How to use Claude Code for Beginners

Joe Apfelbaum walks through Claude Code and Claude Design for building AI agents that automate sales outreach and lead generation. He demos a prospect-sorting game, a med-spa directory builder, and a LinkedIn pipeline that tags 29,000 connections and feeds qualified leads into GoHighLevel for appointment setting.
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What'd you think?
Perfect. Perfect. Is it like another project that you're currently working on?
No, I'm just— okay, so I'll tell you what's going on here. You want me to tell you what's going on? I have a class. I have a class I'm doing on August 11th. Okay. I'm having a class on August 11th and I'm inviting people to join. I'm on LinkedIn Live right now. I don't know if you ever look at my LinkedIn, but I'm on LinkedIn Live right now and I'm talking to my audience and just saying, hey guys, look, I have a Claude Masterclass happening on August 11th. And my goal is to teach people how to use Claude Code, Claude Chat, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and just teach them how to use Claude to be able to build their own private AI operating system in one day. Own, connect, build. And it's 6 hours, August 11th from 11 to 5. And people can apply. They, they could go to evyus.com/claude. And they could apply there. And I made a song. So I'm going to make a rap song about it as well. You want to hear the rap song?
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Guys, seriously, you know that's that's the idea. The idea is building. By the way, do you like the music? Yes.
I love it. I was just like searching you on LinkedIn so I could join here as well, and I would be joining that, uh, 11th masterclass as well. Like, there are a lot of things, there are a lot of things that we're gonna start like, um, have to learn.
We have—
we're gonna like see you explain those, and obviously that makes sense. And after that Yeah, obviously, obviously the person, the personal peoples or the business owners, uh, that don't have any kind of idea, uh, how to run things. So that's why they like people, they hire people to do those jobs, right? So basically they're gonna be knowing how to do basic stuff that they hire people for by themselves, and they don't even have to do it by themselves.
Uh, right, right.
So yeah, they're like agents for those, and if they need any websites, they can just like Pitching the idea and he's gonna come up with examples and if they don't like one, move to another one.
And I have 43 different websites that I built, 43 different projects in the past month that I built, um, like landing pages, like using Claude Code. Yeah. Like I have, I have this tool called the prospectingparty.com where people come and they play the prospecting party game. Did you ever hear of the prospecting, the prospecting party game?
Uh, no.
So it's a game that I play. So for example, if I, if I go into, I could show you how it works. Um, but essentially the way it works is I have a, a website that I go to. I'm gonna just go to the website real quick and I can check in. All my clients can do this as well. We can check in and then we can play a game called the sort. The sort allows you to sort out all of your connections to determine which ones you know and which ones you don't know. So it loads up my 29,000 connections. I got 5 minutes to play, and then I can decide for each one. Okay, so for this guy, do I know him or I don't know him? If I don't know him, I press I don't know. If I know him, I press I know. And so I just basically, for example, Nancy Stevens, I know her, so I'm gonna press know them. Then it asks me, are they open for introductions? Do you need to ask them first, or will they not meet you, but I can ask for favors? I'm gonna say I need to ask them first. And then I could just go through each person and start segmenting my connections. Okay. And then this way, what ends up happening is the people that I know, like, and trust, the AI starts knowing who I know and who I don't know. And then based on that, it starts making recommendations as to who I should actually build a relationship with, who I should prioritize, and who are the people that I don't know that I should actually be getting to know. Because here, there's a bunch of people you don't know yet. That you should get to know. And it'll also show me who I don't know that my clients know, because my clients are doing this at the same time. So we're all doing this at the same time. And as a result, we can all see, okay, I know this person. I don't know this person. This person's an ideal client. This person's not an ideal client and so on. And as a result, we're able to build relationships based on who we actually know. Do you get what I'm saying?
Got it.
And we take—
basically like, then you're gonna have a line of people that have same interest as you. So in business-wise or personal relationship-wise, are these people aligned with your—
Yeah, they get, they get, they get me in the door. They literally get me in the door with these people. Now, some people I need to follow up with. So for example, this guy I need to follow up with. I'm gonna press follow up and then I'm gonna press know them. I know who they are and they are open for intros. And then, you know, when my clients ask me, hey, do you wanna meet this person? Do you actually know this person? I'd be like, yeah, I actually have a relationship with him. I recognize his name. So most people that you're connected to, you're probably not gonna recognize their name. But if you do recognize their name, what you wanna do is you wanna make sure that you label that for the AI saying, hey dude, I recognize this guy. Don't just message him anything. Let me review everything. But for the people that You know, for the people that I don't recognize, then I don't care what the AI sends them. I don't even know who it is. You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Until unless they respond back and, uh, you know, even when they respond back, it doesn't really matter to me. It doesn't really matter. You know, like for me, it's about, for me, it's about saying, look, I don't even know these people. I have all these people. I don't even know who they are. So I need to, You know, you could do whatever you want with these people because they're not my relationships. I don't even know them. But for the people that I know well, I got to be careful what I do. You know what I mean?
Right, right.
Um, and that's the idea. And so I'll—
Great, great idea. The great idea of like when you started the song, um, I, I generally had an idea like maybe you were starting on any other project And that's basically like the idea and what you're currently working on and how you're looking to launch.
Yeah, but I have quite a few projects like this. This is not the only project. So there's another project that I have right now where what I do in this other project is I— let me just finish this. I'm going to finish this off over here. I have a couple more. I got one more. So I'm going to do this. I know him. Okay, so my round is over. I tagged 120 people. There's another one. So if I go back to— if I go to Speakeasy— no, not this one. So if I go to speakeasyspas.com, I have 28,000 businesses that the Claude Code agent, let's call her Martha, added to the system in 158 cities, 43 states. You see that? So what it's doing is it's finding med spas, facial spas, and dermatologists and adding them to a directory. And what it's doing in the directory is it's putting their company name, their website, and their phone number there. And also their store hours and other information about their business. And your goal is, as an appointment setter, is to call each one of these places And see who the owner is and if they're interested in getting some help with their marketing. Do you know what I mean? So we're using a tool called GoHighLevel. Have you heard of GoHighLevel?
Yes, I've like actually used it for like 2 and a half years.
Okay, great.
I was actually working with a property management company in like Charlotte, North Carolina. His name was Philip Thompson. He actually owns a company named ZD Maintenance. So basically what he was doing was he was actually a middleman. Like, he was not a person who was running a property management company. He was not a person that have like any kind of company that have all the contractors under it. Like you can say electrician, plumbers. Basically what he was doing, he was having me reach out to those like property management companies or base. And on top of it, all the other like home care societies or HOA societies, you know? So he was having me reach out to them, asking them like, do they have any kind of room to add any other contractor? Because what we were representing to as another company was basically had 2 companies that were under ZD Maintenance. So one was having all the contractors, or you can say electrician, plumbers, like roofers, all of those people under his name. He has the cars, he has like every kind of document. So they represent him. What he was doing was reaching out to the property management companies or directly to the societies. And if they need anything, they can— obviously there is a contract that goes out for bidding whenever a job comes up, right?
Yeah.
So what he was having me do is I was helping him put us in his system. So he basically, whenever they post a job, He can get that job, and also like he can start bidding on it. So if he can win one, obviously, like then they can start working together in the future as well. And on the other hand, hello. How he was like?
Hello, my friend Matthew.
Sorry.
Hi. Do you guys have mark? Do you guys do any marketing right now? Are you guys doing any marketing for your spa?
What do you mean?
Like like who handles your website? Do you have a website?
It's the owner handle. My owner not here.
Okay, what's the owner's name?
I don't know.
When can I speak to the owner? I'd love to speak to the owner.
Okay.
There you go. So, so they hung up. So what we want to do is we want to go through each person and try to figure out if we could speak to the owner.
Right.
Call each person, find out if we could speak to the owner. And if we could speak to the owner, that's great. We speak to the owner and see if, if this is a person that potentially we could have a conversation with about their marketing.
Right.
That's the idea.
And once we have a conversation, we can like add notes, put them in the next stage. And see what the process is.
Yeah, you add them to a pipeline. I don't know if they even have a website. You see they have an email over here, it looks like.
Thank you for calling Salon DiCapelli. We're unable to take your call at the moment, but we'd love to assist you. Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday. Okay, so now it's already 5, so most of the places are closed.
closed already. Um, but this is a great place to email and say, hey, I called you after hours and I'd love to get an AI agent that picks up the phone for you because I just called them and nobody picked up. You get it?
Right.
So right now they could have, um, they could easily be able to, you know, you can get, we have a list of, of 13,000 people that you need to call. You see that? To try to book a meeting with them. So that's, okay, that's one, that's one company. And then the other company that, well, we need to make phone calls. So the AI agent Claude Code is taking all these companies and adding them to a list in the CRM. You see?
Mm-hmm.
That's what it's doing. Now I have another company where people are, 8 minutes ago, somebody just submitted right over here. You see this guy, Greg?
Right.
So I'm going to go ahead and call Greg right now and watch what I do if he picks up. Let's see if he picks up the phone. Let's see if Greg picks up. Literally 8 minutes ago, he submitted.
So that's for LinkedIn, right?
Yep. He requested some information about the LinkedIn 99 hacks.
Got it.
So we'll see if he picks up the phone. Now what I could also do is I could easily—
Your call has been forwarded to voicemail.
So he didn't pick up. I'm going to press end. I'm going to go to the opportunities tab. In the opportunities tab, I called every single person in the Claude Masterclass here, but what I'm going to do here is I'm going to go here and go to the 99 Hacks. You see? And then what I could do is I can call all the people in this opportunity section here. So it's 14 people. I'm going to press dial and it's going to call all the people now.
Right.
And as it calls them, it automatically opens up the CRM. You see that?
Perfect.
But now it's not ringing. There's no, there's no noise of it ringing. Why? Because I turned off the noise. I said, don't, don't ring. You get it?
Okay. Right. Yep. I've used the same setup. It was, I think so, a med spa company, basically. Not that they were taking care of all the after hours and also all the inquiries that people were making through their Instagram or Facebook ads. So they were like, they have contracts with 59 med spas that they were taking care of. So all were added in the same CRM. So any kind of inquiries that they have, like, we can just like switch the company, see the details, and just like give them a call and book them up.
That's great.
Hello?
Hi, is this Hassan?
Yes, Hassan speaking.
Hi, Hassan. The reason I'm calling is because you requested some information about LinkedIn training for the 99 LinkedIn Hacks. Are you looking for clients or are you looking for a job? Which one, Hassan?
I'm looking for how to make money.
You're looking for how to make money. How much money do you want to make?
Tell me how first.
Well, the number one way to make money is to have conversations with people and to figure out what problems they're facing right now. Are you a managing director for Shade Oasis Canada?
That's right. How did you know?
Because I looked at your LinkedIn. I, I, mm-hmm. I, my, I have an AI agent that tells me every single person that, um, submits information to us, the AI agent will tell us who they are, where they live, where they work, what they do. And then I can call them up and try to figure out, okay, how can I add value to your life? So the first thing you need to do is to be successful is you need to have an offer. You need to know what you're offering people. So for example, Mm-hmm. I have an offer and my offer is to help you be able to figure out your offer. Do you get what I'm saying?
Yeah.
And my offer is also to help come up with a strategy to be able to make more money. And if you, if you wanna make more money, if you're interested in, in, in getting more business and making more money, we can definitely help you do that. We can help you make more money. The question is, how much money do you wanna make a year? Do you want to make, let's say, an extra $100,000? Or is that too much? Or is that too much money for you?
No, it's not too much money. Well, well, let's see how can we make money before we take a target.
Before we take a target, we think about how to make money, or do you first pick your target and then figure out what they need? Which one?
Okay.
What do you think? What do you think? What do you think is wiser? Do you think it's wiser to first come up with a product and then look for a customer, or do you first pick the customer and figure out what the customer needs and then offer the customer what they need? What's easier to find, a customer when you have a product or a product when you have a customer? What's easier?
A customer to fulfill his needs.
Correct. So you first find the customer, then you find the product. So for you, for example, I found you. I don't have anything to sell you yet because I don't know what you need. But now that I found you, I know that you're hungry. You want to be successful. You're already a successful guy. I mean, you're on LinkedIn with a suit and a tie. You know what I mean? You didn't show up in your underwear. You showed up with a suit and a tie. So, and you posted on LinkedIn 4 months ago. So that means you don't really know how to use LinkedIn. So I think for you, the first step would be is to learn how to use LinkedIn. That would be the first step. So tomorrow, tomorrow we don't have a session, but on Monday, at Monday, we have a session at 10:00 AM. And I'd like to book you in for 10:00 AM Eastern. Are you available to meet with my team at 10:00 AM Eastern? We'll show you how to get How to make money from LinkedIn?
You know, um, Monday in Canada is a holiday.
Oh, it's a holiday. So you're— are you taking off on the holiday? Are you gonna—
It's a family thing.
You're having a family— you're having a family thing?
Yeah.
Okay.
So, okay. So what about on Tuesday? Are you available on Tuesday at 2:30 PM Eastern? Hassan, Tuesday at 2:30 PM Eastern. Is that good for you?
Hello?
Yes, yes.
Okay.
Okay, great. So I'll set you up for Tuesday at 2:30 PM Eastern. Does that work?
Yeah, please send me a message.
I'm not going to send you a message. I'm going to send you an email with a calendar link. And in that, in that, in that calendar, you're going to have the calendar link so you can come on Zoom. Do you know how to use Zoom? Not every— not everybody knows, believe it or not. I have to ask, you know what I mean? You seem like you're a very smart guy, so you probably know how to use Zoom. So August 4th at 2:30. I'm also going to send you a questionnaire with some questions that you can answer to prepare for the meeting. Is that okay? Can you fill that out when you get it?
Yeah, sounds good.
Okay, great. Well, I booked you in from on the calendar. I'm looking forward to seeing you then. Thank you so much for your time and enjoy the holiday and enjoying the weekend.
Thank you.
All right.
Good day.
You're welcome. Take care. Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Okay. What did you hear there? What did I do?
What a call, man.
What?
What a call.
You would have called what?
It was, it was, yeah. Couldn't, couldn't have done better than that.
I booked.
That was a perfect call.
Yeah. I booked, I booked, I booked a meeting.
Yeah.
I booked a meeting.
So that meeting. Yeah. A meeting that he wants.
Right. So look, at the end of the day, the goal is, the goal is what? To book meetings.
The goal is to get a, yeah. Book meetings, get a client who's Hungry who's looking for more business.
Exactly. And to have a conversation and to talk and to talk about them. Now, did I just say, hey, when are you available? Or did I say Tuesday at 2:30? Which one?
Tuesday at 2:30. So you have to let them know that we are busy as well. So I have this slot. Are you available on that slot? But you want to do that. Got it.
Exactly. And that's not something that you did when we spoke last. You— that's— that was one of your points of failure. Remember that?
Yes, I do.
So I want to I want to role play with you and see if if you learned anything. Do you want to do that?
Yes, we can do that.
Okay.
Hello, is this Janet?
Who's this?
Hi, the reason I'm calling is because you requested some information today at 1:17 p.m. About getting training on how to use LinkedIn. Are you looking for a job or are you looking for clients? Which one?
Uh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't intentionally request that.
Oh, okay. Should I delete— should I delete your number? I shouldn't delete your number. I should delete your number. I guess I'm going to delete your number because I don't want to waste my team's time. Okay. Disqualified, lost, move on. Next. Not interested. Not interested. I'm just gonna say bad number.
Oh, it's the second one. Not interested.
Okay. But do you understand what I'm doing here? What am I doing?
Yes. Basically asking. Not asking. Just like, first of all, you told him what he does because you already knew. You just like searched his like LinkedIn. You knew what he was doing. And also, you also knew that he has posted like four months ago because you can see that. And use this as your benefit. So you can engage him in a conversation. You can let him know that I know about you, I know what you're currently doing, but I don't know what you need. So are you currently hungry? Like, are you looking to make more money? Who doesn't want money?
Well, some people don't want money. Bill Gates doesn't want more money. Richard Branson doesn't want more money. You know, the people, the people that are already very, very successful, Tony Robbins, you know, Mark Cuban, these are the people that are not necessarily looking for more money. They're looking to make an impact. Looking to make a difference.
Yes.
So I'm always trying to figure out, okay, what do you need right now? And is there a way that I can help you? And if this woman says, no, I'm not looking for anything. I clicked on it by mistake. I'm sorry. Okay, move on. Have a good day. I'm not gonna waste your time. I'm gonna move on. I'm not gonna convince you. I'm gonna try to keep you on the phone and have a conversation to see if I can bring you to an event. But if you wanna go and you hang up, you move on. It's your loss. Do you know what I mean? Right, right. So that's the idea.
It's a great idea, great idea. So we're gonna like work on both of those campaigns like that you showed me. The first one, the second one. First one was for Med Spa if they need like any marketing services, and the second one.
Yeah.
I'm not available at this time to take your call.
Yeah, exactly that. That's, that's, that's—
So you've also recorded a voicemail?
My, I have voicemails that are automatically recorded with my voice that get, that get dropped when the person doesn't pick up the phone.
Yeah, I've seen that in the like, um, details of the project, or you can say the product that we're currently running, um, when I was like looking at the details on the website.
Exactly.
Yeah, so it clones their voice. It's the same exact voice, whatever they wanna say.
Exactly. And the beauty is Claude Code can do all that. So for example, one thing that I did is I created a community of creators and I took all those creators and then I put all their, all their LinkedIn profiles on a page. It's 12,000 creators. And I put it all on a page and then I made that available for people to be able to learn from. People, people can learn from these creators and build a relationship, get to know them and learn from them. That's the idea. The idea is learning from these people. So my goal is to just help people be able to find access to information that they need and using Claude Code, I'm able to build out these directories, these websites, these resources that helps people be able to be more successful. That's the idea.
Right. Make their life simpler, make them more money, help them save their time.
Exactly. Exactly. So that's, that's, that's what I'm, that's what I'm off to do. And I want to teach more people how to use LinkedIn to do those things. That's the idea, using, learning how to use LinkedIn to using— how do you— learning how to use Claude to find the right customers, to do the right activities, and to be able to build relationships. That's the idea. And most people are not doing it. Most people are not doing it correctly at all. So I'm very—
Most of them are not because they don't have any idea. Like they haven't used that platform ever. If they have even used one, they're just going to focus on that specifically. They don't know like if they have any Other ways to—
here's another example. You can pull up Claude right now and you can literally have an actual conversation with Claude. Hey Claude, what's going on? How's life?
Hey Joe, life's good. Thanks for asking. Ready to dig into whatever you've got going on. How are things on your end today?
I noticed that you switched to Opus 4.8 when I started talking to you instead of Fable 5. What happened there? Does the voice only work on Opus 4.8?
Honestly, I don't have a clear window into the routing logic behind the scenes, so I can't tell you exactly why it landed on Opus 4.8 versus— Okay.
So that's Claude. Now we're going to change to a different agent to talk to a different agent over here. And we're going to have a conversation with it. Hey, good morning. I just want you to explain to everyone the power of Claude Code. Can you do that today?
Good morning. Absolutely. The power of Odd Code is that it lets you move faster with clarity.
No, no. Claude. Claude Code. Claude Code.
Oh, Claude Code. Yeah, that I can do. Claude Code's power is turning plain English into real working code fast. Prototypes, automations, little agents.
But with the desktop app, with the desktop app, you no longer need to write any code. You just tell it what to do and it works on your computer. And then it deploys working code into the servers.
Exactly. You just describe what you want in everyday language, and the app handles the scaffolding, the boring parts. Then it can spit out the code and push it live for you. It's like having a tireless junior dev who ships fast, but you still steer.
Well, why do you call it a junior dev? Can you explain that a little bit?
Totally. I say junior dev because it's super fast and, and helpful, but you still wanna review what you're doing. It gets you 80% there, but your judgment makes it production worthy.
Okay.
That said, it can increasingly ship on its own as you build trust.
When you say ship on its own, what do you mean by that?
Hmm.
I mean, It goes from your description to live code. So, set up, deploy, basic monitoring. You still provide guardrails, but fewer manual steps.
Okay.
Okay.
So, I put it on auto mode, and when it's on auto mode, it just goes and does the stuff. I don't have to like worry about what it's doing.
Let me take a quick pass here. Think of auto mode as delegated execution. It can write files, run tests, install packages, even deploy if you've given it that access, but you've still set the objective and guardrails. It's not magic and it's not infallible. In practice, let it run in dev or staging, review the plan or diff, then promote upstream. You are the manager. It's the engineer. And it keeps working until it truly needs your input.
Okay, so if Claude Code is powerful, um, what do you think about Claude Design?
Checking. Honestly, the way I'd put it is Claude Design is where you sketch the product and experience the flows, wireframes, style systems, UX decisions. Claude Code is where you implement that. You build the actual app. Used together, you can go from idea to polished interface to working code really fast.
So if somebody uses Claude Code and they use Claude Design hand in hand, what are the benefits for a business owner that learns how to do that?
It collapses the distance between idea and execution. You can prototype fast, test with real users, Automate repetitive ops and iterate daily instead of quarterly. That speed compounds across sales, onboarding, support, reporting, and boosts velocity without immediately adding headcount.
Yeah, and that's the idea. You don't have to add headcount.
Yep, right, exactly.
Use it to buy back time and keep focus. Still review critical flows and sensitive data, but don't let perfectionism stall learning. Small, safe bets, tight feedback loops.
My goal is to help people learn how to use Claude Code. What do you think of that?
I love that. Teach the workflow, not just the tool. Start with problem framing, then design exploration, Then safe implementation with checkpoints. Give people one repeatable loop. Describe, delegate, verify, iterate. That's your superpower.
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And when you have that superpower, like, you become unstoppable.
Exactly. It's leverage. You move from, I have an idea, to it's live. Let's test and learn in days, not quarters. That momentum changes what's possible.
Yeah.
Yeah. And so what's, what's the, uh, what's the goal here?
The goal is turning speed into learning. More shots on goal, faster feedback from real users, quicker revenue signals. When you own both design and shipping loops, you steer the business with evidence, not hunches.
So if, if someone learns how to create a Claude Code instance on a VPS server, and then it's able to monitor their competitors, it's able to manage their lead flow, it's able to create dashboards and automations and be able to have full control databases. I'm talking about anything you want. What do you think? What do you think somebody that's a regular business owner will get from understanding how to be able to set up a simple VPS, SSH into it with Claude Code, set up an environment, set up a domain, and then be able to just ship websites, ship projects, create automations, set up MCPs, set up APIs, do whatever they want in the secure.
Mm-hmm.
VPS that's on always. You could put Hermes on it, OpenClaw. You could connect a Telegram thing to it. It's always live, it's always ready to go, and you're always connected to it.
Hmm.
Here's how I think about it. You stop being someone who has to hire everything out and you become someone who can direct the robots. That means when you see a need, you can create internal tools. Automations, dashboards, little agents in hours or days, not quarters. Instead of adding headcount for every new idea, you validate quickly. Your VPS becomes like an always-on operations hub. The net is time back, faster learning, and a business that can move at your speed, not the speed of your backlog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow. Well, I appreciate you spending time with me and letting everybody know how important it is while I show everybody how we are, how we can comment on Facebook using Evie AI's new extension.
Sure. Happy to help. That's actually a great example of the whole idea. AI plugged into real workflows to make day-to-day business Smoother. Teach the build skills with Claude Code, then show tools. Wait, you don't write anything down after conversation where they fit? That 1-2 is pretty powerful.
Yeah. And now Evie AI can also leave comments on YouTube videos. So if I click into a YouTube video, we get context of the YouTube video, and then we read the context of the YouTube video, and then we drop We drop a comment in there. That's, that's powerful.
Totally. Context-aware engagement is a clear practical win. Less time staring at a blank comment box, more time actually connecting. And as you teach it, emphasize thoughtful participation over volume.
Yeah, true. Because Volume can become AI slop.
Exactly. Quality control matters. A good rule is human in the loop. Let AI draft, you approve.
Something's wrong. It says something's wrong on my Twitter account. Trying to get into my Twitter and it's not working. Hmm.
Okay. Try refreshing first. If it persists, sign out and back in or try a private window. If that fixes it, it may be session or extension related. Does the error show on Twitter itself?
I'm going to try on my cell phone and see if it works on my cell.
Sounds like a plan.
All right, well, thank you very much for being here with me. Appreciate it. And we'll talk soon.
Boom.
Wasn't that fun?
It was great fun. Yeah, I actually tried that. I have one. I have one actually. I named him Jarvis.
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