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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

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You’d be much better served to use what you know about your customers to create highly targeted and personalized direct marketing campaigns. That’s where word-of-mouth advertising begins. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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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.

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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. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

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Or maybe you offered an online deal to new customers, only to realize that the discount you advertised was a little too generous and wouldn’t allow you to make any profits. Your one-time marketing failure has convinced you not to try again. Yes, marketing is far from certain.

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