The Outrageous Dinner. In his last job before founding the marketing firm he runs to this day, T.J. was a sales guy for a 200-person graphic arts services company. An employee at T.J.’s largest customer told him there was one big barrier to doing another $500k-$1mm worth of business a year: their presidents didn’t know each other well. Before T.J.’s company could make the jump from “supplier” to “partner,” the two big men had to develop a better rapport.
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Very much alive and now officially an industry curmudgeon, strategic growth expert T. J. Tedesco can be reached at tj@tjtedesco.com or 301-404-2244.