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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

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And when you’re bootstrapping a business, a mistake can be even more costly than not leveraging a chance for advancement. Those words are most often uttered by small business owners in reference to marketing. Your one-time marketing failure has convinced you not to try again. Yes, marketing is far from certain.

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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. Refusing to “try, try again.”.