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128 Birch Street
Boston, MA, 02131
United States

(617) 390-4076

Invent Boston designs and develops original products to add science + whimsy to  every day tasks at home.   Our first product is a Two Minute timer, Two Minute Turtle, a visual timer. The Two Minute Turtle helps children and adults focus on two minute tasks such as brushing teeth, physical therapy, taking a shower and speaking (practicing a presentation or learning a language).

Invent Boston™, Home of the Two Minute Turtle Timer™

Invent Boston™ blog offers tips and stories by parents, for parents of children ages 4-12 to make toothbrushing and other healthy habits at home, more fun. We write about simple tactics to help kids do what they like to do-touch, seeing, play games and strive for independence. We recommend products to help stay healthy while being kids. We share stories to transform daily healthy habits from something kids resist (for example, toothbrushing, handwashing, toilet training, organizing, taking time-out or pausing, yoga, and taking turns) into something children are motivated to do independently, without parents’ reminders. The original physical product Invent Boston has designed for families is the new light-up Two Minute Turtle Timer, an analog, interval toothbrush timer to make brushing teeth fun for kids. Kids like to press the button, follow the flippers and brush until all the lights blink—the Victory Lap signals to brush the tongue.

Seeking Marketing Intern!

Virginia Berman

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Invent Boston is Hiring!

What: Marketing Intern: Detail Oriented, Collaborative Worker

When: Mid May-August  2021 

Where: Remote

Goal of the position: Spur word of mouth in target regions and with target audiences. Introduce influencers to the Turtle Timer. 

How: Collaborate with the Executive Director and Research for Select New Sales Markets:  

  • Online gift & educational shops

  • Consumer ecommerce (Amazon, Etsy, InventBoston)

  • Children’s hospital buyers

Reach out to Social Media Influencers.

Find the right social media tools: promotion, short video, direct message to find and reach the “raising healthy young family” influencers

Criteria for influencers: 1000-10,0000 followers who would do a promotion/video to our target audience

  1. Create packet for influencers: freebies, samples, recognition

  2. Track and follow up with influencers

Find 25 Targeted towns.  

US towns with Turtles as tourist attraction

Test promotion campaign on instagram

Find and Get us into Holiday 2021 Online Gift Guides. 

Find, reach out to journalists who in 2020 published holiday gift guides for parents of kids ages 4-7 to write about the Turtle Timer. 

Work with the Executive Director of Invent Boston to collaborate and learn. 

Invent Boston is a small product design start-up. We prototype, invent, design, develop and market new physical products for families at home. Our products provide new and simple ways to make healthy habits more fun at home. The first product is the Two Minute Turtle Timer, award winning and successfully crowdfunded. The people who use the Two Minute Turtle Timer are children ages 4-14. The buyers are parents and grandparents of those children.  The sellers include online wholesale gift shops and ecommerce stores and hospitals.  

Compensation: stipend, based on experience

Please send your cover letter with why you are interested and relevant experience and skills. Include a resume, email to vberman@rcn.com