Guide Booklets
Our exclusive Guide Booklets are written by our team of product development and marketing experts. They
offer valuable tips and insights for independent inventors that you won't find anywhere else.
Eleven Steps to Bring Your Invention to Market
AbsolutelyNew has written a detailed guide booklet to help independent inventors bring their invention to market without incurring the risks and expenses of manufacturing and distributing it themselves.
This step-by-step guide covers the 11 stages of invention development and invention marketing that we have used throughout the years to bring more than 100 products into the market. These steps include:
- Patent Research
- Patent Opinion
- Market Research
- Invention Sketch
- Patent Protection
- Rendering
- Consumer Feedback
- Animation/Video
- Technical Diagrams
- Prototyping
- Licensing
How to Manufacture Your Invention in China
Our guide booklet, How to Manufacture Your Invention in China, will help you maximize the profits from your invention, should you decide that manufacturing is the route for you. Its 10 pages are filled with helpful tips, compiled by our industry experts during their successful careers -- one of whom has more than 20 years of experience (including 10 with The Sharper Image) in product sourcing, product development and international purchasing.
From this guide booklet, you will learn:
- Why inventors are choosing to manufacture in China.
- How to choose the right manufacturing partner.
- The signs of a good factory.
- What it costs to ship overseas.
- How to get paid.
- Much more!
Vendor Compliance Manual
Unlike the guide booklets shown above, which we wrote for inventors, we wrote this 44-page manual for factories that we use to manufacture inventors' products under the AbsolutelyNew brand. It encapsulates extensive expertise, and if you decide to manufacture your invention on your own, you'll find this manual very helpful.
This manual includes these sections and more:
- Purchase-Order Requirements
- Regulatory Compliance
- Manufacturing Directives
- Quality Control and Inspection
- Labeling and Packaging Requirements
- Freight and Shipment Information
- Freight Forwarding Information - International
- Invoice Information
- Returns Policy
Vendor Survey
AbsolutelyNew uses this Vendor Survey to help us select the best factories to produce our inventors' products. If you're planning to manufacture your invention on your own, you'll find it useful. As you'll see, it's very comprehensive. In addition to providing a detailed scoring system, it covers a wide range of business procedures, including:
- Organization and Training
- Design Control
- Documentation Control
- Contracts
- Purchased Material Control
- Inspection Measuring and Testing Equipment
- Production Process Control
- Material Handling, Storage, Packaging, Preservation, and Delivery
- Non-Conforming Material Control and Corrective Action
- Internal Quality Audits
- Servicing



