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Modern advertising methods: Increasing sales through Pay-per-click campaigns

February 28th, 2009
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Every company that can afford print, radio and TV advertisements have also ventured into placing ads on the Internet. But with millions of websites out there being visited by millions of computer users, how can you make sure that your ad can be seen by your target customers and that your leads will be followed by these users? 

Here are a few modern advertising methods:

1.  Place an ad on the websites frequented by your target customers.  Before doing this, you need to define who will be your target customers.  Placing an ad on sites that they usually visit will increase the possibility that your ad will gain the attention and will be followed your target customers. 

Also, consider the website’s search engine placement, traffic, external linking and the other ads placed on it.  External linking will determine if there are other sites that link to this site.  This will mean that people can get to the site where your ad is placed, even if they are browsing a different site.  Check if many of your competitors have ads on this site.

2.  Placing ads on some sites cost some money.  However, there are also sites that can place a link to your site, product or service in exchange of having their link being displayed on your site.  This is also true about the newsletters sent by site owners to its mailing list members regularly.

Also, having helpful links placed on your site and having sites link to your pages help in boosting search engine ranking.  This is similar to making a statement that your site’s content is important that other sites have links to your web pages.

3.  Pay-per-click (PPC) is also a good method in Internet marketing.  You will only need to pay for the ad if the link is clicked.  If you prefer this method of advertisement, make sure that you are using services that set limits on daily expenses.  There are also services that help you determine effective keywords and monitor the PPC results.

4.  Choose your domain name wisely.  It is still being debated if domain names matter when it comes to search engine placement.  Whether it does or not, having product related domain names help consumers remember your domain, that they can go back to your site even without the links.

5.  Make sure you have useful content on your sites.  While keyword density is important in search engine placement, having useless information or annoying repetition of keywords will not increase your customer’s confidence in your site.  It may even affect your sites traffic and can get your site removed from search engines.  So make sure that keywords are used strategically.

6.  When thinking of keywords, think like your target customers.  What do you think are they going to search so they can get to your site?  Also, use specific keywords or key phrases.  Submitting a single word or a very general phrase to a search engine will not get you to the top of the search results compared to submitting specific keywords that describe your product and services perfectly.

Two final tips on marketing products and services, sell the benefits and track your ads.  Always check how much you have spent on placing links on frequently visited sites and on PPC.

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5 Ways to Drive Laser-Targeted Traffic

February 28th, 2009
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5 Ways to Drive Laser-Targeted Traffic

An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing.  He may have the necessary drive, diligence and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works.  He may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him a fortune if only the whole world could see it.  However, all these would prove useless if he does not know how to drive traffic to his website.  His business would sink into oblivion together with all the sales, fortune and dreams that he might have realized if he only knew how to do this particular task.

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down.  The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer.  With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out?  The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.

The first step in driving traffic to one’s website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned.  Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means.  Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal.  Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.

The second way in driving traffic to one’s website is by contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership.  Locating websites that are related to one’s own website is the primary task.  Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible.  It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.

The third way is through writing one’s own articles.  This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.

The fourth way is through joint venture marketing.  This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service.  Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.

The fith is by having a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned.  The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one’s affiliate marketing career inch forward.  It is always advantageous to plan one’s moves in any business that he might undertake.  This is particularly so in affiliate marketing.  If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track.

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The 6 Best Tips On Writing Traffic Pulling Articals

February 28th, 2009
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Do you know how to write an article that pulls in readers like a moth to a flame?If your answer was no then the following article is destined for you.  When you start out with article marketing you are told various ways to make an article the best it can be.  Although some are good suggestions, many miss the point.  When we write articals we want them to persuade the reader into seeing our point of view.If you do this you'll notice that many of your readers will gladly click on the url in your bio box.  Below are 6 top tips that you must do when writing an article for maximum impact.

1) Like a highly optimized headline in a salesletter, the title of an article has to suck the reader in and do so quickly.Recent studies have shown that when a visitor comes to your site you have just seven seconds to catch their attention before they leave.  This is no different with the title of your article.  If you have an intriguing and attractive title you will gain many more readers for your article.

2)  If you have created a good headline then your reader will now be reading your introduction.  Don’t skimp on this part.  Your introduction needs to keep the readers attention so they continue reading.One technique that works well for me is to begin your article with a compelling question.

3)  Next in your artical will come the body or the main points of your article.  This really needs no explanation other than try and keep it as interesting as possible.  A good way to do this is with statistical information on the subject your writing about.

4) Lastly, you need to finish the article off correctly with an emotionally charged closing.  In the closing you simply reiterate what the main points are.Now is an ideal time to use words that appeal to the emotions of the reader and makes them more willing to continue forward.If you do this the right way, the reader will be much more inclined to head on over to your website.

It is imperative that you craft a compelling author bio box.  This is like the call to action in a sales letter.  Depending on your intentions, whether your article is for SEO purposes or to drive immediate traffic, a well thought out resource box can drive hoards of interested prospects to your site.  Remember this when writing resource boxes, Q.S.A..  Present a Question, provide a Solution, I.E. a product on your site and finally give a blurb about the Author.

So to recap, Q is for question, S is for Solution and A is for a blurb about you the Author.  

6)  Make sure that your article sounds and looks professional.  Try and avoid any grammatical errors.  Sometimes grammatical errors are done on purpose for SEO reasons but that’s a whole other article.

In closing, it's not hard to write articals that hit home runs.All you have to do is stick to the outline laid out above and your almost guaranteed a hit everytime.  Many of us are not born writers but with a little time, effort and a little coaching, you’ll be writing articles like a pro.You would be amazed at the amount of people who make tens of thousands of dollars a month simply writing articles and you can do it as well.

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internet marketing tools review

February 28th, 2009
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There are many internet marketing tools on the market these days. They usually promote they deliver 100%, but do they?

Six Online Business Fundamentals

1) Preselling

What’s preselling?

“Pre-selling is not about hard-selling your product, it’s about becoming an expert in the eyes of your visitor by delivering this great information. And once you’ve accomplished that, monetizing will be easy.

In order for you to sell your products or services online, you need to establish your own position your friendly adviser position.

If someone tells you, “you should buy “xyz” product, it’s good and great, blah blah blah…

You probably get turned off immediately.

On the other hand, I later come to you and present myself as a knowledgeable expert in the field of your concern (or niche in today’s Internet Marketing terminology).

Will you listen to me before you consider purchasing the product/ service?

Yes, you certainly would.

The concept of preselling is in the works here.

Got it? Great!

Preselling creates an “open-to-buy” frame of reference in your potential buyers’ mind, so when you offer your products/ services, they will more inclined to purchase from you or on your recommendations.

What criteria do you need in order to make your preselling work?

That’s where you need a “Value Preselling Proposition”. You need to establish your value proposition – e.g. where you coming from and what sort of experience you have in order to advise your customers/ clients to act the way you want them to.

That’s preselling.

Simply, preselling is sort of the same as marketing, but it’s more than marketing. Marketing simply makes your name out, but preselling creates a warm and good impression to your visitors or potential buyers – who will like you before you offer them your products/ services.

The key idea for you to take away is this: preselling creates an “open-to-buy” mindset.

Presell is getting your prospects to have an open-mind set before a purchase.

The very least you need to build successful online (or even offine business) is that you need to create an open to buy mind set from your visitors, so that when they are ready to buy, they will not hesitate to fill out the order form.

2) Keyword Focused Page (KWFP)

What’s a keyword focused page? A KWFP is no other than just a web page full of value rich content which is focused on a particular topic.

For example, if the keyword is “Preselling”, then KWFP may be something like “preselling techniques”, “preselling strategies”, “How to perform preselling to visitors” so and so forth.

Once you have your KWFP narrowed down and researched, you will be able to work wonders through your content to fulfill preselling.

The objective of KWFP is that, you deliver high value content to your visitors so that your potential customers are pulled to your site naturally through the Search Engine. People will like your content and yourself.

If you want a good keyword research software, you may download one here for free.

Got the concept? Great.

Let’s move on…

Once you get your many KWFP(s) gathered, you will obtain your very own topic, so focused that we call it a “Niche Website”. This kind of website is very powerful in the eyes of Search Engine because it’s so focused to solve a particular topic (keyword words).

Hence, we should think “niche” before going into KWFP.

3) Niche

If I were to define what a niche is, I would say that a niche is a general area of interest, a hobby, a passion or stuff people do. It can be a big niche like health, self improvement, earning money online, etc.

A narrow niche can be “scuba diving”.

A market is a group of people who share similar traits and have common needs. E.g. people who drive, people who need to buy a house.

Now a lot of people get confused right at this point. A niche and a market are NOT the same thing.

Niche can be defined a particular market or people that have relatively similar kind of habits, likes or dislikes, he or she actions in similar manner and they have similar purchasing habit.

That’s how I would define a niche.

They will buy your niche/ specially tailored products on your online with similar kind of mindset.

Going niche is important for small business persons like you and me, because we as small business owners are limited by resources constraint (time, energy and money!)

We can’t apply Amazon business model as our business model. However, we can compete with Amazon in a sub-niche how to create a profitable scuba diving business.

Do you see how you can use niche-concept for yourself?

We need to focus a particular market in order to market ourselves our “niche” products.

If you want to explore this more, google “The Long Tail” up, but I recommend skipping it because the whole book refers to that simple concept. I just summarized the book in one sentence above.

eBay was a small business, but now it’s a big business.
People selling 1-2 dollars items are earning big bucks right now. How? By going international! No long winding cases will be quoted here. They are not relevant to you.

What you need to know is this: eBay itself contains a lot of different niches. All you need to do is to narrow down a particular niche to see how you can monetarize the crowd by tailoring products to their needs.

People call this “Niche Marketing”.

To summarize, think market, go “niche”, then monetarize. There you have it – the 3 steps to online profits. Of course, you need to research and do some work before you can reach Monetarization

4) Content -> Traffic -> Presell -> Monetarization

Offline is about location. Online is about information. It all begins with your unique content.

I was not comfortable when I first did my marketing online as English was not my first language. That convinced me I would have no way to succeed online. Then, I decided to go shortcut, by using eBay and other direct method to earn the fast bucks online.

Did that earn me any money? It did, but honestly not by a whole lot. If there is one skill you need to be successfully online, you need to be able to convey your message well.

Either you speak influentially. Or you simply write to move people.

You need to keep in mind.

Following this to a T, you will beat your competition, every time.

Without quality content, your visitors will not be able to trust you nor buy from you. Hence creating valuable and trustable content that people love and will come back to you and buy from you is the key here.

Do not just sell, sell, and sell. People will get annoyed and click “BACK” out of your site immediately.

Deliver valuable content on your pages, email and etc.

However, do not give away your bread and butter.

What’s your bread and butter? If you have some really valuable information that has cost you money and experience.

Do not release the information that you deem valuable. Create an information product for it!

Provide testimonials of your previous customers or who have used your products with great results. Make money out of this product from this single idea!

I see this strategy alone pulls in thousands of dollars for one single ebook.

A friend of mine was suffering by some kind of skin problem. She digged deep into Google to find out how to heal it. At last, she spent $30 on an ebook teaching her to heal the rash.

It cost her $19.99. The ebook package was hugh, but people only wanted one thing from it. The name of the recipe. That’s it.

Could you do the same and create a similar info product – A product that solve someone’s problem?

May it be a relationship, financial, health or whatever people are suffering problem… People are paying big money on it day in and day out! If you get this, you don’t need to buy other product before you own your own piece of internet empire. And you can definitely do it!

Let’s talk about another topic – conversion

5) Conversion Rate

Say for example 100 people read a page of your and 1 end up buying your product. We would say you have a conversion of 1%. Why did it matter?

Imagine you have 100 visitors coming to your site which 1% people buying your products, you end up having 1 sales.

When you increase your site visitors to 1000, you will have 10 sales, right? But going from 100 visitors to 1000 visitors, that’s 10 times effort.

Traffic x Conversion = Sales

Let’s see an illustration
100 visitors x 1% = 1 sales
100 visitors x 3% = 3 sales
300 visitors x 1% = 3 sales

Which is easier? To triple your traffic or triple your conversion rate?

Tripling traffic may be a viable mean, but cost you a fortune. However tripling conversion, in a way, is under your control.

What if you can increase your conversion rate by 3%. Then you will have 3 sales.

The aim here is to increase your conversion, before we even want to increase traffic. This is great lesson. How should we approach this? By testing it extensively.

How do you increase your conversion? Let’s talk about your brand.

6) Your Own Brand!

Last lesson of Day 1, is an important one (if not the most important).

It’s about your own brand of one. What’s brand of one?

What’s your brand? What people remember you as an individual or as a business?

Your goal is to make your potential buyers to recognize you being an authoritative figure in the subject matter. Generality does not sell. Expertise is all that matter. You can’t be all things to all people. You need to have your own voice, your own products and your authority. No one purchase from an unknown authority and character.

Try to think and outline what your expertise, what’s so special about you that no one can replace you with? For example, I am a Chinese as well as a business professional and also a site build it coach.

That’s something not everyone can emulate or duplicate. You may take away my computer, but you can’t take away my Chinese knowledge at the same time a Site Build It coach.

So, what about you in your own niche?

Write down what you’ve learnt.

You now have the resell/ giveaway rights to the report and you may forward it to those who will find the report useful.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the tips.

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How Businesses Promote Themselves

February 28th, 2009
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Business want and need to promote not only their products but also their names. You can have a well marketed, high quality product, but if people don’t trust your company then it will be much harder to sell them your products. This is why companies like Nike or Telechart 2000 work so hard to protect their brands. Business like these can put millions of dollars towards making themselves notable by a small graphic or symbol. That symbol lets people know that what they are getting is a high quality product and that it can be trusted. It makes sense that companies don’t want other manufacturers interfering with their brands, or people may regard the symbol as less valuable.

That leads to the question about why all companies don’t establish a brand. Well there are a few reasons for this. To begin, creating a brand can be prohibitively costly. It can cost millions of dollars of investment to establish even a modestly recognizable brand. A brand is a tender thing, it can be broken by a simple mistake or one bad product. Secondly, not all companies want to establish a band. For example if a company makes a low-quality product they don’t want people to think they are going to buy another junk product from that company. Who would want a brand like that built up for their company? Simply you wouldn’t.

Another great type of companies that like to build their brands are market investing companies. These companies typically have very strong brands because that is all they have to go by, their reputation. Individuals trust stock companies with their hard earned cash for the reason that they have been able to provide a good return in the past. When those types of business don’t have a good brand then there are many other options for people like some easy and cheap investing software.

Either way you look at it, having a strong brand is a key for a lot of companies success. It is the only way they can properly market their brands and make the sales they need. This is why brands are so heavily protected by law.

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Build Your Online Internet Business and Start a Membership Site

February 28th, 2009
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Internet marketers today are looking to expand their online income and many have decided to start a membership site. Thanks to the invention of the Internet, millions of entrepreneurs all over the world have been given the opportunity to build their businesses without even having to leave their home or office. Internet technology has made promoting businesses worldwide so much easier. In recent years, the trends in online marketing have had a lot to do with the creation of membership sites.

The success of membership sites can be attributed to the extremely high popularity of online content. Many people are interested in buying information to learn how to grow their own businesses and eagerly join membership sites that offer what they need.

Everyday more and more internet users are purchasing some form of online content and it is growing rapidly. This means the online market is wide open for the keen entrepreneur to promote products in the future. If you are an online entrepreneur, you should seriously consider taking advantage of this market by building a membership site in your own niche.

Regardless of the niche you are in, the great thing about starting a membership site is that they work well in any niche. Whether you want to teach people how to market online, or share with them your secrets to weight loss, there will surely be a large number of potential customers just waiting for you to offer an online content product that they can grab a hold of and use to their advantage. To achieve online marketing success you have to provide information and the right product for your niche.

Building your own membership site requires original content but it does not require a lot of capital to get started. Considering the amount of profit you can earn from your membership site when it is established, the start up costs are ridiculously low.

Knowing how to do the technical details is not a problem as you can easily hire or delegate and outsource these issues. In fact you only require the passion for your niche and the desire to succeed if you wish to start a membership site.

Membership sites are an excellent source of repeat income and are just one of the many profitable internet marketing solutions.

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Home based business or work at home job?

February 28th, 2009
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You may also be thinking that a good way to get out of your regular job is to start a part-time online or home based business, turn it into something successful, and then quit your day job.With the Holiday season upon us, many small and home based businesses are scrambling to roll out their holiday marketing push.

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Google Adwords Tracking For Clickbank Affiliates

February 28th, 2009
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If you are a Clickbank affiliate who relies on PPC marketing then you know how few Clickbank products have the option of adding your own conversion code easily to the end of your hoplink. That is why it’s very exciting that there’s now another Clickbank product which has conversion tracking and it’s in the huge diet market with a payout of $50 per conversion. Go to the affiliate page now to learn more.

It’s extremely simple to implement as you can simply add g=GoogleConversionID to the end of your hoplink in order to track your conversions.

If you’re a Clickbank affiliate who relies on Google AdWords then I’m sure you already know the importance of tracking your conversions but if for some reason you don’t, let me explain now.

Without conversion tracking you never really know for sure which keywords or placements or ads are actually bringing in sales. All you can do is guess and guessing just doesn’t work. You will probably be surprised by which ads, sites, and keywords are actually making you your sales.

It should be pretty obvious why it’s important to know which keywords, sites, and ads are making your sales. To get the best ROI you want to keep weeding out what doesn’t work so you that your resources on what does work. Without tracking your conversions you will not have any way of being able to do that. Click here to go directly to the PPC conversion tracking page for this Clickbank diet product.

As I already mentioned, this product pays out $50 for each referral (with plans for an uspell which could raise the average payout even higher.) Whether you are an SEO affiliate marketer or a PPC affiliate marketer (or both) this is a great opportunity to make a lot of money. Besides the high payout and the AdWords conversion, the product also contains a large amount of promotional materials including many diet banner ads you can use on your sites or in your ad campaigns.

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How to be the Best Web Hosting Business

February 28th, 2009
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When selecting the best website hosting firm, it is significant to look at various matters before reaching your pick.   As folks state, you do not regularly get 2nd probabilities.  This rings extremely true when it comes to selecting a supplier for your web site. Web hosting is a gateway for people to post and provide users with content via the internet

Cost: Do not just search for the lowest  price. Lowest price is not most important. Hosting that is reliable is paramount for the success of your website.
Technological back up: It is very important that your website never crashes. If you doubt the ability of your hosting company, you should find a new one.

Characteristics: Several online hosting parties provide a potpourri of servicing. Create a list of what you think you need for your internet site to function. These services are the most important for your website; Arrange transfer fees, a control panel, e-mail aliases, front page annexes, and internet site stats, submit to SEs, sub URLs, multiple URLs, price reduction and a site creation tool.
Disk space: The quantity of disk space that will be granted to your internet site is an added factor in a fine internet hosting package.While it might look like 100 MBs is lot of room, the potency for the increase of your company entails that you could easily require additional space afterwards. If you select a web hosting supplier that simply can not provide additional space, you may discover that your development will seriously be restricted.
E-mail accounts: You need email for all sections and all employees. Buy hosting that has enough emails offered.

E-commerce: Will you be marketing a commodity or services via your web site? If you are not selling a service or product you don’t need net hosting.  If you are using e-commerce web hosting, services such as browsing software system, SSL back up and a merchandiser account will be essential.
Speed: You want to know how quickly your internet hosting provider could cater to your visitants.
Uptime: This is perhaps the most significant matter when picking out the better web hosting firm. You wont be successful unless your website is online.
It is better to spend 35 pounds a month as opposed to 25 pounds a month for hosting, as long as you are guaranteed better service.

Great Domain Names and Reseller Web Hosting

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Targetting Misspellings for SEO

February 28th, 2009
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Spelling just isn’t the easiest thing.  According to google, on average there are approximately 18100 searches a month for the phrase, ‘Caribbean Holidays’. Compare that however to its misspelling, Carribean Holidays which has on average a grand, 22200 searches a month! Furthermore, the phrase ‘Caribean Holidays’ also receives approximately 1900 searches per month. In this instance that is at least 24100 searches for the misspelt version of caribbean.

Travel companies looking to target new business to their holiday websites need to consider how they are going to pull traffic in using these misspellings without making their sites look unprofessional.

A great, quick method is to use pay-per-click ads. Skimming for misspellings of keywords in this way will aoffer you greater profits for sure as many site woners have not yet clicked into this.Many smaller site owners run their own PPC campaigns rather than through an agency. It is likely that many of them will not have realised that bidding on misspellings is a great route to more traffic.

Per day the correct spelling (Caribbean Holidays) does in fact acheive the most attention and clik-thru however, there are also click-thrus for the terms, Carribean Holidays and Caribean Holidays which all add up over a breadth of keywords. Whilst this might sound like small fry, on a large scale using the strategy you can acheive an awful lot more traffic for your money.

Even though Google kindly offers the correct spelling at the top of the page if you misspell a word, there are many searchers who will be attracted to the great ‘call to action’ titles that you of course have.

Finding misspellings is not difficult, you can use the google adwords tool and google will offer you related terms for your key phrases which are often misspellings. The interent is a hive of informtion and tools that can help you with your keyword research. Just do a quick search for ‘misspellings tools’ and you will find info that will get you loads of keyword misspellings.

Always rememebr to add mispelt words to your keyword campaigns.

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