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Beta test youridea with the“man-on-the-street.”

If you are able to identify an “ordinary Joe or Jane,” press them into service by asking them to review your main idea and offer their comments on your main idea. If it was intended to be funny, is it? If it was supposed to be serious, is it? Test your assumptions against this individual’s to determine if what you’re thinking works.

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