The INPEX® staff wants to thank all of the inventors and business attendees for another great INPEX®! We had an enjoyable week meeting all of the exhibitors, seeing their ideas and watching them learn, meet new people and develop new relationships throughout the week.

As a staff, that’s what makes our job so much fun. As I watched exhibitors tearing down at the close of the show on Friday, I saw them exchanging business cards, phone numbers and hugs! I thought to myself, “how great is that?”

Before we get plans underway for next year’s show, we wanted to take a minute to congratulate those who won awards at INPEX® 2011! Aside from gold medals given to inventors in 45 categories, these inventors won the following special awards:

• Best Invention of the Americas presented to Kousttantin Kulikov and Sergey Cheprasov for The GET (Green Eco-Trike)
• Woman Inventor of the Year presented to Kendra Rivers for Keep it Klose and Namita Rautray for SAFIX™ Scrub Pad
• Humanitarian Award presented to Del Huit for Crutchbuster
• Innovators Cup presented to Dr. Abd-Elaziem Farouk Gad of Saudi Arabia
• Grand Prix Second Runner-up, a $2,000 cash prize, was awarded to Sadeq Qassem for ALCHEMIST
• Grand Prix First Runner-up, a $3,000 cash prize, was awarded to Virgil Heil for The Cool Green Machine
• And the Grand Prix Award, a $7,500 cash prize, was awarded to Ross Nanotechnology, LLC for Never Wet Coatings

A complete list of all award winners will be posted on the website shortly, so keep checking back for the updated list.

We want to congratulate all of these winning inventors, as well as all of the inventors who attended INPEX® 2011. We sincerely hope it was an enjoyable experience, and can’t wait to start planning for 2012!

I wanted to remind those inventors thinking of purchasing a booth at INPEX® to do so by today, March 31!

Our last special promotion until the show, our March Madness Special, ends today! With this special, you can receive $100 off of the price of your booth package! Remember, this is the last special that we’ll offer, so be sure to take advantage of the discount while you can!

Don’t miss all that INPEX® 2011 has to offer!

Keep checking our website, as we’re continuously adding new information about this year’s show! Find out more about INPEX® 2011, America’s largest invention trade show, held June 14-17, in Pittsburgh. Call 1-888-54-INPEX to speak to one of our account representatives to help reserve your booth today! Several prime booth spaces are still available!

With INPEX® right around the corner (only 15 more weeks!), we wanted to offer one final special to those inventors thinking of buying a booth at the 2011 INPEX® show!

If you buy a booth between now and March 31, we’re offering $100 off the price of the booth package! We’re calling it our “March Madness” special, and we hope that you’ll take advantage of this deal since we’re not offering any more specials between now and the INPEX® show in June.

We have many events, product reviews, seminars, etc. planned for this year’s show, and we hope you’ll buy a booth to take full advantage of everything INPEX® 2011 has to offer.

Keep checking our website, as we’re continually adding new information about this year’s show! Find out more about INPEX® 2011, America’s largest invention trade show, held June 14-17 in Pittsburgh. Call 1-888-54-INPEX to speak to one of our account representatives to help reserve your booth today! Several prime booth spaces are still available!

For those of you out there that have already purchased a booth for our 2011 INPEX® show, I wanted to inform you of some exciting news, regarding one of our seminar presenters, Howard Lim!

Originally, our University classes were scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14th. We will now be starting one half hour early with Howard Lim, who will be conducting a special one and a half hour seminar from 12:30-2:00.

Howard Lim, President, of HOWCreative.net, will be speaking to inventors on the following topic:

Fortune 500 “Secrets” from Invention to a World-Class Brand

This class is for every INPEX® attendee from inventors to CEOs. Get ready for refreshing, relevant and content-rich seminar from product sequence to increasing customers and profits. Howard will punch through the jargon and misconceptions and deliver branding truths that have been proven in the marketplace, over and over again. He will take his fortune 500 experiences and show you how to apply it towards your product or business and avoid costly mistakes:

• What branding is and what it is not, and not knowing the difference can cost you
• How to apply branding effectively to your product, service, and business in the ‘right’ sequence
• How to improve your invention and to attract licensors, buyers, retail, and investors
• How to define your UBP (Unique Buying Proposition) to licensee, licensors, buyers, retail, and investors
• How to develop the correct sequence from an idea to the market
• How to form matches between your product’s value and your prospects’ mindset
• How to brand like a fortune 500 company without spending like one

Howard Lim, also known as the ‘Brand Master’, has spoken for organizations like INPEX® for more than two decades, and to more than 25,000 inventors and business owners on the subject of building Authentic Brands®. Not only does he speak and teach on the subject, he has extensive hands-on practice, resulting in many award-winning solutions and brand value and equity for his clients.

Howard has represented and contributed to the branding of such industry leaders as Apple, Disney, Xerox, Honda and others. In addition to being president of HOW Creative, he is also founder of Authentic Brand Academy. He has been featured in media such as the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Macworld, BRANDWEEK, HOW Magazine, ABC, FOX, and CBS. For more information, visit Howard’s website at www.HOWcreative.net.

Here’s what several past exhibitors have had to say about Howard’s seminar:

“100% Good Advice!” – 2010 Exhibitor

“Best session of all & they were all great! Howard is clearly an expert!” – 2008 Exhibitor

“Very Informative, Great Content, an INPEX Must!” – 2008 Exhibitor

INPEX® wants to wish all of our inventors a Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re “feeling the love” this month by offering our Sweetheart Special, which is 10% off the price of a booth!

To take advantage of this special, you must purchase a booth during the month of February, and we’ll take 10% off the total cost of the booth package.

We want to remind you what you’ll receive when you purchase a booth at INPEX® 2011. The cost of a booth includes:

• One 6′ long skirted table, two chairs and one wastebasket
• One alphabetical 25-word description in INPEX® Official Show Program
• One official show program
• One booth identification sign
• One ticket to INPEX® Dinner & Award Ceremony
• One judging category in the INPEX® Awards Program
• Unlimited admissions to the INPEX® Inventors University™
• Hometown Publicity Program
• Invitation Service
• Choice of booth location on a first-come, first-served basis (corner locations are limited and include an additional cost)
• Unlimited Access to Inventors Resource Center
• Unlimited badges
• Unlimited complimentary INPEX® admission passes

Don’t pass up the opportunity to take advantage of our discount, and call now to exhibit your invention at America’s largest invention trade show, June 14-17, 2011. Dial 1-888-54-INPEX to speak to one of our national account representatives and book your booth today!