Instead of romancing your fans, listen intensely to their suggestions.

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Timberlake began romancing actress Jessica Biel about five seconds after his split with Diaz, and the media was full of reports that she angrily confronted them both at the 2007 Golden Globe awards.

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The band's hell-raising antics proved less popular with other parts of the aristocracy and the tour ended with them being chased to Southampton docks by a furious, shotgun-wielding Lord Harrington, whose daughter the lead singer had been romancing.

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Even though this is about romancing your customer, let me give you one personal example from my sordid past because it will lead us into an important business point, which will help you get the cold shoulder less often from the people you would like to become your customers.

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