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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Break Points For Businesses

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Mrs. Content Guy and I made our annual trek to the US Open, out at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, earlier this week.  It got me thinking about how businesses handle the tension between maximizing immediate sales and making a business accessible to future customers.

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