Do You Want to Keep Your Customers Forever?. Don Peppers

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      DO YOU WANT

      TO KEEP YOUR

      CUSTOMERS

      FOREVER?

      Harvard Business Review

      CLASSICS

      DO YOU WANT TO KEEP

      YOUR CUSTOMERS FOREVER?

      B. Joseph Pine II, Don Peppers, and

      Martha Rogers

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1995

      Reprint #95209

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      DO YOU WANT

      TO KEEP YOUR

      CUSTOMERS

      FOREVER?