Books, Budget Management, Leads and MQL

Expert Panel’s Feedback on Our Lead to Revenue Calculator

ViewPoint

JANUARY 27, 2017

During the last week of December I asked a panel of experts for feedback on our Leads to Revenue Calculator. The above graphic is a sample from our Lead to Revenue Calculator. Most people see nurtured leads as converting to a MQL/SQL--which you are already counting. Marketing should not be working outside the sweet spot.

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Budgeting, Pacing, and Optimizing to Maximize Your Ad Dollars

Metadata

AUGUST 14, 2023

If I wrote a book about the life of a performance marketer, I’d call it, Metrics, Madness, & Mayhem. The pressure of performance marketing is VERY real, especially in a down economy. How does Metadata help performance marketers spend on the right stuff? This is the norm.

Budget Programs

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This direct insight leads to effective coaching and drives the continual refinement of the process as a whole. This is a best practice that you can read more about in our last post, The Power of Compound Improvement , or in our book, Blueprints for SaaS Sales Organizations. Lead source attribution.

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Webinars

Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Cracking the Code: Turning Intent Data into Go-to-Market Success

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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Inbound Marketing in B2B: How to Calculate ROI

Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

Ultimately though, all companies want to increase their leads, and they also want to convert those leads into customers. Not just any old customers either – the biggest draw of inbound marketing is that it generates repeat, brand-loyal and high-value customers. Customers – how many new buyers have you acquired?

Inbound Marketing

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7 Marketing Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Be Tracking

SmartBug Media

MARCH 3, 2020

Knowing which channels drive the most traffic will help you identify the marketing activities that are working the best and the ones that could use some optimization for better performance. What are leads? As a starting point, you can use these definitions: A lead is typically very top of the funnel. How do you measure leads?

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Why a Single Source of Truth Is a Huge Deal

Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A single source of data truth is also essential for improving marketing efficiency. In addition to greater process efficiency, a single source of data truth shared by marketing and sales also allows the marketing team to invest resources more wisely. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Designing a Lead Lifecycle.

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Best B2B Marketing Agencies: Top 10 Choices for 2023

Single Grain

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

‘re alLooking to boost your B2B marketing game in 2023? Generating high-quality leads is crucial, but can be a real challenge. That’s where B2B marketing agencies come in. These agencies take care of all your B2B company’s marketing needs (plus all the challenges!), Why Choose Disruptive Advertising?

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Full Circle University SEO Series: Defining B2B Lead Generation

Full Circle Insights

JUNE 30, 2020

Lead generation is one of the toughest jobs in marketing and getting tougher in the current environment. If you’re not generating leads, the sales team isn’t closing deals, and if the sales team isn’t closing deals, the company isn’t making money. Now, let’s take a look at how lead generation works.

Lead Ranking

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The Elements of Great B2B Lead Management

Full Circle Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What are the qualities of great B2B lead management? B2B lead generation operations experienced a seismic shift when the pandemic took in-person events, which so many companies rely, off the table. Some B2B marketers took a major budget hit, while many marketing departments redirected dollars to digital programs.

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We’re All Re-planning our B2B Marketing Budgets Now

Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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The Big List of Content Marketing Acronyms

Brandpoint

JUNE 24, 2021

BANT: Budget, Authority, Needs, Timeline. An older model for identifying qualified leads, first developed by IBM. BANT covers four core factors to determine sales-readiness: budget, authority, needs and timeline. CMI: Content Marketing Institute. CMP: Content Marketing Platform. CPL: Cost-per-Lead.

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Three Ways to Prepare Your Marketing Team for the Next Global Disruption

Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 28, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Sales Management

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CMOs and CIOs: Stronger Together in the Digital Age

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

B2B marketers who have adopted the CRM as a part of the marketing solution stack and are able to report data using the company’s de facto revenue reporting system can create reports using data that resonate all the way to the board and C-suite. . Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Designing a Lead Lifecycle.

Lead Ranking

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Press Release: Full Circle Insights Continues to Innovate in 2020, Receiving Two Patents and Rolling Out New Product Dashboards to Support Digital Marketing

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Invented too by Full Circle founders, this patented technology improves funnel metrics and attribution models, allowing marketers to manage leads, contacts and campaigns more efficiently. “Full Circle is a critical technology to power your marketing analytics engine,” said Danny McKeever, Sr. Got CMO Skills?

Full Circle Insights

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Women’s Equality Day: 4 Ways to Develop Women’s Leadership Skills

Full Circle Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

A recent book, “ The Upside: Better Outcomes when Everyone Plays ,” authored by Diane Flynn and Patty O’Brien White, explores these themes in more detail. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. Rethinking B2B Marketing Outreach?

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Full Circle University SEO Series: Defining Digital Marketing Metrics

Full Circle Insights

JUNE 16, 2020

If so, you’ve got company: many businesses have shifted spend from in-person events like lunch-and-learn gatherings to digital marketing campaigns due to lingering public health concerns. Tight budgets are another factor: digital campaigns tend to be less expensive, and if done right, they can be great lead generators.

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Agile Marketing and the Measurement Sprint

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Improved business impact such as growth in pipeline or lead conversion rates. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Got CMO Skills?

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Why Marketing Is Here to Stay

Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But it’s also true that the pandemic has dragged on longer than people expected, especially factoring in the initial surge of optimism around vaccine distribution, and it’s important to recognize the role events play in marketing budgets, particularly in the B2B space. Marketing — and Measurement — Remain Essential.

Sales Management

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Interested in Leveraging Predictive Analytics? You’ll Need to Get Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Right First.

Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. So, if B2B marketers can identify behavior patterns that kick off the buying cycle, they could serve up content that could act as a “start” button for further engagement. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing.

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What Moms Really Want for Mother’s Day: Equal Pay

Full Circle Insights

MAY 5, 2021

CEOs, HR professionals, managers and other stakeholders can’t simply engage in a one-and-done review, make an adjustment, and call it a day. Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff talked about his company’s journey toward equity in his book Trailblazer, which urges businesses to serve as positive social change agents.

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The Importance of Thriving, Learning and Experimenting in Your Career

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They did everything right — agreed on a naming convention, analyzed their lead management process, dropped or modified programs that weren’t performing and invested in marketing what was driving sales. We are working on an entirely new set of digital marketing dashboards to extend our Full Circle Method. I was floored.

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Customer Spotlight: How Integrate Uses Full Circle to Maximize Agility

Full Circle Insights

APRIL 20, 2021

The share of marketers who report adopting an agile marketing approach has been growing , as we find that the pandemic accelerated implementation of agile techniques – with their budget-friendly and shorter project timelines. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement.

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Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights Wins Product of the Year

Full Circle Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights, maker of comprehensive sales and marketing performance measurement solutions, connects data from a wide variety of digital channels, such as online advertising, website traffic and social media to leads, pipeline and revenue, providing funnel and attribution metrics inside a CRM.

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Getting Buy-In for Agile Marketing

Full Circle Insights

JUNE 22, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

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Giving Back to Celebrate National Nonprofit Day

Full Circle Insights

AUGUST 16, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Lead Ranking

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Get Clarity on Your Customer’s Journey

Full Circle Insights

AUGUST 8, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Lead Ranking

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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): less talk, more action.

Full Circle Insights

JULY 20, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Lead Ranking

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How to Avoid the Digital Transformation Trap

Full Circle Insights

MAY 10, 2021

B2B companies that shifted lead gen from customer-facing activities and events to digital channels are now starting to think about how they can add in-person meetings and gatherings back into the mix. Still, there’s strong momentum for digital campaigns, and analysts expect the digital spending trend in marketing to continue.

Digital Transformation

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How the Right Marketing Tools Can Help You Thrive in an Uncertain Economy

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In an earlier post, we talked about some of the preconditions for achieving that, such as finding a way to monitor funnel metrics using a single source of data truth inside the CRM and closer alignment between the sales and marketing organizations. The marketing team had data from the martech stack, but it didn’t give them a complete picture.

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5 Do’s and Don’ts to Address Zoom Anxiety and Fatigue

Full Circle Insights

JULY 12, 2021

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Sales Management

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How to Guide: Creating a Flow for New Outreach Event Campaigns

Full Circle Insights

JUNE 30, 2022

Want to know more about how leads from new Outreach campaigns are tracked in your marketing funnel? In this article, Professional Services Manager, Caitlin Van Horn walks you through the flow. Let’s imagine that a prospect, Maria, just booked a meeting through Outreach. We can use this variable for both lead and contacts.

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The business case for a strong CMO-CIO partnership: A guide

Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Many B2B marketers already use the company’s CRM to track leads through the marketing and sales funnel and create reports. By integrating marketing and sales data inside the CRM, B2B marketers can produce reports with metrics that resonate outside of marketing, including in the C-suite. Vidyard Case Study.

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End-of-Year Marketing Predictions: How to Plan for Success

Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Funnel metrics tell you how leads progress through the marketing and sales funnel, providing actionable information you can use to clear bottlenecks, improve handoffs and otherwise upgrade processes. If you’re formulating your marketing plans for the coming year, you’ll have a fair amount of uncertainty to factor into your strategy.

Lead Ranking

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Full Circle Insights Builds Strong Momentum in First Half of 2021

Full Circle Insights

JULY 12, 2021

About Full Circle Insights Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions to optimize a company’s marketing mix and drive more revenue. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics and lead management technology. Designing a Lead Lifecycle.

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Press Release: Full Circle Insights Partners with Bombora on Integration That Allows Full Circle ABM Users To Identify and Track Accounts Through the Sales Funnel

Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Integration Empowers B2B Marketers to Measure the Impact of Their Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Strategy Inside the CRM SAN MATEO, Calif. , Jan. This means B2B marketers can compare ABM funnel metrics from one period of time to another, identify trends and optimize their marketing spend.

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Digital Transformation: When CMOs and CIOs Team Up, Everyone Wins

Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 27, 2021

B2B marketers who have added their company’s CRM to the marketing solution stack can create reports using data that is credible with everyone, from sales colleagues to the board of directors and CEO. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Vidyard Case Study.

Digital Transformation

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Three Agile Marketing Tips for the Post-Pandemic Economy

Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if the team tests new offers or marketing messages during the project sprint, the measurement sprint would focus on assessing the impact in terms of how leads progress through the marketing and sales funnel. * * *. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. Got CMO Skills?

Planning

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Press Release: Scaleworks Acquires Marketing Technology Leader Full Circle Insights, Appoints New CEO

Full Circle Insights

JULY 13, 2023

About Full Circle Insights Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions to optimize a company’s marketing mix and drive more revenue. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics, and lead management technology.

Full Circle Insights

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Getting the C-Suite to buy in on agile marketing

Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

. “With the current conditions it is very important to measure exactly what you are doing with your agile marketing processes, leading with campaign successes,” said Bonnie Crater, CEO of Full Circle Insights , a data and lead management platform. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Vidyard Case Study.

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Full Circle Insights Innovates Again with Full Circle ABM

Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With Full Circle ABM, users can leverage data from leading intent providers like 6sense, Bombora, and DemandBase, which flag accounts showing interest in buying a B2B product or service, even before members of the buying group become known to the business. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Designing a Lead Lifecycle.

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Full Circle University SEO Series: Campaign Attribution for Digital Marketing

Full Circle Insights

AUGUST 7, 2020

If you’re a B2B marketer, you probably relied, at least in part, on in-person events to generate leads before the pandemic. Now, because of social distancing, you’ve likely reallocated those budget dollars to digital channels so you can keep engaging with customers. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing.

Lead Ranking

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Top 3 B2B Marketing Metrics: Individual vs. Account Based Marketing

Full Circle Insights

JULY 8, 2022

Volume describes the number of leads in the funnel, velocity indicates how much time leads spend at each funnel stage, and conversion rates tell you the percentage of leads that proceed from each stage to the next one. . Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Designing a Lead Lifecycle.

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Will COVID Change Marketing Measurement Forever?

Full Circle Insights

JULY 28, 2020

Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Designing a Lead Lifecycle. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. Four Dashboards to Make Marketing Measurement Easy. Lead to Account Matching Buyer’s Guide. Excel Pro-Tips for Marketing and Sales Data.

Lead Ranking

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Expert Panel’s Feedback on Our Lead to Revenue Calculator

Budgeting, Pacing, and Optimizing to Maximize Your Ad Dollars

Webinars

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

Webinars

How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

Inbound Marketing in B2B: How to Calculate ROI

7 Marketing Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Be Tracking

Why a Single Source of Truth Is a Huge Deal

Best B2B Marketing Agencies: Top 10 Choices for 2023

Full Circle University SEO Series: Defining B2B Lead Generation

The Elements of Great B2B Lead Management

We’re All Re-planning our B2B Marketing Budgets Now

The Big List of Content Marketing Acronyms

Three Ways to Prepare Your Marketing Team for the Next Global Disruption

CMOs and CIOs: Stronger Together in the Digital Age

Press Release: Full Circle Insights Continues to Innovate in 2020, Receiving Two Patents and Rolling Out New Product Dashboards to Support Digital Marketing

Women’s Equality Day: 4 Ways to Develop Women’s Leadership Skills

Full Circle University SEO Series: Defining Digital Marketing Metrics

Agile Marketing and the Measurement Sprint

Why Marketing Is Here to Stay

Interested in Leveraging Predictive Analytics? You’ll Need to Get Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Right First.

What Moms Really Want for Mother’s Day: Equal Pay

The Importance of Thriving, Learning and Experimenting in Your Career

Customer Spotlight: How Integrate Uses Full Circle to Maximize Agility

Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights Wins Product of the Year

Getting Buy-In for Agile Marketing

Giving Back to Celebrate National Nonprofit Day

Get Clarity on Your Customer’s Journey

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): less talk, more action.

How to Avoid the Digital Transformation Trap

How the Right Marketing Tools Can Help You Thrive in an Uncertain Economy

5 Do’s and Don’ts to Address Zoom Anxiety and Fatigue

How to Guide: Creating a Flow for New Outreach Event Campaigns

The business case for a strong CMO-CIO partnership: A guide

End-of-Year Marketing Predictions: How to Plan for Success

Full Circle Insights Builds Strong Momentum in First Half of 2021

Press Release: Full Circle Insights Partners with Bombora on Integration That Allows Full Circle ABM Users To Identify and Track Accounts Through the Sales Funnel

Digital Transformation: When CMOs and CIOs Team Up, Everyone Wins

Three Agile Marketing Tips for the Post-Pandemic Economy

Press Release: Scaleworks Acquires Marketing Technology Leader Full Circle Insights, Appoints New CEO

Getting the C-Suite to buy in on agile marketing

Full Circle Insights Innovates Again with Full Circle ABM

Full Circle University SEO Series: Campaign Attribution for Digital Marketing

Top 3 B2B Marketing Metrics: Individual vs. Account Based Marketing

Will COVID Change Marketing Measurement Forever?

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