Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 
25th April 2017, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 267 Re: suppliers and vendors
Proof, that it works.
Trust, that it's not weak, or worse, a scam.
Proposition, a unique angle on why a vendor/supplier would buy or list.
Good luck with your venture.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd April 2017, 12:27 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 737 Re: Is List Building Very Profitable?
You're making a couple of mistakes.
First, you're selling a low cost product. Second you are only selling once.
The value from a list, providing you are doing it properly (most people don't) is...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
21st April 2017, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 935 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
18th April 2017, 01:13 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 122 Re: Amazon seller related issues
"... to maintain profits..."
1. To maintain profits means to protect them from any erosion.
2. Protection of the volume of sales from any decline.
3. Protection of the margin from any fall....
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
16th April 2017, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 754 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
16th April 2017, 04:35 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 754 Re: How risky is an FBA business
Page ranking on amazon is as much art and science.
For anyone who is familiar with page ranking on google, this is very different.
Amazon has nearly 100 elements it associates with page...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th April 2017, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 228 Re: How do you combat "Friendly Fraud"?
It's an unfortunate cost of doing business.
As others have said, you will get a small handful of people who do this but, in the main, people are honest and trustworthy.
What is perhaps more...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th April 2017, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 187 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th April 2017, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 187 What The Hell Is A Whoosh?
In Phil Night's excellent memoir, Shoe Dog, he describes his long battle to create Nike.
The lessons for online entrepreneurs abound. For example, the commercial impact of a great communication.
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
9th April 2017, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 946 Re: Best Ecommerce Platform??
Well the best ecommerce platform is obviously amazon. By far.
No, i'm not being flippant, I see that you are near the $1m annual mark. I am too, for my amazon sales alone. Now I wouldn't advise...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th April 2017, 08:11 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 726 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
8th April 2017, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 310 Re: Physical products on Amazon, some questions
Amazon.
That's where you start your investigation. There are quite a number of 'musts' if you're going to try to sell food on amazon.com. It's also a gated category, so you need to get approval in...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th April 2017, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 726 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th April 2017, 02:03 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 726 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th April 2017, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 346 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
5th April 2017, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 224 Re: Market research resources
Market research for what, exactly?
There is no one-way of doing market research, that's because it depends heavily upon what you are researching and what your objectives are.
For example, if...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
4th April 2017, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 766 Re: How to boost sales on Amazon
it depends on your skill level (partly).
Actually the most valuable thing an Automatic campaign can do for you, in the beginning, is VALIDATE your listing with amazon. I can't tell you the number...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd April 2017, 05:38 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 309 Re: Missing In Action..... So What's Changed!
A lot has changed. Nothing has changed.
There are still a load of guru scammers around - "buy my ebook that shows how to make $1m a week using just your smartphone from the beach 1 hour a day". -...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd April 2017, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,433 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
3rd April 2017, 04:35 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 237 Re: Why is Amazon so customer focused?
It's not.
Amazon's focus on the customer is very carefully calculated in order to create trust (the ultimate factor in ecommerce) and volume (by building the biggest ecommerce search engine...
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Forum: Website Design
15th March 2017, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 327  Re: Feedback on Landing Page
Context is king.
Unless I can see what the method is of driving traffic to the page then I can't really comment with any real sense as the landing page is only one element of the funnel you are...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
15th March 2017, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 488 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
8th March 2017, 11:42 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 998 Re: e-commerce Platform
The best site to begin with is actually amazon (you don't 'own' the site, of course, but it's excellent to cut your teeth on and I built a six figure monthly business on this alone to begin).
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
7th March 2017, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 388 Re: NEW to E-commerce
If you need to start making money quickly without a large investment, my advice would be to get a job (i'm serious).
When you are in a position to be able to spend more time and money, my advice...
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Forum: Email Marketing
7th March 2017, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,935 |
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Forum: Email Marketing
7th March 2017, 12:56 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,935 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
9th June 2016, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 375 Re: Struggling with Sales - story so far
Cold freezes sales. Warm up your visitors, instead.
Your sales process may very well be too short (thus cold). Put them through a funnel, especially if your products are in a highly competitive...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
5th June 2016, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 153 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th April 2016, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 477 Re: Amazon suing more fake reviewers
You've got the wrong end of the stick.
Amazon's intent is not to track down tens of thousands of fake reviewers. That would be pointless and futile to try.
Their intent is to scare amazon...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th April 2016, 04:14 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 436 Re: shopify vs wordpress
Missing information.
Need much more context. Including is it for a hobby or a serious business?
Good luck with your venture.
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
19th April 2016, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 990 Re: Healthy margin per product
Your product is not dumb.
It's not inert, in terms of a market and therefore margin. It should be alive and kicking and moving around. Move your price (therefore margin) up and down, create a...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
17th April 2016, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,789 Re: Dropshiping with FB Ads
Nope.
No large fanbase required, not in the beginning (many make that mistake). Watch out for those who tell you it is needed, you won't find many/any ecommerce business successes that recommend...
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Forum: Email Marketing
17th April 2016, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 369 Re: Best Way To Organize Mailing Lists
Behaviour.
Segment your list by most recent behaviour.
For example those who signed up from a homepage squeeze could be named "Homepage Squeeze". Those who you acquired directly from sales...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th April 2016, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 292 Re: is big social a advertisiers monopoly?
A small clue:
Your most fundamental problem is not advertising impact.
Your most fundamental problem is figuring out an economic model for your business that works for both short and long term....
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
16th April 2016, 03:49 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,282 Re: why my website only 5 order?
I don't know.
You fail to supply even the most basic of information and therefore nobody can begin to guess at what the problem is. For example, traffic sources? Traffic volumes? Conversion rates?...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
7th April 2016, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,419 Re: starting eCommerce business
What is your aim?
If it is to spend time, effort and money in building, maintaining and repeatedly fixing a site when it breaks then there are a large number of candidates eg wordpress based...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
5th April 2016, 04:37 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 874 Re: Take a look at my website
Congrats on getting started in ecommerce. Most don't get that far.
1. The homepage is much too busy and unsettling to the eye (think apple.com).
2. The design lacks theme and coherence, too...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st April 2016, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,830 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
1st April 2016, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 695 Re: Best Platform For An Online Store
Depends 'pon your destination, Cap'n.
If you are really more interested in building sites, maintaining and endlessly fixing and fiddling with them as things break then go with wordpress, woo...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
30th March 2016, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 811 Re: Need opinion from the experts
You have a good attitude.
If you keep thinking like that and keep learning it will take you far. Discipline and consistency also take you far.
Probably the number one thing I would say to you...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
30th March 2016, 04:06 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,542 Re: Help needed to start new online business..
You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
First, look at all the various online business models (affiliate, ecommerce, domainer, etc) in order to fully understand the vast differences...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th March 2016, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 3,270 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
29th March 2016, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 811 Re: Need opinion from the experts
I can see you are very new at this. Nevertheless, here's some tough love:
Dude, you have to get serious. You're selling product for $250 but have absolutely zero trust from anyone visiting your...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
28th March 2016, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 820 Re: 2 Sales in 2 weeks?? Not Good :(
Missing information.
How much traffic are you driving? What do the ads say? Where are they landing? Where are they exiting?... and a hundred and one other questions before anybody could begin to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2016, 07:03 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 289 Re: Auto Play or Not?
I hate autoplay.
However, you should ignore me and yourself and others too.
Instead, test. Track conversion carefully. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to guess.
Good luck...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th March 2016, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 368 Re: Who Wins Most Business?
I'm afraid you've missed the point.
The point i'm making is about overall business perspective not the detail of one aspect of it (and, as i said, I only had one sentence to sum it all up).
On...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th March 2016, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 411 Re: Split testing question
Largest probable impact to least probable impact.
Start with split testing the most important elements and work towards the minor issues.
For me this is the overall look and feel (usually the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th March 2016, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 400 Re: Is anyone using FBA to sell on Amazon?
I've only ever used FBA to help fulfil my orders.
To me it's a no-brainer such is the level of professionalism within amazon at fulfilment for such a very small price.
My results, that you ask...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
13th March 2016, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,162 |
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
13th March 2016, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 95
Views: 2,652 Re: Warrior Forum = Genuine Value
I agree with Tom and J.
Welcome back J. Yes there are some people in WF who we wish were not here but it has many fine contributors and people who genuinely like to chat and help others.
Good...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
13th March 2016, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,000 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
12th March 2016, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 495 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th March 2016, 12:26 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 689 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th March 2016, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,421 Re: Overwhelmed Internet Marketor
No.
Only you can help yourself. We can only point a few things out that may go on to help you help yourself.
Stop. Extract yourself from yourself. Pause for a while.
The world of IM is awash...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th March 2016, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 708 |
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
10th March 2016, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 747 Re: Business with a single product
Yes, there are single product businesses that thrive.
The business model is different than that for those who rely more on repeat purchases or upsells, for example. Careful pricing and innovative...
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