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10 Squidoo Tips to Enhance Internet Marketing

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You’re asking why Squidoo? Well, since they launched the site has been an absolute Internet marketing phenomena.

Squidoo is a favorite of Google and it’s absolutely free!

It is still one of the easiest ways to get to the top of the rankings for a long tail keyword quickly and with the minimum of effort. However, it is a good idea to do a little more than just put a page up, so here are my top 10 Squidoo Marketing Tips:


1. Always create your Squidoo page with the keyword as your title.

2. Make sure your content is keyword focused, aside from having good website design. It is a good idea to keep adding fresh content on a regular basis. (But as always, be cognizant of your return on the time invested. It is no good spending hours dominating the search engines for a phase like ‘left handed basket weaving’. Sure you’ll be number 1, however, I’m sure no one would care.

3. The higher your ranking in your Squidoo category the higher you will rank in Google.. (That same principle is being used by Google more and more, for example, videos have to become popular FIRST before being ranked in Google).

4. When you submit articles to the directories, always make sure one of the hyperlinks in your resource box your SQuidoo URL, hyper linked with your targeted keyword.

5. We’ll be talking a lot about Social Bookmarking in the weeks to come, but don’t forget to social bookmark your Squidoo lens too! bumpzee is a great place to start..

6. Always think of your Squidoo lens as another one of your web-sites. So, for example, if you are using any other marketing technique, such as classified ads or forum posting, then don’t forget to include your Squidoo lens as one of the targets.

7. Study squidoo FAQs. You are going to find out just how to tweak the engine under the bonnet. For example, You can check about their Lens Ranks automated algorithm they use to rank the lenses. They look at community ratings, lensmaster reputation, click through rates, frequency of updates, inbound and outbound links, revenue generated, and lots of other factors and give the lens a number.

8. Jump over to the home page of squidoo. Study Squidoo marketing strategy to your heart’s content. Always check out the forums.

9. And while you’re there, make a comment (or six) and add your link to your signature.

10. You might have gathered by now that Squidooing is a whole science by itself. There are people who make a living, just by Squidooing..

Finally you often find the best marketing tips on how to promote a site on the site itself (after all, they have a vested interest).

Here are some advice Squidoo give themselves:

{Email it. To your friends, your mom, your boss. Don’t be shy about bragging, you deserve a little limelight! Email it to your family, friends or even your boss. Don’t be shy about bragging as you deserve a little limelight}.

Blog it. Post your lens to your blog. Try sending a note to someone you admire who runs a blog on your topic, and ask them to check out your lens. Sincere flattery gets you everywhere..

Try linking it to the lens of your Facebook page, LinkedIn and Flickr profile, eBay auctions or email signature. Create your own little traffic network and get discovered in more places. Wouldn’t you like to get found more online?

Group it! Find a Group that’s busy talking about your topic and request to join. Get friendly, get relevant, get feedback, get found. Compete. Stop by the Lens of the Day Group for inspiration from winning lenses. And if your lens is up to snuff, enter it in the contest..




Google Wants To Help You Make More Money Online

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Chances are you’ve seen the ads for the latest and greatest Internet Marketing software program that is suppose to help you make loads of money in short order. It seems more and more these offers can be found at every corner of the Internet. And all you have to do is send them 7.

I’ve been earning extra money as an Internet Marketer for many years now. In that time, there has been thousands of programs that are suppose to help Webmasters. In this time, I’ve used a lot of software. Out of all this software, I can say honestly that there has only been a few that I would pay for. The truth of the matter is, you don’t need a lot of software to be a successful Internet Marketer. I make a lot of money using free software available to anyone.

In fact, Google has some free tools that are better than a lot of the software on the market today. If you don’t want to shell out big bucks for software, give these free tools from Google a try.

The first free program I use is Google Trends. Trends is one of my favorite services from Google. It helps me see what is being searched for currently. Trends keeps track on searches performed on Google and list the most popular searches every day and even hourly.You can even track popular searches each hour through Trends. One you use this service a few times, it won’t take you long at all to figure out how profitable this service can be for you.

Google’s Keyword Research Tool will help you to make cash online. Any Niche Marketer worth his computer knows how important this tool is. The Keyword Tool shows you how many times someone has searched for specific keywords, competition for those keywords and how much those advertisers are willing to pay. I use this tool to zero in on profitable niches. This tool is one that most people who make money with Adsense use.

Serious Webmasters will want to use Google’s Webmasters Tool program. This is an important tool for those of you with websites. This tool does several things. The two most important ones in my opinion are that it shows you the top keywords your website ranks for plus it will show you how many backlinks your site has and how many backlinks each page has. This will help you know which keywords or keyword phrases your site needs optimized for.

Google Analytics is another important Webmaster tool that you’ll find helpful in pulling serious user data from your website with. Unlike Google’s Webmaster Tool, Analytics digs down deep to show you detailed information about your website. The list of features and benefits of this program are too numerous to list here, but it’s easy to say that this free tool does what other tools costing hundreds of dollars can’t do. Analytics allows you to see which keywords are most popular for your site, how many people found your site through specific keywords as well as telling you how long they were there and what they clicked on, if anything. It also shows you where they came from, whether it was a search engine or website. This is invaluable information when you’re trying to figure out where your traffic is coming from and how well your offers are converting.

This destroys the myth that you need high dollar software to make money on the Internet. With these free tools from Google, there is no need in spending a lot of money on other programs. You can take the money you save and outsource some of those boring chores of Internet Marketing that you hate to do, like writing articles!

Unravel the Secrets to High Impact Campaign Ads That Get Results!

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Google Adwords campaign can produce amazing results and can show its true potential in online marketing when you know how to take a proactive stance against failure by not simply ‘waiting’ for an outcome or thinking of this as a one-time project.

Making the most out of ad campaigns belongs to the experts domain since they have already perfected their techniques in getting results with their work but you can also produce your targeted result without having to equal the same amount of skillfulness through basic knowledge on keyword-copy combinations and making sense of its principles.

The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords author, Perry Marshall, presents some information and tips specifically on observing, plotting, and analyzing your ad campaign’s progress and tells you exactly how to direct your campaign the right way. The hard work has already been done; many Pay Per Click masters have shared their tips and strategies for optimizing campaigns and there is a very simple process to getting started on optimizing your own Adwords program.

You can begin by creating content-rich landing pages. Make sure that the landing page the page that you want visitors to come to when they click on the ad is full of quality information, is rich in keywords, and that it relates specifically to the offer or incentive you featured in your ad. This allows you to keep cost-per-click for your keywords at a minimum and people will not have a hard time looking for your page in the Google search results.

Second, check your usage of any negative keywords in your campaign ad. These negative keywords pertain to those that usually send in your site unnecessary or wrong kind of traffic. To firm this up, if your business is selling of gardening books and tools — you would not want to receive or attract visitors who wanted free gardening tips and events especially if your site is not offering them at all. Eliminating the words ‘free’ and ‘events’ from your list when using the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool will ensure your results are highly targeted and relevant to the market you are trying to reach.

Third, you can go through the ads of your competitor regularly. This can be done by ensuring that your ad does not resemble or is in no way similar to your competitor’s; otherwise, you could be giving away a bug chunk of your qualified traffic to them.

Finally, in presenting a similar information, you may conceptualize a creative ad copy and present this using a distinct angle; a good way to do this is through the use of action-oriented words in the headline wherein main words are typed in all-caps to ensure impact from the readers. You can also get other benefits from monitoring your competitor’s ads regularly; it helps you to find out which keywords may perform better than the others and vice versa.

Google Adwords campaign is an important and on-going process that produces more click-through rates (compared to your competitors) with proper optimization and fine-tuning strategies. Use any of these strategies to make sure your Google Adwords campaign is performing well and getting the results you want.

Ann Sieg’s New Free Report – Can It Save Your Business?

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If you already grabbed a copy of Ann Sieg’s 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing you will know how groundbreaking it is. You know, everyone who has read it, appreciates it.

But there is one problem with it for most MLMers … it does not really reveal just what you should do and how to do it, to take your business to being as successful as Ann Sieg’s.

Now, Ann realized this herself and ever since she published the previous report, she has been working on this problem.  And the result of all this work is her new free report, The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

In this revealing (and amusing) free report, Ann recounts the story of how she accidentally stumbled upon the strategy that brought people to her in dozens and then hundreds to order her company’s products. It’s a funny story! Before she even understood why it was getting such great results, her new technique was creating a million-dollar business. In fact her customer base grew so fast that her company could not handle all of the orders she was pulling in!

And now in this new report she reveals exactly what she did. It is a simple technique that you can copy if you want. If you market the same kind of products you can do the exact same thing! And even if your business is working with a different kind of product, you can easily adapt what she did.

After sending in so many orders that her company could not keep up, she discovered a simple way of sponsoring 50 or more people every month without ever talking to any of them … and in case you are thinking she must be some kind of MLM superhero, she demonstrated her strategies to her team and a lot of them were soon bringing in 10-20 people every month too.

It got so that around 90% of the leaderboard was invariably dominated by Ann Sieg’s team … until the company stopped releasing the figures!

In The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto, Ann Sieg exposes the precise ways that anyone can start to replicate results like these online. Most network marketers do not even know about these strategies. Even those who do are not using them in the best way.

More and more network marketers are using the internet for their marketing now but most of them are making a huge mistake. They are using the same approach online that they used before. Unfortunately it almost never works, and so they do not get results. If you are one of them then you will know exactly what I mean.

As you might expect with anything from Ann Sieg, The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto turns established MLM strategies upside down. Download it today at www.marketersmanifestofree.com – before other people from your company get a hold of it and begin stealing your prospects!

Are You Already Marketing On The Internet

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Have You Begun An Internet Marketing Business?

You may have already considered this question for your own life. If given enough thought, just about any business owner who utilizes the Internet for any purpose, will likely find that whether or not they intentionally organized an Internet marketing campaign, they may already be marketing their products or services on the Internet. Let’s take a look at some of the more clever ways business owners can be already marketing their services or products on the Internet.

Does your business have a website? It’s good to know, that businesses that already have an internet website, more than likely already have their product or services online, simply because they have a website. When a business has an active website, then it has the potential for getting site visitors. Even if you are not currently working to promote your business website, it may still create interest in your products and this way of generating income is called, ’passive marketing’.

Do you participate in message boards and include a link to your website in your signature? If you answered “yes” to this question, then you are most likely already marketing on the internet. Savvy business owners realize the importance of participation in industry related message boards to create an interest in their products and services, while they work to establish themselves as knowledgeable about the industry, they will also offer a link to their own website, that can be found usually along the bottom of the page. Some business owners do not even realize this, and can be reaping the benefits from this type of internet marketing by way of use of the people that participate in their message board.

Do you include keywords which are relevant to your business in the content of your website? Optimizing a website by using keywords or keyword phrases will only work to your advantage in effectively promoting your online business. Essentially this type of search engine optimization (SEO), will effect the density of the result pages and search engine ranking and this can happen whether a business owner is aware of the keyword concept or not. Business owners will likely use certain words, based on the type of products and services they offer, just because it is natural and logical to do so. It will also enable search engines to use the keywords from your business website to increase your page rankings. Still, the idea behind SEO is more complex and engaging than only the frequent use of keywords, yet having those keywords or keyword phrases on your website will help to increase your business success.

Have you set-up your website to receive any type of feedback from your online customers? Again, this would be another way business owners are sometimes marketing on the internet without realizing it. Successful businesses will often make use of customer survey information to further enhance their business and website business owners, can also conduct online surveys from their customers in regards to the products they sell. Although the business owners may be doing this simply for a business purpose, the fact that it is done online makes it fall into the category of Internet marketing.

We have discussed several ways in which business owners may already be marketing online ; let’s discuss what business owners need to do to have an increased online presence. Even if a business owner was marketing online unintentionally, they may now want to begin increasing their marketing potential via the internet. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to work with someone who has experience in Internet Marketing, who will help build your website domain to reach a larger online audience.

Before you purchase any products or services to increase your search engine marketing business, you need to do some extensive research; otherwise you may end up, spending the money with nothing to really show for it.

Adsense Pros And Cons

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Adsense Pros and Cons

People that have had a website for awhile and are getting some hits on it but not really making any money, may want to consider using AdSense advertising.

We will look at some of the pro’s and con’s to this type of approach to advertising on the internet. AdSense has definitely hit the Internet like something from another planet and people are very excited about it everywhere. However, there are some negative points to consider about using Adsense.

AdSense is generally a great tool for webmasters. Because you don’t have to be concerned about raising enough money to keep your site making a profit, or worry about keeping them online.

Webmasters using AdSense don’t have to focus on those type of worries, but instead they can concentrate on their page content and ways to make it great. The emphasis for them is on high quality articles that are associated with keywords or keyword phrases that will untimely help increase your website traffic.

You can also, work with Adsense to better customize your website color theme, size and article placement, and this will allow you to come up with the best format that you like, plus it will help to increase your profits.

People appreciate the way AdSense works to bring in a consistence source of income to your site. By keeping your website full of high quality, creative content and keeping it current; is a great way to begin a profitable business that will last. A lot of people are doing just that nowadays with AdSense, so it’s become sort of a business in itself.

It’s also a great program because you can have the same account advertising on all your pages. This is great for webmasters wit a lot of content because it means they don’t have to create many accounts unnecessarily.

But as stated, above, there are some negative aspects to advertising with AdSense and here’s a small list of such cons.

The main negative aspect that you should be most concerned about is if Google closes your Adsense account. Most of the time this happens because of so called “click fraud”, which means somebody would be producing artificial clicks on your page.

There’s one really nasty side to this and that is, it doesn’t have to be you making those artificial clicks.

It could very well be your competition doing this in order to shut you down, or the competitor of whoever is advertising on your page, looking to drive their marketing costs up.

The earning AdSense brings you are by no means constant. For many it is very sporadic at times. Anything you do to your site could end up being a big mistake and may cost you a great deal of money. It’s that kind of pressure that has a negative impact on you.

First of all, you constantly need to make sure your site is in the spotlight of search engines when people are searching for whatever it is your site is about.

You need to accomplish this so you will get more visitors, which means you will have a better chance of creating revenue.

Finally, another major problem is that you constantly have to feed your site with better and better content. Depending on what your website topic is about, keeping it current can be relatively easy to accomplish or it can be very difficult to do. This is often why the services of a copywriter are employed to generate more and more content.

Webmasters that write their own original material, should study the topic thoroughly, so that when they begin to write the article, they will be able to relay the information in their own words and share their personal opinions and insights.

These are the pros and cons of using the AdSense network for generating profits through advertising. Now the choice of whether or not these will work for you is yours.

Three Ways To Develop Your Own Internet Marketing Course

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Your own Online Marketing Course will give you the financial edge that other online marketers are talking about or experiencing. Without your own product to sell it becomes very difficult to make a steady income online. This article will offer three helpful methods to create your own Internet marketing course, should you decide this is for you.

Product Creation Method #1 – Obtaining Private Label Rights
One of hottest trends in online marketing these days are Private Label Rights, more commonly referred to as PLR. In short, PLR means taking an existing product or item for which you have purchased the PLR rights, make it your own product and sell it. PLR rights basically mean “The Rights to Label it as your Own”. One issue, however, is that they are open to the public, therefore making many absolutely worthless. However if you can secure the private label rights to a product that isn’t widely known then this could be a cash cow for you. Just hire someone to rebrand it for you, repackage it and promote it for instant cash.

Product Creation Method #2 – Develop Some Videos
In case you aren’t aware of the trend, online videos are becoming more popular and more widely-used. This same trend applies to online Internet marketing courses. Videos make things a lot easier for your customers as learning from both visual and audio instructions is much more effective than reading a large blob of text. A different but terrific way to utilize video is by making instructional videos around a product for which you are an affiliate. After making your instruction videos, offer them as a free reward for people who make purchases through your affiliate link (for which you get a commission).

A video report will sell a lot more than a written report, so whichever video-method you choose, you will be safe with video.

Product Creation Method #3 – Do Interviews and Record the Audio
I personally prefer this method because even if you’re new at whatever you do, you can still get instant credibility. Furthermore, this method is not used by as much people as PLR for example so you’ll be able to stand out more. For free publicity there are a lot of marketers who will give you an half-hour or even an hour of their time. Request an interview from them and tell them that you’ll be adding it into a future project that you’ll be heavily advertising. An offer to promote a product or service of theirs in your interview or course will usually guarantee their cooperation. After recording the audio interview, rinse and repeat with other marketers, add some “packaging” and your course is ready to go.

While there are other methods of product creation such as writing an e-book, creating graphics, or creating a template of some sort, these are just a few of the common ways that anyone can use to begin to profit over the Internet. You can read more about these on Online Marketing for Beginners. After you have created your own Internet marketing course make sure to find affiliates who will promote it for you. After that, simply cash in those checks and make sure you share some of the proceeds with me 😉

Try Out Article Marketing – It Works

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Any website owner who starts down the path of internet marketing will soon discover how many “guru’s” are out there all claiming some secret trick to boost your search engine rankings.  The reality is there are a few things to really pay attention to, but most of it really comes down to hard work.  Depending on what keywords you want to rank for, you can achieve success in a week or 2 or it may take months of hard work to get any results.

Aside from basic webpage SEO stuff to make sure everything is done correctly, the biggest single factor still in your rankings is the number of links and where they come from.  The PR (page rank) of the site linking to you is important, as is the content on that site.  Reciprocal links used to work really well (you link me, I link you) but now its really downplayed by Google as a valid method of links.

The easiest way to get links is through article marketing.  This is not the least work path, its the easiest as far as results go in my opinion.  The setup is simple:

  1. Do some keyword research on your topic.  Pick 2-4 keywords you will focus on.  Make sure they get decent search volume but do not go after stuff that is too generic (meaning it will have unusually large searched volume) – those will be way too hard to rank on in a reasonable time.
  2. Plan on writing 10 – 12 articles of 300-400 words each, using 2 of the keywords with links to your site in each article, with no more than 3 links per article total.Use the keyword itself as your link text, not http://.
  3. Publish 4 of the articles on a major article directory that has good ranking such as Ezine Articles or ArticlesBase.  These have human reviewers so it will take a bit of time to get your article published.  Luckily they do not expect it to be the first time its published, so while you are waiting there you can post it elsewhere.
  4. Make sure you get some software that helps to spin the article content and links.Spinning an article allows you to auto substitute other words or phrases into the article each time it is published so you get a slightly unique version to a totally new version depending on how much you spin it.  DO NOT try to use rewriting software – I have seen none that do a decent job – usually it reads like garbage and that will not help your rankings.  If you spin an article right, you can easily get 10-20 different reading articles from a single article, enough to not worry about duplicate content out there (and possible penalties).
  5. The next step is to mass distribute your articles to sites looking for great content.  You can do this manually for free, or find some tools to purchase that can greatly speed this up.  I usually choose to pay some money in the savings of time.  There are so many things to do, you have to trade off somewhere.  You want to make sure you spread out the distribution – its unnatural for any site to go from no links to 500 links in 1 day – what is more natural is 0 to 10 to 18 to 25 to 40 … over several weeks build it up.
  6. You will need to start tracking your ranking level on the few keywords you have picked out.After you have used article directories to get about 300 links or so you should start to see a boost in rankings.  Some keywords that are not as competitive, much less, and of course, some it might take thousands.Your goal on most keywords should be to get into the top 10-15 in ranking, number 1 is nice but sometimes the effort needed to keep and hold it is not worth it.
  7. In addition to the article work, you can also use social media accounts to link to each of the articles you publish AND also to your main web site.  You should make a hub pages site and a squidoo lens about your site or niche as well with links to the site.

Sites all want fresh content on them to improve their quality score.Most want articles about their site topic to keep the viewer on the site longer and to get better search engine ranking.  This is exactly why article marketing works – you get links on distribution sites, webmasters get to search for content to add to their site from what is published.

Making Money Online?

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Are you ready for a life changing turn?

How often have you heard that there’s a lot of money to be made online.Perhaps you read a newspaper column that had a nice big advertisement next to it asking for three payments of $17.95 or maybe a friend of a brother-in-law made millions online and retired early.  Maybe just maybe you’ve been skeptical up until now but something just tells you there is money to be made online, something whispering late at night that you can succeed if only you’ll try.

Well the truth is that there is money to be made online and there’s a lot of it at that.  Not to mention all the ways to make money online, man o man are there a lot.  If that question’s been keeping you up late at night burning the midnight oil, you need to ask yourself a new question.  How can I begin to capitalize on this online phenomena?

The first thing you need to do is find an internet marketing mentor, someone who’s been there before and knows the roads that must be traveled. He or she will protect your best interests because it is their duty, It will be like having a dedicated lifeguard at the beach saving you from drowning.  Choosing a good mentor can be a very hard task indeed.  You’ll have to kiss a few frogs to find a prince, but just keep on kissing and do it fast, and once you’ve found one never let’em go.

After you’ve found your mentor it’s up to you, read the material, try the material, and rinse and repeat.  This is where most people get stuck, they just keep reading and reading on and on.  You’ll know you’ve found a good mentor when they kick your butt and tell you to get moving instead of just reading.  Since I intend to give it to you straight there are a lot of other obstacles to your online success; personal things, professional things, even technical things.  You’ll have to become a true entrepreneur and go over them, through them, or around them before you receive success.Just remember, when you go through the trials that will come up, you can gain a lot of leverage by learning from other peoples mistakes.

How To Make Money On Ebay

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If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have an idea of the kinds of incomes people are making – it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.

Next time you visit eBay, see how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few.

Now consider that every single one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that is eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller.Silver PowerSellers earn at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers earn more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!

The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even start up an eBay store – they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going.

There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now.

Can you imagine that?

Once they’ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people – they don’t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million dollar businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.

Even if you don’t want to quit your day job and really go for it, you can still make money with ebay classified.  You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.

What’s more, eBay doesn’t care where you live, who you are, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very young, or very old. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor.

eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There’s no commuting involved and no job interview – as long as you can post things, you can do it.

Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay – and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that’s not exactly difficult.

Buy a large amount of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you’re making money already, with no start up costs.

If you want to test it out before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you’ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you’ll probably find you’ve got a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff lying around in there!

This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you’re selling, whatever it might be, and since they’ve come looking for you, you don’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.

So you want to get going on making money with ebay?

Well, that’s excellent! There isn’t much you need to learn to get started…

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