"More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers."

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Source: Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Jay Conrad Levinson

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Jay Conrad Levinson was a marketing expert known for pioneering guerrilla marketing, a strategy that empowers small businesses to compete creatively.

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