the inventor interest section. The first 20 or so videos are member videos, and immediately afterward you will see biographies of some of the greatest inventors of all time. These biographies are approximately one hour long, but they're uploaded in 5 to 8 minute clips so you can watch one clip and pickup later with the next clip, or you can watch them all at once based on the time you have to watch. Please check out our inventor video library. See how Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and others think and changed the world. http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=84 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:37:36 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=84 Breaking News!!! Contest Procedure Change... The Idea Next Step Invention Contest will change from a monthly contest to an quarterly contest. The contest months will be March, June, September, and December. The grand prize will increase from $500.00 to $1000.00. This will allow for a larger purse for the winner and it will allow us to spend more time helping to market products for our inventors. The next contest will begin 9-22-08.. http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=83 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:03:40 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=83 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our thirteenth contest and one of our most exciting.. We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. Also congratulations to Wayne Rasanen for winning this months Loyalty Contest!!! And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Mike Lewis" inventor of The Easy Clean Gutter System. Mike's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, he will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Mike !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=82 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:27:11 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=82 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our twelfth contest and one of our most exciting.... We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. Also, we'd like to congratulate Scott Strickland for winning this months Loyalty Contest... And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Mary Stinyard" inventor of The Uni-Bib. Mary's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, she will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Mary !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=81 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:10:11 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=81 Hello New Members, Welcome to Idea Next Step.Com: To access features on the home page simply click on that feature. However, to access features in our members area you must login with your email address and password. In this same login area the system will read "Welcome- your name" Just below your name you will see a tab titled Access My Account. Click the access my account tab and you will go directly to the members area. The members area is where most member tools are located. Social networking program, my photos, video uploads, web page creator , edit profiles, member profiles, archived judges comments, my blogs, my messages, my friends, loyalty contest information, and the monthly online invention contest are all located in the members area. A brief contest review for our new members. To post your inventions please log in with your email address and password. After you log in, you will then access your account. This will carry you behind the scenes. Locate the My Inventions tab and follow instructions to post your invention. All inventions will be achieved in the Invention Hall. Access your account and find the Invention Hall tab. When the contest begins all inventions in the contest will transfer to the polling center. To Vote: Please log in and access your account. When the polls are open you will see a polling center tab. Click this tab and all the inventions in the contest will be located there. Stroll through all the inventions until you locate the invention of your preference. Each invention will have a cast vote tab below it. Simply click on this tab with your mouse. Every time you click that tab your account will be debated one vote. All vote are free and will be automatically added to your account per round. Inventors in the contest will receive 50 vote credits for round one. All other members will receive 25 vote credits for round one. Inventors in the contest must vote for other inventions in round one, and they must spend all their 50 vote credits. If they fail to spend all their vote credits their entry will be disqualified regardless of vote totals. After round one the computer will eliminate all entries except those that received the top 12 votes. Three independent judges will debate/eliminate the entries down from 12 to 5. In the finals every one will receive 25 votes. Inventors who reached the finals will vote for themselves in this final round. The entry will the most votes at the conclusion of the final round will be crowned Champion. Remember, you should work to get others to support your entry. These can be co-workers, family, other inventors, friends, associates, etc, etc,.. A critical component of being a successful inventor is your ability to network and gain support for your idea. Therefore, encourage any of your supporters to register for free and you show them how to vote. Good luck to everyone in the contest. www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=80 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:47:45 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=80 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our eleventh contest and one of our most active.. We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Linda Skaggs" inventor of The Individual Liquid Filled Soap (Soap-eeze) Linda's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, she will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Linda !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=79 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:26:07 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=79 Hello Members, "HOT TOPIC OF THE WEEK" The hot topic for the week is convenience. Two of the most popular sites on the web are Google and Yahoo. Hopefully Idea Next Step is on your favorites list, or you've already clicked the "Make This My Home Page" at the bottom of the website. In order to make all three sites as convenient as possible, you can log onto Idea Next Step and use all the features of Google and Yahoo without ever leaving our site. To access Google simply log onto our site, the Home page, and stroll down until you see a magnifying glass. The Google tab is right next to the magnifying glass. Click on Google and you will be able to access all things Google. To access Yahoo simply log onto our site, log in and access your account. Arrow down to almost the very bottom of the web page and you will see five yahoo tabs, all things yahoo. Yahoo Search, Yahoo Yellow Pages, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Weather, and Yahoo Maps. For your convenience, you can log onto Idea Next Step and have full access to two of the most popular sites on the web. As a member of our site, you can help us grow by simply using the convenient tools available. www.ideanextstep.com,,..Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=78 Mon, 26 May 2008 17:32:28 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=78 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our tenth contest and one of our most active......... We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments / and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Thomas WIlson" inventor of The In-Line Wireless Remote Control Water Shut-Off System. Tom's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, he will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step. Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Inventor Wilson !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=77 Sat, 03 May 2008 21:34:15 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=77 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our ninth contest and by far the most active.. Thanks to you the contest continues to grow... We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Kenny Lutz" inventor of The Foot Operated Grill Cover Lift. Kenny's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, he will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Kenny !!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=75 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:21:37 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=75 Hello Members, Idea Next Step is very pleased to announce that Bonnie Kaake, Executive Director of The United Inventors Association will serve as a guest judge for this months invention contest. www.ideanextstep.com,...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=74 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:57:44 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=74 Hello Members, Important message: This months contest has been moved back one week. Rather than begin on 3-24-08, round one voting will now begin on 3-31-08. Please see calendar for details. “HOT TOPIC FOR THE WEEK” Invite a friend -versus- Add to friends Invite a friend is a tool to be used to invite non members to our site. When you log in you will see the following: Welcome , Your Name, Access My Account, Invite a Friend and Logout. Click the invite a friend link and type in your name, a message, your friends email address, and then click send. This will send your friend a banner of our website with an invitation to visit. Just by simply clicking on that link your friend will come directly to our site for a visit. If you haven’t tried this feature before please take a moment to familiarize yourself with it, and then send out a few invitations to inventors or to those who may support your invention efforts. Add to friends is a tool to be used to invite members of this site to be your friend. This is a part of the networking program. Log in and access your account. Locate the Member Profile tab. This is where the member profiles are stored. For privacy purposes only nick names are listed. If you posted a photo of yourself it will be displayed here next to your profile. You will see a message box where you can type a message to the owner of that profile. The message box will have two tabs. One tab will be Add to friends, and the other tab will say send message. If you want to simply send a message, then type in a message and click send message. If you want to network / be that persons friend, then click the add to friends tab. This will send a friends invitation to that member. The add to friends tab you clicked will now read pending friend. Your invitation will arrive in the members my friends box. They will also receive a notification in their regular email that an invitation awaits them . The member will go to their my friends tab and either accept or reject the invitation. If the member accepts the invitation by clicking the add to friends tab, both members will be simultaneously added to each others friends list. For detailed information concerning our social networking programs please visit our home page. Arrow down a little if necessary, you will see a red tab that reads CLICK TO REGISTER FOR FREE. Just below this area you will see two programs in white text, Private Messaging & Social Networking. Just to the right you will see a yellow link titled CLICK FOR MORE INFO… Please click this yellow link for detailed explanations concerning all of our social networking programs. www.ideanextstep.com, Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=73 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:23:27 PDT http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=73 Hello Members, Are you ready for the next step? A very special thanks to all the members who participated and voted in this month's invention contest. You are the key to success for both Idea Next Step and the Inventors who participate. This was our eighth contest and by far the most active.. We sincerely thank all the inventors for supplying such wonderful products to vote on. Your continuous suggestions for site improvements / site offerings / comments and participation are really helping to make Idea Next Step.Com the place to go for inventors and creative people. And last but certainly not least, we'd like to give a great big congratulations to "Roberto Cavazzoni" inventor of The Fully Self Compensated Electronic Active Filter. Roberto's invention is now featured prominently in the Idea Next Step Inventors Hall of Fame !!! And Oh yea, he will be receiving a certified check shortly from Idea Next Step.Com in the amount of $500.00. Congratulations Roberto !!! And for the first time in our short history, the same inventor has won both the monthly invention contest and the loyalty contest. Roberto Cavazzoni is the loyalty contest winner for the month of February. He is the inventor of the Fully Self Compensated Electronic Active Filter. And as the winner of the loyalty contest he is entitled to one month of free banner advertising. The banner is a 780 X 100 banner that rotates completely through our site, with the exception of the home page. The banner can/should include a picture of your invention, advertisement, and contact information. Those who don't have websites please remember that you can create a web page on our site for free. And when the site is created a website address (URL) is automatically created. The website address can be placed on your business card or advertisement literature, and when someone logs onto that address it will carry them to the specific web page you created on this site. When someone clicks the link on the banner it will carry them to your specific web page that you created on this site. Congratulations Roberto for winning the Loyalty Contest for the month of February . Now lets every one log on and compete to win the Loyalty Contest for the month of March. Every thing you do on this site constitutes a certain number of points. Who ever has the most points at the beginning of round one of our online invention contest will be the winner of our loyalty contest. For more details concerning our loyalty program, please log on, access your account, and click the Loyalty program tab. Congratulations again Roberto!!! www.ideanextstep.com...Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=72 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:23:51 PST http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=72 Hello Members, We have another exciting contest soon approaching. If you have an invention we're counting heavily on your participation. There is much excitement about the growth of this website and the contest. Currently we have roughly 800 members. Not bad when you consider the fact that this website is not a year old. I have set a goal to increase the first prize award from $500.00 dollars to $1000.00 dollars, however, I need your help to achieve it. To reach this goal we need our members to take advantage of all the tremendous free tools and resources available on this site. Take a little time each day and learn about all the resources available to you for free. Simply access your account and you will have all the resources at your finger tips. As we move forward we will introduce you to the "HOT TOPIC FOR THE WEEK". This new segment will be dedicated to covering one topic or resource on our site: "HOT TOPIC FOR THE WEEK" Our first "Hot Topic" is photos for our social networking program. Myspace, Linkedin, and Facebook all are popular social networking programs. Each of the social networks specialize in a particular audience. Our goal has been to create the first true social networking site that specializes in the invention process, a site specifically for inventors and creative people. Our site is the only site currently where you can exchange and upload photos, upload and email videos, view historical and current inventor videos, create your own specific web pages, post/advertise inventions, and participate in a monthly online invention contest. And oh yes, all this is absolutely free. But if we're truly going to be the site for inventors and draw the thousands of other inventors to our site, we all will have to participate more. As we grow our membership the prize award will grow also. Now, the first thing we need to do is actually post our pictures with our profiles. Once our pictures are posted, members will be able to go to the member profile tab and view our profiles and pictures. This will help us to network. By actually creating friends we will open up a world of additional discovery. And of course, if you prefer not to participate in the networking aspect of this site you will simply not accept the friends invitation when its extended. For those of you who have been curious about Mr. Idea, please access your account and go to the member profiles tab. I am currently the #2 entry. To post your picture please access your account, go to the edit my profile tab in the top left corner. Click the tab and then notice the box- attach profile photo. Click your mouse in the box and then click the browse bottom next to it. Browse to locate a picture of your choice that you've previously uploaded onto your computer. Click on your choice of photos and then click the save box. The system will upload your picture and add it to your profile. I'm seeking your help in making this site the site for inventors and idea people. The more we grow the better our contest and resources will be. www.ideanextstep.com....Are you ready for the next step? http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=71 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:19:30 PST http://www.ideanextstep.com/news.php?news_id=71