From Vistage Village, Thanks to Editor Paul Diamond<\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness as usual\u201d is undergoing a transformation brought on by changing consumer tastes and dramatic economic pressures. Companies now have to find new ways to appeal to consumers scarred by the economic crisis of 2008-2009. These consumers spend less and save more; many are jobless, many lack trust in businesses, and many expect the government to provide a high level of service.<\/p>\n
Business operations are under numerous other pressures, including constrained credit, economic uncertainty, threat of increased inflation, low dollar valuation, excessive consolidation in many industries, the rapid pace of innovation, rising commodity prices and a constant pressure to do things better, faster and cheaper.<\/p>\n
The good news is: business is reorganizing and finding its way forward. To help you ensure the future of your business, we offer 12 trends that span the range from new consumer attitudes and emerging disruptive technologies to the latest marketing and business operation practices.<\/p>\n
Think of these trends as opportunities you can seize to give your customers more of what they want.<\/p>\n
The financial crisis that brought us to the brink of monetary end-times made consumers realize that governments, institutions and even brands don\u2019t have a good sense of the future\u2014and they certainly can\u2019t control a quickly developing crisis. Consumers have become fearful of what might happen next, and they no longer trust that enterprises operate towards a stable, long-term future.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are thinking more about the here and now, and less about things that may or may not last a long time,\u201d says noted trend analyst William Higham, author of\u00a0The Next Big Thing\u2014Spotting & Forecasting Consumer Trends for Profit\u00a0<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis sentiment leads us to buy based on our immediate needs. It also makes us want to take greater responsibility for ourselves across a range of sectors, rather than relying on media, politicians, professionals or brands, who we feel have let us down. For example, we are increasingly self-diagnosing and self-treating; scheduling media at the times we want; and making our own playlists rather than buying new compilation albums.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, people now understand that the pace of innovation rapidly outdates expensive technology purchases. The relative usefulness of smart phones, navigation systems, laptops, software, and televisions lasts no more than a year, sometime only months. When it comes to new technology purchases, consumers have learned to adopt a \u201cwait-and-see\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n Companies are now building brand loyalty by helping their consumers navigate through today\u2019s complexities and difficulties.<\/p>\n \u201cThese brands want to be seen as helping consumers through life,\u201d said Higham.<\/p>\n Brand aid typically takes the form of advice, information or free services provided to the public. Examples include:<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Microsoft: Publishes a free online magazine,\u00a0Home<\/em>, offering unbiased Internet guidance<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charmin: Offers free public restrooms for shoppers in New York\u2019s Times Square during the holiday season<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Evy Baby: This diaper company places branded changing rooms in Turkish<\/p>\n shopping malls<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0American Express: Created openforum.com to help business owners find success<\/p>\n Higham thinks the trend will expand to an entirely new aid market: \u201cTomorrow\u2019s consumers will pay a premium for brands that help them avoid activities that are either difficult, time consuming or unpleasant. This will be a particularly strong driver in the luxury sector, as definitions of luxury evolve from ostentation to experience and more recently convenience and privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n You know those people who buy something only if it\u2019s organic, eco-friendly or made locally? Soon most of us will make our purchases based on such highly selective, specific criteria.<\/p>\n \u201cCompanies should think about their consumers in terms of what, why and how they purchase,\u201d says Higham. Impulse buying is waning, giving way to purchases that are driven by enduring core values. \u201cWith less money to spend, there will be a reduction in impulse purchasing and a growth in conscious consumption: where individuals limit purchases to products that matter to them. Brands will increasingly need to provide a meaningful reason for consumers to buy their products: from strong aesthetics to durability, heritage to sustainability. And they will need to target their products more specifically to particular attitudinal and needs segments.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the key trends of the 2000s was the growth of choice. But a backlash has begun, as more and more consumers suffer choice fatigue. \u201cConsumers will increasingly seek, not unlimited choice, but an edited choice,\u201d says Higham.<\/p>\n Simplification creates three distinct marketplace opportunities for nimble companies, including:<\/p>\n \u2022 Recommendation as a service:\u00a0<\/strong>Recommendations and shortlists of options that give us the right choice rather than an abundance of choices will become increasingly popular. Additionally, products that reduce the need to make a choice will benefit from this trend.<\/p>\n \u2022 Single-occasion products:\u00a0<\/strong>Certain single-occasion products such as birthday cakes, wedding gowns and event insurance have long been with us. Now companies are elevating daily activities into occasions that pair with their products. \u201cYou can buy bottles of wine made to be drunk with specific dishes like fish or chicken; or coffee brands that are made to be drunk at specific times of the day.\u201d This pairing serves to simplify choice.<\/p>\n \u2022 Multi-use products:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf you own a single device that acts as phone, camera and music player, you don\u2019t need to decide which of several single-use products to take with you when going out.\u201d Multi-use products are marginalizing certain types of single-use products.<\/p>\n Cell phones are becoming virtual credit cards and mobile credit-card processing terminals. In Japan and Sweden, consumers have long been using cell phones to make purchases. \u201cMobile purchasing answers a real need in marketing\u2014closing the deal conveniently,\u201d says Philippe Cesson, Vistage speaker and president of\u00a0Cesson 3.0\u00a0, a social media and training company.<\/p>\n \u201cJust as customers embraced online shopping for its convenience, they will also embrace mobile purchasing.\u201d The U.S. has been slow to adopt the technology, but currently has four forms of mobile phone transaction in use, and these may become widely adopted, though who knows which technology will ultimately prevail. The four models for cell-phone transactions are:<\/p>\n \u2022 Swipe your phone:\u00a0<\/strong>Customers can securely swipe their cell phone and use it just like a credit card, making for a quicker transaction. Businesses can use this technology to gain more sales and increased conversion. One provider,\u00a0BlingNation\u00a0, is spreading this technology via community banks, which provide local merchants with a phone-swipe terminal and checking-account customers with a small adhesive tag that sticks to the back of their phone. Swipe the tag over the terminal to make a purchase. The transactions are processed directly by a local bank which results in lower fees than merchants normally pay for credit card transactions. This system is currently being tested in two Colorado towns. It appears to be work well for high-volume, lowprice purchases.<\/p>\n \u2022 Accept payments with your phone:\u00a0<\/strong>You can now buy a small card reader made by\u00a0SquareUp\u00a0that hooks to your iPhone, Android or Blackberry. When a customer wants to buy something from you, they simply swipe their credit card through this gadget connected to your phone, then they sign their name on your phone, and the transaction is complete. You can also email a receipt to the buyer. This solution works well for traditional businesses that want to sell items off-location at trade shows or festivals, and for consultants, one-person businesses, or artisans who want to accept payment by credit card but either can\u2019t get a merchant account or don\u2019t want one because of the fees. With this service you don\u2019t need a merchant account and there are no contracts or monthly fees. The cost per transaction hasn\u2019t been disclosed yet.<\/p>\n This service, which aims to be available in Q2 2010, is brought to you by the people who invented Twitter\u2014expect it to be highly disruptive to traditional merchant accounts.<\/p>\n \u2022 Enter your phone number online:\u00a0<\/strong>Customers shopping online can enter their cell phone number to check out and pay. They must reply to a text message sent by the site to complete the transaction. The customer then pays the charge on their monthly cell phone bill. Using a cell phone number is a lot quicker and easier than entering credit card and address info online, and it appeals to younger people and those who may not have a credit card. What\u2019s the rub? The transaction fee is painful\u2014as a merchant you must give 35 to 50 percent of the sale price to the mobile carrier that processes the transaction. These fees may drop in time.<\/p>\n \u2022 Transfer money via cell phone:\u00a0<\/strong>You can now transfer cash via text message. Both the sender and recipient need to register for a free account with a provider such as<\/p>\n Obopay.com\u00a0; once that\u2019s set up, sending money costs 25\u201350 cents per transaction, and the money can go directly from and to bank accounts. For small business owners it\u2019s an easy, inexpensive way to send or collect payment overseas. Wave goodbye to the fees, long forms and bank visits associated with wiring money.<\/p>\n These nascent mobile commerce platforms will likely battle it out, VHS-vs-Betamax style, while most of us will be on the sidelines with a wait-and-see attitude. Forward-thinking companies should dive in now, even if they risk adopting a platform that goes the way of Betamax.<\/p>\n \u201cPayment by cell phone empowers merchants to conduct business everywhere and at anytime,\u201d says Cesson. \u201cOne consequence of this technology is that it opens up every social interaction to potentially become a sales interaction.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cCompanies will increasingly base their brand on emotion, to avoid basing it strictly on price,\u201d says futurist and Vistage speaker\u00a0David Houle\u00a0. \u201cBrands with strong emotional content will command the highest prices.\u201d<\/p>\n Most successful brands establish a deep emotional connection with their customers, says Vistage speaker Ronald Strauss, author of\u00a0Value Creation: The Power of Brand Equity\u00a0<\/em>. Smaller businesses, he says, think of their brand only in terms of marketing collateral, logos, letterhead, and colors. Many CEOs are not yet tuned in to the emotional aspects of branding.<\/p>\n \u201cGiving your brand emotional content is not easy,\u201d says Strauss. \u201cYou must first learn to think of your brand as an organizing lens for how you run your business. You then have to understand how your stakeholders look at your brand and how you create or destroy value as your business delivers, or fails to deliver, on its brand promise.\u201d<\/p>\n Strauss offers these tips for small businesses to build an emotional-based brand:<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Acknowledge and recognize your customers. Have an ongoing relationship or loyalty program with your best customers. The program should make them want to tell their friends about what you do for them.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Figure out how to best serve your customers by studying what they do to serve their customers. Help them serve their customers better.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Infuse your brand with values that drive your products or services. People want to feel part of something bigger than themselves, and values such as quality, creativity, luxury, respect and integrity achieve this.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At every touch your customer has with your company, treat them consistently well. This makes them feel important.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Create satisfying experiences for your customers. People value sensory, pleasurable, intellectual, safe and consistent experiences. For products, these attributes are often achieved with packaging and design. For services, they are achieved by building trust, which comes from consistency of treatment.<\/p>\n The most common failure of brand to resonate emotionally, says Strauss, is when customers perceive indifference.<\/p>\n Just as you have to keep your credit score in good standing to own a credit card, you\u2019ll soon have to keep you online reputation in good standing if you want to be trusted or have influence online.<\/p>\n \u201cReputation measurement will become a massive economic enabler as we get better at assessing it,\u201d says futurist\u00a0Ross Dawson,\u00a0who authors the\u00a0Trends in the Living Networks\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/p>\n Already, within certain domains, user reputations are displayed. eBay displays a<\/p>\n \u201creliability ranking\u201d for each seller based on how much positive feedback they get from buyers, and \u201cAsk Vistage\u201d displays a bar above each user\u2019s name that shows how much they participate.<\/p>\n A few sites, such as klout.com, attempt to score reputations. But none yet has cracked the code of offering a comprehensive reputation score.<\/p>\n \u201cAssessing a business\u2019s online reputation is becoming more sophisticated,\u201d says Dawson. \u201cSoon we\u2019ll be able to create measures that tell how trustworthy and knowledgeable a person or business is based on their online networks, as well as positive or negative reviews, information they share, how that information is ranked and which sites link to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Look for reputation management to become as important to driving business online as search engine optimization is now.\u00a0 For small business owners, you should start building your reputation and your business\u2019s reputation now. According to Dawson, here\u2019s what you can do to start:<\/p>\n \u2022 Find out what\u2019s being said about you now. There are many free tools to discover this.<\/p>\n \u2022 Participate in social media so that you become more visible and have a \u201cright of reply.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Ask those who genuinely like what you do to recommend you or your work on online sites.<\/p>\n \u2022 Don\u2019t do anything online you wouldn\u2019t want people to find out about\u2014because they will.<\/p>\n Start building your reputation early to get ahead of the trend.<\/p>\n Segmenting your customers by demographics will soon be an antiquated practice. Smart companies are building robust profiles of individual customers.<\/p>\n You can create such profiles based on what your customers do on your website\u2014what content they view, what offers they respond to, what they buy, what information they enter during registration, which emails they respond to, and any other data you can collect on them. Once you build a profile of your prospect or customer, you can use the information to predict what offers and content they are likely to respond to and thereby increase your sales conversion rates.<\/p>\n \u201cBehavioral segmentation is a more sophisticated way to segment your customer than traditional demographics,\u201d says\u00a0Dr. On Amir\u00a0, Assistant Professor of Marketing at UCSD\u2019s Rady School of Management. An expert in consumer decision-making, Dr. Amir says that many companies don\u2019t have the internal knowledge to build websites that track behavior and present the most compelling offer to users based on their profile.<\/p>\n \u201cThe actual back-end programming is easier than figuring out what you want your program to do,\u201d he says. \u201cThe challenge is with the goals, not the programming.\u201d<\/p>\n One cornerstone of successful profiling is determining how different users respond to different offers. Companies use multi-variant testing (also known as A\/B testing) to present different offers to similar customers and figure out which offer has a better conversion rate. The goal of testing different messages can vary depending on what type of business you\u2019re in. For example, publishers may use it to serve the exact content a user wants without them having to go looking for it, online stores may use the information to cross-sell and up-sell customers, while small businesses can use it simply to figure out which web page their customers respond to best.<\/p>\n Sites such as Amazon and Netflix are leading the way with powerful recommendation engines based on vast stores of user data. Industry experts use many terms to describe behavioral segmentation; these include psychographic segmentation, customer profiling, web personalization, and behavioral targeting. Could a business practice with this many names be right for you?<\/p>\n \u201cIf you think your company can benefit from segmenting your customers,\u201d says Dr.<\/p>\n Amir, \u201cthen it\u2019s worth the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No business can escape the need to address sustainability as it goes more and more mainstream. Soon Wal-Mart will require all products to have a sustainability rating.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you don\u2019t understand green, you\u2019d better get started,\u201d says Vistage speaker David Houle. \u201cGreen means saving money and lowering expenses. If you believe in this, you should go green; also, your customers will be demanding it soon. Your customers are going to ask you about your total carbon output, and if you don\u2019t have an answer, they may find a new supplier. A carbon footprint will become part of the business balance sheet in the very near future.\u201d<\/p>\n But wait, things get more granular.<\/p>\n \u201cMore consumers will demand product footprinting\u2014a holistic, lifecycle picture of the climate impacts of your products and services,\u201d says Ryan Schuchard, Manager of Environmental Research and Innovation at Business for Social Responsibility.<\/p>\n What can you do to get ahead of the trend?\u00a0 For starters, get a carbon audit performed on your company, so you know your precise carbon output when customers ask for it. If your output is less than industry standards, than make a big deal out of it; otherwise, make the number publicly available with the commitment that you\u2019ll look for ways to start reducing it.<\/p>\n If you want to go a step further, get a lifecycle impact audit done on your products.<\/p>\n Look to your industry association to publish consensus-based standards for products in your sector. Start reducing your impact and advertise what you\u2019re doing\u2014it\u2019s one competitive advantage of the future.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are now creating a collective intelligence that will filter and respond to what\u2019s worthwhile,\u201d says futurist Ross Dawson.<\/p>\n What does collective intelligence mean for the average business owner? It\u2019s the opportunity to distill the \u201cwisdom of the crowd\u201d in a quick, cost- effective manner and get solutions for your pressing business issues. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n \u2022 Crowdsourcing:\u00a0<\/strong>When you broadcast a request for work you need done and people online willingly help, that\u2019s \u201ccrowdsourcing.\u201d For example, say you need to name a new product or want to rename your company. Go to the site namethis.com and post your request. Users of the site will offer names and vote on them. Once submissions are in, you pick the one you like best. It costs $99 to harness the crowd\u2019s brain\u2014significantly less than recruiting the services of a branding agency\u2014and the money goes to the person who picked the best name. Here are\u00a010 crowdsourcing sites explained\u00a0.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 Freelancers on demand:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cYou can now access the best talent from around the globe to work on your projects,\u201d says Dawson, who points to sites such as elance.com, odesk.com, freelancer.com and rentacoder.com. On these sites, companies can post job listings and freelancers worldwide can bid on them, usually in an auction-style format.<\/p>\n Caution: while this instant job bidding works well for small and non-complex tasks, it\u2019s not always suitable for large or complicated jobs.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cMy Ideas\u201d:\u00a0<\/strong>Companies are now gathering the opinions, ideas and recommendations of their customers and then surfacing the most popular of those. Mystarbucksideas.com is an example of how to tap the wisdom of crowds to innovate and figure out what your customers want.<\/p>\n \u201cWe now have tools to quickly access the knowledge and views of a large number of people,\u201d says Dawson. \u201cBusiness leaders should think about how they can best use collective intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The traditional sales process is being disrupted and transformed by robust websites, social media, online reviews and customers who value speed and convenience in purchasing.<\/p>\n \u201cFor over 100 years,\u201d says Vistage speaker Sam Bowers, \u201cthe cold call was the way the potential seller and buyer met each other and where information was shared. The salesperson educated the potential buyer about the features and benefits of the product or service. Marketing was nothing more than the support arm of the direct sales effort.\u201d<\/p>\n Smart companies are no longer \u201cselling\u201d goods and services. In the new paradigm, customers do their research online and read user-posted reviews and then figure out what they want.<\/p>\n Many companies are dismantling their sales forces and replacing them with marketing teams. Some companies, says Bowers, may have to straddle the old and new sales paradigms for a while and incur double costs, as certain industries still rely on the old sales process.<\/p>\n \u201cNow the process has been reversed,\u201d says Bowers, \u201cWe attempt to get the client to come visit us. Pull marketing instead of push selling.\u201d<\/p>\n So what are the elements you need to have in place to \u201cpull in\u201d customers? Here\u2019s a partial list:<\/p>\n \u2022 A robust website that offers detailed information about your offerings<\/p>\n \u2022 An easy way to buy your products or services online<\/p>\n \u2022 Real (and honest) reviews posted on third-party sites by your customers<\/p>\n \u2022 Targeted ads that point to your website<\/p>\n \u2022 A website that is optimized for search terms<\/p>\n Vistage speaker Tom Searcy, founder of\u00a0Hunt Big Sales, agrees with Bowers and adds that the traditional mechanisms that triggered large sales are dying quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cThe trade show was where you saw big equipment or large capital purchases,\u201d says Searcy. \u201cTrade-show attendance is down 15 to 20 percent year over year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe new initiation points for big purchases take place online in places like Linkedin groups or industry-focused user groups. Now when people look for a solution, they get recommendations from peers, then they read online reviews and view videos, then they go to a company\u2019s website. People don\u2019t call the manufacturer first, and they don\u2019t take cold calls.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs you move up in the size of expenditure and complexity of purchase,\u201d says Searcy, \u201ctrust and credentials become key influencers. Trust used to be built over three to four presentations and dinner meetings with a sales person, but we don\u2019t have the time for this anymore. Now the trust curve is built online.\u201d<\/p>\n To create trust in the marketplace, Searcy recommends that business leaders take the following steps:<\/p>\n 1) Capture your legends, fan base, users and products on video and put it on your website.<\/p>\n 2) Build your credentials by actively publishing articles and white papers, blogging, speaking, and contributing to LinkedIn groups on your area of expertise.\u00a0 You can also sponsor independent research and publish it.\u00a0HTS RESERVED. 221_1541_021710<\/p>\n 3) Affiliate your business with independent thought leaders. Sponsor their talks, publish their white papers, and invite them onto your board of directors or advisors.<\/p>\n 4) Get prized certifications and credentials in your industry.<\/p>\n 5) Partner with organizations that have market mass; for example, become an exclusive territory distributor for a big-name product or service.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the new sales model,\u201d says Searcy, \u201cthought leadership trumps personality and even relationships in generating trust. If you focus on that, you will have better opportunities coming to you.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Constant business pressure, due in large part to slow growth, is a hallmark of the \u201cnew normal.\u201d Businesses must now focus on creating products and offering services that are better, faster and cheaper than the competition.<\/p>\n Trend analyst and Vistage speaker Morris Segall, President of\u00a0SPG Trend Advisors, notes that several factors have combined to force businesses into the \u201cbetter, faster, cheaper\u201d paradigm. Those factors include: low consumer spending, high unemployment, low growth in consumer incomes, more restrictive and expensive credit, and an aging population.<\/p>\n \u201cTight controls on cash-flow have been a requirement for operating during the recession,\u201d says Segall, \u201cand businesses will need to continue operating with tight controls and creative flexible business models going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Segall offers this advice for companies that need to better control cash-flow and manage the balance sheet:<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Improve working capital by increasing asset turnover, lowering debt, and efficiently managing assets such as receivables, payables and inventory.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Compensate for low unit-volume sales growth and a competitive pricing environment by employing stringent cost control and planning practices.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Control labor costs by outsourcing, upgrading to new technology and migrating to more creative, web-based marketing and sales. Additionally, businesses can choose to do more with fewer workers by providing more extensive training, allowing them to take on more tasks.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Control other costs by revamping processes and distribution systems, and by partnering with other firms to share costs or augment product and service offerings.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Seek horizontal business opportunities to generate revenue with moderate additional capital investment.<\/p>\n \u2022 Use a flatter management structure (one that shortens a chain of command and relies more on a team concept) to reduce pure management expense.<\/p>\n \u2022 Incentivize workers to achieve individual and entity goals, thus aligning their achievements with company success.<\/p>\n \u2022 Improve your customer service. Going forward, first-rate customer service and customer service initiatives will define successful companies. Employers should look for workers who can be more complete, more productive and better informed in their jobs to provide great service.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing a more productive and efficient firm is not the entire solution,\u201d says Segall.<\/p>\n To offset slower growth in traditional business lines, he suggests that companies look for opportunities in industries and sectors that have revenue growth potential. Such growth opportunities will come from:<\/p>\n \u2022 Healthcare and public education reforms that require technological and process revamping<\/p>\n \u2022 Agricultural innovation that attempts to produce more food on less arable land with less water<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Water development and conservation to manage a shortage of potable water worldwide<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Energy conservation technology development and expansion<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Electric power grid and mass transit systems expansion and modernization<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 U.S. exports to fast-growing overseas economies<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 U.S. government spending and procurement increases<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 State and local government outsourcing of services<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Government and corporate spending on worker retraining<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Real estate rehabilitation and recycling in a shift away from traditional and more costly new development<\/p>\n \u201cThe new economy,\u201d says Segall, \u201cwill require innovation, renewed commitment to customer service and solutions; and, above all, every business owner and manager will have to be an entrepreneur to steer their businesses to success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Vistage Village, Thanks to Editor Paul Diamond Introduction \u201cBusiness as usual\u201d is undergoing a transformation brought on by changing consumer tastes and dramatic economic pressures. 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