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Our FULL VERSION Fan Page software is now free

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:00:23 +0000

Several months ago, we launched our first Facebook app, PagePress App and it was a major success – today, it’s being used by users from 133 countries, powering almost 10,000 Fan Pages and featured in KillerStartUps.com.

Today, our company is releasing a “sequel” to it, introducing… PageTab App:

Facebook Fan Page Tab

We cannot avoid the fact that marketing on Facebook is becoming very important regardless of whether you’re promoting a brand, business, product, service, company, affiliate programs, store and so on. And one thing that you’ll need is a Fan Page.

If you already using a Facebook Fan Page, you’ll immediately know how to appreciate PageTab App.

And if you do not have a Fan Page yet, this app is going to help you create your Fan Page in just a few minutes!

Get PageTab App beta for free:

http://www.pagetabapp.com

Keep in mind that this is not an internet marketing product, there are no one-time offers, long salesletter, etc. This is a software developed for the general public.

This app might not even be useful to you at all, but because it’s a valuable software and our company is offering it for free, I thought of sharing it with you. Or maybe, you have friends who need it.

*Is This REALLY Free?*

It’s a fact that a software like this CANNOT be free. There are so much development cost we’ve spent and there are real ongoing cost like cloud hosting, SSL certification, support, bug fix and so on. But right now, it’s available for 100% free.

Let me explain why…

Our company is changing focus for 2012. We’ll be less involved with “internet marketing” stuff but use our resources to be involved in web development. The software might still have bugs (that’s why it’s called beta) and we’re now collecting feedbacks. In the next upgrade, we might start changing but when you register today, it’ll always be free for you – that’s our company’s promise to you.

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Facebook App for WordPress Blogs – FREE!

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:20:35 +0000

Our company has just released a brand new Facebook app, PagePress, it’s now at “beta”. This is a Facebook app for WordPress users.

And we’re releasing the full features (this is not a lite version) so that we can get feedbacks from users — we’ll even pay for the SSL certification and hosting!

If you want it for free, go now to:

http://www.pagepressapp.com

If you use WordPress or planning on using one, you’ll love this app.

With this app…

Get more traffic for your blog from Facebook fan page! The fanpage automatically becomes another source of traffic for your WordPress blog and get more readers.
Save time updating your fanpage! Instantly feed your fan page with valuable content without taking up any additional time, energy and resources – never have to worry about updating your fanpage again.
Build stronger relationship with your readers! Create a legion of loyal blog readers and Facebook page fans simultaneously.
And other cool stuff you can think of!

Basically, PagePressApp will take the content from your WordPress blog and publish it on your Facebook fanpage, including integrating the blog post into your fanpage’s wall!

Watch this video to see how it works:

Start syndicating your WordPress blog’s content to Facebook fanpage:

http://www.pagepressapp.com

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3 More Valuable Free Resources For Your Business

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:25:17 +0000

Yesterday, I’ve blogged about the 3 resources you can use for free. I thought of sharing more these with you today…

How To Set Up Your Google+1 Account Report - This is a step-by-step guide of how to setup your own Google +1 Account with screenshots that you can follow easily and include some details about what it is. It’s for newbies but it may come handy for you if you’re new to Google + 1. Click Here To View for Free.

SEO Tool for Chrome - Imagine with a click of a button, you can know almost of the important SEO data of a website (most likely, your competitor’s). With SEO for Chrome, you can do this… and it’s FREE. Find out backlinks, social media stats, page indexed, traffic stats and a whole lot more! Click Here To Download for Free.

Facebook Tab Manager – Just like I’ve mentioned in yesterday’s post, Facebook is definitely the Web 2.0 platform that you want to explore. There are millions of people inside there for you to get them into your business and mainly, there are 2 ways how you promote in Facebook – using the Facebook ads or the Fanpage (there are others too like apps, events, etc). This resource will allow you to create Fanpage landing pages instantly by using WordPress platform for free. So instead of buying or paying for any piece of software that do the same (probably with more features), why not get started with this free tool and play around to promote in Facebook first? Who knows, you might just start making money from Facebook with a free tool like this. Click Here To Download for Free.

I hope you like these resources and please leave your comments below. I read every one of them personally and definitely like to hear from you.

Patric Chan

P.S: If you haven’t secure a seat to Internet Business LIVE 2 yet, you’re really losing out something valuable. This is going to be my last ‘big’ seminar this year and it will probably be the last seminar that I’ll be doing together with my partner, Ewen. And the investment to attend is insanely affordable. Click here to secure a seat now.

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Here Are 3 Useful Free Resources

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:25:15 +0000

I like to share with you 3 useful free resources – one is a report from Facebook, another one is a SEO tool and the last one is video creation tool.

1. Facebook Ads Optimization Guide – Facebook ads is the “next frontier” since Google Adwords are so reluctant to run our ads nowadays. Instead of reading Facebook ads guides from marketers, why not hear it from the horse’s mouth? The Facebook Ads Optimization Guide is prepared by Facebook so I’m sure you’re going to get some valuable information there and they even include a case study of their successful client. Click Here To Download for Free.

2. The Competiton Spy Tool – With this little tool, you can find out who your Google page 1 competitors are – and also find up to 1000 of their backlinks (Unless you’re in a super saturated market, your competitors probably won’t have anywhere near 1,000 backlinks.) The reason this is so useful is because it takes out the guess work – you can compare your own backlinks with your competitor. this is not a fancy or full-blown SEO tool, but useful for a quick here. Click Here To Download for Free.

3. Xtranormal – This is not 100% free, but it’s still worth the time to check it out. Have you seen those cool and funny animated videos used by internet marketers or in Youtube.com? Guess what, you don’t need to be a designer or video wiz to do them. Click here to see an example of a video made by my coaching student previously using this service. It’s funny. Imagine if you start creating these kinds of videos and make them viral! The website is http://www.xtranormal.com

I hope you like these resources and please leave your comments below. I read every one of them personally and definitely like to hear from you.

Patric Chan

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Big bucks business!

admin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:51:57 +0000

I want to tell you how you can make BIG BUCKS in this video:

CLICK HERE

Okay, let me just reveal it here…

You see, selling ebooks, courses, etc is surely a good business but I don’t think it can compare to… building and owning your own social networking site.

Yes, becoming a “facebook” but for sub-niches.

You really got to watch this video for some brilliant money-making ideas from this whole concept:

Watch It Now…

Talk soon,

Patric

P.S: I’m going to start this project now. Months later, you’ll see my own social site making money, I just don’t want you
to miss out this hot opportunity.

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The 7 Rules Of Social Media

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:33 +0000

It’s time for me to talk about social media and some ‘rules’ to make this work profitably.

Social media is powerful because it has a “different” kind of traffic – they can get engaged with you on your site and be interactive.

They’ll want to express their viewpoints and “talk” with you which, make this traffic source more “closer”.

The 7 Rules of Social Media Success:

Rule #1: Make your site and your site’s content easily accessible. Finding you is one thing, but what will they find when they get there?Can your audience easily link to it? How can they be notified of updates to your site? How easy is it to broadcast or syndicate? How easily can they reach your site over and over again?

Rule #2: Include buttons and links on your page that’ll make tagging and book marking easy to do. Adding bookmarklets to your site makes it easy for your audience to have a say or express the value of your site. It makes it easy for them to promote and comment as well. You’ve seen those Facebook “like” buttons lately? Even Clickbank uses it a lot now.

Rule #3: Reciprocate any incoming links. Use features like trackbacks (for WordPress blogging) or retweet in Twitter and so on. It’s an added
incentive to make others wanting to link to you again and often.

Rule #4: Make your content portable (even off the web) using mp3s, pdfs, etc. Make it easy to link to or easy to add on their site. One of the best examples of sites that do this is YouTube. They provide a URL as well as an embed code that makes vlogs portable. With the trend of mobile marketing now, making content available through formats such as pdfs and mp3s definitely improves your content consumption.

Rule #5: Allow others to take your idea and make it their own. We’re not talking about plagiarism, but about collaboration. Some of the greatest ideas can come as a result of someone taking your idea to the next level. At the very least, your audience will appreciate your ideas and give you some acknowledgement. REMEMBER – community is all about sharing.

Rule #6: Always act as a resource for your audience even when there’s no apparent benefit. The more helpful you are, the greater your efforts will be appreciated and these benefits will materialize over the long term.

Rule #7: Be free with giving recognition and praise to your audience for providing insightful and useful comments on your site. People love to be noticed for their contributions. Make them feel good about you by making them feel good about themselves.

These rules provide the foundation for your search media optimization strategy. I think if you start incorporating these rules as a part of your site’s plan, you’ll see immediate benefits and ultimately, make you more money.

For me, you’ll see more of social media work down the road. It’s TIME.

Feel free to leave your comments below, let me know what you think.

To your social media success,

Patric Chan
www.YouChanDoIt.com

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Sunday Email #45: About Teaching Internet Marketing

Patric Chan — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:34:01 +0000

If you’re new to my subscription and wondering what is a “Sunday Email”, it’s an email full of my rants, personal tips and opinions on marketing especially in the “internet marketing” niche. Sometimes, opinions on life. Whatever it is… it’ll give you value after spending time reading it. To make sure you won’t miss any future issue, subscriber for free at www.sundayemail.com. You can still read the archive at my old blog.

You know– sometimes my Sunday Emails can be harsh. Cuts through like a ninja’s blade. But come on, they’re my rants. If I want to keep everyone happy and write about the colorful rainbow, birds chirping, flowers blooming, etc then I should just opens up a nursery home and take care of children.

So if you can relate to what I wrote when reading it– good because I know it had just served the purpose of helping people.

Re: Teaching Internet Marketing

I’m just back from California do Disneyland, went to Bryan Adams concert, stayed at Ranchos Valencia, visited San Diego Zoo and other stuff. Actually, I’m not technically back yet as I’m in Hong Kong right now, waiting for my transit.

So I thought this is a good time for me to write another issue of Sunday Email when my mind is still ‘relaxed’. :-) This time, I’m going to talk about how hard it is to teach internet marketing nowadays and whether you can still make money online.

If you’ve been a reader since my last blog post, you would have realized that my entire blog design has changed. Actually, my entire business model is changing – I want to be more focused and less active in internet marketing niche. I want to be like my students… working at home, making money online quietly and so on instead of being a Company. I know being ‘focused’ and ‘less active’ might sound contradictory but you’ll understand what I mean at the end of this blog post.

It’s getting harder and harder to teach people internet marketing.

You see, it’s hard to teach people the real way of internet marketing because there are so many hypes and lies out there.

Let me first pick on social media. You see, social media is a very powerful marketing tool IF it’s an extension of an established brand or a business. What do I mean? Well, if you’re Robert Kiyosaki who sold millions of copies of Rich Dad book series, then you’re going to do well with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other stuff. Why? Because like I said, they’re extension of marketing channels. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve never heard of any non-fiction book writer (or marketer) become well-known by JUST tweeting. Or with just Facebook. Have you?

If you’re going to argue with me how singers and entertainers become famous and rich with social media, I agree with you. But dude – ARE YOU SINGING OR IN AN ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? Most likely not. I rest my case.

I’ve also never met anyone who said they make 10K a month with promotion to their Twitter followers but I’ve definitely see friends who make more than 10K with a list of email subscribers.

Yes, there are courses that claim people making all sorts of money with social media. Why not you buy them all and see if you can make just 1/10 of the money they claim to make with social media. If you do, great. Let me know which course and I want to buy too. Serious.

Okay, maybe you met one or two fellas who make a bunch of money with social media. But THINK AGAIN – are you sure they made it completely with just social media and they’re not spamming (you know those irritating people who tag you n Facebook or mention your name in Twitter for no reason related to you AT ALL)?

You know what’s interesting, a friend of mine, Simon Chan who lives in LA has over 2,000 fans – for his dog. Some are ‘real’ fans, some are …. you know.

If a marketer want to cheat your money by selling you a Twitter secret course, it’s so darn easy because the entire ‘system’ can be so easily manipulated. Did you know that you can just buy Twitter followers or just pay people to get Facebook Fans for you?

You might be thinking that I’m anti-social media by now. I’m sorry to disappoint you that you got that wrong. I LOVE social media – it gets me a lot of free traffic. Even my friend, Simon Leung (yes, this is a different Simon) been doing very well with social media.

There’s a point I’m talking about this.

You see, most of the ‘push button make money’ products has to do with social media because social media happens to be the hot buzz right now.

It’s so much easier to sell the latest “Make Money With Twitter Secrets” than selling a REAL internet marketing course.

Honestly, the market is not stupid. Somehow they know that the $47 software won’t make them any real money but they’ll rather eat that hook than taking the time to learn real internet marketing.

For instance, Anik Singal will be releasing a real internet marketing course soon. For now, you can download his free 158 report which has a lot of good stuff in it. I think the information in it can be sold for $47 or worth at least that price. But would you buy it? Probably yes because you’re one of the smartest ones that are still around (that’s why you’re reading my rant ) but most people won’t! They’ll prefer to read some ridiculous salesletter that tells them they can make money online by just following 3 “amazingly simple” steps and click a few buttons. On a separate note, I do believe such ‘push button, no brainer’ system exist and if they do work, it’ll be priced for $500 or $5,000, not $47.

Then they fail. Who’s to be blamed? The marketer? Well, blame it all you want – they don’t care.

End of the day, you’re still the captain of the ship. Which means, it’s YOUR SHIP.

At the same time, people fail as well after learning real internet marketing! Of course! What are they thinking? That it’s a ‘magic pill’ or something?

Let’s just do a simple evaluation…

An engineer would probably takes 3 years of studies to get an engineering job that pays him $5K or so a month (just an estimate, have no clue how much they make).

And someone wants to master the art of making money online in just 2-3 weeks?

I’m a realist. If you want to have an internet business, the kind of asset that creates long-term income for you for the rest of the years… then you better start to get your mind to accept the fact that it’ll take time or money to do it. No money? That’s fine – give yourself 3 – 6 months (it’s realistic if you take action everyday). Got money? Awesome, then you’ll probably able to speed up your result by learning more (because you can afford to buy more education, hire a coach, etc) and hiring others to setup stuff for you.

The part that most people don’t get it is that they treat this whole internet marketing thing like a quick-rich game. Nothing to be surprised since geed is built-in in every human being. Go watch Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf.

If I can part a secret to success for you, this would be it:

Start failing, but fail as fast as you can. Then get up again. The more you fail, the more you’ll learn. Good news is, internet marketing allows you to have the advantage of failing fast and cheaply. I have students with me for years and today, they are on their own successfully and profitably doing real internet marketing. There are also students with me for months and still make nothing but they continue because they also understand what the real internet marketing is.

If you want to learn the real way of internet marketing and be rewarded many times fold for your work, then you have to listen to what I teach. To do that, click here and get a copy of the home course. Trust me, you can definitely afford it (until I increase the price later on). Then you got to follow the steps and fail. Yes, fail. The only difference is, you’re going to try again because you now know that it takes ‘failing’ to become successful.

By the way, if you haven’t realized yet, the marketers who sell you their ‘make money pressing buttons’ product probably never do any of those stuff they sold– they do the real internet marketing stuff like what I teach. Isn’t that ironic? It’s not ironic, it’s called, a ‘smart’ way to make money online because only real internet marketing lasts.

So can you still make money online in the internet marketing niche?

OF COURSE.

So how are you going to make money in the internet marketing niche since you want to sell real internet marketing products as well?

Choose your customers. Don’t work with those who wants t build castles in the sky. And you won’t be worried about earning less because your ‘extra’ time will be spent to build other internet businesses.

If you’ve find value in what you read today, please leave a Comment or feedback? Needless to say, I will definitely appreciate it because I read all Comments personally and gotten the chance to know you at the same time.

Patric Chan

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Sunday Email #43 – Following The Hot Trends of Internet Marketing

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:54:27 +0000

If you’re new to my subscription and wondering what is a “Sunday Email”, it’s an email full of my rants, personal tips and opinions on marketing especially in the “internet marketing” niche. Sometimes, opinions on life. Whatever it is… it’ll give you value after spending time reading it. To make sure you won’t miss any future issue, subscriber for free atwww.sundayemail.com. You can still read the archive at my old blog.

So if you can relate to what I wrote when reading it– good because I know it had just served the purpose of helping people.

Re: What Is The Trend That’s Going On?

I’m not sure whether you’ve pick it up that there’s a ‘flavor of month’ product. With a sudden, your email box is filled with promotions from many internet marketers, promoting the same stuff. Coincidence?

If you can still remember, social media was the buzz, starting with Twitter and follow up with Facebook. Or the other way round.

From nowhere, suddenly, there are so many ‘super stars’ when it comes to social media. As a matter of fact, even marketers who once preached Adwords abandoned what they taught and say Facebook was the thing. Hey, Facebook sells, Adwords don’t.

Then everybody was rushing to ‘local business’ opportunity, saying how EASY it is to make money by selling to local businesses instead.

Here’s the weird part – it’s like saying this, “Oh, it’s fine if you can’t make money online dude. Just go offline because there will be suckers who might buy your idea and pay you lots of bucks to do stuff that you can’t even do it for yourself. High five!”

Let’s say if the first statement is acceptable, but there’s a second obstacle – it is not easy to get local business. Honestly, no one’s going to pay you $2K for doing stuff that do not work. Business owners are not stupid and you know what, most of them are much more experienced than you when it comes to business building. To be frank, I doubt those who taught ‘local business’ actually do local business. If you’re wondering how I know how complex local business marketing is, it’s simply because I have another company that do this stuff where we run Adwords for clients, develop CMS websites, etc.

New “flavor”? Welcome to mobile marketing. Heck, that’s not even internet marketing. Yeah, I know – it’s the NEXT THING and there are huge opportunities in it. But hey, how many opportunities can you juggle? Maybe a lot, who knows. The latest one was Mobile Monopoly.

But isn’t all of these are simply ‘hot trends’?

I suggest you to read the book called, “Acres of Diamonds”, personal development stuff. You can pick that up in Amazon or just do a search on Google.com.

As part of human behavior, it is our nature to “seek” new opportunities but not so much that we need THAT opportunity but our characteristic of not being to be left out.

In a nutshell, we don’t want to miss out the next big thing (if it did become one).

Sometimes, the opportunity is just in front of your eyes but you don’t see it. Let’s take social media and mobile marketing – what do they teach in common? Another channel to build a mailing list.

I was wondering, wouldn’t it be easy to build a mailing list by using the good ol’ methods like article marketing, Google Adwords, blogging, etc if you’ve already learned that in the past and proven to work for thousands of marketers? Yeah, I know – they don’t sound ‘sexy’ but I’m more interested in knowing I have money to pay my bills than being cool.

If you want to build a mailing list, all you need is to setup a converting squeeze page with a good free offer and send targeted traffic to that page. That’s it.

People are “deceived” with simplicity. They thought it has to be more difficult than this to crack the internet wealth’s code!

The concept is easy but the tough part is knowing how to create a converting squeeze page and where you can get targeted traffic. Good news is, it won’t be tough for long if you start focusing to master these skills, rather than learning about ‘local business’. Don’t you think the marketers who sold social media, mobile marketing and all sort DID master these skills and now they are making money online?

Since we’re talking about these topics, let me share with you some tips…

How To Increase Conversion On A Squeeze Page

There are many elements that influence your conversion but if I was to choose just one, I’ll focus on the free offer. What do your website visitors are actually getting for giving their name and email address to you? An ebook? Well, that’s actually not the answer I’m looking for – the answer should be information that is valuable to them.

Where To Get Targeted Traffic

Again, so many options. The answer should the traffic source that I can get immediately and the kind of traffic that is looking for what I have to offer. This is none other than Google Adwords. Yes, it’s not free but think again… is traffic from youtube.com is free? Free if you can create the video on your own but what is the likelihood you can get traffic with your video by tomorrow?

So as you can see by now, the word ‘free’ is hard to be quantified.

Here’s the #1 rule how I use Google Adwords – I’ll always drive traffic to a squeeze page to build a list, never to a salesletter to sell.

Patric Chan

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Get ranked in Google with Ning’s free backlinks

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:42:40 +0000

I’ve just finished a new report called, “SEO Ranking With Ning Backlinks”.

It’s a 33 pages step-by-step guide to use Ning.com to help your website to get higher ranking in Google.com and I’ve also include the ‘trick’ to get massive backlinks immediately from another web 2.0 website.

Best thing is, you don’t need to spend a single red cent to do this to get traffic.

Thank you for reading my emails, this report is my gift to you (this is a direct download link to the PDF report, no opt-in or whatsoever required):

http://www.patricrecommends.com/SEO_Ranking_With_Ning_Backlinks.pdf

Talk soon,

Patric

P.S: If you’re a newbie and don’t understand what’s a backlink, don’t worry because the report explains all.

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Free WordPress Themes – Where To Find Them?

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:36:06 +0000

There are dozens of websites where people make free WordPress themes available that you can use for blogging and as an internet marketing platform to get started. No matter what the subject matter or topic of your site is, it is likely that you will be to find a theme that comes very close to matching what you want.

Try searching Google using a search term like ‘free WP themes’ or just ‘WP themes’ to see what you can find or try to shortcut the process of finding something you really like by searching for ‘your topic + theme’. Alternatively, try searching any of these sites to see what there is that is appropriate to your topic or subject matter:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://topwpthemes.com/
http://www.wptmp.com/
http://www.freewpthemes.net/
http://www.wpthemes360.com/
http://www.elegantwpthemes.com/
http://wptheme.net
http://wpthemeland.com

Many of these sites are searchable, so you should be able to find something that matches your requirements fairly easily. This would work for my dog related site, although the puppy pictured is not a boxer as I would prefer it to be (but is often possible to change the header graphics fairly easily in any case, so this will be fine to start with)

I would click the ‘Download’ link to grab this particular theme. When you download it, the theme will be zipped, so you need to unzip it once it is on your machine.

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