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Today's caller needs help transforming an idea into a real-life bath toy.
Notes from Chris
Episode 1498
A listener in the U.K. is inspired to design and manufacture a bath toy! How can she create a sud-sational product? As is so often the case, we’re going to break down this idea into a series of smaller steps. The goal is to from bath tub to bank deposit. Let that sink in…"Hello, my name's Millie and I live in the U.K. I'm a primary school teacher and I've been listening to your show for about a year and I find it really inspiring. I've got a question about going from idea to action. So..... my idea for side hustle is making some fun but educational bath toys. I've got ideas for several different games in my head. I've already done drawings of how these would be. But what I'm wondering about is really going from that to creating them, getting them manufactured and wondering whether I should just go on to Alibaba.com and start speaking to potential manufacturers and work with them to develop the toys, or whether I need to somehow find some sort of prototype designer to help me make a good model before I get in touch with manufacturers. I'm wondering, perhaps it depends on the complexity of each set. Some of them will just be printed foam with others will be custom capacity toys. So they might be a bit harder to explain to a manufacturer abroad. I'm not sure. So if you could give me any guidance at this stage, I'd really appreciate it. "Listen to today's episode to learn more...
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