Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 
29th December 2015, 02:06 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
I've enjoyed this thread, which could have been called "How to add value beyond what Amazon provides".
My Amazon affiliate site has earned just over $10k this year and here are some ways that I...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th December 2015, 03:43 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Beat Amazon at it's own game, that's a nice thought.
But you can get ahead of them in search engine results for some niches and products.
You're unlikely to get anywhere near page 1 on Google...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th December 2015, 03:28 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Beating Amazon on their head terms is not possible or it's very difficult. Instead, you can create content that users have great demand, also you can find some alternative keywords that are not have...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 11:56 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 09:06 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Hello John
Thanks for the video, was funny. TYPICAL MAN!!! lol
Re "We simply approach things from different directions. I figure that Amazon has already built the superstore"
Yes an thats...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 04:45 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
I read once to use the reviews on Amazon, but you need to rewrite them a little or you might run into trouble. I thought after reading that, that if you say this is what some are saying about the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 03:38 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Lindy, I've been shopping with the same woman for almost 35 years now, and I do see your point.
Remember, we're talking Amazon here. If someone asks me to recommend a fishing outfit for a rank...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 01:56 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Hello John
Don't mind my "rubbish" remark, thats jus the way I talk, I'm not posh an polished. lol.
I still disagree with you re limiting choices. Have you ever been shopping with a woman? Do...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Add value to your site, it may help people save their time for choose products.
You can not win them with keyword: product + reviews. You can go for other relate keywords as best ....., or product...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 11:28 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Lindy, I wouldn't presume to offer you suggestions on a new guitar because, as you surmised, I know very little about guitars. Certainly not enough to recommend one to someone in a somewhat...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 10:39 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Hello JohnMcCabe
Re your: "Intead of overwhelming people with 200 choices, is there a way you can group them and offer just two or three choices for different market segments? Like Best ballet...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 06:53 AM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th December 2015, 03:21 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
This is a very interesting thread. There something I am surprised no one else has mentioned. Let's say you create an authority site around your niche, use a mailing list for back end sales; then are...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th December 2015, 04:33 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
First of all, you don't really compete with Amazon per se. It's not black and white and it's not Amazon or you.
You have a website, you rank it, you catch the eye of the reader (this comes down to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th December 2015, 02:31 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
As I inferred earlier in this thread (post #12) and mentioned many many other times over the years, online promotions often pale in comparison to the potential of offline venues.
In my experience...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th December 2015, 03:41 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Different strokes for different folks . . . :)
I began, donkey's years ago with small 3,4,5,etc. page sites, but I enjoyed nothing like the success I achieved once I moved towards just a couple of...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th December 2015, 12:58 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Once upon a time someone did a test with jars of jam.
They had a couple of dozens of types of jam on the shelves and tracked how many they sold.
They had 2 or 3 options only and tracked how...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th December 2015, 12:19 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Ballroom dancing is a hot market right now. Witness the continuing success of shows like "Dancing With the Vaguely Familiar." :)
If you've been involved for several years, to the point where your...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
Ops site looks horrible.
Clicking on the Shop & then Men's includes images of women's Belly Dance Accessories. WTH are thinking?
The whole site is a cluster ^%*$ with no goal. Even If you...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
agree with zubb .. your site load to slow than other site .. and footer is quite messy .. but yiu receive 7 to 8 page views per visitor .. it is good enough.. also try to write good content about...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
Your website loads too slowly and is filled with tons of Javascripts.
You may want to cut those down a bit.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 02:14 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 01:41 PM
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Views: 273 Re: Finding the leaders in my field
Hey buddy,
I suggest you check out a site called "similar web" they are a great resources.
I hope this helps you out a bit.
And happy holidays as well!
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
You need to be doing what tahoecale said. You need to provide valuable content to the people who are interested in ballroom dancing with your comments, posts and help on other websites, blogs and...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 08:59 AM
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Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
ActiveCampaign will give you similar funnel design without the up front cost Infusionsoft requires.
But if you can afford to go with IS, then definitely do that...it's the standard for larger,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 08:43 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
There are just two people who have posted here whose advice I always sit up and take notice of: myob (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/myob.html) and JohnMcCabe...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 07:31 AM
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Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
For the type of autoresponder Jason Kanigan is referring to, check out Infusionsoft.com.
For a company into "this funneling thingy", check out ClickFunnels.com.
Both provide quality products in my...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 04:35 AM
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Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
Another choice you have is the fancy, recently rebranded Kern "Behavioral Dynamic Response" email marketing method.
If you have a good autoresponder, you can tag and segment your list based on...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 02:51 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
at one point those affiliates that are making over $100k/yr probably
asked that exact same question, but they are doing it.
Last year I had around 20 affiliate sites, and at one point I was...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2015, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
Why not make your home page around a brand your trying to build? Then have interior pages that promote relevant products. You mentioned that you have an affiliate site. Your brand could be focused on...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 09:09 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 08:56 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Not always the case and it also depends on your niche. If you're reviewing nutritional supplements and the burn through rate on product is quick, you'll want the emails. If your doing reviews on...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 07:21 AM
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Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
The whole idea behind the funnel is to help optimize for the front end sale but the big thing here that we are doing is gaining a source of prospects for our market. Building a list
From your list...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
Are you going out putting backlinks across the web everyday?
Be steady and you will gain organic traffic!
Also you can go find other relates sites and some will allow you to place banner on...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
I would rethink your monetization strategy...Amazon's affiliate program doesn't pay that well from my experience. People are hitting your site,clicking on your Amazon affiliate links and leaving your...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
Yes one landing page for each product and keep your campaigns separated.
You need to be lazer focused and dont give the visitor any choices, just immediately solve their problem with one clear...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 12:25 AM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd December 2015, 12:10 AM
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Views: 367 Re: About this FUNNELING thing...
Hello Mark,
Without knowing the product it's hard to answer with a detailed response. But, I can tell it's very common to land traffic on a site/landing page to sell just one product with the idea...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 09:49 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
Good advice! But with over $12000 spend on ads, and testing, the best way we found with this is to get CHEAP 0.02 cent likes, keep testing ads, get likes to your page, and keep building your likes...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
I guess one way would be to try to outrank them on keywords
Or as others stated, figure out how to add value, what will your visitors get from you that they wouldn't get from going direct
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 12:07 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Actually the OP asked why anyone would buy through an affiliate site as appose to going straight through Amazon.
I guess I was answering from a consumers perspective. If I'm looking to buy a baby...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 11:08 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
One way is to make it as easy as possible.
Contrast making it easy to click once and land on the product page directly from your site, versus opening a new browser or tab, navigating to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 07:01 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
The OP created a site where he/she listed products.
The OP was told that he/she will not beat Amazon that way. That she/he needs to add value, just listing products is not a good way.
Reviews...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 05:06 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Listen, there are plenty of "review" sites ranking in top 10 for major keywords. I don't know what everyone is talking about. Review sites are NOT dead. In fact, there are plenty of review sites that...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd December 2015, 12:08 AM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
You cannot "beat" Amazon, but you can certainly leverage their name recognition and marketing system to your advantage. In my not so humble opinion, it is actually detrimental to use the common...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 10:16 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Ryan Deiss talks about a time when he and Perry Belcher tried to come up with a strategy to beat Amazon at its own game.
After a lot of attempts and testing, they came to this conclusion: How to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 09:55 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Summarize all the pros and cons from the product reviews on Amazon, but in your own words.
This will save visitors the time of having to sift through hundreds of reviews.
That is definitely...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
You are on the right track, but don't take down any pages; link from any page that you were thinking of taking down to new pages... internal linking helps.
Or, add content to the existing pages,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 07:52 PM
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21st December 2015, 04:49 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Start with the problem the product you're promoting solves... Write some content that people looking to buy that product are looking for.
Reviews is only one type of content.
Rank for some of...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 04:32 PM
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21st December 2015, 04:23 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 04:16 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
Simple.
It's called added value, and it's something that anyone can do. In addition to the product that is purchased through your link, capture the buyer's email address and provide additional...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 04:05 PM
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Views: 2,632 Re: How to beat Amazon at it's own Game?
The short answer is that you add value. You make it so that your customer gets something out of going to you that they wouldn't get out of going to Amazon directly. How you do that is up to you and...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th December 2015, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 892 Re: Struggling for traffic
I agree with bonesaj.
I noticed your website is WordPress based which means you could try and find a better looking theme. If I was a ballerina and I landed on your website I would be very...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th December 2015, 12:55 AM
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