Edison Nation listens to what our community has to say, and we keep hearing you have the million dollar idea, but we don’t have a search for you to submit to. Edison Nation is now hosting an “open” search exclusive to our Edison Insiders. If you have a rock-star idea, submit it to the Open Search. It works just like our sponsor-specific Live Product Searches, except we’ll work with any consumer goods retailer or manufacturer in any mass-appeal category.

If your idea is selected for this search and you reach the Finalist stage – also called “G7” – the Edison Nation team will identify the ideal prospective partners for your idea, whether they are companies we have previously worked with or not.

For this search, Edison Nation wants to see your best new product concepts spanning any industry or category.

Keep in mind that top ideas will:

• Have broad appeal (no niche ideas that only you, your best friend and grandma would buy!)

• Be considered consumer products (i.e. no industrial equipment, technological advancements without application and so forth)

• Be protected by a trade secret or patent, or a concept that can be protected by a trade secret or patent

• Have high marketing and sales volume potential

Part of the fun in hosting an Open Search is that there aren’t many rules and requirements! Edison Nation will consider any unique and innovative concept as long as it is for a new consumer product with mass market appeal.

While not required, we highly encourage you to submit a video of yourself demonstrating a prototype and explaining the features and benefits of your submission. Please be as detailed as possible in telling us about your innovation.

Please note, this is an opportunity for you to submit ideas that haven’t been a fit in any other search. You can update and submit any idea that you’d like as a new idea, but we really want new and fresh ideas that haven’t been a fit anywhere else. For this reason, we do not accept opt-ins in the Insider Open Search.