Keep Building Your Affiliate Marketing Business By Building Your List

If you have or want an affiliate business, you need, no you must have, a mailing list. If you are already involved with an online business you know what a mailing list is and you know that it is important. If you are a newbie you might ask, what is a mailing list?

Simply put it is a list of people’s names and their email addresses. In actually fact it is your key to success. It’s a list of prospects; but it’s more than that it’s a list of your potential customers. In short it’s your business future.

You need to treat the people that each of those names represents with respect and attempt to build a strong relationship with them. You do that by sending emails that will be useful to them and that will help them in their attempts to make money online. Chances are that they are on your list because that is what they want to do.

There are a few things that you should be aware of as you work on building your email list. I call it an email list because email will be your primary method of contacting the people on your list.

Many people don’t seem to like to get email. At least a lot of people complain about email. However, online business entrepreneurs do not. They know that legitimate emails are the lifeline of their business. That means that they don’t span and that they don’t like spam.

But it also means that they will correspond with their list on a regular basis. And that the people that have joined their list expect this correspondence.

If you want to build your list, you need to develop means that will make it easy for people to become a part of your email list. People these days like to accomplish something and move on. If the process required to join your list is not easy, they will move on.

That is why opt-in boxes have become so popular and are used by almost every internet marketer in the business.

There is some disagreement among people involved in internet/affiliate marketing about the use of single verses double opt-in.

Single opt-in means that as soon as the person fills out the opt-in box and takes action to submit it, they are subscribed to your list. They are now a potential customer and will get emails from you in the future.

Double opt-in means that the person filling out the opt-in box and submitting it is not yet on your list of subscribers. They will get an email from you that will ask them to confirm their desire to be on your mailing list. Until they take that step, you do not have a potential customer and you cannot email the person.

The person still has an option before committing to be on your list. Once they have committed, then you have a subscriber and your new subscribers will know that they can expect to receive emails from you.

Well, you’ve made it easy for someone to subscribe to your list. All they have to do is fill out an opt-in box somewhere on one of your web pages. And if you use double opt-in, click the confirmation link that is in an email that you send them. (It’s another subject but you use and autoresponder to accomplish this.)

Now you need to make it equally easy for your subscriber to get off you list. At some point in the future, some of your subscribers will decide that they no longer want to be on your list. You attempt to do things so that that will never happen, but it does.

You don’t want your subscriber to have to use his time to email you requesting removal. Also, you don’t want to have to use your time removing the subscriber and then letting him know that the removal has been accomplished. (Again if you use a good autoresponder system, this will all be handled automatically.)

Don’t worry about it when someone unsubscribes from your list. First off, if you are providing good content, it’s their loss. Second, maybe they want to move in a different direction, in which case they are no longer a potential customer and you no longer need them on your list. They want buy anyway.

So, make it easy for them to unsubscribe and let them know how they can get off your list.

Two more things to wrap up:

1.  You are in this online business to make money. Your subscribers need to know that. In your emails/newsletter tell them that they will be receiving offers from you. Then send them promotions.

2. It should also be your business to help your subscribers in their efforts. So, you should send them good content/information that will be useful to them. Tell them what is working for you.

This will require that you stay in contact with them. Let them know that you will be emailing them on a regular basis. Did you know that most storefront business open every day? Since you are in business, why should your subscribes be surprised if you email them every day?

It’s call networking. That’s what list building is all about; building relationships with people; letting them know who you are; and getting to know them. In the end some will like what you are doing and some will not. But you keep your affiliate marketing business doors open and keep on building your business by building your list. Another name for this is advertizing. You need to get your business before your potential customers.

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7 Key Things That Your Squeeze Page Should Have

In my last post in this series I told you about the tools that you will need for affiliate marketing success. One of the reasons that you obtained the tools was so that you could build your list – a key to your online success. There is an additional thing that you need to do before you start using the tools.

You need to create or obtain something that you can giveaway – an ebook, some software, an ecourse, etc. An excellent source of free ebooks is Viral Ebook Explosion Once you have a giveaway product, you need to build a squeeze page.

This is simply a tool to help you get the name and email address of prospective buyers. It is also called an opt-in page because its primary purpose is to get people to opt into your list as a subscriber.

One of the tools I mentioned was a program to build web pages. If you know HTML, you are set to go. If not I recommended CoffeeCup HTML Editor. This is a WYSIWYG editor that allows you to build web pages without knowing much HTML.

That’s what your squeeze page will be – just a website that you put on the internet for people to visit, but it is a powerful tool for your list building efforts.

There are many things that you could build into your squeeze page, and just having a squeeze page on the web is not all that you need in order to get your list started. In later post I will look at some of the other things that you will need to put into place, including some additional web pages.

For now, let’s look at 7 things your squeeze must have.

1. Only one action.

As I have already stated you want to get the name of email address of your visitors. So don’t make any other options available. Of course they can always leave your web page. However, your task is to convince them to fill out the opt-in form that you have placed on the page.

2. The opt-in form.

This is a form that provides a place for your visitor to enter their name and email address. Then behind the scene, action takes place, via your autoresponder, to add then to your list. Preferably, this form will be visible without the visitor having to scroll down the page: i.e., above the fold as it is known.

3. Brevity.

You don’t want an excessive amount of information on this web page. Just put enough information here to get your message across and convince the reader that he needs to add your free offer to his arsenal of internet marketing information/tools.

4. Make the fact that your offer is free standout.

Tell the visitor how the information available in the free item will help him in his efforts. Emphasize the benefits and that these benefits are free by filling out the opt-in form.  Show him what he can expect to gain if he takes this action.

5. No spam.

In a perfect world this step would not be necessary. But…

Somewhere close to your opt-in form, you need to inform your visitors that you will never spam. In addition, you will not sell or giveaway their contact information. This must be a fact that you never violate.

6. High quality content.

Since you are asking your visitors to become subscribers, you need to let them know that you will provide good quality content and that you will only recommend quality products.

7. Identify yourself.

You can do this by including your name on the page. Other options are your signature, your picture, etc. Something that they can connect with to know that you are a real person.

Now, there are other aspects of a good squeeze page. You could add video, audio, etc.

The important thing to note is that building this squeeze page is essential to your affiliate marketing success. If you don’t have it already get a copy of my free ebook: The Squeeze Page – A List Building Tool and get start today.

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List Building – What You Need to Get Started
 
In my last post I talked about list building and some of the benefits it brings to your affiliate marketing business. There are many reasons to be proactive with your list building.

But like anything else it requires tools. There are some things that you will have to have in place in order to get started with your list building. Until you have these essentials in place you will not be able to build a list of subscriber and customers.

Also like anything else you will need to make sure the details are taken care of and you will have to implement things – that means take action.

So, let’s look at the essentials – what you will have to have in order to get started.

Getting these things set up may be new and even boring for some. You may even think that working on these is an unproductive endeavor, but you need to get the work done. Production comes later.

For others, these tasks may be new. In that case you will have to learn WHAT they are as well as HOW to use them.

In either of these cases the matter still remains that you have to get them done. Why? Because, your internet marketing business depends on your list building efforts and list building depends on these tools.

Once you get these essentials in place you can continue on down the road of getting a large list of subscribes that you can communicate with and over time convert some of them to customers.

There are 4 tools that I consider as essential. Get them set up and you can start building your internet/affiliate marketing business:

1. You must purchase a domain name.

You will have to decide on a name for your online efforts. Once you have decided on a name and determined that the name is available on the internet, you will have to register the name. This is called purchasing a domain name.

It is considered by some to be a good idea to incorporate the theme of your website into your domain name. Some would say that you need to make sure that your domain name has keywords in it. Others would say that the most important thing is to keep it simple and make it easy to remember. You might start with www.yourname.com.

After you have selected your name, the URL you want to use, you need to register it with someone like GoDaddy or NameCheap.

2. Purchase hosting.

Now, that you have a domain name you need to get it visible on the web. This is the task of webhosting. There are many companies that offer this service. And there are many things to consider when looking for a hosting company.

Generally speaking it is not a good idea to register your domain and obtain hosting from the same company.
 
You should spend some time looking at the different packages that different companies offer. Determine your short term and long term needs and purchase the package that meets your current and projected needs. I would suggest that you insure that your package includes cPanel and Web Host Manager. This will provide you with the most control to create and modify your websites.

You should also pay attention to the guaranteed uptime. You want a high expectation that when someone attempts to visit your site that it will be available.

There are other things to consider. Do your research and get your hosting account in place. There are many good hosting companies; some that I recommend are HostGator, Ultimate Marketing Center, and Kiosk.

After you have selected your hosting company you need to transfer your domain name to the hosting company. You do this with the company that you purchased your domain name from.

3. Obtain a way to build your site(s).

This is easy it you know HTML. If you do not, then a good place to start is by obtaining a WYSIWYG editor. With this you can make changes to your pages without having to learn much HTML.

Even if you plan to make your main site a WordPress blog, you will still need to build web pages for things like squeeze pages, thank you pages, download pages, etc.

I recommend the following WYSIWYG editors:

Kompozer or CoffieCup HTML Editor

BTW, I would not recommend using Fantastico to install your blog. A blog build with Fantastico is much more susceptible to hackers. I would really recommend Expert WordPress as the best WordPress installer available.

4. Get an Autoresponder and setup a list.

One of the primary reasons that affiliate marketers have a website is to build a list(s). An autoresponder will be your primary tool for doing that. You will have to have one. It will provide the following functions and many others:

• Allows you to create mailing lists
• Manage your subscribers
• Aids in avoiding spam complaints
• Helps in testing and tracking results

You will find many companies that provide excellent autoresponder service. Select yours and learn how to use it. Become intimate with it. It will be your list building friend.

I personally recommend that you select Aweber or Ultimate Marketing Center. Many internet marketers like GetResponse as well.

With these 4 tools you are ready to start your list building journey and get your internet affiliate marketing business online into production. Your next tasks will be to learn how to use these tools to actual start the process. I see more work in your future.

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Build Your List With Other Marketer’s Products

Private label rights have been a part of Internet Marketing for a while now. But do you use them for your marketing efforts? Should you?

Private label rights (PLR) has proved to be a very dynamic addition to the ways that you can use internet marketing to make money online. So the answer to the second question above is “Yes”. It is a very powerful source of content for your list building efforts.

In all likelihood PLR, if used right, will enhance your affiliate internet business online.

First, let’s take a look at Private label rights – the concept. A PLR product is one that you buy the product and also the rights to use the product as you want to. Then you can edit it as you see fit to make it your own. But make sure that you read the rights to know exactly what you can do with the product.

The product may be an ebook, an article, a video, an ecourse, a tutorial, etc. After you edit it you are allowed to sell it as your own, give it away, package it, etc. – depending on the rights that you have. Many times you will not be able to sell or give away the PLR itself.

That means that you cannot take the PLR product as you received it and sell or give those private label rights to someone else. The PLR are for your personal use. However, the new product you create is yours to do with as you please.

Depending on the utility you want to make of the product, you can simply put your name on it and give it away or sell it as a new product.

But, if you really want to make it uniquely yours you need to do some editing of the PLR. Then when you repackage it, combine articles into an ebook, add your affiliate links, or whatever, you will have your own product.

You might be wonder, “Why not just get resale rights to some product and sell that product?” That is a good way to go if you want to sell someone else’s product. But you will omly be able to sell the product just as it is and not change it in any way. It’s not yours. You just have the right to sell it.

But with PLR you have the right to make the product more useful to your own internet marketing efforts. It becomes more powerful to your efforts because you can do whatever you want with the PLR product because you have purchased that right.

It’s generally not a good thing to just put the PLR content straight onto you blog. You want to edit it in some way so that if reflects you and the theme of your blog. Samething
it you decide to break it down into articles – make it your article.

So back to the first question, “But do you use private label rights products for your internet marketing efforts?”  If not, I would suggest that you investigate this source of content. Now some would highly recommend that you never use PLR. Yet to me, PLR is just a different form of outsourcing.  In both cases you are paying someone else to produce content for you.

You then use that content in your internet marketing and list building efforts as you see fit, and that is your right – you purchased it.  Privaet lable rights ebooks are extremely powerful – if you know how to use them! Tired of PLR ebooks just cluttering up your drive? Learn how to use PLR here.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Finally Get You List Building Into High Gear

There have been a lot of comments lately about being honest in your recommendations of a product. Well I have purchased a new list building product and I have read it in detail and started using it in my internet marketing efforts.

I can honestly tell you that James Penn’s Accelerated List Building program is worth a lot more than the ten dollars he is asking.

If you have been reading my blog for very long you know that I have written several articles about list building. And I have stated that list building is the key to internet marketing online success. This resource tells you how to build your list and then gives you a 5-day action plan to help you implement your list building program.

In addition to the 5-day action plan, he also provides a list of 9 daily tasks and a list of things that you can do to help you generate traffic “for many years to come.”

If you have ever wanted to discover a simple, actionable, step-by-step, do-this-do-that, system to building massive opt-in lists in any niche from scratch, then you need to get started with Accelerated List Building now, without delay.

Unless you already have list of thousands, then I would truly recommend that you purchase and implement the Accelerated List Building program.

Don’t expect a large fancy report, just an effective yet simple format that you can follow and quickly improve your list building efforts – if you follow the 5-day plan. Also, don’t be afraid that you will be over powered by industry jargon and posturing.

This simple do-this, do-that system makes list building easier than ever before and it is quite likely that you will be able to build a huge list as you follow the plan. I am sorry if that implies work but you will be rewarded for that effort. Do it today.

If you are ready to really get into gear with your list building, you will find this $10.00 resource will be well worth the price. How many subscribers would you have to get to justify spending ten dollars to get them added to your list? Not many.

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Check out the website and determine if Accelerated List Building makes sense for you and where you are right now in your business. But, if you list is relatively small, say less than 5000, I am sure that you will find that this inexpensive report will help you build your list faster.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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List Building Is The Key To Internet Marketing Success

In internet marketing the essence or key to success is the list building, namely your list. You may have heard the same thing expressed by the now infamous saying, “The money is in the list.” Well, put that on your list of truths about internet marketing.

Suppose that you are involved with internet marketing and you have just developed a new product. Going a step further let’s say you are working with the sub niche of affiliate marketing and your new product is an affiliate program that you want to promote and that you want affiliates to promote.

How are you going to do that? The only way you can promote it is to tell someone about your new affiliate product. That someone is your list. There are all kinds of lists that you can use. Let’s take a look at a few of them.

1. Affiliate List.

In the case referenced above, you would likely turn to your list of affiliates first, if you have any. That is, people who have joined your affiliate program and promoted some of your affiliate products before. A benefit here is that they in turn have lists of their own that they can promote your affiliate product to. So you benefit from their list as well.

2. Joint Venture (JV) list

Another list is what is called a Joint Venture (JV) list. Giveaways are currently strong in this area. You will see a lot of advertising that says something like, “A new JV program is launching.” In all likelihood, it will be a giveaway promotion.

The idea in this type of list building is to leverage off of the lists of others to build your own list. Each JV partner that joins the giveaway has a list also. He advertises the giveaway to his list and the giveaway grows and more JV partners advertise it to their list. You hope that many of the people on the JV partner’s lists will see your giveaway item and sign up for it and thus be added to your list.

3 Your own opt-in list

This is the list that you want to build as large as possible. Each person on this list is someone that has subscribed in some way to your newsletter or free offer and opted-in to receive emails from you.

So, you could send your new affiliate program to your own list. Some of your subscribers will open your email and buy your affiliate program. Some will also promote your affiliate program to their list and that will increase your sales even more.

4. Twitter list

Let’s go modern a bit and look at Twitter. In Twitter your list is called your followers. In any case they are just a group of people that you can send messages to. These messages are called tweets.

But it is still a list of people that you have the opportunity to promote your products to. Here the key is to use your Twitter list in such a way as to get some of your Twitter followers onto your opt-in list. Here is a great way to build your list of Twitter followers.

5. Buyer’s list

Some will go so far as to say that you don’t want to build a list of subscribers and that the money is not in the list. They advocate that you should build a list of buyers.
However, that is just a list that has been leveraged to become buyers.

The fact that they have bought is a good indication that they will likely buy again. But it is still a list.

6. Buy a list

You will even see people trying to purchase a list. But don’t go that route. You will get into the spamming world quick.

7. Email swap list

Here you team up with someone else to leverage his list to build your list. At the same time he uses your list to build his list. In essence you advertise your newsletter to his list in the hope that some of the people on his list will subscribe to your list.

At the same time he advertises his list to your list; hoping that some of your subscribers will also subscribe to his list.

Regardless of the name you give to it, building your list is the name of the game with internal marketing. It is so important that nearly every one that tries to coach you in the internet marketing arena will take you down the list building road.

In truth you cannot market a product in the internet marketing world without a list. You have to have someone to tell about your product or you will not have anyone buy your product. So it is imperative that you start building your list now.

You may use safelists, Traffic exchanges lists, JV partner’s lists, Twitter followers, someone else’s list, social marketing 2.0 lists, email swap lists, etc. Any of these lists may prove successful. But, that success will be measured in terms of getting people onto your own list because that is where the real success is.

All of these Internet marketing techniques are geared toward the same end – list building.  All of these and more are used by internet marketers because the money is in the list. And by any name, the objective is to build a list of people that you can market your products to.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Introduction to Squeeze Pages

Before you start building a successful list or creating a powerful sales page, you need to start with a solid introduction to Squeeze Pages. In obvious contrast to the somewhat unfocused home page of a website, squeeze pages are highly focused specifically on capturing leads for a newsletter or opt-in list.

An alternative type of squeeze page is one designed for  making sales for a specific product. In either case the idea of a squeeze page is to insure that the visitor stays focused and has only the option to provide his name and email address, buy the product, or move on.

Another common name that is often used to describe the squeeze page, is “landing page” (or “lead capture page” in some circles). A squeeze page, also sometimes call an opt-in page, is a website designed specifically to obtain  names and email addresses. Usually, however, a squeeze page is a smaller type of web page that has an opt-in form in sight when the page loads.

So what are the necessary things to learn in an introduction to squeeze pages? First, it is important to recognize that all successful marketers use squeeze pages. If you plan to sell a product on the Internet, you will out of necessity find yourself using one also,  probably many.

You will use the squeeze page as your main method of list building. You likely will still use the sidebar opt-in forms on your blog and/or the unfocused pages of your website. These may or may not focus on a single point and a single call to action so your squeeze pages will be you primary method of list building.

Another important thing to consider in an introduction to squeeze pages is that every squeeze page must contain the same parts and be focused on the single  goal of getting the visitor to subscribe to you newsletter or buy the product you are promoting.

There should be four components  to every squeeze page: a header or headline; an opt-in form (or sales promotion); a brief or lengthy, if appropriate, introduction or bullet points about your newsletter or product; a call to action with assurances that you will not spam and will protect the subscribers contact information.

If desired, and very appropriate, you could add  a picture of the list/product owner,  a picture of the product itself, your name and your signature. If your squeeze page is a sales letter, you should have multiple calls to action.

Testing will help you determine which model works best for you and your product. Conversion is your objective and you may get it from a brief squeeze page. However, many internet marketers attribute their success to the use of lengthy and compelling copyrighting.

The final point of emphasis concerning an introduction to squeeze pages, and this may be repetitious but it is very important, is that you must stay focused. You don’t want your potential subscriber to think about anything besides the benefits of subscribing to your list or buying your product.

If you will use these tips in your squeeze page efforts, you will see a boost in your list building efforts and you attempts to make money online with your affiliate internet business online.

To Your Online Success.

Lonnie Minton

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Build Your List With Giveaways

If you have been involved with any form of Internet, Affiliate, or Niche Marketing you are likely aware that list building is extremely important to your marketing efforts. If you really want to make money online, then list building must be a primary part of your everyday efforts.

List building is so important that it is said that “the money is in the list.” I just had to throw that in. It is an oft repeated phrase.

Why do you think that it is repeated so often? BECAUSE it is true. Now some would say the money is in a list of buyers. And that is true. But generally speaking, any list of buyers started out as a list of contacts, prospects, etc.

The key is to entice as many people as possibly onto your list and then qualify them by the action they take. If they buy, then you have a list of buyers and you truly have a list about which you can say, “The Money Is In The List.” My list.

But as I stated the key is to get people onto your list. So how do you do that? There are several ways to accomplish the task. In this article, I want to address one of those ways – Using giveaways.

What is a giveaway? Well the name sort of provides a clue. But there is a lot more to it than just giving away products. The concept is that the giveaway promoter enlists people to join his effort – it is sometimes called a joint venture.

Several marketers join together to give away one or more of their products. In doing so, they hope that the people that receive their gift will join their newsletter – that’s just another way to say their list. In the end the purpose of the giveaway is list building.

In most giveaways, if you pay a relatively small upgrade fee, you can receive all of the giveaways without having to provide your contact information. But you will be given the opportunity to purchase a product, one time offer, or again presented with a chance to sign up for a newsletter.

All of these actions are designed to build the list of each of the people in the joint venture. Hopefully before you have completed the process, you will have subscribed to a list/newsletter or you will have purchase a product and be added to a buyers list.

There are two aspects to all giveaways.

1. You join as a contributor.

In this case you are the list builder. You contribute a gift and the giveaway sponsor makes it available to everyone that joins the giveaway. As a contributor, you provide two web pages for use in the giveaway.

One is a squeeze page so that people can sign up to receive your gift and as a result they will also be added to your list and start receiving your newsletter.

The second page will be a download page. This is a page that people can go to and download your gift. It is basically for anyone that upgrades in the giveaway. Those that upgrade can go straight to the download page and don’t have to subscribe to your newsletter. So you present them with something to buy and if they purchase, you add them to your buyers list.

2. You join as a member.

After the contributor phase has ended, people are asked to join the giveaway as members. Then for some period of time everyone, members and contributors, has the opportunity to download the gifts that the contributors have made available.

Every time someone fills out the opt-in box on your squeeze page, you add a new subscriber to your list. Now the beauty of that is that in the future, you can send the subscriber an offer for one of your paid products or one of your affiliate programs. And you can do it over and over until the subscriber un-subscribes.

You have just turned a free offer into several paid offers and likely over time you will have made money from your online efforts.

The Massive Summer Giveaway has just opened for contributors. Let’s go build a Massive List together, join The Massive Summer Giveaway now.

Giveaways are a great addition to your Internet or Affiliate marketing tool box. Over time your will be able to build you list by substantial amounts – and every subscriber that you add will became a potential customer. As you list grows, so will your opportunity to make money online. So, add giveaways to your arsenal of methods to enhance your Affiliate Marketing – it works.

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Build Your List Using The Memorial Day Giveaway

I know there are lots of giveaways on the internet these days, but they are still one of the best ways available to go about list building. And that is one of the best ways to grow you affiliate internet business and thus make money online.

Scott Drake and Pat Murray are hosting The Second “Memorial Day Giveaway” and it will open its doors on May 25th, 2009 at 9AM EST

This will be a massive list building exercise that is happening in just a few short weeks time. Don’t miss it. You can join as a contributor now. Get your gift(s) registered and be ready for the members launch.

If you have a free gift in the form of a digital download product (like ebook, audio, video, membership site access, etc) you can add it the gifts section. Then as people sign up for your free gift, you will be building your list.

You probably know that providing a free gift for giveaways means that you will have to build a squeeze page and a download page.

Your members will sign for your free gift on the squeeze page and then using your autoresponder you will send them to your download page where they will be able to obtain your free gift. A great and dependable autoresponder service is Aweber.

After signing up for the Memorial Day Giveaway you will want to promote it. This will be a great event for you list building efforts – get onboard today.

All you need to do to get going is signup and learn more about this great giveaway.

Make sure you checkout the Low Cost Upgrade Feature that the Memorial Day Giveaway is offering. I encourage you to take advantage of it.

This giveaway promises to be a great list building effort for your efforts to make money online and thus build you affiliate internet business. Join and upgrade today.

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