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How to Hook Your Customers

The RIght Bait Will Lure Them Back

By: Alison Marek
Nov 5, 2010

It's wonderful when a new customer walks in your door. But how do you make sure he or she returns again and again? In the February issue of TDmonthly Magazine, experts and other specialty retailers share their insights and tricks of the trade to turn every customer into a repeat customer.

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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