Generally, your reward will range between 0.042% and 1.5% of every sale (before taxes and shipping and handling charges) generated within 10 (or 20) levels of your network. Remember: You are on Level 0 of your network and will get the cash-back reward specified under the merchant icon for your personal purchases in your Blastoff Mall or Travel portal.

To get an idea of your reward potential from a Mall or Travel purchase:

• Choose one of the merchants that you or your friends shop often and estimate the total from a typical purchase (without shipping, handling, and taxes included).
• Divide that merchant’s cash-back reward by three.
• Divide the new amount by 10 or 20 (for each level in your network).
• Multiply this with the purchase total (if it is a percentage-based reward).

The result is an example of the type of income you can expect every time anyone within the first 10 or 20 levels of your network makes a similar purchase from their Blastoff Mall or Travel portal. Given the potential size of your network, even the small amounts can add up quickly.

Many people find this rule of thumb confusing, and the most common question I hear about it is “Why do we Divide that merchant’s cash-back reward by three?” Some people mistake the 1/3rd for our revenue share, but in fact I have found that Blastoff generously is giving us 1/2 of the remaining money after the Cash-Back proceeds are taken out, not  just 1/3rd.

After some research, I’ve found out the actual answer to the question above. It is a bit complicated though, so bear with me; I’ve even made some charts and graphs for you.

It starts in the major Affiliate Marketplaces like Commission Junction and Linkshare. Setting aside the cell phone, Direct TV, and other special deals that Blastoff is selling for us through our Blastoff Malls, (these have their own, separate commission schedule) all Blastoff Mall merchants first place their stores online at these huge affiliate marketplaces.

Let’s take the women’s clothing retailer Avenue for example. You can see that in the Blastoff Mall, Avenue offers 3% cash back to the owner of that mall who shopped in it. (We’ll just call them the “shopper” for simplicity, which assumes all shoppers own their own Blastoff portal and are shopping in it.)

I logged into my Linkshare account recently and found Avenue listed there for a 5% commission. Clearly, 3% is less than 5%, so that explains how Blastoff makes its share of the money.

The more I dug and looked at other affiliates in these marketplaces, the more I realized that Blastoff always split the commissions earned at each merchant 60%/40%.  Specifically, 60% of that 5% commission goes towards Cash Back purchases, every time. (60% of 5% equals 3% of the overall purchase.)

Meanwhile, the other 40% (overall 2% in this example) gets split EVENLY between Blastoff themselves and the 10 or 20 blastoff members, depending on if you are a PPL member or not. As you can see in the following chart, there is much more to this story than Blastoff publishes:

As you can see, the 3% in your Blastoff Mall is really just 60% of what the merchant’s official affiliate program offers (which is 5% in this example).

If purchased through your downline members mall, (on any level) you’ll earn a portion of the remaining 2% because the big cash-back portion (the 3%) always goes directly to the owner of the Mall. (Otherwise, there would be no incentive to join for most people.) Now, the question becomes how much of the 2% will I earn?

Most people reading this might be thinking right now: “Why would I ever care about such a tiny amount? Well, because in networks the size of 10 and 20 levels deep, that very easily becomes the largest part of your earnings. I’d much rather earn a small percentage of millions of sales daily than simply 3% of my own cash back. This is the only reason I joined Blastoff, in fact.

Anyway, back to the ‘divide by 3 mystery.’

This rule of thumb Blastoff made up makes sense once you know about the original affiliate program commission. Half of Blastoff’s share paid to us is always a third of the Cash-Back percentage.

You can easily see in the chart below how they arrive at 1/3rd. I pulled the current affiliate commission rates for 23 different merchants right out of their original marketplaces, where Blastoff gets them. Clearly, the Blastoff Mall Cash-Back percentage rate always equals 60% of the Affiliate commission (rounded to whole percentage), every time.

- Click to Open! - The Blastoff Revenue Share Chart

So the 1/3rd, (or 33.33% in decimal) that Blastoff would have us divide by happens to equal half of the remainder of 60% (half of 40%) of the original affiliate commission.

Let’s take our Avenue example again, which originally paid 5% (Column A), and is listed in the Blastoff Mall at 3% (Column C). Of that 5%, the 40% NOT going to Cash Back is 2% (Column D). That 2% is split in half (Column E), equally between Blastoff and people in that member’s network. In other words, 1% goes to Blastoff and 1% is split upline, 10 or 20 ways.

As you can see, 1% is actually the 1/3rd (illustrated by Column F) of the 3%. Follow the chart above and you will see that it works out this way every time for every affiliate program!

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I want you to make your Blastoff downline grow; because most everyone who hears about this site will be in my downline, and will earn me money when they are successful.

So I have taken it upon myself to write a Free Report for you all that details all of the best downline-building methods for you!

It Includes:

• The Three Ways to Make Blastoff Pay.
• The Five Reasons Blastoff will become the most popular page online.
• The Six most effective (free) ways to drive traffic to your Blastoff sign-up page!

Most of all, this 14-page report excels as a TOOL to help you build your downline. It is a re-brandable report which means that you can change the blastoff sign-up links in it to be YOUR Blastoff sign-up links, and then you can hand this free report out to others who will sign up at Blastoff under you!

Simply click the picture below to download your own free copy of this timely report:

Download Blastoff Your Bank Account, 14 pages, in PDF Format, 161 kb

This book is a very powerful tool to use as a downline builder for you. It’s a big advantage that you have over the competition… Even Pizza Hut doesn’t have a viral tool like this working for them! So what are you waiting for? Read it, use it, re-brand it, and become extremely rich!

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What you must do first is create something of value in e-format. This is a must, no bones about it. It could be a simple .PDF document (adobe acrobat file) with a couple of pages in it where you spill a secret or two, or it could be software you created yourself or had written for you.

It could be a picture show, it could be a video, it could be anything at all, as long as it is downloadable, and gives the reader a place to click. If they can’t click on it somewhere, then they can’t click through to your blastoff sign-up page, so this is a very important requirement.

Watch another one of my classic marketing films below as I describe the correct way to virally market something. Again, if you’re not very tech savvy, or don’t have any time to dedicate to this complicated technique, you might want to skip this lesson and go to one of the other ways to generate a Blastoff downline.

Note: If you’re already familiar with Viral Marketing, you may want to skip directly to 5:55 of this film.

Your reason for building a ‘viral piece’ as I call it is reason #3, Building the subscriber list. Except instead of having them subscribe to your newsletter Opt-in form, you’ll have them sign-up at your Blastoff page.

This does cause one tiny little problem, however. In the film’s example your newsletter opt-in form would automatically send them their re-branding kit. Since Blastoff isn’t going to do this for you, you would have to do it manually, taking the time to send everyone a re-branding kit who asks for it by email. Or on another website you build.

So to sum up, the process of virally marketing your Blastoff page would be:

1. Create a whitepaper, ebook, video, or program that some group of people (your niche) would find interesting.

2. Make it re-brandable, including  a link in it to your Blastoff page, encouraging them to sign up there.

3. Pass the finished product (your ‘viral piece’) to everyone you can by any means necessary. Especially to those who already have a subscriber list in your niche. (Offer to re-brand it for them and they can pass it out to their list, earning THEM the sign-ups… Which is great if they are signed-up in Blastoff under you.)

4. Simply help anyone who wants to rebrand it. You’ll get quite a few of these requests if your opt-in process isn’t facilitated… But it’s worth it!

That’s it. It doesn’t matter if your niche is health care inspectors, car tire dealers, rocket scientists, whatever, they all surf the web and Blastoff is an excellent, free resource for you to tell them about in your free ebook/report/software.

For a perfect example of Virally marketing Blastoff, visit our Kit page and download the re-branding kit we offer for our “Maximizing Your Blastoff Income” special Report.

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Here’s another one of y old, favorite marketing films, this time on exactly how to accomplish your marketing goals with forums:

So in your specific case, be sure to link to your blastoff page, which looks like: http://ppl.blastoffnetwork.com/YourUserNameHere in your signature line. The film above mentions that this is ‘worth a try’ but for our particular use today, signature line links are probably more like 50% of the game.

Also, don’t be discouraged if many boards require you to post a couple or five posts without any signature links yet… Different forums have different ways of fighting spam.

In those instances, simply make all of your required posts as quickly as possible answering easy questions for others… They don’t even have to be on topic… It may be better to not be on topic, even. Just run through them quickly and leave a good impression for the admin/moderator. It’s worth it every time if you can get quality links from this site.

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The first major issue causing Blastoff referrals to be confusing is that the following ‘join’ now’ blank is not yet active, at least until the prelaunch.

The blank on every page where you can refer others to Blastoff

The very existence of this section is really confusing because it’s obviously made for the long-haul strategy, the Viral part of Blastoff’s marketing, yet it is not working. If you try to enter your details now, you get the following page:

Blastoff error Not Yet Ready

So what’s a champing-at-the-bit, downline-building-hungry internet marketer to do?

BUILD YOURSELF A LIST

It’s really not that hard to build a list of email subscribers… Services like Aweber, Constant Contact, or GetResponse will all make it extremely easy for you to plug a form into your website that builds your list for you. -All you really have to do is find a way to get people interested enough to opt-in to it.

So on your own website or blog, or even other places you control like a Squidoo lens, wordpress blog, Hubpage or Weebly site, place your opt-in form there, and ask people to join your ‘notification list’ so that you will notify them immediately once Blastoff goes live.

When trying to refer others to Blastoff AFTER it finally launches, things change a bit. Using a list can still help you but not for the same reason. In fact it’s not recommended for most people after the launch.

Once that form above goes live, the best way to get Blastoff sign-ups will be to use the internal email invite system. (Which will also go live at the same time.)

Import all of your friends and family to Blastoff from services like facebook, gmail, myspace, and other web communities. They’ve gone through great trouble to make this the most powerful friend-inviter in the history of web 2.0, so you might as well use it to the fullest. Once logged into your Blastoff page, you can easily find it near the top of your internal page like this one:

Invite Friends to Blastoff Link

Note: This picture was taken of the link while my Blastoff theme was set to a black background… These colors could be different for you, depending on your theme settings. The icon will remain orange, however.

The Inviter System Limit Explained:

There is a limit on how many invitations you can have pending at once. -Not just send at once, but in a pending state.

You’ll be able to send invites out to up to 250 different email addresses at a time, from any source you can think of, (Yes, even uploading your own spreadsheet of email addresses!) but they all go towards your overall allotment of allowed invites out at once.

Yes, it’s a little confusing, but think of it this way. If you have 200 people in your facebook profile that you just sent invites to, and you want to send invites out to another 100 from your MySpace account, then that’s simply too many for now.

It appears that you’ll be able to IMPORT the 100 people from MySpace, but then only send invites to 50 of them, because that’s all the invite credits you’ll have left.

So how do you invite more than 250? There are two ways:

1. You wait 2 weeks. Blastoff has said that all ignored invites will be renewed after a 2-week period. So 2 weeks after you sent those facebook invite to 200 people, you could send up to 250 more.

2. Your invite is accepted by the recipient. If 50 of those facebook invites are immediately accepted, then you can send out all 100 of your myspace invites right away.

You don’t have to use the inviter system, but you’ll find that blastoff makes it easy for you to do so, and better yet, getting your emails delivered with their system is much more assured… It’s pretty likely that spam detectors on commercial services like gmail and yahoo will throw this kind of email in their spam boxes unless it comes from blastoff themselves… Something that they are working hard on right now to ensure. (So hard that it is delaying the launch.)

Other methods of getting Blastoff Downline

As any Internet Marketer earning his or her keep can tell you, there are almost limitless ways for a creative person to get people to sign up under you at blastoff. A few major strategies that you could try include:

• Submitting articles to article directories and linking each to your blastoff page
• Using safelists to blast out ads to your Blastoff page
• Placing blog comments linking back to your Blastoff page
• Creating forum comments with your signature link pointing to your Blastoff page
• Creating a Viral eBook and linking it to your Blastoff page

Each one of these methods will be a post on this blog. Even more will be added eventually.

The one thing you have to keep in mind about building a Blastoff downline is that no matter what method you take, you must make sure to start implementing it the very moment of the Launch or Pre-launch, and stop once the world has become saturated with Blastoff members. I can’t tell you how long this window of opportunity will last, but it won’t be years… Possibly a year at most, but more like just 3 or 5 months in total.

So naturally, using a method that takes a long time to build up momentum on is not desirable. You should in fact try ALL methods of getting Blastoff sign-ups, all at once, but for most people, tactics like the Viral eBook which takes a lot of time to build up critical mass aren’t worth it because the method doesn’t have a chance of delivering people right away… Months later it will do an awesome job, to be sure, but to catch that huge surge at the beginning it will fail every time.

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Best of all, it is very TARGETED traffic, with people looking for just what you’re talking about. For every 10 people you get to your Blastoff Page, you’ll be likely to convert (give away a free account and get them in your downline) something like 5 or even more of them!

Yes this movie is a bit long but it is soooo worth it, as this really is information you don’t often run across, even in the tightest internet marketing circles.

Once you have learned the technique used in the film above, all you need to do with it to apply it to Blastoff is to link all of those articles to your blastoff page.

Think about it… Articles about video games could link to your page and you’d have the matching blastoff video game set up as the default game. Or articles about some product or store could link to your blastoff Mall site, so they’d wind up shopping on your site and making you cash!

Blastoff is free, fun, impressive, and easily sells itself… Just get them to the page and you’ll see up to 25% of the people you get there convert into your downline.

So the sky is the limit. Now you can drive quality, well-targeted traffic to your Blastoff page, and the more articles you create and submit, the more traffic you’re sure to get there. Wash & repeat as often as you like. If oyur goal is to build a huge downline in Blastoff, just do it before too much of the world has already signed up… For the next year we’re all racing the clock to get the rest of the world signed up underneath us.

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It is true that you wouldn’t want to SELL anything on a safelist, no one there is buying… But giving people a free account is easy no matter which audience you give it to!

The following film was made by myself over a year ago but still works perfectly for your needs. Unless you are already the king of all safelists, we highly recommend you take notes as you watch this video and consider this traffic-driving tactic one of your many secret weapons that we give you to build your Blastoff business with.

Once you have absorbed this knowledge and set up your own safelist email account(s), you simply need to use them to advertise your own Blastoff portal page… It does a pretty good job of selling itself with that film embedded into it for you… All you really have to do is introduce them to the concept of Blastoff, and in this case, focus upon the money they can make using it; the business side of Blastoff.

This is important… Don’t talk about your favorite part of the portal to these folks… Telling the safelist crowd about how they can watch Hulu there or set pretty backgrounds is a complete waste of your time… Safelist readers want to know about how to make money quickly. That’s your primary focus.

Assuming you’ve found a decent list, you should see traffic trickle in with every posting. When you use many big lists to post on the same day you’re sure to get a few converts to your downline… Especially in the beginning now that so few people know about Blastoff.

Enjoy the tactic! We’ll be posting several more strategies and films like this one over the next week or two. Feel free to ask any questions you have below. Perhaps not too technical, though!

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientists to see that there is some kind of connection between the two companies, so today I thought I’d explain exactly how the two are related.

Pre-Paid Legal has been around since 1972, and to date it’s been very successful, as far as any network marketing company (a.k.a. direct sales or MLM) goes. It’s even traded on the NYSE as PPD, which is doing great these days. Meanwhile Blastoff, which started out totally unrelated, was building its’ portal a couple of years ago when it met with Pre-Paid Legal representatives to talk about a possible synergistic partnership.

What Blastoff could bring to the table was obvious; the perfect platform to make every home page  in the world theirs, which means the most valuable online real-estate on the web.

What Blastoff needed, however, was a way to distribute it quickly. Very quickly, before a competitor could copy and start to compete with it themselves. It wouldn’t be the first time this has happened.

That’s where Pre-Paid Legal (PPL) fits in, they have a huge network of associates that would be more than happy to spread the word about Blastoff. -In exchange for some of that valuable real estate:

PPLs Ad on all PPL Blastoff Pages

Shown actual size, this large banner above will likely only be shown on the Blastoff portal pages of PPL Associates, as a tool to recruit their PPL downline.

This deal was struck to give all PPL associates access to Blastoff early and they’ve had it since September 13th, 2009. Since then they’ve all been rushing to get their existing PPL downlines into their Blastoff downlines and gathering their other lists of mailing addresses to start pushing it to the world on October 12th.

As of October 12th, PPL associates will have an advantages, especially since they are preparing for the push in advance. That is why we signed up with PPL, so that we could get this advance push time ourselves.

For the 14 days between October 12th and October 27th, anyone receiving an email invite from a PPL associate, or someone they recruited, can become a member and send invites to members themselves.

After this time three other organizations, the United Way, Pizza Hut, and the Dallas Cowboys all get similar deals of exclusivity from Blastoff too, but of course the cat is already out of the bag, at least as far as the email invites go.

Meanwhile, for coordinating this huge Launch on the 12th, Blastoff is giving PPL a huge gift of a link on every page, presumably forever, that looks like this:

PPLs Link on the Blastoff Portal Page

This large link on the front of EVERY Blastoff portal is going to bring PPL a lifetime of free traffic that is roughly equivalent to purchasing the #3 AdWords spot from google… For every search term ever made!

All in all, I’d say it’s a match made in heaven, and both companies are going to do very, very well for this deal. If there was any doubt that PPL had enough exposure to become the #1 direct sales company of all time, that worry can be put to bed, and trampled on now. And if there was any worry that Blastoff could get enough initial momentum to go fully world-wide viral, PPL, all of you, and even Pizza Hut, the United Way, and the Dallas Cowboys will all ensure that this awesome portal is going to be the #1 most viewed web page online.

Since it will best operate as a home page, the collective portals of all Blastoff members should easily outpace YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, and even Google  as the #1 site online by the end of the year.

Yes, you have really arrived in the right place at the right time. Be ready on the 12th!

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So today I’ve decided to lay it all out, how they pay Blastoff members for everything… And yes, it’s VERY profitable in case you are aspiring to build a business with Blastoff.

First of all, you should know that everyone has a shopping-mall page on their Blastoff site that they can purchase just about anything online with. Most major brands have signed up to give discounts and rebates on their products, so you can simply use your Blastoff portal to but things through that you were already going to buy online, and save money doing so, even before you get the cash back.

But then there is a cash-back reward for everything there too. All of it. If you buy a $20 toaster through your Blastoff portal, you can expect to make something between $1 to $3 back for that toaster regardless, in the form of a check each month for the total of all rebates that month. This part of Blastoff is just like the many E-Rebate sites operating online today, but of course this is across-the-board rebates, on mostly every product sold online.

(Note to self – Dump all stock in Ebates.com)

Of course the real benefit of Blastoff, and the way you make the big money, is by building a downline. Not only do you get cash for your own rebates, but you will get cash back (although less of it) for the rebates of people who you referred to Blastoff. And the people they referred, and the people they referred, and so on, down TEN levels deep!

If any of this that I’ve explained so far is new or confusing for you, I highly recommend you go right now and watch the film I posted yesterday by the CEO of Blastoff, where he gave a tour of the inside of Blastoff, explaining all of this.

So, how much exactly do you earn back on purchases? And how much does each level of your downline make you?

The default rate of how much you earn for your own purchases varies from 1% to 15%, presumably based upon the deal currently between that vendor and blastoff at the time.

The default rate on how much your downline earns you varies between 0.02% and  1.5%. Everyone in your downline earns you the same rate at each other, no matter if you signed them up directly under you, or someone on the 9th level down signed them up… It all earns at the same rate.

Now it gets a bit tricky, but you’ll be glad it does. For certain types of products that Blastoff has created special marketplaces for, you can earn a lot more than a few percent. Namely the:

• Digital Phone Service
• Wireless Phone Service
• Internet Service
• Satellite TV Service

These four marketplaces have their own boosted compensation plans that pay you flat fees for rebates. For instance a wireless subscription plan may pay you $40 for signing yourself up, and $2 for all of your downline levels signing themselves up. Meanwhile an inexpensive internet service plan would pay you something like $10 for signing yourself up while everyone in your downline would make you $0.50 each.

I suspect there will be many other marketplaces like these in the future. Blastoff already gets great deals on these products so It may very well be the case that all future online sales for any of these products will be done through Blastoff portals!

A Wireless Phone Earnings Scenario

I just got this earnings scenario from an inside source, and it assumes that each Blastoff Member will refer three new Members. The scenario also assumes that each Member will account for one digital phone service activation. Note that the Commission Plan is for purposes of illustration only, this is not depicting any plan, more like the average of plans available now.

Yes, that’s $88 Thousand from having a healthy downline (average of three people under everyone) all with a cell plan of some kind. Verizon, AT&T, TMobile, Sprint, it doesn’t matter, if they want a great deal plus cash back on their phones (and who doesn’t have one these days?) then every last one of them will make you money.

Plus, keep in mind that most cell contracts are for 1 year now. So this is ANNUAL Income! Do some recruiting now, get in early and on top, and you’ll be set for life making this kind of money hands-free every year.

And that’s just for the cell phones. Can you imagine if all of these people did all of their online shopping through their own portals? (And why wouldn’t they?) Your take could be in the millions of dollars!

So that’s about it, of course you’ll want to keep reading this blog for more news on the compensation plan whenever we can make it available. Needless to say, though, if you get more than just a couple of friends signed up under you at Blastoff, you’ll be positioned to earn a great, residual income for years & years to come.

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The only people who have access to Blastoff today is the Blastoff staff, and the Prepaid Legal (PPL) associates. Soon, that’s going to change, but it’s not going to be an all-or-nothing experience.

On October 12th, lasting until October 26th, all PPL associates will have the ability to use the system’s internal Email invites. It will let us invite groups of people up to 250 at a time, even uploaded from a spreadsheet or imported from places like hotmail, gmail, facebook, and LinkedIn.

It is one of these email invites that I am offering to the readers of this site, by filling in the form to the upper right.

Yes, before you ask, you most certainly will be able to do the same inside your accounts, sending emails out before the 26th yourselves after you get our invite.

However, that initial launch is not going to reach everyone, not even close. Conversions from invite to sign-up has been a steady 25% in both Google and yahoo test PPC campaigns. So, even if every PPL Associate invites 100 people, and they all invite 100 people, who all invite 100 more, (yeah, as if) we’re only talking about something approaching 78 Million Blastoff members… Which is far, far, far fewer people than are online today.

It is clearly Blastoff’s goal to get every last computer (and smartphone, I’d bet) to set its’ desktop to their own Blastoff portal.

That’s why they haven’t stopped with PPL. Next up Blastoff will be giving priority to the following three organizations:

1. Pizza Hut
2. The United Way
3. The Dallas Cowboys

It appears that all three will get to start pushing on the 26th, although they may have their own periods of exclusivity each… The jury appears to still be out on that issue.

We also don’t know what date exactly that EVERYONE will have access, which would enable such marketing tactics activating a “join here” button on every blastoff members’ homepage, and using Banners to refer members directly to sign up and enter their downline. Naturally, we are most keen on discovering this information, and are trying to wait patiently for Blastoff to respond to our queries about it.

That date may be on the 26th with the other organization’s push, or it may come later, say, by thanksgiving.

As for the date when you can start getting paid, that date has already arrived.

PPL associates (you can think of them as beta-testers) have already shopped through their own portals and gotten paid for it. They happily report that although the checks are only sent out once a month so far, it was on time and they had no problems. Some members were even allowed to recruit their family members for testing purposes and have reported getting paid 2nd-level commissions.

So it’s time now to get your ducks in a row and prepare to tell as many people as you can on the 12th, once you get your invite from me. I’ll be posting several resources on this blog to help you with that before the launch window, so stay tuned for those. Better yet, grab our feed and don’t miss any of it!

UPDATE: The New Launch Schedule starts on October 22nd for all PPL associates, but Pizza Hut (at least) has not moved it’s date and is still promoting Blastoff on Oct. 27th… So PPL associates no longer have 2 full weeks to promote exclusively. Even still, the overlap has been assured to have minimal, and perhaps a positive impact on us all by the PPL CEO.

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