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Old 08-04-2010, 06:02 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Qbert View Post
I'm pretty sure those days are long gone forever. But, the easy money days are part of the reason for a number of the recent program closures. When these programs started, making money was easy right out of the gate. They didn't have to be business savvy and lean & mean to get a foothold and survive the first year or two like most other kinds of business. That easy money led to bad habits, excesses and deficiencies never being properly corrected, or even worse, short cuts like pre-checked cross sales being used to prop up dwindling profits.

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The big money of the 80s and 90s are gone. Long gone. There are no people on the Net who made the money the likes of Larry Flynt, Paul Raymond, etc made.

I meant the big money of the early 2000s and I think if we took on some of what Sharky says it could happen. The business needs to be customer driven. He's in charge and he puts money on the table.

No one else does. We invest to get a return. He spends.
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