Most everything you have is worthless. The only things of value are ideas:

actors sell movies
scientists sell theories
professors sell answers
wall street sells the future
kmart sells for less
botox sells for more
hospitals sell drugs
drug companies sell happiness
restaurants sell food

Most of these products are not tangible, even "food" is not tangible. Food disappears inside you and reappears as something else later, magic. Food is as abstract as time. It is regular, it is everyday, it is for all of us, it is taste and mass, but if I don't think about it food is as important and invisible as air.

We live in an imagined world, a conceptual world.

So take any of your ideas and turn it into something that no one else can do at that price, or that fast.

If you can't get any money for your idea it's because, the quality is inappropriate, the timing is wrong, or nobody knows about your idea because they don't understand or you haven't told them.

If you have the idea for some special invention that you want to patent just write your idea down, draw diagrams, and publish it in a public place. No one can patent public knowledge and even if your idea were new the team of lawyers on the other side would paper whip you into a corner if you stood to make any money.

Let's have an example: your idea is that people show their genitals in public.

Find out if there are laws against this in every state.
Wear a nice pair of "freedom pants."
Get arrested for modeling your "product" but make sure you're near the news headquarters and go out around 11 AM to be on local TV news or earlier in the day (during the commuter rush) for journalists to notice you. Have a friend call newspapers and offer photos and a news scoop.
Sell freedom pants on your website. [here]

Now that people know about your idea, see how much they'll pay for it. If only a few people want to pay a lot of money you're an artist. If a lot of people want to see but no one wants to pay any money you're an activist. If some people will pay some money you're a fashion designer. If everybody wants to hear your ideas but no one wants to look at you, you're a radio personality or writer.

If you have any of your own (real life) examples. Email me and I'll review your ideas in my next article: Make more money than ever before.

Fritz - Learn how to cheat an artist out of his money by watching Blue Lobster, my earliest film. (follow link, click on "narrative" and scroll to bottom for Blue Lobster clip)