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Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. Experienced Product Managers (working on SaaS products) will find this post more useful than Product Marketers.). Product marketing MORE
How would you assess your own roadmapping process? A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. The 11-chapters are a master class on product roadmapping, and is supported by 65+ interviews from real practitioners. What do people struggle with most developing roadmaps? “A MORE
by Paul Ressler – Everything is progressing well with your SaaS product; you have your product vision and you have product market fit. What are the next steps to achieve success for your SaaS product? One important next step is a product roadmap. Product roadmaps, done well, can be a great tool to help advance… Product Strategy MORE
revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. In the AMA, Jones offered insights into how product marketing works at Uber, along with tips and advice for other professionals in the field. Collaborating with Product Management. MORE
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier. MORE
The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap: It’s Like Deep-Sea Fishing for Sales. MORE
Today, August signs off for another year and we’re happy to report that it was packed with treats for Mind the Product members. We covered product/market fit, team culture, careers, diversity, roadmapping and more. appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
A strategic product marketing function can be created with one simple move that pays three big dividends to the organization. Many product marketing professionals in B2B have long felt like the sales tools on-demand department and rightfully so. It’s a tough rut to climb out of when product marketing is perceived as a tactical extension of product management, tasked with little more than mobilizing product value propositions to drive sales. MORE
One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. ” That research could be meaningless data if PMMs fail to get involved early in development and influence the overall vision for a product. MORE
Any half-decent marketing is essentially storytelling. As a marketer, everything you create needs to tell the story of your product and the value it offers your users. That’s why roadmaps are such a natural fit for marketing teams. A marketing roadmap tells the story of your marketing strategy. We obviously use a ton of tactical software, but I go back to my marketing roadmap every week to regroup on the big picture. MORE
SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. MORE
Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Andreessen too gives us a vivid illustration of what product/market fit feels like in his post: “ You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. MORE
By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. Over 60 product professionals from more than 20 different companies gathered for a lively discussion at BWP’s Product Roundtable hosted by Wayfair on March 28th. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap. MORE
Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups and established firms to introduce new products that will scratch that itch and deliver satisfaction. Whether the products they offer (and the price they sell them for) match the demand is (part of) where product-market fit comes in. Knowing when you don’t have product-market fit is simple. Getting to Product-Market Fit. MORE
While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. So we spoke to three product marketing managers to explain how they approach product releases while working in conjunction with product management. MORE
By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” The vast majority of product roadmaps move the product in a positive direction, but desired results are only achieved if there is clarity around where it is taking you, and why. product/features/strategy. MORE
Developing your product strategy and communicating your product roadmap is a continual improvement process. Over my time as a product manager I have learned from some incredible product teammates on how to level up your product strategy to ensure it is as informed as possible, and communicated to your organisation’s stakeholders and customers in the [.]. The post 4 Ways to Level-up your Product Strategy appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
Product management turns chaos into order. Our job entails creating product roadmaps based on what’s doable and gives the product the most bang for its buck. But how can we be sure we’re making the right calls and roadmapping what matters most? Productivity expert David Allen once said , “You can do anything, but not everything.” This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Roadmaps MORE
Managing the Interrelated Roles and Responsibilities of Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Product Management and Product Marketing Management are complementary roles. Regardless, both of these distinct roles are essential to product success. It’s often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. What Does a Product Manager Do? MORE
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Roman Pichler’s product vision board. MORE
The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter One , written by Brian Lawley. We’ll be using the term Product Manager to refer to both Product Managers and Product Marketers. Inbound (Product Management) spends most of their time with engineering teams and customers, making critical decisions and ensuring that everything gets done to bring customer-focused products to market. Customer and Market Research. MORE
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles. MORE
I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. We’d already launched two successful Mac utilities, but this was the first time we’d launched a SaaS-style product – Setapp provides access to over 100 Mac apps in one suite. So, while developers were fixing bugs, we started to challenge our critical product pillars by reviewing our answers to the main product questions: Who is our customer? MORE
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. What are upstream and downstream products? What is your data roadmap? MORE
A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat. If product marketing considers sales it’s primary customer, here are three things it should do every year to boost their success rate. MORE
This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?” Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. MORE
So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets. PMs are ultimately accountable for the product's success or failure. The PMM helps build the value proposition and positioning of the product. MORE
Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. Instead of constantly wrangling over competing product visions that no one can ever agree on, you’ll learn how to craft a short and long-term portfolio roadmap that mirrors the vision and business goals of your target customers. MORE
Enter Christy Hecht’s real-world description of interconnected skills—three soft and six hard—for PMMs in an AMA via Sharebird , the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Hard skills: Market, competitor and product expertise. MORE
In preparation for applying to Product Marketing Manager roles, the standard application suite applies: a resume, cover letter, and maybe some additional materials like references or transcripts. prior PMM experience like developing go-to-market strategy or developing messaging frameworks), that’s great! At Current Company, I worked on a go-to-market plan for a new product under our hero brand that was projected to result in $5M+ incremental revenue. MORE
A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. What Is Solutions Marketing? MORE
Enter Christy Hecht’s real-world description of interconnected skills—three soft and six hard—for PMMs in an AMA via Sharebird , the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Hard skills: Market, competitor and product expertise. MORE
the main person in the Product team for Dashly. People like Dmitry are usually called Product Managers., they are responsible for new features, product development and only they decide if users really need this or that feature (jk, they make customer development based decisions). Those of you who read our book already know her Elena is a Product Marketing Manager. So it means that PMM’s main goal is to deliver the value of the product to the market. MORE
One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. ” That research could be meaningless data if PMMs fail to get involved early in development and influence the overall vision for a product. MORE
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles. MORE
All products start with one thing in common: teams face a certain degree of uncertainty about the market they’re targeting. Reducing uncertainty, therefore, comes as a result of learning cycles, and will ultimately allow a product to grow. You learn to reduce uncertainty; you reduce uncertainty to grow your product. When in Learning mode, you may realize that your product isn’t fit for market, because it has little or no traction. Product. MORE
SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. MORE
Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews. You take a step back to make sure it’s aligned with your company OKRs and product vision. However, this article is not about how to create that perfect roadmap. MORE
Value based product roadmaps should be structured like a customer org chart so that the business value of your product investment priorities is clear to executives, senior managers and users. View the short video to learn the most important questions your roadmaps have to answer, both internally and externally, and what people really want to know when they ask, “What’s on your roadmap?” ” Learn How to Create Your Value-Based Roadmaps. MORE
Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. In other words, you should have valid answers to the following questions: Which user problem will the product solve, or which benefit will it provide? If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort. MORE
revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. In the AMA, Jones offered insights into how product marketing works at Uber, along with tips and advice for other professionals in the field. Collaborating with Product Management. MORE
Mind the Product
AUGUST 31, 2020
Today, August signs off for another year and we’re happy to report that it was packed with treats for Mind the Product members. We covered product/market fit, team culture, careers, diversity, roadmapping and more. appeared first on Mind the Product.
280 Group
JUNE 18, 2020
Managing the Interrelated Roles and Responsibilities of Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Product Management and Product Marketing Management are complementary roles. Regardless, both of these distinct roles are essential to product success. It’s often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. What Does a Product Manager Do?
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Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. In other words, you should have valid answers to the following questions: Which user problem will the product solve, or which benefit will it provide? If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 10, 2018
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. What are upstream and downstream products? What is your data roadmap?
280 Group
AUGUST 4, 2019
The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter One , written by Brian Lawley. We’ll be using the term Product Manager to refer to both Product Managers and Product Marketers. Inbound (Product Management) spends most of their time with engineering teams and customers, making critical decisions and ensuring that everything gets done to bring customer-focused products to market. Customer and Market Research.
bpma ProductHub
OCTOBER 2, 2017
How would you assess your own roadmapping process? A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. The 11-chapters are a master class on product roadmapping, and is supported by 65+ interviews from real practitioners. What do people struggle with most developing roadmaps? “A
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Mind the Product
JUNE 18, 2019
Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Andreessen too gives us a vivid illustration of what product/market fit feels like in his post: “ You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening.
Proficientz
AUGUST 20, 2018
A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat. If product marketing considers sales it’s primary customer, here are three things it should do every year to boost their success rate.
Proficientz
JANUARY 13, 2020
A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. What Is Solutions Marketing?
bpma ProductHub
AUGUST 24, 2019
by Paul Ressler – Everything is progressing well with your SaaS product; you have your product vision and you have product market fit. What are the next steps to achieve success for your SaaS product? One important next step is a product roadmap. Product roadmaps, done well, can be a great tool to help advance… Product Strategy
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Roman Pichler’s product vision board.
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Userpilot
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth.
Pragmatic Marketing
NOVEMBER 16, 2019
revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. In the AMA, Jones offered insights into how product marketing works at Uber, along with tips and advice for other professionals in the field. Collaborating with Product Management.
Pragmatic Marketing
NOVEMBER 16, 2019
revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. In the AMA, Jones offered insights into how product marketing works at Uber, along with tips and advice for other professionals in the field. Collaborating with Product Management.
Proficientz
AUGUST 23, 2018
The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap: It’s Like Deep-Sea Fishing for Sales.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 5, 2020
So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets. PMs are ultimately accountable for the product's success or failure. The PMM helps build the value proposition and positioning of the product.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 16, 2018
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 16, 2018
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles.
Proficientz
AUGUST 13, 2019
A strategic product marketing function can be created with one simple move that pays three big dividends to the organization. Many product marketing professionals in B2B have long felt like the sales tools on-demand department and rightfully so. It’s a tough rut to climb out of when product marketing is perceived as a tactical extension of product management, tasked with little more than mobilizing product value propositions to drive sales.
bpma ProductHub
APRIL 17, 2017
By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” The vast majority of product roadmaps move the product in a positive direction, but desired results are only achieved if there is clarity around where it is taking you, and why. product/features/strategy.
Pragmatic Marketing
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Enter Christy Hecht’s real-world description of interconnected skills—three soft and six hard—for PMMs in an AMA via Sharebird , the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Hard skills: Market, competitor and product expertise.
Pragmatic Marketing
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Enter Christy Hecht’s real-world description of interconnected skills—three soft and six hard—for PMMs in an AMA via Sharebird , the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Hard skills: Market, competitor and product expertise.
Pragmatic Marketing
DECEMBER 3, 2019
One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. ” That research could be meaningless data if PMMs fail to get involved early in development and influence the overall vision for a product.
Pragmatic Marketing
DECEMBER 3, 2019
One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. ” That research could be meaningless data if PMMs fail to get involved early in development and influence the overall vision for a product.
Mind the Product
APRIL 24, 2018
I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. We’d already launched two successful Mac utilities, but this was the first time we’d launched a SaaS-style product – Setapp provides access to over 100 Mac apps in one suite. So, while developers were fixing bugs, we started to challenge our critical product pillars by reviewing our answers to the main product questions: Who is our customer?
The Product Coalition
APRIL 23, 2020
Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews. You take a step back to make sure it’s aligned with your company OKRs and product vision. However, this article is not about how to create that perfect roadmap.
Business of Software Conference
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?” Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 11, 2019
the main person in the Product team for Dashly. People like Dmitry are usually called Product Managers., they are responsible for new features, product development and only they decide if users really need this or that feature (jk, they make customer development based decisions). Those of you who read our book already know her Elena is a Product Marketing Manager. So it means that PMM’s main goal is to deliver the value of the product to the market.
Mind the Product
JULY 30, 2020
Developing your product strategy and communicating your product roadmap is a continual improvement process. Over my time as a product manager I have learned from some incredible product teammates on how to level up your product strategy to ensure it is as informed as possible, and communicated to your organisation’s stakeholders and customers in the [.]. The post 4 Ways to Level-up your Product Strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 4, 2017
All products start with one thing in common: teams face a certain degree of uncertainty about the market they’re targeting. Reducing uncertainty, therefore, comes as a result of learning cycles, and will ultimately allow a product to grow. You learn to reduce uncertainty; you reduce uncertainty to grow your product. When in Learning mode, you may realize that your product isn’t fit for market, because it has little or no traction. Product.
bpma ProductHub
APRIL 10, 2017
By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. Over 60 product professionals from more than 20 different companies gathered for a lively discussion at BWP’s Product Roundtable hosted by Wayfair on March 28th. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap.
Roadmunk
AUGUST 31, 2017
Any half-decent marketing is essentially storytelling. As a marketer, everything you create needs to tell the story of your product and the value it offers your users. That’s why roadmaps are such a natural fit for marketing teams. A marketing roadmap tells the story of your marketing strategy. We obviously use a ton of tactical software, but I go back to my marketing roadmap every week to regroup on the big picture.
BrainMates
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. Experienced Product Managers (working on SaaS products) will find this post more useful than Product Marketers.). Product marketing
ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups and established firms to introduce new products that will scratch that itch and deliver satisfaction. Whether the products they offer (and the price they sell them for) match the demand is (part of) where product-market fit comes in. Knowing when you don’t have product-market fit is simple. Getting to Product-Market Fit.
ProductPlan
APRIL 29, 2020
Product management turns chaos into order. Our job entails creating product roadmaps based on what’s doable and gives the product the most bang for its buck. But how can we be sure we’re making the right calls and roadmapping what matters most? Productivity expert David Allen once said , “You can do anything, but not everything.” This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Roadmaps
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 12, 2020
In preparation for applying to Product Marketing Manager roles, the standard application suite applies: a resume, cover letter, and maybe some additional materials like references or transcripts. prior PMM experience like developing go-to-market strategy or developing messaging frameworks), that’s great! At Current Company, I worked on a go-to-market plan for a new product under our hero brand that was projected to result in $5M+ incremental revenue.
Roadmunk
OCTOBER 5, 2017
While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. So we spoke to three product marketing managers to explain how they approach product releases while working in conjunction with product management.
Proficientz
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. Instead of constantly wrangling over competing product visions that no one can ever agree on, you’ll learn how to craft a short and long-term portfolio roadmap that mirrors the vision and business goals of your target customers.
Proficientz
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Value based product roadmaps should be structured like a customer org chart so that the business value of your product investment priorities is clear to executives, senior managers and users. View the short video to learn the most important questions your roadmaps have to answer, both internally and externally, and what people really want to know when they ask, “What’s on your roadmap?” ” Learn How to Create Your Value-Based Roadmaps.
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier.
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