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		<title>Why Does My Business Need A Facebook Page?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook 'Like' Pages or Fan Pages as they used to be called are Facebooks answer to business profiles and they are created to represent a business, an identity or brand.]]></description>
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<p>Just this week I had a little idea and put it into action immediately, I created a <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> Page to help my clients and other locals Buzz Up their businesses on Facebook and Twitter.</p>
<p>Now what has come out of this for me was the astonishing number of people who have created a personal profile in their business name!</p>
<p>When I did ask a few of them why, I recieved a number of answers including:</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how to make a page&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I wanted to be able to comment as my page&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;It was just easier&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;What&#8217;s the difference?&#8221;</li>
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<p>This post is for you! All of you who do now know how much you can get out of having a page on Facebook, most especially if you have a website!</p>
<p>Facebook &#8216;Like&#8217; Pages or Fan Pages as they used to be called are Facebooks answer to business profiles and they are created to represent a business, an identity or brand. In fact they are the perfect answer to doing business on Facebook, as there are a number of hidden perks for your business and your website in having a Page.</p>
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<li><strong>Pages are indexed by search engines</strong>, yes your Facebook comments, links and posts will show up in the search engines as being a representative of your brand, business and website and also <strong>serve as high quality back links to your site</strong>.</li>
<li>You can have mutiple Pages, all linked by Favoriting each other and this creates a web of indexible links back to your site.</li>
<li>You can have <strong>unlimited fans</strong> for a Page, but only 5,000 friends.</li>
<li>The box provided under your profile image can be filled with <strong>keywords </strong>which will also be indexed by the search engines and this includes your site URL</li>
<li>The &#8220;<strong>Like&#8217; factor is like a vote</strong> for your page, the more &#8216;Like&#8217;s&#8217; the more votes, and the higher ranked your Page and your own website which is linked to your fan page will be. This is great SEO for your page and your site!</li>
<li>When<strong> other pages Favorite your page,</strong> this is like another vote for your page and your ranking goes up even further and a pic of your Page shows up on their Page under the term Favorite Pages!</li>
<li>You can get away with a lot <strong>more marketing from a Page</strong> than you can from a profile, in face Facebook can and does ban you if you&#8217;re are caught using a personal Profile for marketing, too often.</li>
<li>You are allowed to<strong> message all fans at once</strong>, whereas on a personal profile you are allowed at most 20 people at once, and if you message the same message more than twice in batches your account can be suspended.</li>
<li>You can <strong>create a Welcome Tab</strong> for your Page which can look just a like a mini version of your website, and can gather readers for your blog, or Optins for your material.</li>
<li>It looks much <strong>more professional </strong>for your business than a using a personal profile, and it looks like you know what you are doing!</li>
<li>You can send every post on your Page <strong>directly to Twitter</strong> automatically</li>
<li>There are loads of <strong>great apps</strong> created just for pages!</li>
</ol>
<p>You cannot get any of this from a personal profile and if you tried you might find Facebook Admin breathing down your neck!</p>
<p>If you have a business on Facebook, please do yourself and your business a favour and get yourself a Page!</p>
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		<title>Corporate Social Media Must Haves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm]]></description>
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<p>After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm and proof of this is that some of the biggest corporations are not only taking it on they are excelling at it! Look at big brands like Coca Cola, Burger King, Ford, Dell and of course the meteoric success of Starbucks all using social media well.</p>
<p>There are of course some brands who are missing the mark big time and the reasons for this are many, with the main reason being that they are using an old mindset to use new tools.</p>
<p><strong>Old mindsets that miss the mark are:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Social Media is just a passing trend:</strong> not with the numbers on social media steadily rising every day and more social media sites popping up weekly.</li>
<li><strong>Social media is too time consuming</strong>: a social media strategy needs only to set  one or two times a day to be on social media and choosing the right sites on which to put your profiles is a part of the strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Social Media is viewed as just another advertising channel:</strong> social media is anything but this, in fact we must look at it in an entirely new light. Social Media for corporations needs to be put in its own more autonomous category altogether as part of a larger marketing strategy.</li>
<li>They think that it isn&#8217;t worth setting up a central strategy: Social Media is about having a global strategy and global audience, but this must be both created and monitored by the international head office of the corporation.</li>
<li>They aren&#8217;t trying to build communities: using your social media profiles as just another place to advertise, sending out link after link or sales pitch after sales pitch with no conversation is not what social media is about at all.</li>
<li><strong>They don&#8217;t see the long term view: </strong>social media is exponetial and can grow very quickly, BUT it can take little while to generate the trust and respect needed to allow fans to connect with a big brand and this takes time!</li>
<li><strong>They can&#8217;t track it properly so they don&#8217;t trust it: </strong>the metrics are there, but as old mindset marketers everywhere bewail &#8211; none of it is entirely definitive &#8211; this is people and trend driven and unless big brands are keeping up they will go down.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What Corporations who miss the mark are missing:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Social Media is SOCIAL:</strong> it&#8217;s about building relationships based on trust and respect for the person handling the profiles, this means one very important thing &#8211; you MUST have trust and respect for the person you have handling those profiles. Do they post in ways that authentically represent the brand? Do they have the integrity and sense of enthusiasm necessary to show passion for the brand? Are they incentivise to create a worldwide audience? Starbucks could not have done what they did with social media if they hadn&#8217;t had someone handling their social media who filled this criteria, who is handling your social media strategy?</p>
<p>If this was farmed out to young Sally because she understands Facebook and Twitter, you may want to rethink this. Social Media is a profession and it needs a professional to handle branding and dissemination of your marketing messages and brand awareness, if this is not possible it needs to be someone who is passionate about the brand and has the best interests of it at heart. Social media is fast becoming the &#8216;voice&#8217; of the world, you not only need to know what they&#8217;re saying about you, you need to be listening and responding. Because it is the &#8216;voice of the world&#8217; who is going to be deciding if your corporation makes it or not, yes social media is just that powerful. If you doubt this just take a look at what is happening with BP right now, or what happened with Nestle, Pampers and of course the makers of Mortrin.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Transparancy: </strong>now this is a big one for many large corporations, the idea that the marketing message is going to be in the hands of &#8216;the people&#8217;, and worse that they may recieve negative comments on their social media profiles where everyone can see them. Here&#8217;s a hard fact &#8211; both of these things are happening anyway and with no listening ear or social media presence what can you do about it? Nothing! The lessons from Domino&#8217;s and other brand who were caught out on social media are profound, when you can hear and converse with your market, when you are in a relationship with them you can create enormous good will and word of mouth by admitting you were wrong and finding a way to settle any disagreements with style and flair!</p>
<p>Not only this, but this kind of transparency also helps to create brand advocates and even evangelists who see your brand as trustworthy, just because your brand was there on the spot admitting you were wrong and settling the dispute online right in front of the world. You can gain such amazing charisma from these small acts of kindness, proving that your brand is still listening to the little guy. This is your opportunity to take the BIG out of BIg brand and bring a warm and fuzzy feeling to your customers that will translate into bottom line win/win for all.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Means Sharing:</strong> Yes, we&#8217;re back talking about &#8216;warm and fuzzy&#8217; things again. Sharing means listening, communicating and collaboration with your customers, which also means you will be right at the coal face and able to ask your customers what they want from your brand. Talk about the simplest way to &#8216;test&#8217; the market, think of the opportunities to raise your brands worldwide profile! Starbucks have this down pat, asking their audience to &#8216;design&#8217; the next coffee or the Technorati asking their audience to help them design their new logo. This kind of sharing means trust is a two way street and this builds even more trust, this kind of mutual trust and admiration can only translate in higher profits.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media is About Being Authentic:</strong> Now this comes back to a point I made earlier in this post about who you trust to handle your social media branded profiles. Because social media requires an authentic mindset from everyone and I mean everyone, corporations need to have someone who understand who your brand is, what the brands vision and mission is. What personality your brand has, because your brand needs to be HUMAN! People want to do business with people, social media is to blame for this as it makes every brand more accessable. This is key! Only humans can be authentic, corporations cannot, the human you have as your voice on social media needs to be authentic and authentically representing your brand.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Consistency:</strong> There is no set and forget in social media, someone needs to be online daily or at least very regularly, in fact the bigger your corporation the more often you will need to be there. This will mean you must have a strategy, a team of people who know what they&#8217;re doing and scheduling, goals and outcomes in place. Social media is constantly changing and growing and you will need someone in charge who is on top of what&#8217;s happening and what&#8217;s trending and what to do next. Someone who understands that social media is all about trickle feeding your social media profiles consistently, answering questions and complaints daily, praising and rewarding your brand advocates and evangelists and coming up with innovative and creative ways to engage your online audience.</p>
<p>Social Media for Corporations needs to be set up by someone who understands your brand and how best to use the different social media platforms for maximum effect, which ones will work for you and how to create initial and continuous engagement for your corporation. Corporations need to start now, social media is not a trend that will die out, in fact it is a steadily growing trend that sees no end to its exponential growth, look at Facebook now topping 500 Million users by mid-July &#8211; the world has found its voice and it is has no intention of losing it again.</p>
<p>Get ready for a whole new world or get left behind.</p>
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<p>Billionaires and millionaire are just people like you and I, the difference is that they know how to play to their strengths, minimise their weaknesses, achieve their goals and most of all they are prepared to do without to get it all.</p>
<p>Is this something you do?</p>
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<li><strong>Playing to your strengths:</strong> Take a leaf out of the book of billionaires like <a class="zem_slink" title="Warren buffet" rel="tracked" href="http://www.tracked.com/person/warren_buffett/">Warren Buffet</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="Donald Trump" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874339/">Donald Trump</a> and my favourite <a class="zem_slink" title="Richard Branson" rel="crunchbase" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/richard-branson">Richard Branson</a> they only ever play to their strengths, each one of these amazing gentlemen has a different strength and they make sure to capitalise on it to the max.<strong> </strong><strong>
<p>Warren Buffet</strong> is a natural trader or investor and he restricts himself to businesses he understands while open to adaptation he follows some strict rules of investing (his own), and looks for value-based investments.<strong> </strong>&#8220;I was wired at birth to allocate capital and lucky enough to have people around me early on (my parents and teachers and Susie) who helped me make the most of it,&#8221; Buffet told Carol Lumis of Fortune magazine.<strong></p>
<p>Donald Trump </strong> is a born manager or CEO, he understand how to run a company which makes his strength &#8211; leadership. He knows how to get the best out of people and to generate employee loyalty.  He tends to be a little unconventional to say the least and takes risks others would quail at, yet for him this works.<strong></p>
<p>Richard Branson</strong> is what I call an adventurer, he takes risks and he is flamboyant in his personal and business life.  He also is a born leader and is known for his eccentricity, he believes  in learning constantly and is very creative, an ideas man and very social, &#8220;Having a personality of caring about people is important,&#8221; he says.  &#8220;You cant be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how  you bring out the best in them.&#8221;</p>
<p>How can three such different people all create the billions they have in business? By playing to these strengths and minimising their weaknesses, which they do by hiring people they can trust to do those things they are not great at, and allowing them to get on with their jobs. Learn from this!</p>
<p>How many times have we tried to be the one-stop-shop in our own businesses? To quote Dr Phil, &#8220;How&#8217;s that working out for you?&#8221;</p>
<p>Remember this: extreme delegation &#8211; giving away every task that is not in your area of special talents &#8211; can be a recipe for extraordinary riches.</li>
<li><strong>Working on your business as opposed to working in your business:</strong> Yes, we have all heard this one before, I want to know how many of you are actually following this advice?
<p>The trouble with working in your business thinking that you have to work hard to &#8216;get ahead&#8217; is that you never get time to plan ahead. I have to ask, &#8220;Do you know where you are going?&#8221; How can you get there if there is no map to follow?</p>
<p>Setting aside the time to brainstorm with others either trusted employees, partners or a mastermind club is essential for setting goals and taking the steps needed for those goals to be achieved. This is actually more important than slaving away every day in your business, or do you want to be doing that for the rest of your life?</li>
<li><strong>K</strong><strong>eeping your vision outside of yourself:</strong> Right up there with working on your business is the mindset you need to stay motivated. When we look at money as our main objective we tend to be focussed inward and staying motivated enough to reach your goals becomes difficult.
<p>We end up working and slaving away thinking we are getting ahead and yet money seems to be even more diffucult to come by.</p>
<p>Understanding that by focussing outward on what we are achieving for our customers and clients and the contribution we are making to their lives through our business can change our whole perspective. This mindset can reignite the orginal passion we had for our business and motivate our actions to adding value to our clients/customers lives, increasing consumer trust, respect and loyalty which creates a natural inflow to our business.</p>
<p>Knowing how easy it is to fall into old habits of having an inward focus, especially when things are tight, we need to have a set of strategies in place reminding us to focus outwardly, these can be vision and mission statements, vision boards which include long term and short term goals and the outcomes which will prove to us we have achieved those goals.</li>
<li><strong>Understanding money:</strong> One of the key competencies of billionaires is the understand of what money really is and what it isn&#8217;t. Money is not a goal, Warren Buffet has said this best when he said, &#8220;Money means absolutely nothing to me!&#8221; he then qualified this statement with, &#8220;..money is only a vehicle to doing what I love.&#8221;
<p>Financial freedom is really the ability to have the things in life that make it worthwhile and that may not be material things, for me this means having the money to help my family or to spend more time with them doing things that make us happy. This is what I work for.</p>
<p>Billionaires also understand how to do without or wait for their rewards and not give into the need for instant gratification. Yes it does seem like they can have anything they want, but it wasn&#8217;t always like this for them. They had to learn what was important to spend their money on and what wasn&#8217;t, often driving old, beaten up vehicles and investing instead on their business or their education.</p>
<p>If you have a fear of not having enough money and yet you spend what you have to fill the hole that fear creates in you, you will manifest the outcome that you will never have &#8216;enough&#8217;. Read more about <a href="http://annieinfinite.com/2010/stuart-wilde-and-annie-infinite-on-abundance/">Money, Wealth and Abundance</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Don&#8217;t take it all too seriously:</strong> remember that this is life, it is filled with ups and downs and you can always make another start. Most billionaires have won and lost businesses, many of them suffering at least one bankruptcy along the way. They learned what worked and didn&#8217;t work and kept on going and developed a sense of humour about it all.
<p>Each of the billinaires have the ability to laugh about themselves and their lives, to take time off and to treat life as an adventure. One of the mistakes people like you and me make is thinking it is all so serious, when we are successful we earnestly worry about losing it, when things are not going so well we worry about not having it. Give yourself and your business a break!</p>
<p>Get some perspective and decide if it isn&#8217;t fun, it&#8217;s not worth having!</li>
<li><strong>Make friends with the media:</strong> Pay them the respect they need to do their jobs well and they will honour you too. If you are thrown a curly question, take the time you need to answer it without being aggressive and never be defensive or they will smell blood.
<p>Warren Buffet, Donald Trump and Richard Branson are great at this and as a result recieve more good press than bad, even when they are ridiculed in the press they join in the joke showing good humour and this is a perfect example of not taking themselves too seriously. They have also taken the step of branding themselves as much as their busineses..</li>
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<p><strong>Things to leave you thinking:</strong></p>
<p>* &#8220;Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Groucho Marx</p>
<p>* &#8220;Half of life is luck; the other half is discipline—-and that&#8217;s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn&#8217;t know what to do with luck.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Carl Zuckmayer</p>
<p>* &#8220;Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an organization&#8217;s arteries.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;William P. Anthony</p>
<p>* &#8220;The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;John Kenneth Galbraith</p>
<p>* &#8220;We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Gloria Steinem</p>
<p>* &#8220;If your Riches are yours, why don&#8217;t you take them with you to t &#8216;other world?&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>* &#8220;Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don&#8217;t take yourself seriously, or you&#8217;ll become affected, pompous and boring.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Shelley Duvall</p>
<p>* &#8220;You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don&#8217;t do too many things wrong.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Warren E. Buffett</p>
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<p>Why, I hear you ask?</p>
<p>First of all go take another look at the &#8216;Info&#8217; tab on your profile, if you&#8217;re like many FBer&#8217;s you hardly ever look at your own &#8216;Info&#8217; tab, you will see that now all the information you filled out on that page concerning your interests both business and personal have been attached to new pages with their own Thumbnails, some of these thumbnails have no real pages &#8211; yet.</p>
<p>What this means for marketers is that you can now target your marketing according to all this new information which is being indexed and geo &#8211; tagged via <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google</a>!</p>
<p>Let me run that by you again &#8211; everything that you fill out on your Info tab is now not only indexable and targetable it is being used by <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> to do just that! That&#8217;s why we do not &#8216;Fan&#8217; pages any more, this is why we now like Pages &#8211; because we can now target those &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; and market directly to the people who have clicked on them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No longer are fans only targetable by their own pages, they are targetable via their own profiles and the &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; that are catalogued on their profiles as well. Now every time you click you &#8216;LIKE&#8217; something: e.g. a movie, book, music, a news story or an FB Page &#8211; this data is added to the general social search engine that is <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> and this updates your permanent Facebook profile at the same time.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Now I want to make it clear Facebook does not expose your data to everyone &#8211; only to those people you&#8217;ve have given permission to as a friend will actually see your profile as always, but the collated data us now being used by Facebook Advertising to target marketing more specifically to those who have shown an interest via the &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; including FB Pages on their profile.</p>
<p>This makes FaceBook  Advertising rival Google and perhaps be even more influencial, FB are not relying on keywords but rather YOUR likes and interests, now that&#8217;s a step forward in the evolution of online marketing!!</p>
<p>For more information check out this Mashable post: <a title="Mashable" href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/19/facebook-pages">http://mashable.com/2010/04/19/facebook-pages</a></p>
<p>and this one is a video from Mark Zuckerberg himself on Facebook Changes to expect: <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/zuckerberg-video/">http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/zuckerberg-video/</a></p>
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		<title>The Universal Laws of the New Economy</title>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is <strong>the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. </strong> This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has accelerated. Two brand-new technological achievements&#8211;the silicon chip and the silicate glass fiber&#8211;have rammed together with incredible speed. Like nuclear particles crashing together in a cyclotron, the intersection of these two innovations has unleashed a never-before-seen force: the power of a pervasive net. As this grand net spreads, an animated swarm is reticulating the surface of the planet. We are clothing the globe with a network society.</p>
<p><strong>The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks</strong>. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.</em>&#8221; (<a class="zem_slink" title="New Rules for the New Economy" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Economy-Kevin-Kelly/dp/014028060X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D014028060X">New Rules for the New Economy</a> &#8211; Kevin Kelly, 1998)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Using <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and the art of conversation underpins the new economy,</strong> it is the foundation for the networking that is so important to the 21st century. Gone are the days of the advertiser here is the time of the value based marketer, the individual and business that adds value long before their customers and clients have begun to buy.</p>
<p>This new economy entrepreneur &#8216;gets it&#8217;; that working in line with the way the universe itself works will create a cogent alignment with the reality of primal chaos, the matrix from which all reality emerges and when you are working in line with the universe magic happens.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The atom is the icon of the 20th century. The atom whirls alone. It is the metaphor for individuality. But the atom is the past. The symbol for the next century is the net. The net has no center, no orbits, no certainty. It is an indefinite web of causes. The net is the archetype displayed to represent all circuits, all intelligence, all interdependence, all things economic, social, or ecological, all communications, all democracy, all families, all large systems, almost all that we find interesting and important. Whereas the atom represents clean simplicity, the net channels messy complexity.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>In other words the new 21st Century icon is the quantum wave, where all, and I mean everything begins. Before there is an atom, the symbol of matter in the universe there is the wave of probability this is a scientific fact and that wave is representative of the new economy. The quantum wave is probability rather than certainties and it is the true essence of our universe, that wave of chaos (meaning primal soup out of which all matter comes) it is <strong>the matrix where all things are possible and yet nothing is certain unless and until it is defined by thought, belief</strong> or in our case the crowd in our communities and tribes on the internet.</p>
<p>The internet has changed our lives forever and now <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> has changed things even more, we are not in the information age any more we are in the information sharing age and this means networking &#8211; building communities and creating tribes. Where information is shared, conversed about and agreed upon we have our realities, our certainties and our matter. Out of the primal chaos of the everchanging conversation on the world wide web we begin to see memes (viral conversations) around which we form tribes and communities.</p>
<p>This is where Fractal Magic Marketing comes into it&#8217;s own and meets the world of the online wave, it is only by interacting with full understanding of the new economy and the way waves of possibility and probablity work that we will learn how to marketing in this new economy.</p>
<p><strong>Do you understand the rules of the new economy? </strong></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The three great currents of the network economy: <strong>vast globalization, steady dematerialization into knowledge, and deep, ubiquitous networking</strong>&#8211;these three tides are washing over all shores. Their encroachment is steady, and self-reinforcing. Their combined effect can be rendered simply: The net wins&#8230;</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you marketing within the rules of the new economy? Using the laws of the universe to create memes from your marketing messages? Some clues are within this text:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Networks are nurtured by making it as easy as possible to participate. The more diverse the players in your network&#8211;competitors, customers, associations, and critics&#8211;the better. Becoming a member should be a breeze. You want to know who your customers are, but you don&#8217;t want to make it hard for them to get to you (IDs, yes; passwords, no). You want to make it easy for your competitors to join too (all their customers could potentially be yours as well). Be open to the power of network effects: Relationships are more powerful than technical quality</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Fractal Magic Marketing is the only marketing system that takes advantage of the scientificly applied laws of the universe via quantum wave theory, </strong>direct from a former secondary science teacher who turned online marketer extra-ordinaire.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Unlike viral marketing, which grows enormously and then dies quickly, fractal marketing goes forever, repeating itself at every scale imaginable.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;One of the most interesting things to note about Fractal Magick MarketingTM is that it is all about infinite growth that is built on the value of the product, service or brand, not the amount of hype created around it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fractal Magick MarketingTM is all about being totally authentic, giving loads of value, giving back and building your brand on those rock solid values.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Marketers should now be thinking and acting differently as humanity once again finds it&#8217;s voice and the power to create or destroy businesses, perhaps even nations through the power of <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and world-wide conversations.</em>&#8221; (quotes from the Fractal Magic Marketing course &#8211; Stay tuned for more about the launch of this amazing system in the next few weeks &#8211; coming soon to a computer near you).</p>
<p>Swarms need real-time communication. Living systems don’t have the luxury of waiting overnight to process an incoming signal. If they had to sleep on it, they could die in their sleep. With few exceptions, nature reacts in real time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another quote from a site called &#8216;<a href="http://neweconomyentrepreneurs.com/new-economy/">New Economy Entrepreneurs</a>&#8216; outlines the understandings you will need to participate easily in the new economy:</p>
<p>&#8220;The following list of names personify the essence of a New Economy Entrepreneur:</p>
<p>* Warren Buffett<br />
* Ariana Huffington<br />
* Oprah<br />
* The Guy Who Runs the Koi Fusion Food Cart in Portland, Oregon</p>
<p>Okay, okay. You were with me until the last name on the list, weren’t you? <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What does a local food cart guy possibly have in common with those other Big Famous People?</p>
<p>Simple.</p>
<p>1. He is someone who invests his energies into adding value to the world through his business ventures that reflect what he is passionate about (an entrepreneur);</p>
<p>AND…</p>
<p>2. He embraces the power of technology to get Big Things Done (in his case, he uses <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> sites like Facebook and Twitter to attract a loyal customer base who eventually creates a “buzz” about his business and grows his profits for him — the epitome of new economy tools).</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> has allowed this man to take his business from one cart to five, all in less than a year’s time! There is no other way he could have grown as quickly had it not been for the Internet. Of course, once the buzz about his scrumptious multi-cultural tacos was flying all over Facebook and Twitter feeds, the local news media picked up his story and ran a couple of human interest pieces on him and his business, only adding exponentially to his customer base because people saw him on TV.</p>
<p>Thus, a New Economy Entrepreneur is someone who engages in businesses* he or she owns that:</p>
<p>* reflect his or her passions<br />
* add value to the world<br />
* capitalize on the power of the Internet to multiply efforts, improve efficiency, and increase profits.</p>
<p>*Note emphasis on the plural of business — businesses. I point this out because it is critical to understanding what a New Economy Entrepreneur is. NEE are never one-dimensional. Having multiple streams of income is an essential component of the overall definition, just like chocolate chips are an essential part of chocolate chip cookies.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Zen Bull team have taken this to heart and are so excited to reveal our new sites which are to form a trio of sites</strong> along with The Zen Bull, to give an wholistic experience to those who are interested in learning more about being their authentic selves, revealing their own magnificence to the world and interacting with those who are on the same path.</p>
<p><strong>Over the next week we are launching our new sites The Inward Road and The BuddhaField:</strong></p>
<p>The Inward Road is a presenter site featuring 16 amazing spiritual, personal growth and wholistic natural health presenters on topics from authenticity, life strategies, health, homeopathy and more.. via video, articles, audios and workshops.</p>
<p>..and our sister site The BuddhaField is an interactive social site where you can be fully you and speak and interact with others on the same journey, form groups and interact with the presenters from The Inward Road.</p>
<p>The good news for you is that one membership will cover both sites basically the cost of 3 cups of coffer per month to have access to all this incredible material and interaction. We will also be introducing feature business pages where you can promote your wholistic and spiritual business to the select people who are members of these sites.</p>
<p>We know that people just like you who are on their own personal journey to add value to the world via their passion and are dedicated to pursuing their own authentic selves and passions will be eager to find out more, so please stay tuned for more information.</p>
<p><a href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/.When you play and work on Social Media for as long as I have, you realise that there are some social media types you come across regularly, now I could just tell you what to look for, but I thought I would have some fun with <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fdo-you-know-these-social-media-personalities%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fdo-you-know-these-social-media-personalities%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/</a>.<br /><p>When you play and work on Social Media for as long as I have, you realise that there are some social media types you come across regularly, now I could just tell you what to look for, but I thought I would have some fun with this and give you a little more insight at the same time by using dogs as my reference <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So sit back and enjoy this post and gain some inights into the characteristics of some of the most prolific social media personalit<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-145" style="margin: 6px;" title="puppies1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="115" /></a>y types:</p>
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<li><strong>The Puppy </strong>- the total newbie to social media, this personality type makes mistakes however they are endearing and learn from watching other more experienced personalities. When you meet a newbie it is a good idea to be a little patient with them until they learn the etiquette, when they make a mistake because they have been watching and modelling their comments on the &#8216;wrong&#8217; type, guidance is the best option until they learn the ropes.<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-146 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Chihuahua4" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="104" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Chihuahua </strong>- This personality type yaps often and yet seems to say very little, there is no substance, rhyme or reason for their tweets and posts they can be seen typing things like: &#8220;sitting watching tv and chillin&#8217; with ma bro&#8221; or the classic &#8220;gotta go pee&#8221; Yapping all day long about nothing in particular trying to get noticed.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-147" style="margin: 6px;" title="POODLES" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="142" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Miniature Poodle </strong>- These posts can be classified as sickly sweet, this SM personality like quotes and fires them off one after the other in quick succession and has little or nothing to say at all other than &#8220;I just love my life&#8221; etc.. , again no real substance or conversation. This is the cream puff of the social media world again nothing of real substance however occasionally they post a quote worth reposting or retweeting.<strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-148  alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="doberman-harness-big2_LRG" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg" alt="" width="143" height="120" /></a></strong></li>
<li><strong>The Doberman</strong> &#8211; now this SM personality is all business and no nonsence, they are there to advertise their product, service and brand and do not bother with any real world conversation. Their posts are characterised by no-nonsence marketing which is often sent out via autobot so they don&#8217;t have to bother replying or conversing at all. The all business character of the SM universe and often blocked by me even though I too market online.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full  wp-image-149" style="margin: 6px;" title="snarling-dog_thumb" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="88" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Mongrel</strong> &#8211; it is interesting what types are attracted to social media and this type loves to bad mouth others, cause trouble and gossip, they will find any user and treat them to a post denegrating their personality, looks, and posts in a rude and uncouth manner and are best blocked at your earliest conventience for good. Obviously have no other way to gain the fame they seek and have a bad attitude.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-151 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Bassett" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="108" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Basset Hound </strong>- this type tells you every little thing about their lives, they are often looking for sympathy and they post pathetic comments and tweets hoping that you will be reeled into their lives in a way that you will feel you need to help them in some way. This creates the very attention that they crave. They love playing the victim and often ask for help in ways that are downright rude &#8220;I am so low at the moment the only way I feel better is when I write my story, I cannot type and so really need someone to buy me a voice recorder &#8211; this is the one I want LINK&#8221; (a real post I saw on my <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> wall recently)<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-150" style="margin: 6px;" title="german_shepherd" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg" alt="" width="98" height="100" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The German Shepherd </strong>- now this personality is worth knowing, although they are there for business they also understand the need to converse and be social on social media, they will openly edify other businesses and people and are up for a cross marketing opportunity or two. They often post items of interest from all over the web and are generally business-like and social at the same time.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-152" style="margin: 6px;" title="Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg" alt="" width="122" height="162" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Golden Retreiver</strong> &#8211; This social media personality truly gets social media, they create relationships and friendships at the same time as cultivating their business and marketing relationships. They will openly post about their life while not becoming completely boring and are great at cross marketing with those they are &#8216;friends&#8217; with, even their direct competition, understanding that competition is only an untapped market. Look for the Golden Retrievers they are focussed on creating great relationships and helping you to become successful as they understand that reciprocity is a key component of social media.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Have you got any Social Media personality types you would like to add to this list? Leave me a comment and tell me about them..</strong></p>
<p><a title="The Zen Bull" href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
<p>DISCLAIMER &#8211; I love dogs and at no time am I saying that any of the dog types mentioned in this post are unloveable or not worth having, this is just meant to be a bit of fun. At no time were any dogs harmed during the creation of this post.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your UBD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your UBD is your Unique Business Differentiator and it is the most important thing you can know about your business before marketing it. It is what makes your brand, your business stand out in the crowd.]]></description>
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<p>Your UBD is your Unique Business Differentiator and it is the most important thing you can know about your business before marketing it. It is what makes your brand, your business stand out in the crowd.</p>
<p>This is what you will use to establish your brand amongst your competition, it is what will draw your clients and customers to you in preference to other brands, it is how you brand yourself, it belongs in all of your marketing and will be used daily by you, your marketing, and your employees.</p>
<p>So how does a business find, create and establish their UBD?</p>
<p>It all begins with your <strong>Vision and  Mission statements</strong> which are a list of values, goals and outcomes you create for your business. Your vision and mission statements help to keep motivation high, give your business purpose and move you and your business from A to B, effecting growth on a regular basis according to your goals and outcomes.</p>
<p>From these statements you will gain and insight into who your business is, who your target market is, and how to market your business. The next step is to sit down and list your businesses main benefits to your customers and what is different or unique about it.</p>
<p><strong>Questions to ask yourself at this stage</strong>:</p>
<ol>
<li> Who is my main target market?</li>
<li>What is different about my business?</li>
<li>What am I proud of offering?</li>
<li>What am I passionate about?</li>
<li>What core values are most important to me in relation to my business?</li>
<li>What do my current customers/clients say about my business?</li>
<li>What benefits of my business are already important to my prospective and current clients/customers? (This might mean some research on your part)</li>
<li>What are people saying about the biggest or most well-known brands in the same business? (researching what other brands are saying around their own businesses can give you an insight into current trends)</li>
<li>What are the most universal needs of people searching for your niche?</li>
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<p>Now create a new list, of words I want associated with my business.</p>
<p><strong>The next step is refinement</strong>, take your lists and begin a list of words, values and answers you gave to the questions and prioritise them. Which ones are the most important to you, which ones are already associated with your business by your customers/clients.</p>
<p>Continue to refine this list until you have between 3 and 5 of the most important to you and your customers/clients remembering that your customers and prospects are even more important than you when it comes to your marketing, these are your business&#8217;s UBD&#8217;s.  Once you have this list try coming up with a few different slogans or phrases that encapsulate these UBD&#8217;s and these can be your very first branding messages.</p>
<p>Great Job! Now you&#8217;re thinking like a marketer!</p>
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<p>More articles to help you establish your UBD:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.asparker.com/ppts1004.html">http://www.asparker.com/ppts1004.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/p236158609_Finding-out-what-makes-your-business-unique.html">http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/p236158609_Finding-out-what-makes-your-business-unique.html</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is now one of the most competitive sites on the web for marketing your business and if you have discounted social media as not worth your time - you might be in for a surprise!]]></description>
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<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> is now one of the most competitive sites on the web for marketing your business and if you have discounted social media as not worth your time &#8211; you might be in for a surprise!</p>
<p>Some statistics:</p>
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<li>Facebook now has over <strong>400 Million users</strong> (that&#8217;s the 3rd largest country in the world!)</li>
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<li>Over Christmas it was THE most searched site in the world</li>
<li>It is the <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/facebook-unseats-yahoo/">2nd most popular site in the US and the world</a> only surpassed by Google for popularity</li>
<li>Facebook is making changes to evolve its platform that suit businesses</li>
<li>Facebook ads and PPC are now <a href="http://rich-page.com/reviews/5-ways-that-facebook-advertising-beats-google-adwords/">more cost effective than Google</a></li>
<li>Facebook is the webs <a title="Neilson stats on Facebook" href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/16/facebook-nielsen-stats/ ">ultimate time sink</a></li>
<li>Facebook has its own <a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-launches-facebook-zero-–-a-light-weight-mobile-site">Mobile site</a> for mobile users</li>
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<p>Can you imagine putting your ad or your business fan page in front of 400 Million active users?</p>
<p>Targeting those users with a refinement Google has never had?</p>
<p>Taking advantage of the time user spend playing on Facebook?</p>
<p>Take another look &#8211; it might be time to rethink it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/garys-social-media-counter/.This is cool! If you do not believe that social media is changing the way we do business this very cool Social Media Counter will prove it to you. Just watch the numbers roll!!!!!! Thanks to Gary from Personalize Media © AnnieInfinite for The Bulls Roar, <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/garys-social-media-counter/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Thanks to Gary from <a href="http://www.personalizemedia.com"> Personalize Media</a></p>
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<p>One of the most influencial marketers for me I have to say is <a class="zem_slink" title="Seth Godin" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sethgodin.com/">Seth Godin</a>, his approach to marketing is no-nonsense while still being quirky and that so totally appeals to me. His book &#8220;Purple Cow&#8221; if you haven&#8217;t already heard of it is a book I can highly recommend, and it certainly gave me insights into marketing I never got out of a text book.</p>
<p>This one book I credit with changing my whole philosophy of marketing and I believe listening to Seth Godin via his concise yet remarkable blog posts a must for anyone in the marketing industry no matter how big or small your organisation is.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s an exceprt from his book, &#8220;Purple Cow&#8217; and what it means to be the purple cow in your industry or niche:</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>You&#8217;re either a Purple Cow or you&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.<br />
What do Starbucks, JetBlue, Krispy Kreme, Apple, Dutch Boy and Hard Candy have that you don&#8217;t? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last?</p>
<p>Face it, the checklist of tired &#8216;P&#8217;s marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed &#8211; Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few-aren&#8217;t working anymore. There&#8217;s an exceptionally important &#8216;P&#8217; that has to be added to the list. It&#8217;s Purple Cow.</p>
<p>Cows, after you&#8217;ve seen one, or two, or ten, are boring. A Purple Cow, though&#8230;now that would be something. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff-a lot of brown cows-but you can bet they won&#8217;t forget a Purple Cow. And it&#8217;s not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It&#8217;s built right in, or it&#8217;s not there. Period.&#8221;</p>
<p>Godin writes that you should review all your P&#8217;s (product, price, promotion, positioning, etc.) and figure out where your edges (advantages) are and where the competition is located and go where they&#8217;re not. Godin uses Jet Blue as an example of getting over the edge of service and pricing. This airline company delivers what none of the competitors possess and manages to make a profit doing it.</p>
<p>Marketers are farmers on the &#8220;purple cow farm.&#8221; In order to create a cow, a marketer must be involved in the entire process. Godin writes that marketing is the &#8220;act of reinventing the product, the effort of designing it, the craft of producing it, the art of pricing it, and the technique of selling it.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>The whole theory of being a purple cow is summed up in this phrase, &#8220;the act of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. . . . If what you&#8217;re offering isn&#8217;t remarkable, it&#8217;s invisible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now ask yourself, what&#8217;s remarkable about your business? What&#8217;s remarkable about you? Those are the things to build on, not fitting in, not making everyone else comfortable with who you are or what you represent &#8211; be bold, stand out!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be a brown cow &#8211; get purple-ised!</p>
<p>Now tell me how you&#8217;re going to do that in a comment on this post &#8211; I would love to hear your purple cow story <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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