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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Minitrends</title>
    <subTitle>how innovators &amp; entrepreneurs discover &amp; profit from business &amp; technology trends</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Vanston, John H.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Vanston, Carrie</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Technology Futures, Inc</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Austin, Tex</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Technology Futures, Inc.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xxii, 190 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Book collaborator Carrie Vanston has many years of experience in public relations, marketing, and sales at Technology Futures, Inc. and in the entertainment industry. Because the successful exploitation of a Minitrend requires effective marketing, she brings a distinct real-world quality to the book, particularly in the media communications and social media areas. Her easy sense of style and readability helps the</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Part I: The value of minitrends --
Importance of minitrends --
Part II: Uncovering minitrends --
Searching for minitrends --
Where to search for minitrends --
Part III: Some attractive minitrends --
Minitrends for individuals --
Minitrends for small and medium-size companies --
Minitrends for large companies --
Part IV: Prospering from minitrends --
Selecting a minitrend for exploitation --
Developing a minitrend exploitation scheme --
Putting the exploitation scheme into action --
Part V: Becoming a minitrends master --
Here's the so what!</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by John H. Vanston with Carrie Vanston.</note>
  <note>"Between megatrends &amp; microtrends lie minitrends: emerging business opportunities in the new economy."</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>	</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Éxito en los negocios</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Innovaciones tecnológicas</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Autorrealización (Psicología)</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HF 5386 V281m 2010</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">658.4/09</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781884154362 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">1884154360 (pbk.)</identifier>
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