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There are already more products available than the consumer wants or needs. 2. And the consumer has less time available to research products for themselves and, even if they did, they ignore your advertising messages anyway. So how do you succeed? People in business need to accept that marketing is not about anticipating or meeting customer needs anymore. Meeting needs is the romantic view - not the pragmatic view. Marketing today is about beating your competitor. Pl
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