Turn Your Website Into A Community-Style Website For Free!

Google has released a new application that can turn your ordinary website into a community-style website. Watch the video below:



You can signup Friend Connect for free at www.google.com/friendconnect/

I've just put up mine at www.patricchan.name to see how effective it is. Feel free to join and see how it works.

Now, if you have questions towards the application, the best is to ask Google - I wouldn't have the answer for you because it's not my software. :)

There are many reasons why you want to turn your website into a community-style website but the most powerful reason is to grow it virally. If you're doing niche marketing like I do, it's very common for your market to share with others when they found valuable resources - isn't that's how social marketing works?

And when you add the brand "Google" to it, it spreads like wildfire. There are software like Viral Inviter which allows the market to 'invite' their friends to check out your stuff but the only problem I see is this - how many people would actually dare to put their Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, etc INTO your website? But they might use Friends Connect to invite their friends because they trust Google.

By the way, if you're planning to mention Friends Connect on your own blog and you've heard about it first from here, would appreciate you'll mention that. Doesn't need a link back or something, but mention "Patric Chan" would be appreciated as a way of showing 'community ethics'. Yes, Google will alert if you do. :-)

If you find value in today's post, feel free to leave your comment or if you have any feedbacks to give.

Thanks,

Patric Chan
www.youchandoit.com


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