Speaker For The December 9th Meeting
Sourcing Your Invention In Asia™
Edith Tolchin IS “The Sourcing Lady” (SM) . Everything you ever wanted to know about Sourcing Your Invention In Asia™ and tons of things you would never even think to ask are going to be covered in this presentation.
Even if you plan on manufacturing in the good old USA the information she will provide regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (of which she is an expert), the shipping industry and manufacturing in general will be priceless.
Ms. Tolchin has spoken to our group in the past, each time enriching her presentation by adding new elements and techniques. This time she’s providing a lively video exchange with Kedma Ough (another well known name in Independent Inventors circles) to give the material more focus and create more interest.
Normally, we try to only interrupt a speaker for a quick clarification and keep all our questions until after the presentation. However, due to the intensity of the program we plan to allow more interaction with Edith during the presentation. This is an experiment. Please keep your questions related to only the material at hand. As usual, we will not allow for tangencies.
With over forty years of experience in importing and international trade, Edie “invented” EGT Global Trading http://www.egtglobaltrading.com/ in 1997, with a goal to link U.S. inventors with Asian manufacturers, to provide an exclusive import service for sourcing, quality control, production testing and safety issues, manufacturing, international financing, air/ocean shipping, customs clearance arrangements, and dock-to-door delivery. She also holds a prestigious U. S. Customs Broker License and knows every nuance that can make or break a product.
Edith is also an accomplished author. Her monthly column in Inventors Digest is well known. She also co-authored Sourcing Smarts: Keeping it SIMPLE and SAFE with China Sourcing and Manufacturing, and is the author/editor of Secrets of Successful Inventing: From Concept to Commerce (Square One Publishers – www.secretsofsuccessfulinventing.com), the world’s greatest book for novice inventors. I’m sure you will recognize most of the contributors including…well… ah…. me.
Always evolving, she has turned her talents to fiction now with her latest creation… the hilarious novel, Fanny on Fire (www.fannyonfire.com) (Michelkin Publishing, 2017). So it should come as no surprise that we will be having a book signing.
Keeping things all in the family, Edith will be providing her own warm-up speaker. After a lifetime of evolving with the computer industry (starting with punch cards for programming, to system support and developing websites for some of the largest companies in the industry) her husband, Ken Robinson will speak about the importance of a website and social media for inventors. Check out his website at www.widgetsontheweb.com
Don’t miss this chance to pick the brains of two industry experts on Saturday 12/9/17 at 1:00 pm at LIGI Tool & Engineering, Inc. (3220 SW 15th Street Deerfield Beach, FL 33442) hosted by the Inventors Society of South Florida, a 501 (C) 3 non-profit educational organization.
Edith G. Tolchin and Ken Robinson – ISSF, Saturday December 9, 2017
- Ken Robinson will speak about the importance of a website and social media for inventors for the first five minutes of the presentation.
- Edie Tolchin will provide a video of a detailed interview of Edie, by Kedma Ough, SBDC Director at Mt. Hood Community College in Portland, Oregon and friend of the UIA. The theme of the video is “Sourcing Your Invention in Asia™”. The video covers every possible aspect of safely manufacturing one’s invention with a factory in Asia, packaging, shipping, quality control and legally importing into the USA.
- Questions will be welcomed by both Ken and Edie at the end of the presentation, followed by book signing.
Biography – Edith G. Tolchin
Edith G. Tolchin, is the author/editor of Secrets of Successful Inventing: From Concept to Commerce (Square One Publishers – www.secretsofsuccessfulinventing.com), the world’s greatest book for novice inventors. Since 2000, she has interviewed hundreds of inventors, from young to old, for her column in Inventors Digest.
With over forty years of experience in importing and international trade, Edie “invented” EGT Global Trading in 1997, with a goal to link U.S. inventors with Asian manufacturers, to provide an exclusive import service for sourcing, quality control, production testing and safety issues, manufacturing, international financing, air/ocean shipping, customs clearance arrangements, and dock-to-door delivery.
Ms. Tolchin holds a prestigious U.S. Customs Broker License. She is an expert in the Consumer Product Safety 
Improvement Act’s requirements for product safety issues, including all regulations and documentation. Edie also specializes in safe China sourcing and helping her clients work efficiently with China factories.
Edie’s latest creation is the hilarious novel, Fanny on Fire (www.fannyonfire.com) (Michelkin Publishing, 2017). She hopes to break into comedy writing in retirement.
Copies of both books will be available for signing.
Feel free to contact Edie at egt@edietolchin.com or egt@egtglobaltrading.com.
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Bob Oros 
