I see way too often the complaint of "this product looks exactly like mine". I've had it happen to me. It appears the person took one of my free products, changed it from matching to open-ended, and created a product line with a similar title based off of my resource. Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't. If you sit down with someone else's product and recreate it with some tweaks here and there, this is wrong! You definitely were not inspired. You are actually just copying someone else. There are some ideas out there that have been tossed around classrooms for years. For example, bingo or a quiz show style game are not new ideas. And those type of resources will most likely look very similar from one seller to the next. That doesn't mean they stole your idea. ...

You try to go to sleep at night - product ideas pop into your head. You drive to work - product ideas pop into your head. You sit down to create a product. Next thing you know 20 ideas are popping into your head for other products. What do you do? It's time to get those ideas out of your head and onto a list. You can create the standard list on paper. Keep a notebook handy just for product ideas. You can also make your list part of your planner. Use Evernote or Trello. With these apps, you can jot down your ideas and the app will sync across your devices. Both of these apps allow you to create notebooks or boards for organizing similar ideas or subjects. You could create a notebook/board for each idea and jot in some specifics you want to remember. I have tried both and prefer Evernote over Trello. In Evernote, I am able to do what I need to do without paying for the upgrade. The main thing is to do a "brain dump". Get your ideas and some specifics out of your head to cle......