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		<title>U of M Startup Weekend, starts tonight</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/21/u-of-m-startup-weekend-starts-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Predict All Future Innovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve developed a method that allows you to predict all innovations for any product, service or entire industry. Innovation is an information processing activity. To innovate you gather, analyze, organize, and then put information to use. Innovation is more than just thoughts and dreams. To make innovation real you must do something. To successfully innovate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of the Predictive Innovation&#174;</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2009/02/27/overview-of-the-predictive-innovation-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predictive Innovation&#174; Overview View more presentations from MarkProffitt. (tags: reduce risk) Be Sociable, Share! Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>How are Predictive Innovation&#174; and Evangelism Marketing related?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/04/23/how-are-predictive-innovation-and-evangelism-marketing-related/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world business environment has fundamentally changed Customers can now both find and filter information to get what they want. This means traditional interrupt based advertisement is losing its effectiveness. At the same time customers can search the entire world for exactly what they want. Technology is also making it possible for customers to easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelism Marketing Workshop</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/04/17/evangelism-marketing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boardwalk Creative Center in Ann Arbor, MI, &#8220;Michigan&#8217;s most creative meeting space&#8221; will host my next hands-on Evangelism Marketing Workshop. I&#8217;ll show you how to &#8220;Make your customers so happy they freely sell your products for you.&#8221; This is way beyond Word-Of-Mouth and Viral. The methods I teach will show you how to create, [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[CES]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Shapiro]]></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>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[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>Crystal ball says, &#8220;In 6 months you&#8217;ll be laid off.&#8221;  What do you do?</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/26/crystal-ball-says-in-6-months-youll-be-laid-off-what-do-you-do/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/26/crystal-ball-says-in-6-months-youll-be-laid-off-what-do-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Detroit area the economy has been brutal. A bunch of people have been laid off. Many would have loved 6 months of warning but the truth is almost everyone that&#8217;s been laid off had much more than 6 months warning and they didn&#8217;t do anything. That&#8217;s not to say they were lazy or [...]]]></description>
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