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[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] In order to survive in business, you need customers. How you get your customers – and how long you keep them – can directly determine your profitability. While it seems to be pretty straight forward, customer acquisition isn’t that simple. Especially not with all of the assumptions, myths and wrong pathways...
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