Really had fun with the Speedy Design Cntest. Great job Bryce Porter and Churu Yun. Hope everyone has an excellent New Year!!!!

Karen with Design-a-Dish won. Her plates and quick design rings will be featured on HSN on the 27th. You can go to HSN.com search Homemade Millionaire and order them now. The plates look gorgeous, as does Karen. I think Wendy did a good job of coaching the story our of this shy reluctant inventor. By the time she pitched to the executives at HSN she was a different business woman. Brynn was a very good pitcher, her tag line of just “press and go” was really easy to digest and she looked great as a spokesperson. Lay down Stay down beach blanket was an interesting and practical idea. Living in Michigan beach is a way of life so I won’t be surprised to see this type of product out there at the lakeshore.

Brynnn, with Press and Go Ironing, Karen with Design a China and Katie with Lay Down and Stay Down beach towel-these are the season-ending contestants on Homemade Millionaire. Watch them pitch Dec. 24 10 p/9C and on Dec. 25 Discovery Health at 12am! Good luck to these ladies.

This is like the show within the show. When Homemade Millionaire moved to Discovery Health one could not help but think…wha???? If they wanted to cancel it, like The David Hasselhoffs show after only 2 episodes, wouldn’t it just fade to black? Or quietly go out with a whimper? Why a channel change? After reading an article in O (Jan. 2011) Oprah talks about her 2007 meeting with the Discovery head, David Zaslav, and after hearing a bit of chatter…could it be that Homemade Millionaire is going to be on the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network, see www.oprah.com/own) Then while watching on Discovery Health there it was; the balloons flying and the announcement that Discovery Health is going to become OWN. What’s going to happen to all us hopeful inventors that tried out for Homemade Millionaire? Shark Tank is slated to resurface in 2011, see www.abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank. Oprah has obviously been a leader in product review with her hugely successful book club, to her screaming Favorite Things episodes, to her “Favorite Things” feature in her O magazine. Could Lady O beat the Shark? Now that would be my favorite thing☺

Episode 4 had Sarah Haviland the winner with her Think cleaning products. As someone being considered for season 2 with my invention, ClipCleany, I am studying this show like a business class. From that perspective, the contestants don’t have to sell to all of America, but to 2 people and in reality probably 1 major decision maker. From reading the HSN executive comments and comments from Ed Evangalista the business coach, (read his comments on this blog, scroll down to find his name), he totally sums it up here, http://blogs.discovery.com/homemade-millionaire/2010/12/you-asked-wendy-robbins-answers.html When someone doesn’t “win” why? Will the contestant ever really know? So it may be about person, product, pitch, margins, or something we are not privy to. What is the tipping point? Also why did it move from TLC to Discovery Health?… A penny for your thoughts. Watch this Friday at 10 on Discovery Health.