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The 7 Yeses You Need
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Stay Aggressive or Lose
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Cross Selling and Upselling Add Up
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Don’t Sale Away This Summer
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Are You Serious, Clark?
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“All I’m Asking for Is a Little Respect.” Sincerely, Direct Mail
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Wasted Time = Wasted Seasons
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Boost Your Business’s Online Presence through Efficient SEO Strategies
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What Does it Take to Really Make a Change?
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Yes, Reach Your Whole Customer Base – But One Segment at a Time, Please
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How Are Your Customers Feeling Today?
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Move the Trash Can
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How Rich Media Adds Value
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Join the Party
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AI: The Increasing Impact on Your Cybersecurity and Tips to Beat the Scams
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5 Keys to Convert Your Incoming Calls to Appointments
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Let Your Customer Do the Selling
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How to Send the Emails of Your Dreams
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Effective Direct Mail Campaigns
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It’s More Than the Thought That Counts
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Don’t Propose on the First Date
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How to Stand Out From the Competition
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Where Digital Marketing Is Headed
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Good Marketing is a Gift to Your Prospects
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Your Technicians Are Already Selling — Whether You Train Them or Not
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4 Principles to Improve Your Email Marketing
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The Commodity Mindset
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Do You Lead the Race or Struggle to Keep Pace?
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Setting Goals for an Unforgettable Year
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How to Get Your Customers to do Your Marketing
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Is Your Brand a Split Personality?
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How to Create Social Media Images
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Straight Shooters
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Is Your Data Protected?
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Are You Violating Social Media’s “Unwritten” Conduct Rules?
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People Who Need People Need Low-Cost Networking Secrets
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How to Build Business Relationships That Last
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Mass 1-1 Marketing: Personalization at Scale
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Confessions of an Entrepreneur
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The Starting Line for Your Bottom Line: Your Customer Database
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Options for Online Ads
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Don’t Let Them Forget You
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Talking Strategy with Matt Maleske
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How to Get Even More Out of Your Facebook Ads
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What Do People Want from You?
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Out-of-Home Advertising Gets Attention
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How to Write Websites for 5-Second Readers
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What Does Your Website Need?
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Using Video for Both Marketing and Education
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Why Print Newsletters Are Making a Comeback
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Do You Really Want to Leave That Money on the Table?
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Leveraging AI in HVAC and Plumbing
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Integrate Your Budget with Traditional and Online Strategies
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How to Stay Busy When the Slow Season Hits
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When Should You Ask Customers for a Review?
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It’s Time to Get Social
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How to Get Even More Out of Your Facebook Ads
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You Are Not Alone
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5 Strategies To Being Remarkable On Yelp
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Investing Your Time in Free Publicity
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Reaching a Point of Mutual Understanding (and Closing the Sale)
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Making Customers Happy Is Good for Your Image
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Creating a Facebook Ad Funnel
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The Two Most Powerful Words in Marketing
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Why Customers Want to Give You Referrals – and Why They Won’t
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Getting Personal with Customers
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Loyalty Subscriptions
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The Continued Relevance of Direct Mail in Modern Marketing
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Are You Prepping For The “Fall Off?”
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Why Print Marketing Is Persuasive
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Why Chuck Norris Would Lose a Pillow Fight
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5 Summer Strategies For Your HVAC Business
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Keeping Your Marketing Customer-Centric
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Your Messaging Matters
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Don’t Be a Do-it-Yourselfer
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Why Isn’t My Website Performing Like It Used To?
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The Best Return on Your Marketing Investment
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The Trust-Factor of Print-Based Marketing
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Navigating SEO Trends for 2024
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What’s in a Name?
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Customer Retention Isn’t Optional
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Can Getting Sales Get Any Easier?
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Q&A on Contractor’s Web Marketing
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What to Avoid with the Upsell
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Digital Marketing Tactics for Contractors
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The Art of (Business) War
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Don’t Miss Out on Holiday Marketing
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Your Technicians Are Already Selling — Whether You Train Them or Not
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What’s Your Sizzle?
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Keep Focused on Your Local Market
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Keeping Up with the Competition
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Helping Technicians Serve Customers
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Why Direct Mail Is a Keeper
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Video Marketing Grows – and Google Responds
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Value Proposition: The Questions You Should Be Asking
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Is Your Slow Website Killing Your Sales?
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SCAMMER ALERT
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Don’t Forget Who Brought You to the Dance
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Connecting with Customers on Social Media
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Why is That New Guy Kicking Your Tail?
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The Benefits of Video Marketing
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What is Google Analytics 4?
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Is Something Missing in Your Email Marketing?
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How Social Media Marketing is Changing
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Strengthening the Link Between Sales and Marketing
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Why Direct Mail Delivers for Marketers
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Keep Your Promises? Probably Not to This Person.
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Fishing In The Right Pond Is The Best Way To Catch Fish
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Maximizing Your Marketing Reach With Direct Mail For HVAC Businesses
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What Grandma’s Recipes Teach Us About Marketing
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Opportunities and Challenges in Social Media
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The Role of Print in Omnichannel Marketing
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Future Casting Your 2023
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Bring Them Into Your Story
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Tips For Finding Focus & Reducing Digital Distractions
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A Word about Customer Loyalty
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Hard Working Hands with Soft Skills
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The Off-Season “Fall-Off” Is Just Weeks Away. Are You Ready?
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How “Engaging” Is Your Customer Retention Marketing?
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Are You a PRO-Active or RE-Active Contractor?
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Entering the Conversation
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Closing Time
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How to Market to Millennials
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Diligence
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For Your “Marketing Mindset” Thinking Cap
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Your Marketing Evolved: Tech, Trends, and Takeover
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The Enduring Power of Print
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Digital Marketing for the Residential Contractor
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How to Avoid Annoying Your Customers on Social Media
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What’s Working in Lead Generation?
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How to Maximize Your Content Marketing
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Get Hungry Enough to Act
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Forecasting the Future
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There’s More to Marketing Than Just Keeping Busy
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Are You Selling Fillet Mignon at Beef Jerky Prices?
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How to Answer Customer Questions
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The Secret to Recurring Revenue
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Adams Hudson’s Best Advice to Contractors
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Are You Setting Old Goals for Your New Year?
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Right-Size Marketing for Searching Prospects
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Technology + Direct Mail + Consumer Behavior = A Future to Bet on
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Why Would Anyone Read Your Email Message?
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The Winning Strategy of Direct Mail
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Gaining an Edge in Social Media
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Is Something Missing in Your Email Marketing?
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Training Techs for Their Success
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The Frugal Wow
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What’s the Deal with 5G Wireless Technology?
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5 Tips to Prepare for the Slow Season (While You’re Still Busy)
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How to Avoid Copywriting Blind Spots
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It’s the Best Place in Town to Take a Leak
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Catching The Ghost
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Hunting the Ghost - Featuring Eric Shidell
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The Real Battle for Leads Happens After the Click
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“Your Digital Presence Is Your First Impression”
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Here We Go Again…
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Don’t Answer that Text!
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A 54% Increase In Sales: Are Those Typical Results?
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The Revenue You’re Already Sitting On
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Planning for Your Year
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Everyone Gets a Lambo
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Social Media Tips For Growing Your Business
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Don’t Con Your Customers
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Backing Up Your Marketing Claims
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Be Thankful for Customer Retention
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Technician Training for Opportunities
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Three Steps for Effective Lead Generation During the Off-Peak Seasons
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What’s Your Company’s Story?
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You Can Build a Better Mousetrap and Still Go Out of Business
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Marketing Your Services
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7 Step Action Plan To Reinvent Your Sales Process
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Customers Tell Their Scary Stories
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How Does Service Connect to Marketing?
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Secrets to a Successful Home Show
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Reaching Customers on the Go
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Visibility Without Follow-Up Is Just Expensive Exposure
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Remarketing: Second Time’s the Charm
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A Good Headline Conveys Value
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Hiring and Keeping Great Staff Members
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Post Office Delivers Historic News about Your Print Strategy
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Fast Facts about Facebook Ads
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Does Your Content Fit Your Customers’ Personalities?
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Customer Retention Starts at the Front Door
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Having a Customer Driven Homepage
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I’ll Pay for your Christmas
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Customers First: Solve Their Problems, Improve Your Company
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Strategy Plus Tactics Makes a Plan
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Who’s Marketing with Social Media?
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Mixing Your Digital Marketing
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Marketing’s Dark Side
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See How Variable Data Printing (VDP) is Personalizing Direct Mail
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Appealing to the Customer Mindset (Instead of Your Own)
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Meeting and Greeting at the Trade Show
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How to Serve by Closing the Sale
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Generating Leads in Those Generation Gaps?
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Bad Marketing Can Cost a Fortune and Still Drive Your Customers Away
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4 Fall Digital Marketing Strategies For Your HVAC Business
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It’s an “Always On” World
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Well, That Didn’t Work
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Head Starts for Shoulder Seasons
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“From Our Family to Yours: A Heartfelt Thank You”
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Red Rocks and Pizza on the Moon
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Personalized Marketing is Now Expected.
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Positioning Yourself as an Expert
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Improving Your “Social” Skills
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Planning and Goals
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Fine-Tuning Your Direct Mail Marketing
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The Sweet Spot for Subject Lines
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Is Social Media Broken?
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Why Customer Retention Is the Fuel To Skyrocket Your Business To News Heights
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Everything You Need to Know About Google PPC Advertising
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What’s Working in Email Marketing?
smi
Stop Leaving Money on the Table
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Marketing Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
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Where to Focus Your Social Media Advertising
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Tips for More Upsells and Better Closing Ratios
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The Secret to Recurring Revenue
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What’s Working in Lead Generation?
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How to Improve Your Content
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Promoting Benefits vs. Features
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How to Use Video on Facebook
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Pursuing Publicity
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Print Strategies for HVAC and Plumbing Contractors
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Increase Website Traffic with Social Media
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Getting Customers to Care About the Big Changes
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What Do Customers Talk About?
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Preparing Your Direct Mail Campaign
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Expanding Your Social Marketing Team
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Determining Your Value Propositions
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The 10 Biggest Contractor Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
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How to Build Your Content Marketing Strategy
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Giving a Big Welcome to Your Email List
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Can Getting Sales Get Any Easier
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How to Market Drip by Drip
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Here’s the Truth Behind My Family’s Christmas Card…
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Do You Really Need Content Marketing?
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Hitting Achievable Targets with Guest Drew Cameron
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The Common Denominator in All My Failures Is…
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Putting the “Fun” Back in the Funnel
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What’s Working in Content Marketing?
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Getting High Quality Leads Through Integrated Marketing
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Winter Marketing Strategies for HVAC Companies
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Your Profitable Integrated Marketing Plan
smi
Customer Retention: Relationships Are The Goal
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10 Strategies To Get 10 More Referrals Per Month
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There’s Nothing New in Marketing
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Secrets of Landing Page Success
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Setting Goals for Your Success
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New Year, Old Fear, Same Beer
smi
How Do Your Customers Want to Hear from You?
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It’s About You, and You, and You
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Will Customers Take 8 Seconds for Your Email?
articles
What Is SEO, and Why Is It So Important?
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Tech Training
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Closing More Sales Has Less to Do With Talking — and More to Do With Trust
smi
This is how I really feel about contractors
smi
Your Digital Presence Is Your First Impression
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Mindfulness in the Workplace
articles
Google’s Helpful Content Update: Navigating the Changes for Better SEO and Site Traffic
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What Are Your Customers Saying about You?
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How Direct Mail Easily Integrates with Online Marketing
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Is Your Customer Service Model Outdated?
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Generating Leads with Video
smi
Three Types of Customer Retention Marketing
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Coach them up
podcasts
The anatomy of a $29 Tune-Up
smi
Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes
smi
How a “Call-to-Action” Can Improve Your SEO
articles
Profitable Trends in Web Marketing
articles
Don’t Take the Holidays Off! 8 Tips for Effective Marketing During the Holidays
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Boosting Your Business: The Power of Positive Customer Feedback
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Do You Have a Customer Journey Map?
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It’s Not Fair
smi
Market Like a Human
smi
Choose Your Words Well
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My Three Predictions for 2020
smi
Reinforcing Company Values
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How Fast Does Your Website Load?
smi
What’s Your Customers’ Take on Your Company’s Value?
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My, How You’ve Grown!
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No One Wants to Buy Your Stupid Air Conditioner
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Create a Strong Guarantee
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How to Keep Focused on Your Customer
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Database Building/Funnel Marketing
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Direct Mail Delivers for Marketers
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Your Customer Database Is Probably Worth More Than Your Next 10,000 Leads
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2024 Trending Design Styles for HVAC Company Owners
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ACCA has Mental Lapse and Asks Adams Hudson to Speak at Conference
smi
When It’s All About You
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How Your Image Impacts Your Bottom Line
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Now, Who Are You Again?
articles
Are You Driving Away Your Customers?
podcasts
Are You Building Trust with Your Customers?
smi
What’s Your Referral Routine?
articles
Creating Offers that Get a Response
articles
Strategies for Website Success
smi
Are You Tough Enough to Cut Your Own Grass at 90?
smi
The Connection That Will Carry You Through
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Nurturing Leads through the Sales Funnel
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There’s Nothing Fishy About A Good Value Proposition
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Prepare Your Voicemail Scripts
smi
Max Capacity
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I Got Business Ghosted
smi
You’re So Close to the Answer
podcasts
Selling Yourself Out in Summer
podcasts
“If You’re Not Following Up, You’re Giving Up”
smi
I Remember You
smi
100 Million Reasons To Pay Attention To This
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What’s in it for me?
smi
Marketing Numbers to Know for an HVAC Company
articles
Is Social Media Broken?
articles
Lead Your Company into Prosperity
podcasts
The ROI on Contests and Giveaways
articles
Where’s Your Social Media Focus?
articles
Falling Behind
podcasts
Translate Your Technical Talk
articles
Start Customer Retention on the Right Foot
smi
Are You Smart Enough for Your Prospects?
articles
Direct Mail’s Response Rates Are Increasing
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Here’s Your Round Tuit
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Embracing Empathetic Customer Service
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Marketing That Solves Your Customer’s Problem
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How Your Direct Mail Strategy Develops Trust
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Email Essentials
smi
The Advantages of Video Marketing
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When You Should Avoid Email “Best Practices”
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Is Your Brand Winning Enough Votes?
smi
Better Blogging: Tips for Improvement
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Best Online Practices For HVAC Companies
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What Do Your Employees Tell Your Customers?
articles
Success In Business
podcasts
Holiday Marketing/Internet Marketing
smi
Why Customers Ignore Your Direct Mail
articles
Marketing Through the Holiday Madness
podcasts
How to Improve Your Facebook Marketing
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Boosting HVAC Business Through Effective Social Media Strategies
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Understanding the Implications of AI Regulations for American Businesses
articles
The All-Important Email Subject Line
articles
Moving Prospects through the Funnel
articles
The Marketing Guy Educates You About 2.8-kW Class Efficiency
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Reaching Out to Old, Cold Leads
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Do Customers Understand What You’re Saying?
smi
“Why Most Marketing Doesn’t Work (And How to Fix It)”
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Measuring Your Direct Mail Response Rate
articles
They’ll Never Focus on You If You Can’t Focus Yourself
smi
Your Practical Cybersecurity Checklist
articles
If You’re Not Tracking Your Leads, You’re Guessing
podcasts
Dynamic Personalization in Direct Mail Enhances Response Rates for Businesses
articles
How Direct Mail and Email Work Together
smi
Reaching a Point of Mutual Understanding (and Closing the Sale)
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Have You Surveyed Your Customers?
smi
Keeping Track of Publicity Trends
articles
Do Your Customers Trust You?
articles
Web Marketing Basics
podcasts
Lead Generation Through Print and Digital Partnerships
articles
The 5 M’s Of Marketing
podcasts
Serving Up Holiday “Extras”
articles
Aligning What You Say with What You Do
articles
Balance In Your Marketing
podcasts
How to Stop Bad Reviews Before They Happen
articles
The Perfection of Print Marketing
articles
3 Things Your Facebook Page Must Have
smi
How to Navigate Direct Mail Trends
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Your Sales Techniques are Easily Ignored
articles
Second Time’s the Charm?
smi
Quit Selling to Your Customers
smi
Web Marketing
podcasts
Productivity Hacks for Content Creation
smi
Creating Your Value Proposition
smi
Essential Best Practices to Maximize Your Email Marketing Efforts
articles
Are Experts No Longer Needed?
podcasts
Are You Ignoring Your Inbox?
smi
Marketing through Home Shows
smi
Your Messaging Matters
podcasts
What’s The Benefit of a Contractor Community?
podcasts
Repeat This Over and Over
articles
Show Them Some Love
podcasts
Top 10 Tips For Instagram Marketing
podcasts
Who Do You Think You Are?
articles
Addressing the Cost Beyond Price
smi
Poor Customer Service Shortchanges a Sound Investment
articles
How to Get The Calls you WANT
podcasts
“Want More Sales? Start Before the Pitch”
smi
Keep that Content Coming
articles
Look Ahead or Get Left Behind
podcasts
Creating Ambassadors for Your Company
smi
Selling to the Distracted
podcasts
Boosting Engagement: The Power of Print & Digital Integration
articles
How Smart Marketing Can Beat Up Your Stupid Weather
smi
Communication Styles in the Workplace
articles
Online Marketing
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If You Don’t Plan the Year, the Year Will Run You
smi
Is it Time to Lose the Customers you Have?
smi
Customer Service
videos
How Content Improves the Quality of Your Prospects
articles
Streaming Has Changed Entertainment
articles
Training Strengthens Your Team – and Your Company
articles
Visibility Without Follow-Up Is Just Expensive Exposure
podcasts
How Do Unhappy Customers Communicate?
smi
Traditional vs. Online Marketing: What Contractors Should Know
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Long-Term Planning to Pursue Your Vision
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The Value of Building Relationships with Customers
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The Customer Service Cavity Check (And Other Things You’d Rather Not Know).
smi
How “Customer Experience” Affects Company Success
articles
Did AI Create That Video?
articles
Maximizing ROI with Hybrid Campaigns
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Generating Leads in the Era of Overwhelm
smi
Running Your Email Campaigns
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Preparing and Sharing Content on Social Media
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Creating Content and Customer Connections
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The Low-Cost Tool to Improve Your Image
articles
Comfort Kills
smi
What Do People See in You?
articles
Direct Mail’s Undeniable Effectiveness
articles
How Much Do Your Customers Trust You?
articles
The Lexicon Of Selling Now
podcasts
Help Your Homeowners De-Stress the Holidays
smi
Feel-Good Retention Strategies
articles
Marketing in the Age of Privacy: Navigating Data Regulations
articles
The Secret Success of Lead Magnets
smi
Tailored Print. Flat Cost. Big Results
articles
Publicity
videos
What Do People See in You?
smi
Left Turns and Peanuts
smi
Don’t Waste an Open Email on a Misfired Message
smi
Common Denominators for Landing Pages that Convert
articles
The Starting Line for Your Bottom Line: Customer Retention Strategies
articles
“If You’re Not Tracking Your Leads, You’re Guessing”
smi
Does Your Marketing Feel Personal?
smi
How Google Local Services Ads Can Benefit Your Company
smi
Could Your Competitors’ Customer Retention Be a Problem for You?
articles
Who’s Your Next Lead?
articles
How to Market When Temps Heat Up – Yes, You Still Need To
articles
Who’s On Your Team?
articles
Selling Value, Not Price
articles
What’s Ahead for Social Media Video?
smi
When Marketing Is “Real People Talking to Real People”
articles
You Can’t Lead a Horse to Water
smi
Your Best Customers Are the Ones You’re Forgetting
smi
Fortune Favors the Brave
podcasts
Why Isn’t My Website Performing Like It Used To?
smi
Funnels for Sales and Marketing
smi
Lead Generation and Tracking
videos
Is Email Marketing a Big, Silly Waste of Time?
articles
Where Do Leads Come From?
articles
Integrate Your Marketing Campaigns to Increase Response
articles
What Is Print Marketing?
smi
Closing More Sales Has Less to Do With Talking — and More to Do With Trust
podcasts
Data-Driven Businesses = Thriving Businesses
articles
Investing in Long-Term Love
smi
Are You Winning the Culture War?
articles
Why Would Anyone Follow You on Social Media?
articles
Generating Leads with a Call to Action
articles
The Philosophy of Publicity
smi
How Direct Mail Copywriting Triggers Response
articles
4 Steps to Help Your Techs Sell More Without Meaning To
articles
What is Variable Data Printing?
articles
Is Your Digital Strategy SMART?
smi
Closing Sales
videos
Planning Your Marketing Budget
videos
Where Should You Focus Your Social Media Efforts?
smi
April’s MegaMarketer Podcast has arrived
podcasts
Why should I choose you?
podcasts
Quit Assuming They’re Going to Stay
podcasts
How Lead Generation Has Changed
articles
How to Follow-Up with Email
articles
Why Businesses Go Under
smi
Are You Listening To What They’re Saying?
podcasts
For More Leads and Better Image, It’s Time to Get Social
articles
Are You Stuck in Traffic?
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