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		<title>Why Six Sigma Fails Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan desperately needs innovation to be competitive. When Japan started using Statistical Process Control (SPC) now known as Six Sigma, it was a competitive differentiator. In other words Japanese auto makers used quality and lean process as an innovation. Detroit has been feverishly implementing Six Sigma but they are still losing ground to the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How are Predictive Innovation and Evangelism Marketing related?</title>
		<link>http://www.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>
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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://www.markproffitt.com/2008/04/17/evangelism-marketing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post a link get a FREE Book</title>
		<link>http://www.markproffitt.com/2008/04/16/post-a-link-get-a-free-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Ron Paul Revolution: History in the Making is about Evangelism Marketing I&#8217;m asking you to be evangelists.

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		<title>Interactive Technologies Radio Interview - Ron Paul Revolution: History in the Making</title>
		<link>http://www.markproffitt.com/2008/04/08/interactive-technologies-radio-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tune into Interactive Technologies live radio interview on WCBN 88.3 FM Ann Arbor to join the two part interview. You can listen online including a stream on Second Life.  I&#8217;ll be talking about Evangelism Marketing my experience using Evangelism Marketing method with the Ron Paul Revolution.
Mark Frazier on IT talking about abundance, Ron Paul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Nye the Science Guy&#8217;s Sleazy Past. (Humor)</title>
		<link>http://www.markproffitt.com/2008/03/28/bill-nye-the-science-guys-sleezy-past-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Alternative to Closing for Legendary Greek Restaurant</title>
		<link>http://www.markproffitt.com/2008/03/26/alternative-to-closing-for-legendary-greek-restaurant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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The 80 year old owner of Detroit&#8217;s oldest Greek restaurant New Hellas Cafe, Gus Anton, is shutting the business down claiming he needs the rest and can&#8217;t keep up with it any more. Surely he deserves to retire after 57 years of running the business his father started in 1901. Unfortunately shutting the business down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VenetianPrincess Remote Collaboration Music Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VenetianPrincess is a star on YouTube and an innovator. Her next project is a great example of how abundance is changing the world.
Venetian Princess is a pretty and very talented woman who makes movies and music videos, some for songs she writes and performs. Her channel has Subscribers: 25,271 and Channel Views: 1,117,782 as of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MyMiniCity, fun community traffic building technique</title>
		<link>http://www.markproffitt.com/2008/03/20/myminicity-fun-community-traffic-building-technique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon an online game that is like SimCity. The way to get actions to occur to make improvements to your city is to have people click on links. So you send links to your friends or post them in your blog. Check it out and Increase Industry in the MyMiniCity of Merfopolis.
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		<title>Visitors to My Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2004 I created a web statistics tool I called Twinkle Maps. It would show views to a page on a map over time so it looked like little lights twinkling across the map. This was exceptionally good for tracking viral spread. I&#8217;ve stopped using that tool since Google Analytics handles a bunch of [...]]]></description>
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