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Exclusive Networks' Barrie Desmond on why vendors who play hokey cokey with the channel are dancing with the devil

There's a mantra that I live by; I might be wrong, but I'm not confused. If only more vendors adopted this approach and had the bottle to make definitive decisions about their channel strategies. D...

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