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Step 4Find a manufacturer

Find a manufacturer
This is not as difficult as it sounds, you just need to start small. Without a long sales record it will be difficult to get a large manufacturer interested in investing the tens of thousands required to retool machines .etc. so it is usually best to go to a medium sized corporation that you can contract out to build your device. Often it is cheapest and best to look for a manufacturer who employs mentally disabled people, to work on essentially an assembly line.Through my contacts i found a local company that hires mentally disabled people to perform repetitive rudimentary tasks, this was perfect because i had designed the zapper to be manufactured without any skill at all. The manufacturer did time studies to figure out the cost for manufacturing each unit. The time studies showed that the device could be produced in approximately 4 minutes. Between parts and labor and packaging the total price comes out to under $4. As soon as i start getting larger orders i simply have to send a check and the address to the manufacturer who will ship it to my clients.
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