Interview with Ken Laner, Owner of 6 Ideas, Inc.; Interview with Tim Hayes, CEO of Cardboard Helicopter

Interview with Ken Laner, Owner of 6 Ideas, Inc 6 Ideas specializes in helping inventors, entrepreneurs and other business sell their products to QVC, HSN, Mail Order Catalogs and eCommerce Sites. They are a rep firm also known as a broker or sales agent. They have the contacts to get your product to the right buyer quickly and handle the sales cycle on your behalf until a PO is generated. Meet Ken Laner... Ken Laner graduated from the University of Iowa with a Marketing Degree. He is a seasoned sales professional. He has been selling a wide variety of products for over 25 years. Specializes in setting up and selling to various distribution channels including dealers, distributors, retailers, TV Shopping, catalogs and more. Products include seasonal items, electronics, hardware, kitchen, gifts, personal care and more. Hobbies include golf, yoga, biking, hiking and watching hockey. Interview with Tim Hayes, CEO of Cardboard Helicopter Cardboard Helicopter is a product design firm that Tim started in his hometown of Lakewood, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cleveland. They provide inventors and companies with innovative product development, from initial concept to final product. Their goal is to create beautiful, manufacture-ready products, and our process allows us to do this at a fraction of the cost of larger product design firms. They recently launched the first invention that they took from concept to store shelves. It's a wellness device called the Splash Infuser. They have signed many licensing deals last year and this year, and plan to have over 30 products licensed this year. Meet Tim Hayes... Tim was born and raised in the Cleveland area, and has been creating things for as long as he can remember. His passion for design led him to attend the internationally acclaimed Cleveland Institute of Art with a focus in Industrial Design. After working at companies like Fisher-Price and MTD among others, he decided he wanted to be in control of his own destiny, so he founded Cardboard Helicopter after licensing his first product, the Quirky Sliders.

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Interview with Ken Laner, Owner of 6 Ideas, Inc.; Interview with Tim Hayes, CEO of Cardboard Helicopter is an episode from Innovation Divaz by Melinda Knight and Dhana Cohen.

This episode is 57:58 long.

This episode was published on May 19, 2015.

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