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187 New Product Ideas for 2023

December 29, 2022 / Gail Oliver, Online Small Business Consultant

Are you looking to start a new business in the new year, or just want to try selling a new product?

Well, I’m very excited for my new download, 187 All-New, All-Original Product Ideas for 2023!

Some of My Creative Product Ideas for 2023:

2023 Seed Calendar: Calendars are always big sellers, so how about a printed calendar that has an envelope for each month containing either seeds of plants that should be planted that month, or seeds of flowers that are relevant to the month. For example, April’s birth month flowers are daisies and sweet peas, so give seeds for these flowers for that month. Great gift for a gardener!
Backgammon Tray: What about a serving tray that doubles as a Backgammon board, since they are essentially the same shape and size.
Personalized Family Wall Hook Tree: This wall coat rack is a great idea, but even better if the hooks were engraved with the name of each family member, so everyone has their own hook.
Couples Zodiac Necklace: One side of the pendant features your Zodiac sign and the other side features your partner’s Zodiac sign. Romantic!
Caramel Latte Cubes: Cubes are a popular food trend, so why not sell flavored caramel cubes that you can drop into your coffee to make a caramel latte.
Quilted PJ Pants: Meshing together two popular products – quilts + pjs – is always a good idea.
Lava Cake Candle: When this jar candle melts, the wax pours down like a lava cake (plus it smells like one).

Discover more of my all original, creative product ideas in my brand new download, 187 All-New Product Ideas for 2023, at a super low introductory price.

A compilation of my creative mind, Google research, sales research, trending data and what I know sells, I hope this list inspires you for the new year!

Happy new year!

Creative Innovative Product Ideas To Inspire You

June 12, 2022 / Gail Oliver, Online Small Business Consultant

new product ideas I’m always looking out for creative innovative product ideas that inspire. Here are several that I thought were smart ideas in terms of being practical, solving a problem, or just adding more value.

Leather Bike Carrying Strap

How simple but innovative is this leather bike carrying strap that simply attaches between the two vertical bars of your bike.

Product Idea from Simons

Balcony Bar

If it’s allowed where you live, this balcony bar is an awesome idea. Again, it solves a problem, and it folds flat when not in use taking up no space.

Product Idea from Simons

Fruit Basket with Fly Cover

You’ve probably seen fly covers for food before, but this is the first time I’ve seen one where it was integrated right into the dish, so you can simply push it back, and not have to take it off and place somewhere else.

Product Idea from Simons

Two-Sided Necklace

Bauble Bar is always a cutting edge jewelry designer, but I love the idea of the two-sided reversible necklace, because it’s like getting two necklaces for the price of one.

Product Idea from Bauble Bar

Game Board Beach Towel

A simple graphic and this beach towel now has a dual purpose with both a checkerboard and backgammon board on it for more fun at the beach.

Product Idea from Anthropologie

House Plant Care Cards

I don’t know how many house plants you’ve killed, but I love this idea of being able to leave the card by the plant, so I can remember how to care for it.

Product Idea from Anthropologie

If you need innovative product or services ideas, or maybe want to refresh your offerings, you would be amazed at how many we can come up with during a phone consultation. Email to find out more.

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Easy Ways to Expand Your Product Line

April 4, 2017 / Gail Oliver, Online Small Business Consultant

by Gail Oliver, Online Marketing Consultant

Are you feeling stagnant and wondering how you can take your current design talents and use them for other products? You would surprised at how you could easily venture into other, potentially more lucrative markets.

For example, let’s say you’re a jewelry designer. Take a look at this $1,200 beaded chandelier below, and see how your talents would lend nicely to a product of this nature.

Are you a wood worker? I bet you never thought you could find success in the popular market for nursery night lights, but it is actually quite simple if you simply adhere your wooden design to the night-light base. The ones below sell for $32 each.

Are you a painter but canvas, paper and walls are getting a little boring for you? How about trying the trendy water bottle market, like this $38 art water bottle below?

Maybe you work with marble and you’re getting a little tired of just making cutting boards. Then how about a sleek and classic $98 marble shelf?

Do you knit or crochet and want to avoid the season lull once sweater season is over? Two great ways to use your skills are a $285 hammock or a $210 dream catcher.

So, I hope these ideas have inspired you, if you are finding that you are just not making it in your current market. Another thing that might help you is my Product Consultation, where I inspire you with fresh ideas based on market demand, current trends and unique offerings that will set your business apart.

New Product Ideas: Ways to Find Inspiration for

April 16, 2013 / Gail Oliver, Online Small Business Consultant

Looking for new product ideas? Everyone wants to come up with that next great product. So how do you find the innovator in you and either start or identify that next big trend? Try these tips to get inspired.

Find Inspiration in Commercial Establishments

I’m sure you have noticed the huge “chalkboard trend” the last few years, whether it is in home decor products or wedding products or graphic design, do you wonder how it got started? Think of the proliferation of Starbucks and other coffee shops and how they turned their everyday chalkboard menus into works of art. The same trend is now with subway or transit signs. You’ve looked at these signs for years, but suddenly they have become decor chic.

Was it Starbucks Menu Boards that Launched the Current Chalkboard Trend?

So go to the downtown core of your city and check out:

restaurants
retail shops
coffee shops
churches
museums
libraries
historical buildings

and really look at everything. From the art on the walls to signage to light fixtures to packaging – try to note interesting design details and how you can apply to the types of products you create.

Find Inspiration in other Eras

Another big product of the last few years has been the slogan, “Keep Calm and Carry On“, a propaganda poster made by the British government in 1939 during the start of the Second World War. People love inspirational sayings and slogans, so when a British bookstore rediscovered this poster back in 2000, it launched a whole slew of products and reworkings of the slogan itself.

So go to a library or bookstore and pull out every pictorial book you can on every decade and really study the photos.
Ask to look in your parents or grand parents’ attics (or just look around their homes) to see memorabilia from their era.
Take a look at their old photo albums, even their wedding album.
Watch movies and television shows from other decades, but with an eye for detail. Don’t focus on the story, but instead look at the set design, the wardrobe, and see what can inspire you.

Find Inspiration in Currently Popular Products

A lot of inspiration can come from creating products as add-ons to currently top selling products. iPhone cases came about because of the popularity of the iPhone and now there are over 160,000 iPhone cases listed on Etsy alone.

All the different accessory products for the iPhone

Take a journey over to Amazon.com and see what the most popular products are in any category – from food to baby to beauty to jewelry to gadgets – and see if you can find inspiration for a complimentary product for one of these top sellers. You now have a huge market to sell to.

See What People are Asking

If you go to Google and in the search box type “Where Can I Find...” or “How Do I….” and other types of open ended questions, you will get ideas for product that people want, but might not exist.

The number one reason people develop a product is to solve a problem, so find out what problems people are searching to solve.

Sometimes all you have to do is stop and look around you to get inspiration. There are obviously many more ways to get inspired, these are just a few to get you started.