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Submitted by dfs

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Steal somebody else's successful idea and apply it to your own business. A good example is Netflix's algorithm for discovering what kind of movies an individual customer likes and recommending more of the same. The same technology could be applied to many other kinds of marketing.

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