Re: [Harp-L] shark tank - harmonica promotion

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

Even if you could sell a widget to every harmonica player, that isnât a big enough market to interest a shark.  There are more guitar players by orders of magnitude. Harmonica players are accustomed to paying relatively little for their instruments and expect the accessories to be equally inexpensive.  Walk in your local music store and see how much inventory and floorspace is dedicated to harmonicas.

Vern


Vern
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:28 AM, philharpn@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> I've been watching Shark Tank for some time now and I'm even a satisfied customer. I was wondering if anything harp related might lend itself to Shark Tank exposure and promotion.
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> Unlike the standard crowd funding -- which only raises money that usually goes to launch a product -- the shark tank investors put up cash for equity in an ongoing company.
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> I was sitting at the computer reading my email a couple of years ago when my wife called me into family room to watch a product pitch on Shark tank for the Voyage Air (say it fast) folding guitar. I really didn't need another steel string but it was a cutaway and those upper frets get a little crowded sometimes. I'm sure my wife thinks I have enough guitars -- classical and steel strings. But she thought I might be interested. She was right. And while I don't travel with it -- airplane protection is its chief goal -- I do find it handy to haul off to my week guitar lessons. But I didn't have a folding guitar and was fascinated and promptly ordered one.
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> I have sets and keys of chromatic and diatonic harps I have not even used but I'm sure that the next best tunable harmonica -- priced right and promoted on the Shark Tank -- might catch my attention.
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> Somewhere some harmonica invention is out there trying to figure how to get his/her next big harmonica project launched.
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> After all, who would have ever thought someone would come up with a toilet paper roll without the cardboard roll? It's here now! 
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> Phil
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> PS: My only connection to Shark Tank is as a viewer and customer of the Voyage Air folding guitar that was featured on the show. I really like my folding guitar and would never have heard about it without ST.
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