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Naomi Monobolou, senior budget officer at the African Development Bank. [File, Standard]

When you reach out to someone - a customer or a business partner - you want to open them up to you. This makes them more porous and receptive to your ideas.

And when you want to make your customers more porous to your business offering, the question is, how do you do it?

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