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

[Michael Easton <diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil, if you take notice most of the people on shark tank have already sold lots of their product or made lots of money on it already.
The business and marketing end has been good and the people on there are looking to move the company to the next level.

Even a radical idea like an electric or midi harp would need to prove itself with sales before they would bother taking it to the next level. 

The only product I know that comes close to a lot of sales are Greg Heumann’s  mic connectors and alterations. 

mike
www.harmonicarepair.com


On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:11 PM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx 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.