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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

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Customers are sensitive about who has their personal information — such as email addresses, purchase history, and preferences — as well as how it’s used. When you embrace the risk of getting close, you must commit to using personal information to draw customers closer, not drive them away. That’s where word-of-mouth advertising begins.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

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Especially in a global economy that is becoming flatter and more competitive by the day, skimping on marketing is not the way to save money, because you’ll quickly find yourself out-publicized and out-advertised by the competition. At RME, we actually used marketing risk as a competitive edge. How do you proceed?

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Nine Risks You Must Take (And Keep On Taking) To Build A Sustainable Business

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Sub in new technology, a bigger store, a larger advertising budget, and on and on, for those two pennies and you get excuses made by struggling entrepreneurs everywhere. Call them with information or updates on products they’ve purchased or have asked about in the past. Send birthday cards or holiday cards.

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