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If you work at a store or another type of business that has customers, use extra effort today to get to know the customers you interact with. Call them by their names, and ask their names if you don't know them. Make sure to use formal names instead of nicknames, until your really get to know them. Email or call those who have recently made a purchase, and ask them what they thought of the product or service they bought. Don't try to sell them something or put them on an email list; simply make the contact to show them that they are a valued customer. Another way to demonstrate this is by sending a "thank you" note. If your company does have an email list, make sure emails are only sent out about once a month, so customers don't feel overwhelmed. Details about deals or events are appropriate types of content for these emails.

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Syracuse basketball recruiting: Quincy Guerrier sets announcement date (PS; Carlson)

Syracuse basketball recruiting target Quincy Guerrier will announce his college choice on Oct. 31, according to a video he posted on Twitter and Instagram.

I got to make it in ball because acting aint my thing [?] [?] October 31st decision [?] [?] [?] [?]pic.twitter.com/SgEMiRXLFb

-- Quincy Guerrier (@quincyguerrier) October 18, 2018

Q will make his decision live on our #NBA broadcast on #RDS2 October 31st. Halftime of our New York vs Indiana game. Will be a special evening! Quincy Guerrier on Twitter

-- Peter Yannopoulos (@PeteYannopoulos) October 18, 2018

Guerrier is ranked as high as No. 48 in the Class of 2019 according to 247 Sports. He is listed as a 6-foot-7 small forward. He is from Quebec City but is currently attending prep school at Thetford Academy (Thetford, Vermont).

Syracuse is one of three finalists, along with Illinois and Oregon.

Guerrier was named the MVP of his team in the 2018 BioSteel All-Canadian Game, Canada's version of the McDonald's All-American Game. Current Syracuse forward Oshae Brissett played in the event when he was in high school.

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Syracuse Basketball: Orange could ‘steal’ the ACC in 2018-19 (itlh.com; Patrick)

In their ACC season preview, Sports Illustrated believes that the Syracuse basketball team has the potential to steal the top of the conference in 2018-19.

For those who cover college basketball for a living, many believe that the Syracuse basketball team will be a squad to watch during the upcoming season.

Of some of the preseason rankings that have already come out, most have the Orange in their top 20 and some even have the school among their top 15. Whatever Syracuse’s initial ranking ends up being, the consensus seems to be that the school will begin the upcoming season on at least one of the major preseason polls for just the second time since 2015.

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Orange Watch: Syracuse may play an ACC opponent to open the 2019-20 season - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)

Item: The ACC will reportedly stage conference games to open the 2019-20 college basketball season.

In a few words; we don’t like it. Of course, the ACC wants to capitalize on next summer’s debut of the linear ACC Network with partner ESPN by squirreling away its prized exclusive content -regular season football, basketball, and men’s lacrosse games, and with hoops going from 18 to 20 regular season games, building logistics and calendar dates have to be considered.

But to do so from a competitive balance standpoint when going from two exhibition games against Div. II opponents to immediately playing, let’s say North Carolina State in the Dome, is a completely different slope to a season, especially when a league loss affects the seeding of the conference tournament and potentially in any given season an NCAA Tournament berth.

Season tipoff tournaments used to begin college hoops campaigns in the 1980s and 90s (Syracuse opened against North Carolina in the 1988 Tipoff Classic), but this century the trickiest Syracuse openers have been against Memphis (loss) at Madison Square Garden in the 2002-03 championship season, home games against Charlotte (loss) the following year, and Siena (win) in 2008, and San Diego State (win) in the 2012 “Battle On the Midway” game in San Diego.

All of the remaining initial games to a season since 2000 have been scheduled against teams that Syracuse would be favored to defeat, or at the minimum allow for a gradual increase in the level of competition, and/or before playing on the road through November.

It will also be interesting to see if an ACC opener becomes a permanent fixture or a one-time schedule quirk with the debut of the TV Network, but moving forward there’s no doubt teams will regularly be playing conference games before New Year’s Day.
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Syracuse Using Duke Game To Pad The Bottom Line (dukebasketballreport.com; King)

Whatever else you can say about Syracuse joining the ACC, basketball hasn’t fallen off much.

The Orange had rivalries with Georgetown, UConn and St. John’s and we know they miss them. Playing Virginia, UNC and most of all Duke has really helped them transition to the conference. And in the case of Duke, demand is high enough for the ticket prices to be double the normal rate.

In an interesting twist, Syracuse is using a version of surge pricing. We’re not sure how that will go over long term, but the fans seem to be tolerating it so far.


Duke's Zion Williamson mentioned during college basketball corruption trial - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Geisinger)

A day after Mike Krzyzewski addressed, briefly, the federal investigation into fraud and corruption in college basketball, one of Duke’s top players was mentioned in the trial’s proceedings. On Tuesday, Zion Williamson — the human highlight factory and one of college basketball’s brightest stars — was discussed in a Manhattan courtroom.

Defense attorneys for Merle Code, James Gatto and Christian Dawkins tried — unsuccessfully — to enter multiple wiretapped phone calls as evidence. With the jury out of the courtroom, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sided with the prosecution; the calls would not be entered as evidence. However, the public is now aware of them.

In one of those calls, which Yahoo Sports has transcribed, Code is on the phone with Kansas assistant coach Kurtis Townsend. On the call, Code and Townsend discuss the recruitment of Williamson — who took an official visit to Kansas on Sept. 30, 2017 — and his father. Townsend led Kansas’ recruitment of Williamson, too, per 247 Sports.

“Hey,” said Townsend, according to a reading by Code’s attorney, Mark Moore. “Between me and you, you know, he asked about some stuff. You know?”

Who is “he?” Zion Williamson’s father, per Moore’s courtroom account.

“I know what he’s asking for,” Code responded. “He’s asking for opportunities from an occupational perspective, he’s asking for cash in the pocket and he’s asking for housing for him and his family.”

According to Sports Illustrated, the phone call took place just 12 days before Code was arrested last September, which is why Kaplan refused to admit the conversation into evidence. The arrest of Code took place on Sept. 26, 2017 — the week before Williamson visited Lawrence.
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Habibas Ethiopian Kitchen opens on Saturday in Syracuse (PS; Weaver)

Attention injera and wat lovers: Habiba Boru will start serving Ethiopian food at noon on Saturday.

Habibas Ethiopian Kitchen at 656 N. Salina St. will be Syracuse's only Ethiopian restaurant.

"I've always had the dream of opening my own restaurant," she said this week. "Now it's time."

Boru learned to cook from her mother when they lived a refugee camp in Kenya. Boru was a child, and she watched as her mother cooked and sold samosas and injera flatbread from a hut.

Boru brought those cooking lessons with her to Syracuse, where she came alone in 2000. She started cooking for friends and family in 2005. For the past couple of years, she's run a catering business.

Finally on Saturday, she and her husband, Hussein Mumin, will start serving diners six days a week. They plan to be open for lunch and dinner, Tuesdays to Fridays, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on the weekends.

The menu will include traditional Ethiopian dishes, such as spicy wats, or stews, and vegetable dishes such as gomen (collard greens) and atakilt wat (a mix of potatoes and vegetables).

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