Before you think of developing a Buy DMT online for export or even adapting an existing one, it is important to make a distinction between a product and a product type. A motor vehicle is product type, but a “Toyota”, a very popular Japanese car, is a product.
New product types are rarely created. An exporter who can come up with a better version of an existing product will succeed as a market for such a product already exists. The manufacturers of Toyota have worked very hard to make their cars so popular although the vehicles are not much different from any others you find on our roads. But think of how much harder they would have to work to come up with a completely new mode of land transportation.
There is business in the re-modeling or re-packaging of existing products, that is, creating new products out of the existing ones. Sometimes only very minor adjustments are required, for example, using a colorless clear bottle for a whiskey that is traditionally sold in an opaque bottle.
If you decide to copy products of another manufacturer you will be running the risk of patent or copyright infringement. But you can avoid the risk and still exploit the success of a new product by making slight modifications in the design of the product you want to copy as long as you do not try to confuse the public into thinking that they are buying the original product.
Once the product life cycle is understood, the planning of when to introduce a new product or make changes on the existing product can be done more accurately.
Festus Muga
Hello Fellow Small Scale Entrepreneur,
I am a freelance writer and have a wealth of experience in the Banking Industry. I have worked as a member of the management team of an international bank and am well versed in Business Development and Financing, Financing of Foreign Trade, Import/Export Processing and Documentation.
I have successfully managed an Export/Import Agency of my own which has given me quite an experience in the pros and cons of international business.
