In turns out my customers, without my knowledge or involvement, were marketing my business.

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As angry as I may be about activities undertaken without my knowledge, I am still accountable for those activities.

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"It's difficult for me to say how it came about because it was done without my knowledge, " he told BBC Sport.

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"These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation, " Stanton wrote.

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And thus was born, entirely by accident and without even my knowledge, a site where we were having real time conversations with our customers.

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I've never attended, even though I could do so without my children's knowledge.

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Because the Post is, to my knowledge, the first periodical without a paid website that Apple is allowing to sell app subscriptions.

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Without knowledge of the future, I can reduce my pricing risk by dollar-cost averaging my investment.

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The challenge I face as a small business owner, therefore, is how can I give my staff access to knowledge and new ideas without breaking the bank by, say, sending them all over the world to attend conferences and the like?

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