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		<title>Where to Start?  Always Start With Customers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently taught a short introduction to Predictive Innovation&#174; class for a group of design students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). One of the students listed his biggest problem as, &#8220;not knowing where to start.&#8221; He had a product idea and hundreds of ways to approach it but he didn&#8217;t know how to begin to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How are Predictive Innovation&#174; and Evangelism Marketing related?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>What Makes an Innovation System Complete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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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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