Forum: Copywriting 
25th April 2023, 05:29 PM
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
@max5ty,
Interesting questions. And, considering how Microsoft now uses a custom GPT version to power Bing, i.e. Microsoft says its updated with real time content — I think it would still be...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
@max5ty,
;) Yes. Though not in all cases when talking about the first time you become visible to your target prospects. In my experience, a much more personal style for marketing content is...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 01:42 PM
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
Correct. But I think that making it easy to spew words will increase the number of content pieces that use word-count as the only quality criteria enormously.
And we will start getting bombarded...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 01:18 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
The why is tied to the depth of info you need.
Who has the cheapest gas within 1 mile of me, I take the first answer, even if it's Google's AI... Till on my way to their cheapest place I pass by...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 A very HOT niche?
Thanks to you max5ty.
7 Reasons Why I Won't Use Artificial Intelligence (AI)...and why YOU shouldn't either.
Headline ^^for my new (just thought of) report on Anti AI.
How not to get...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 11:37 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
Thanks Gordon -
What I've thought for a while now is that all these blog writers and article writers that are jumping with joy over the new way to write, are really failing to realize they're...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
21st March 2023, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 AI kills the article writer.
Bing and Google are in a war to do just this^^^^ Eliminate the need to go anywhere else for content.
All those just starting blogs, and even curated blog content, becomes almost obsolete with...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
20th March 2023, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 34
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
20th March 2023, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
I'd call it confusing writing with text. Those who say "content is king" forget that the internet is a republic, one that thrives on interaction. Blogs started out as a platform for interaction, but...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
20th March 2023, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
I think once the newness of ChatGPT and others like it wears off people will realize it doesn't entice any more readers to read their stuff than before AI. Most of the blogs and articles out there...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
20th March 2023, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 Re: How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
Max, the method you're suggesting is how writers have always researched articles - at least back in the day when articles were written to be read by real people.
Maybe that's how AI will end up...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
20th March 2023, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,781 How To Write An Article With ChatGPT
I don't write a lot of articles, but I read quite a few.
Having said that...
It seems a lot of writers will just log into ChatGPT and ask it something like: Write me an article on arthritis...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
19th May 2022, 11:05 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Re: Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
In my market radio ads are by far the most expensive media you can buy... Its cheaper to buy ad space on Streaming services - which is eh kinda the same thing - and you can geographically target -...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
19th May 2022, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Re: Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
People are relatively captive in their cars. They are looking for entertainment and while some people listen to audiobooks or their own music, some want those choices made for them--and to keep up...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
19th May 2022, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 14
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Forum: Copywriting
10th May 2022, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436  More gold.
Your hair is magnificent. Is that Brylcreem or Pomade?
Even ROP ads were expensive compared to online today.
In 1995 we had a dream. To sell electrons online. Today, any newbie with minimum...
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 Re: How does my hair look?
@ Claude Whitacre and Savidge4 (because my answer deals with both of your comments)
Great points.
I have found time and time and time again and yes time again it is hard to know what your...
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 Re: How does my hair look?
The biggest issue I see parallels to the general focus of the OP... just get it up and go from there.
In the scenario above all the work is done and the ad is NOT tested... it is simply run -...
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 Re: How does my hair look?
A related problem I see, just by rank beginners...
Is that they work on their first ad (or sales piece) forever. And once they actually test it, they are crushed because it didn't make them rich....
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 Re: How does my hair look?
Sounds like a meme for someone that has horses haha.
I actually got a PM saying my post would be approved once the payment was received. I figure that was sent by mistake. I think that's probably...
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 Re: How does my hair look?
..and then test it and tweak it and keep going until.....
Had to laugh at the title....as I had just read the meme below and it fits.
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Forum: Copywriting
9th May 2022, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 436 How does my hair look?
One of the biggest problems I see in copywriting and marketing is people want to get everything perfect before they announce their idea to the world.
It will never be perfect. It will never appeal...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
5th May 2022, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Re: Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
Every method is a TRAFFIC SOURCE and DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL.
There are eyeballs in those places.
You can push your message out in front of those eyeballs.
Back around 2006 I ran a metal fab...
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Forum: Copywriting
9th April 2022, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 316 Re: I'm Tired Of This...
It is difficult and it takes talent that can be learned.
It's worth the effort because it dramatically increases your sales.
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Forum: Copywriting
9th April 2022, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 316 I'm Tired Of This...
Been a long day but I thought I'd give you a tip...
this is what I consider the most important skill in all of copywriting. If you can master this, you'll be famous.
We all know people buy with...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
8th April 2022, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 516 Re: Buying or creating marketing assets
Put it in a CD or saving acct till the market improves for investing....or until you know what you want to do - and know how to do it. Unless you have a business to expand or a business plan to...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
Whoever came up with that saying couldn't have been a DIY enthusiast. It misses the point that expensive tools or the latest piece of kit can be sexy - not merely functional.
It's probably closer...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Thanks for your participation.
True:
When I was 10, I was healed by Rev. Ernest Angley. Never been right in the head ever since. That day, I had an OBE, out of body experience. My mother would later say I had an OUT OF YOUR...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
Well, yes and no.
There was demand for copiers before copiers existed. The first to sell them made money till another store opened. Same with fax machines and a lot of other things.
The...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
You're right.
It worked because it implied that and was put in front of people who wanted to do no work.
Me, not their target audience, took that to mean that I lose control on the music...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
@DABK -
Great comment.
But, I would add, If you're the only one selling it, the demand probably isn't going to make you wealthy. You want a product that everyone knows about and is being sold....
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: Thank you.
Good comment Gordon.
I like your FBI/CIA/M15 angle. Now that you mentioned it, I'm wondering how long before we start seeing more of it.
One thing that has always amazed me is the obscene...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
The second headline worked because "Plays" implies that you do no work, and the course/offer does all the work for you. . "Play" means you have to do it yourself.
A similar headline was used by...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
Easiest way I found to persuade someone to buy something from me is to find someone who's already self-persuaded themselves to buy that something from me.
Second easiest way: to find someone...
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Forum: Copywriting
6th April 2022, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Thank you.
Thank you for this:
I'm with you on the common sense. Just a point, contrary but relevant (perhaps?).
Selling Black Ops copywriting (persuasion) has become an industry unto itself.
If...
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Forum: Copywriting
4th April 2022, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
@DABK -
Good comment.
For some reason your comment made me think about the old saying that someone isn't looking for a drill...they're really just wanting a hole...
and it always causes me...
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Forum: Copywriting
4th April 2022, 03:47 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 Re: *%@#
Thanks.
A lot of what you say (and a lot of what people do) falls under, in one way or another, saving face. With yourself or with your peers or with both.
If you tell people they made a...
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Forum: Copywriting
4th April 2022, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 582 *%@#
Thought I'd cover a couple of persuasion techniques since they're very important in copywriting.
Some of this is common sense, but I've found that the more information we consume, the more we...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st April 2022, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 |
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Forum: Copywriting
31st March 2022, 03:33 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: I Demand You Read This...
I get that.
Yes, the prospects already wanted a clean carpet (to varying degrees). And they already thought they had a clean carpet.
There was no demand for anything I was selling. Their...
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Forum: Copywriting
31st March 2022, 02:26 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: I Demand You Read This...
Thanks for your comment Claude. I've always thought your thoughts are brilliant.
I highly suspect that you never created the demand that people know they need to vacuum their carpet.
You may...
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Forum: Copywriting
31st March 2022, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: I Demand You Read This...
I want to take that apart a little bit.
I agree that creating demand is hard work. i agree that it's far easier and more profitable to just find existing demand...or at least existing demand for...
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Forum: Copywriting
31st March 2022, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: Any follow up tips on locating a demand?
You didn't ask me, but I love hearing myself talk, so here is what I would say.
You find demand based on what the prospects have already recently bought. It's why buyers lists are so valuable.
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Forum: Copywriting
31st March 2022, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: Any follow up tips on locating a demand?
Hey Gordon,
with social media these days, I don't think there's ever been an easier way to target the people you want to target.
Then you have Google.
You have retargeting. The great thing...
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Forum: Copywriting
30th March 2022, 03:32 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 Re: I Demand You Read This...
Was going through my files and came across this...
“If you think you are creating demand for your product, you’ve doomed yourself to a lifetime of hard work and failure. You canNOT create demand...
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Forum: Copywriting
29th March 2022, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 466 I Demand You Read This...
Slow day, so I decided I'd give you the 3 best tips you could ever get to write copy.
Today will be tip #1.
If you follow these tips, you'll write better copy than 99% of all the copywriters...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
28th March 2022, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Re: Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
Yes, newspaper ads still work. And print marketing in general isn't dead - https://www.gardnerweb.com/blog/post/26-relevant-print-marketing-statistics-2022-ad-spending-impact
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Forum: Offline Marketing
24th March 2022, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 "Use any and all methods that work."
I quoted savidge4 above, I doubt you will get better advice.
But I do have some questions. First about this: "offers that work there". How do you know what offers work? Where is this data/info...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
18th February 2022, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Re: Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
It entirely depends on the target... I use newspaper want ads, I run TV ads on the evening local news time slots. Can't say that I use fax blasts ( because of the rules ) but if that option is open...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
11th February 2022, 04:49 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 646 Old Marketing Technology and Tactics
I was curious, what are your expert opinions on using old marketing technology, maybe in foreign countries for offers that work there?
to get through to the B2B customer, not really consumer:
I...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st September 2021, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 659 Re: Made my first 1k writing copy. What's next?
Mortgage brokers in my area make $4,000 to $15,000/sale, $5000 average.
Wedding dress store sell a dress between $200 and 15,000. Low mid-range start go from $1500 to 4000.
Divorce attorneys...
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Forum: Copywriting
31st August 2021, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 659 Re: Made my first 1k writing copy. What's next?
My first copywriting gig paid more than $ 1000. Seek out businesses that make coin per sale and only pitch them It's really that simple. It's hard but simple. A pizzeria can only pay a few hundred...
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Forum: Copywriting
27th August 2021, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 659 Re: Made my first 1k writing copy. What's next?
I think us here copywriters prefer to write our esteemed copy for our chosen clients.
The good people who we relish writing for.
But you need a phenomenal pitch -
Without it sounding like...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
13th August 2021, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 243 |