New Business Hawk

Are Ad Agencies Too Expensive?

Many advertising agencies are starting to hear more and more that they are too expensive. Having worked with many of them we know their rates are reasonable.

The question is how can our industry overcome this objection and convert more into wins? The economic downturn has pressured clients to trim expenses and assess the value-added contribution of their agencies. Most agencies have had their fees questioned and many have experienced the discomfort of fee/rate audits. Often agencies are responding with examples of results achieved and service quality, and question the appropriateness of this examination.

But this view overlooks the client perspective. While the marketplace has become more tactically driven and project-based, many traditional agencies have not adapted their organizations and services to match the needs of the client.

To be effective and profitable your agency needs to present itself in a manner acceptable and appropriate for the circumstances.

Agencies in this situation must understand that they are in three separate businesses that are often non-complimentary – Strategic & Execution Management & Production. Many traditional agencies have acknowledged this and have launched separately branded consultancies (strategic) and design studios (tactical). This approach enables a tactical response to an agencies organization and fee structure.

Just one more thought on this ongoing dilemma.

How can a small agency compete in new business?

Many smaller firms we’ve worked with over the past few years have won going up against some of the giants in our industry, and even more now consider themselves to be in competition with larger agencies. And sometimes the giants like JWT, Y&R, or just the large regional down the street feel the need to reach down and pick up a smaller account forcing you to compete with them.

So how do you compete against a larger agency? Do you pack your bags and go home, lie about your actual size, or disparage the behemoth?

Fortunately, there are more positive alternatives. You just need to explain why smaller is better. What follows are some points/arguments you can make to convince a prospect not only that size doesn’t matter when it comes to capability, but that large size can actually be a disadvantage in meeting his or her needs.

• The client is always dealing with the principal when he or she is dealing with your firm. You are the relationship manager. There is no junior partner to whom responsibility will be transferred. There is no decreased accountability, no “handoff” to a less-informed colleague. If the prospect’s interests are at stake continually, shouldn’t the client reasonably expect the principal’s continual involvement?
• You provide resources on a “just-in-time” basis. That is, your agency does not have to cover excessive overhead, such as multiple offices, large administrative backup, recruiting, partner perks, and so on. You are organized to efficiently provide everything the prospect needs but nothing more than that.
• There is greater likelihood of observing privacy and confidentiality with fewer people working on the project. In addition, the fewer people working on an account, the fewer “filters” there are to go through. Larger agencies sometimes have a problem dealing with a number of revolving staff’s differing perceptions or interpretations of information, and this can stall results. You (and the few people you might also involve) are constant, removing the need to sift through dozens of differing perceptions.
• You’re faster. You can respond to requests quickly and return all calls within two hours. (If you can’t, then you’re not taking advantage of your smaller size.) Your client needn’t worry about a bureaucracy, delays, and unfamiliar people answering their calls.
• Since you handle fewer concurrent projects than larger agencies, your attention is relatively undiverted. The client doesn’t have to “compete” with another dozen or so of your clients, some of which may be larger or more time-demanding. You structure your work so that every client receives maximum attention.
• Inevitably, you are less expensive. (Note that this is way down here in the list, because you shouldn’t be that much less expensive!). There are economies to using someone who can base their fees on each situation and not on a predetermined rate or their need for reaching a holding company goal.

Add your own reasons to these, and have them handy anytime you know that a prospect is considering other, larger agencies. Don’t be rocked back on your heels, defensively trying to explain why you can do the same things with fewer resources. Defense might win football games, but it doesn’t accomplish a thing in the new business process. Take the offensive, and explain why smaller is better for this client’s particular needs. Don’t disparage the competition; simply point out your superiority.

Don, over at Marketing Thought Leader has added more good ideas with his post Going Head-to-Head With the Big Guys. A good read and I highly suggest you head over all read his take.

Chemistry Wins New Business

Chemistry is that funny stuff in the space between people.

It’s not about you or me but what’s between us. That space is called Chemistry and it’s a driving force in new business. Chemistry is rarely talked about. Firms don’t like to say “we just didn’t like you” when explaining to an agency why they weren’t hired. Strategic direction, better fit, outstanding idea are all better reasons to go with another firm. Perhaps it would help if we called it “Likeability” as in “I like one firm more than another.” But Chemistry is more than that. Good Chemistry has more to do with meeting expectations, as in “I think we could work with these people best.”

Losing the Chemistry Battle

Here’s why it’s so important: We tend to like people better who best meet our expectations. Who seem like us. We understand them easier. We don’t get surprised. In short, we want to work with them. Hence we hire them.

In many searches, the search consultants or the key client-side decisions makers will realize that “any of these agencies can do the job.” The search process then becomes about which one firm do “we want to work with.” That’s Chemistry.

Agency Growth the Old Fashion Way: Buy It!

Want to grow fast? Do a cross-town merger. This way you add important services you don’t have or bulk up fast and perhaps more inexpensively than you thought. And with a cross-town merger you can bring in experienced personnel to add to your management team. That’s all possible if you grow by acquiring.

Why Cross-town Merger vs. Out-of-town Acquisition? Cross-town mergers are often quicker, easier and more profitable immediately. Back office, administrative, production and more can be streamlined with little problem. This simplifies management issues and produces fewer hassles. In addition, a cross-town merger is usually less expensive and is a good place to start. Few executives know the full extent of the many attractive opportunities within their own city.

So how does one go about a cross-town merger?

First you have to decide to seek a merger partner. It's important not to tell any outsiders about your decision. The search needs to be done in isolation. Second, do a strategy session to look at all the options. What type of firm should we be looking for? Any specialties we are missing? Or what market do you want to get into? Third, organize a proper search to see where the best fit is. Keep your name out of the initial conversation with any prospects. And lastly, use an experienced, outside point of view that will keep the process on track.

Typical Cross-Town Merger Situations We Find:

A. The Cherry A perfect fit where everything goes right from the beginning and continues on through the deal. If everyone is reasonable, Cherry deals can be found and made. Cross-town mergers make these even sweeter.

B. The Slot This is another perfect fit where you can slot the acquired operation into your firm without missing a beat. It’s usually in a service area where you have little experience but solid potential. The acquired firm gains from your resources, your new business opportunities, and the organic business you can place from your existing accounts.

C. The Escape The search phase has located a firm in trouble and the owners want to crash the company, not pay the creditors and move themselves and several key accounts to your operation. You buy nothing. You take on some staff. You pay for what sticks.

D. The Exit The search phase has located an owner who wants out, will stay for a year or two to work the accounts and help maintain AGI. But the owner is phasing out but willing to stay around to help the transition. And is willing to work hard to make the deal happen.

E. The Key Guy One firm is not very good at new business, for example. The other firm is bad at operations but great at growth. The buying firm brings the other firm on board mainly to get the key person and the expertise to help them grow. The other guy wants to sell because he or she is having troubling managing the business already on hand and can’t wait to dump the operational side of things so he or she can go chase new business.

How To Get Started: Not sure a cross-town merger is right for you? We suggest a “Power Hour.” This is a one-hour, no-cost discussion by phone on the best way forward. It’s a chance to check chemistry, analyze costs and investments needed, and discuss possible options and strategies for moving ahead. Give us a call at 800/899.1538 for more information on how to get started and how to set up a Power Hour on mergers and acquisitions.

Overselling Is a Fatal New Business Disease

Stuart Sanders Chairman

I was so proud of myself. I had been following up on a good prospect, a large regional hospital in a small city near the agency where I worked. The Director of Communications agreed to see me because of our agency’s hospital expertise.

The Importance of Personality Profiling

Over the phone I did my usual personality profiling to understand her profile so I could establish good chemistry quickly. She sounded warm, friendly and definitely people oriented. She was low-assertive, meaning she was not pushy, very agreeable, and let me lead our phone calls. Those observations quickly established her as a Logo™ personality. I therefore cooled my sales jets, took a low-aggressive approach and worked over several weeks to warm her up. It’s all out of our Chemistry Wins New Business training manual.

I asked for permission to see her when it felt right. Besides, I explained, “I was passing close by,” so she agreed to see me. As I stood in front of her office located in the bowels of the hospital, I mentally checked over the Do’s and Don’ts for Logos™. I remembered don’t push. Don’t oversell. Do build chemistry by treating her first as a friend. Do establish common ground. That approach means I don’t take in a presentation or even samples because that’s too “salesy” for most Logos™.

The Importance of a Solid First-Visit Strategy

The first visit went like clockwork. It’s a tried and try approach built around Agency Baseball and something that I practiced at the agency, working to get my words down, remembering to talk it over easy, and not pushing. Now in her office it all came together as I spent 20-minutes discussing personal issues with her, including family, friends, industry contacts we both knew, college backgrounds and all type of stuff that drive Headlines™, those hard-charging profiles, crazy. It wasn’t difficult to hit common ground because her office was loaded with discussion tips in typical Logo™ fashion. And the approach works because Logos™ want to establish a personal relationship first before moving into work.

About the time I was going to bring up business, she suggested it. I moved quickly to outline our capabilities using word pictures. It was our hospital competency story, and it takes about three-minutes and includes the five things we do well, all stuff we teach in our Spark Training. It’s light and easy.

The Importance of Discovery

Then I asked moved to Discovery, a process where the agency asks questions, and acts like a medical doctor with good bed-side manners, meaning concerned, probing, checking off needs and looking for symptoms or pain where we can be of help. But not selling, just questioning like good docs do.

She opened up and laid out her marketing problems and opportunities in a very professional and orderly fashioned. I asked the Process questions and found out she was moving to fire her current agency, a shop that was having well-known leadership issues. My heart took a jump but I didn’t try the old “hire us” trial offer. I remembered my bed-side manner and her Logo™ profile.

The Right Way to Exit

The meeting ended abruptly, and too early for me, with a call from her boss that she had to take, but I stood and said my good-byes, told her I would follow up, and departed. I understood that I had accomplished just about all I could on a first visit with a Logo™ profile. Trying to close the account at that time would not have worked. And I knew rushing to ask for the order as so many “experts” suggest would have lost all I had gained.

Winning With a Conference Report

I followed up with a detailed conference report based on what she told me. And true to the process we teach in Torch Training, I stuck to the facts with no selling. And I sent it to her by overnight delivery as we suggest, never on email. She called back very impressed at how well I had listened, and said she didn’t want to go through an agency review and would like to shift her account to us. I asked her how she wanted to proceed, staying in her profile, and she suggested I send up our agency contract so her in-house attorneys could review it. Never had I won a piece of business any easier.

The Agency New Business Meeting

That Tuesday, when we had the agency new business committee meeting, which is usually the most hated meeting in the agency and a big waste of time because the account staff goes around the table and tells lies about stuff that should have been done and calls they should have made, but didn’t. All well and good until my turn, and I opened my mouth and bragged about my new “win.”

The agency president and chief creative officer, Headline™ to the core, demanded to know what this Director of Communications felt about our hospital creative work. I explained that she had not really seen it because I had not taken the agency hospital presentation to her because, in my opinion, it wasn’t needed. He was incensed and announced to everyone that he would go pick up the contract with me, but only after he marched my “new account” through our creative work. He would make very sure she knew what type of agency she was hiring.

DOA

You know the rest. We never got the account. The follow-up meeting began with our contract from her attorneys sitting there on her desk, breathing “pick me up.” Our president rushed to deliver his heavy-selling “we do it our way” creative review despite my suggestions on how to do it that I had given to him before we left the agency. His pushy overselling killed the win.

The sad thing is he felt he did a good job. I didn’t have the strength on the ride back to the agency, while listening to him tell me how well we had done, to speak the truth. We had just lost the easiest account we had ever won.

Five Important Take-Aways

1. Personality profiling really improves your batting averages.
2. Having a solid first visit approach always works.
3. A conference report follow-up is often your best closing device because among other things it proves you listened to the prospect.
4. Over-selling hurts your chances despite all the “ask for the order” junk floating around.
5. Never brag at agency new business meetings.

Free Offer

If your agency wants to learn more details on some of these techniques discussed here, call Sanders Consulting Group (800/899-1538) for a free, no-obligation discussion on new business, tips on your process, and perhaps some advice.

New Business: Five Warning Signs of a Nightmare Prospect

New business sometimes lands you in strange places. This has never been truer than in challenging time like these. Winning is everyone’s objective, but every agency has a nightmare client that was once a promising prospect.

Our clients often ask if there is a way to assess in advance what prospects and accounts will drain profits and drive you to madness once they become clients. SCG advocates the use of an active outreach program for screening prospects. You need a clear understanding of the prospects personality, history, objectives, budget, and expectations for all prospects in your database.

Agencies don’t take on these clients willingly. Dysfunctional, destructive or disorganized prospects slip through the cracks all the time pulling you into lose-lose relationships that drain patience, time, resources and profits. The time to confirm and clarify a prospects “nightmare potential” is during the first visit. Doing so can keep you from investing time and energy into loser accounts.

Here are the five warning signs of a nightmare prospect:

1. You are their first agency. This is a red flag. Take a pass and allow another agency the frustration of training them.
2. The prospect is not clear about what he or she wants, but somehow expects your agency to produce it without detailed input.
3. The prospect reports having had a lot of problems with their previous agencies. A pattern of “problem” agencies could be a sign of a problem client.
4. The prospect is ignorant about marketing, advertising, or the creative process and has no competent staff. This prospect often expects you to wave a magic wand, with little understanding of the complexity or expense of developing and producing effective work.
5. The prospect makes it clear that they are looking for a bargain and focuses entirely on cost.

If you have found one or more of these signs, proceed with caution, if at all.

If you decide to attempt to turn this prospect into a client, here are some steps that you can take to minimize the risk.

1. Document major concerns in writing in a conference report following the first visit. In your reports make sure to outline the framework for a successful relationship.
2. Maintain constant communication becoming their best friend and confidant.We recommend you create a binder and number every conference report, and be over organized!
3. Don’t let problems fester. They are much easier to solve when they are small problems. Keep the focus on relationships not issues.
4. Educate them. Explain the impact of their behavior on schedules, budgets and deliverables.

Search consultants and Cattle Call RFP’s have made it more difficult to identify a nightmare prospect. Many agencies see only the revenue opportunity and overlook or ignore the signs.

To keep a prospect from becoming a nightmare client, you must be extremely clear on what you need from the prospect at each step. You must communicate as often and as tactfully as possible. Communicate these success factors up front is most effective.

It’s important to have a detailed contract covering issues that might lead to problems and exactly how payment will be handled if things do not work out.

By building a graceful exit into the process, you can protect your most important client - you.

Top 10 Mistakes That KILL New Business Presentations

What are the main reasons people fail in New Business presentations? It’s because they make the same common mistakes over and over. In order for you to avoid completely flailing around in New Business and achieve success, it’s important for you to understand the most common presentation mistakes. And avoid them.

Here are the top 10 new business presentation mistakes:

1. Not Knowing the Difference between Advertising and New Business: The number one reason for presentation loss by most agencies is treating prospects like clients. They try to solve the client problem, or be too safe, or win with just creative. In any given presentation one of these can work, but over time you’ll lose more then you win. You have to treat prospects the opposite of clients and understand why if you’re going to win.
2. Waiting till the Last Minute: Many agencies get invited into a pitch, and due to workload or time or just through procrastination they don’t start thinking about the pitch until the last minute. If you are truly interested in winning start demonstrating this early in the process. Even before the prospect invites you in, until after the presentation, you have to be the most interested, excited, driven and informed agency in the pitch.  
3. Forgetting the Chemistry Rules: The most important part of new business is chemistry. All the agency search consultants agree. In the end, it’s not the creative or the smart planning or the cool interactive tactics that wins. It’s chemistry that wins in the end. That’s why it’s so important for your agency to learn how to use chemistry to win.
4. No Idea on How the Selection Will Be Made: If you’re not sure how the final selection will be made, do some research. Will it be a strong leader making the final selection, or a marketing board? Will some other group have a say? Many prospects use score cards: they’re simple, easy to create, and create an atmosphere of fairness. However, the second best agency often wins on points. Understand why and use this to your advantage.
5. Focus Too Much on Content: Agencies almost always focus exclusively on the content of their presentation – not thinking about the “how” and “who.” But prospects will remember long after the presentation how you looked, what you wore, how charming your presenters were with one another, how well prepared the entire show was, and whether or not you entertained them. Your perfect line, your break-through strategy recommendation, or the neat way you executed an interactive plan is usually forgotten within an hour. Never forget that the show (format and style) is just as important as content.
6. No Hero: In understanding new business presentations, most agencies forget that the work is only there to showcase the people. In other words, who among your staff is going to be the Hero? Sadly, many agency presidents view themselves as the hero. It’s difficult for an agency president to be the Hero when there is an agency to run. And the agency president may not be the best presenter. A Hero is believable, has the right chemistry, the right title, and the right look. Most importantly, the Hero has to have the agency’s respect (perceived) and lots of enthusiasm for the prospect. This can cover almost any weakness.
7. Not Investing Enough Time to Win: How many times have we seen an agency go into a presentation half-hearted? Too many other distractions get in the way and reflect in the presentation. Ask yourself: do you really want the account? Do you have the time to go after it? The desire and energy to overcome the obstacles? Most importantly do you have the discipline and staff to do it right?
8. No Outline or Presentation Flow: Most agencies start out by doing research and spending time on attempting to solve the problem. While this is important, it’s missing the bigger picture – winning the account. Overall time limit is set by prospect – you must treat the entire presentation as a series of acts in one play that fits within the established timing. Introduce each act with interest. Build to key points. And end each act strongly. Eliminate dull sections and put the information in the leave behind. This makes the leave behind more important, which is helpful.
9. Bad Presentation Skills: Watching an agency presentation is often like watching the Keystone Cops with people running around, props being misplaced, talking over one another, etc. It’s vital you understand the perception you are trying to create – quiet confidence, strength, and leadership. Someone the prospect can trust. Understand the rules and guidelines for great presentations and follow them.
10. Not Rehearsing Enough: A major presentation is worth 8 hours of rehearsal. If you don’t have time to do rehearsals, then don’t do the presentation. Go to the presentation city a day ahead to rehearse. Lay out a meeting room at a hotel in the shape of the presentation room with masking tape and go at it. You’ll be glad you made the effort. Rehearsing pays big dividends in winning presentations.

A winning agency understands these mistakes and works hard to avoid them. A small group of people, with practice, can become outstanding presenters. It’s a smart agency who uses the same people time and again to win key pieces of business. The teamwork shows through and this means a lot to prospects.

Make sure you avoid these common mistakes and understand the rules of giving outstanding presentations. Don’t give a prospect any reason to not award you the account.

When faced with a key presentation, or a Defining Moment, or if you want to learn more details on some of these techniques discussed here, call Sanders Consulting Group (800/899-1538) for a free, no-obligation conversation.

The New Business Budget Game: Up to Six Million

To avoid discounting your work, we believe agencies should discuss money whenever a new job or project is brought up, right when the assignment is first mentioned by the client.  It’s a way to open up negotiations over both job specs and job budget.

Our approach is to start by asking, “In round numbers how much are you planning on spending to get this done?”  Now wait until the client responds.  The client has two options. 

Option #1 is to ask you back how much it will cost, and the agency person needs to move towards suggesting a budget range by discussion first the job specs and then by picking a high number to test the waters.  If the client responds, “That sounds about right,” then you know you have guessed too low. 

Option #2A.  If the client faints or grabs for his or her heart, then you have guessed too high, and you need to move down in a series of bracket jumps.  It’s fun to do.  The key point is to remember that you are not estimating the job at this stage, you are just trying to understand the importance of the job.    

Option #2B.  If the client gives you a number, your account staff should be trained to immediately say, “And as much as….?” You are assuming the client has given you the bottom number from a budget range, a normal assumption.  And now you are asking how high to probe for the upper range. If you get a new number at this middle stage, immediately ask, “And up too?”  Here you are assuming there is a very top number in the range, and you need to know what it is. 

This is simple negotiation in a process we call the Budget Game.  And your agency staff needs to be trained on how to play it well.  It takes less than a day to learn and it will make your firm a lot of money over the years.    

Running back to a client with a production estimate when you don’t have any idea what the client expects to pay, as so many agencies do, is very very foolish.  It’s not a smart way to do business because you lock yourself into your own expectations about how important the project is to the client.  And you lock your agency into living off production budgets.

Case Histories  

Our files are filled with actual stories of how well this simple negotiation technique from the Budget Game has worked for agencies around the world. 

Here are some favorites.  A mid-sized agency asked their client, a medium-sized manufacturer in Ohio, a client for ten years, in round numbers how much money were they thinking of spending to launch a new home improvement kitchen product?  The client responded, “Up to $6 million.” 

The account handler was so shocked at the size of the budget that he forgot to ask the follow-on question of “And up to?” as he had been trained to do.  That afternoon the agency president told me by phone, “Guys, do you know what we would be doing this afternoon if we had not asked that simple question?  We would be working on a campaign launch of about $450,000.  That’s the usual budget range we suggest when work with them.  We have had the account for years, and we never knew they could pull the trigger on that big of a new product launch.  Thank you so much for showing us the way.” 

Another $300,000 Found

The president of a direct mail company called to report his junior account executive had just returned from a client office so excited that the Budget Game had worked for her the very first time she had tried it.  She had asked a client the “round numbers” question and the client had said $200,000.  She moved the client up to $300,000 for the next number and been told that the client couldn’t go over $600,000 on the project.  The junior account executive was excited that the Budget Game had worked so well her the very first time. 

The agency president wasn’t excited at that.  He was excited at the new monies that would have been left on the table without his most junior AE asking a simple question, “In round numbers”, and then knowing what to do with the answers. 

Big Black Eye

Before I knew about the Budget Game I got a big black eye on a large regional brokerage company.  I had been part of the team that had won the account and now I had been assigned to work on the client.  I was new to the agency, a junior AE.  The ad manager asked for a media recommendation on using the Wall Street Journal to launch their new brand look we had recommended.  I was young and so charged up.

I bounded back with a media budget recommendation that was six times larger than anything the ad manager wanted to see.  And he ripped me up and down and almost fired us.  We had flashed to him that we really didn’t know his business.  We kept the account for years, but after that I never again went back to a client with any recommendation without knowing what the client expected to pay first.  It was a life-lesson that I never forget.  And the best place to find that number is to ask for it when the client first mentions the job.  Your staff might need to learn all that now.

Who Is The Most Important Client At Your Agency?

Most agencies are spending way too much time on their accounts and not enough time on the agency’s business. Look in the mirror, the most important client at any agency is the agency. The most important account that gets the least attention at most agencies is the agency. Our DayOne planning and strategy session helps agency management reset its focus back on growing the agency’s business.

We just finished a DayOne with a great agency. They were a bit scared as the general feeling was they were too small – a staff of 3. However, by the time the day was up everyone was energized, excited, and several new business opportunities were discovered. In addition the agency brand was revamped and better positioned for growth.

In a few short hours this small agency was infused with new life. The agency president just sent me this note:

"Thank you for a dynamic session. Everyone is pleased by the process and feels we have achieved a great sense of focus and mission."

I expect to hear of a new business win any day now!

HawkTails: Account In Review or Win The Pitch

The message was left with a hint of desperation in the voice, "Please call ASAP!" Checking the time it was left late the night before. So we called...

It seems the agency, a healthy, growing midsized firm, with good creative chops, had made it into the final round of a review.  A review the agency really wanted to win. That if they won it would change the course of the agency, putting them on the map, fame, recognition, hope.

The problem was they were the last agency in. And they were going against some of the best agency brands in the business. Brands we all know. And who hate to lose.

And our little agency was already in last place.

Within the agency some of the "boo birds" were starting to chirp. They had no chance of winning. They should bow out. The competition was too tough.

One of the senior staff remembered what we said at a conference she had attended; when you arrive at a critical moment for your agency, a crossroad, give us a call. You never know...

She made the call.

The Situation: Last place going in. Large account. Never worked with an independent firm. Procurement running the review. Lots of process. Competition was all multinational or national name brands and any one of them a safe bet to win.

We thought our client could win.

The call: Win the chemistry battle and out process procurement. We spent several days working with them on the structure, process, staffing, storyline and flow of the pitch. Every detail was worked out, from the brand strategy to the type of glasses used during the break.

The pitch: They went in with all the little details better organized, thought out, and structured. Little technology, more interpersonal relating. The meeting had a good flow, logic trail, and led to a strong recommendation. At the end of the first hour the team had refreshments brought in with silver and linens. The second hour was used to fill in the details, provide some additional planning discussion and answered any additional questions. Again, they ended on a planned high note - going out strong. 

The win: With procurement calling the shots after the final agency presented the score sheets were tabulated. A tie. The agency and one of the big shots were tied. So procurement put it up to a vote with the marketing people – who would they rather work with?

Our agency won.

Number one reason given? The refreshments. Specifically, the linens.

If it had been any other client we would have not brought the linen in, but having been through this type of pitch many times we knew how to profile this brand. We knew they would love the linens.

Give us a call.

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