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		<title>Who will pay for Frozen Food Innovation?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/12/28/who-will-pay-for-frozen-food-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business strategey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increasing profits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reducing risk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When looking for prospective clients I ask the question, “how many direct innovations are available?” I personally prefer indirect innovations but it&#8217;s much easier for new clients to understand and accept direct ones. This makes my value to the client more apparent so they are happy. So I recently came across contact information for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Predicted the Election</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/11/06/google-predicted-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictive innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out in my book &#8220;Ron Paul Revolution: History in the Making&#8221; Google trends is much more accurate measure of the public opinion than limited polls. Since Google searches are what people are really interested in and can&#8217;t be swayed by the wording of the questions it&#8217;s more truthful. Also Google searches tracks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Gold in the Closet at the Detroit Economic Club</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/25/finding-gold-in-the-closet-at-the-detroit-economic-club/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/25/finding-gold-in-the-closet-at-the-detroit-economic-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Electronics Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit Economics Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Shapiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profit margins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today when I attended the presentation by Gary Shapiro to the Detroit Economic Club I uncovered opportunities that were being overlooked. Mr. Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronic Association, encouraged Detroit to embrace free trade agreements and use innovation to meet the challenges of increasing competition. He was absolutely correct, however as so many others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing Emerging Expectations, the most important step of innovation.</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/12/revealing-emerging-expectations-the-most-important-step-of-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/12/revealing-emerging-expectations-the-most-important-step-of-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market share]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictive innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging expectations are the things customers will start to demand next. These are features, benefits, and values current products are missing but customers haven&#8217;t started demanding yet. When customers realize these desires can be met they will demand it from all future products. It&#8217;s essential to have something ready when that happens or you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes an Innovation System Complete?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/11/what-makes-an-innovation-system-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/11/what-makes-an-innovation-system-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem solving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is more than creativity, it requires 7 steps and each step must satisfy 7 criteria. This video introduces the steps and criteria. In future posts I&#8217;ll explore some of the steps and criteria. For a free 19 page report detailing the criteria contact me and ask for, &#8220;What Makes an Innovation System Complete&#8221;. Related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone Marketing Mistake</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/19/apple-iphone-marketing-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/19/apple-iphone-marketing-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelism marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forbidden fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apple is great at marketing. The PC vs. Mac commercials are viral video favorites. Those videos have launched a new micro genre of fan made PC vs. Mac commercials. Now that is some amazing marketing, which I don&#8217;t think they quite planned. But they could have predicted. That is why I feel they are making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCBN &#8211; Interactive Technology Interview &#8211; Part 2 of 2 &#8211; 2006 Dec 19</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/09/wcbn-interactive-technology-interview-part-2-of-2-2006-dec-19/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/09/wcbn-interactive-technology-interview-part-2-of-2-2006-dec-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ann arbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interactive technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark frazier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[npr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wcbn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markproffitt.com/2007/01/09/wcbn-interactive-technology-interview-part-2-of-2-2006-dec-19/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of a 2 part interview. I talked about abundance, ways for Detroit automobile industry to deal with China&#8217;s increasing manufacturing dominance, unemployment, how to make things free, information technology, new ways of looking at the world. http://www.markproffitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/it12262006.mp3]]></description>
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		<title>Make a Killing With Unprofitable Ideas.</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/08/make-a-killing-with-unprofitable-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/08/make-a-killing-with-unprofitable-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destroy your competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killer strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street fight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markproffitt.com/2007/01/08/make-a-killing-with-unprofitable-ideas/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The most valuable idea you can find might be the one that you can&#8217;t profitably market. Have I totally gone out of my mind? Has all this talk of abundance and things being free and eliminating jobs being a good thing rotted my brain? No, not in the slightest! For once I&#8217;m going to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the High Paying Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/05/where-are-the-high-paying-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2007/01/05/where-are-the-high-paying-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markproffitt.com/2007/01/05/where-are-the-high-paying-jobs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big complaint in all the industrialized nations is they&#8217;re losing high paying jobs. But where are those jobs going? The quick response is the high paying jobs are going overseas or foreigners are coming in and &#8220;stealing&#8221; jobs. This is an easy explanation but it&#8217;s totally false. High paying jobs aren&#8217;t moving overseas or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Out of Average</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/28/breaking-out-of-average/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/28/breaking-out-of-average/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[continuous profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markproffitt.com/2006/12/27/breaking-out-of-average/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating Passionate Users: Attenuation and the suck threshold. A great article on the mindset needed to be an innovator. Most people and the businesses they work in are good enough. They got past the &#8220;I don&#8217;t suck&#8221; threshold but really don&#8217;t move much beyond that. The article talks about being the best in the world. [...]]]></description>
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