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How I Got People to Buy the Weather

Joel Myers launched AccuWeather in 1962 with one client and turned it into a weather-forecasting juggernaut with revenue of more than $100 million. Some of the world’s largest companies are clients now, but it took him a decade to convince businesses that buying his forecasts was a worthwhile investment.
OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD AccuWeather founder Joel Myers, near his company’s State College, Pennsylvania, headquarters.

NO ONE wanted to buy weather reports when I started the business 54 years ago, because they could get them free on the radio. The technology I had

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