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 n.β€” Β«Supposing that I decided to rent the mailing lists of other people and send those potential customers a letter (usually referred to as a β€˜mail shot’), I might reasonably get between 1% and 2% of those people to buy from me.Β» β€”β€œHow to manage win-win-win situations using Joint Ventures” Best-of-the-Internet Website Traffic Resources May 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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