1. How to channel your creative thinking toward ideas that pay; 2. How good ideas are turned into dollars; 3. How to find a company to market your idea or invention; 4. How to present your idea or invention to prospective backers; 5. How to benefit from a rejection of your idea or invention; 6. How to turn an invention into a business; 7. How to sell your inventive ability to an established firm; 8. The idea markets: the toy field; 9. The idea markets: the advertising display field; 10. The idea markets: the industrial design field; 11. The idea markets: the greeting card field; 12. The idea markets: the gadget field; 13. The idea markets: the packaging and packaging machinery fields; 14. The idea markets: additional fields of opportunity; 15. How to protect your invention; 16. How to protect your idea; 17. How to get yourself a good contract to protect your idea; 18. Ideas for business/profits without protection.