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Many executives figure that if you spend enough money to promote a product, customers will come. But running a business in this way leads to failure, one expert says.
One of the central facts of business life today is that customers dont have to do business with you, said Noel Capon, a professor of international marketing at Columbia Business School and author of The Marketing Mavens.
He says firms that thrive in the long run are focused at every level of the organization on anticipating and meeting customer needs.
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