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Never, Ever, Fail to Listen to Customers by John Rosen - www.portigal.com/blog

“If the then-stockholders of CBS knew how much wealth I destroyed on magnificently-creative and utterly unproductive advertising, I would probably be in the jail cell next to Jeff Skilling.”

In a chapter entitled ‘Listen, Do You Want To Know a Secret?‘ John Rosen reminds us that you need to listen to customers, because, very simply, the cost of having that conversation with them will save you far more than what you stand to lose by not having that conversation. And in the Age of Conversation, there’s no excuse.

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