MINITRENDS
Minitrends are emerging trends that promise to become significantly important in the next two to five years, but which are not recognized or appreciated by the general public or most businesses. These emerging trends can be extremely valuable to those alert enough to recognize them, perceptive enough to appreciate their potential worth, and clever enough to reap their full potential.

Our new award-winning book, MINITRENDS: How Innovators & Entrepreneurs Discover & Profit From Business & Technology Trends, by Dr. John H. Vanston with Carrie Vanston, has been very well received by those looking to discover and profit from Minitrends.
TFI provides practical, easy-to-understand guidance to assist individuals, small and medium-size companies, and large companies in identifying, analyzing, and exploiting attractive Minitrends effectively.
Clients typically use TFI Minitrends to:
- Find Minitrends.
- Analyze the attractiveness of specific Minitrends to the overall market and to yourself.
- Develop a Minitrend exploitation program.
- Translate that scheme into a business success
We can assist you in finding and exploiting Minitrends to improve your business situation, enhance your financial standing, and increase your personal satisfaction.
If you believe TFI can be of assistance to you in the Minitrend area, please contact us at (512) 258-8898 or info@tfi.com. You are also welcome to visit our Minitrends Website and Minitrends Blog. We welcome your inquiries.
MINITRENDS: How Innovators & Entrepreneurs Discover & Profit From Business & Technology Trends
By John H. Vanston, Ph.D. with Carrie Vanston
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The Pinnacle Book Achievement Best Business Book Winner
An Eric Hoffer Business Book of the Year Winner
ForeWord Reviews’ Book of Year Finalist
USA Book News Book of the Year Finalist
Dan Poynter’s Global Business eBook of the Year Finalist
–ForeWord Reviews
This title offers a new take on possible product development and investment avenues.”
—Library Journal
“MINITREND should quickly become a—if not the—standard work for the futurist’s search for business applications, and therefore for a wide range of social, economic, and business consequences. "
—Joseph Coates, Foresight Network’s Futurist of the Year
“MINITRENDS explains a set of practical-but-powerful tools and mindsets, offers the reader a rich array of accessible, authoritative information sources, and spells out purposeful processes by which a variety of practitioners can use the resulting foresight. HEROIC!”
—David Pearce Snyder, Strategic Forecaster & Contributing Editor, The Futurist
Vancouver, Canada
July 8-10, 2012
Texas Consultants Network
Austin, TX
June 15, 2012
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June 6, 2012
RISE Conference
Austin, Texas
March 8, 2011

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Dallas, Texas
February 28-March 2, 2011


