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		<title>Food Stamp Friday Party, Innovative Business Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Po&#8217; need 2 pahty 2&#8243; The absurdity aside, a Food Stamp Friday Party could be an innovative business strategy. The obvious way to look at it is charitable gesture. Truly needy people certainly do need some cheering up and they don&#8217;t have the money to go out clubbing. But the indirect alternative could point out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>95 Times More Profitable Products, Predictive Innovation Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to use Predictive Innovation&#174; to predict what customers will want and how to make it so that you can increase profits reduce risk, and neutralize competition. Find new markets, create new products, increase return on investment. In a nutshell Predictive Innovation&#174; is a structured way to describe what people want and how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Product Too Expensive? How to calculate price and cost.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flying cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Your Product Too Expensive? View more webinars from Mark Proffitt. How to price your products to maximize demand and profit and create a strong business strategy using the Predictive Innovation&#174; with Flying Cars as an example]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></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>Why do 88% of Ideas Fail to Make it to Market?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2007/02/21/why-do-88-of-ideas-fail-to-make-it-to-market/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2007/02/21/why-do-88-of-ideas-fail-to-make-it-to-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason 88% of ideas fail to make it to market is companies have no system to turn ideas into marketable innovations. Innovation requires 7 elements. To innovate successfully you must DO ALL SEVEN.]]></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[Innovation]]></category>
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		<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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