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How To Make Your BLOG Post On Facebook Automatically

Makis Arvo — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:52:04 +0000

For all you bloggers out there that would like to have your blog posts show up in Facebook, I’m about to show you the simplest method to do so without needing to write a single line of code. Facebook has a neat little feature called “Notes”, and up until recently I saw no real purpose to it. Well, that’s changed…

Since there isn’t a whole lot to tell you, let’s just jump right into this one. Head on over to http://facebook.com/editnotes.php

From there, if you haven’t imported a blog already, you simply need enter your blog’s URL (http://arvo.im in my case), tick the check box, and click the Start Importing button. Give it a minute to pull all your posts, after which you’ll receive confirmation that Facebook has pulled all your blog posts. All you need to do now is click the Continue button or the Confirm Import button and you’re set.

From this point forward, Facebook will pull all your new blog posts automatically. Yeah, I know… I told you it was simple. There is one slight downfall to using the “Notes” feature of Facebook, all of the images you attach to your blog posts will fail to show up in your “Notes”. That part kinda sucks, but at least all of the textual content gets pulled and there is a link back to your original blog post.

If there is enough demand, maybe I’ll develop a better solution to what Facebook Notes accomplishes. Blog to Fan Page? Blog to Group? Blog as a Profile Tab? Any of these should be able to be easily accomplished using the Facebook API.

Not one of my best shares, I know, but this should help the few that have asked how to get their blog posts to show up on Facebook Walls. If this helped you in any way, please let me know by posting some comments below.

Free “Magic Buy Button” Script For Video Sales Letters Plus Other Subtle Marketing Tips

Makis Arvo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:37:35 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Ryan Deiss or Frank Kern yet, chances are you are very new to Internet Marketing. Today I am going to show you a very simple copy and paste script that you can implement into your very own video sales letter sites. The very same type of script that Ryan Deiss, Frank Kern, and a few other buddies in that greedy little circle use.

While this script is not very advanced, you’ll see that Ryan has it packaged in one of his overpriced products that sells for $197. The same kind of product that he used to sell for $37 or even $47 before he became a name brand.

In marketing, it’s all just a numbers game. On average, a basic sales site will convert around 1% of the visitors into buyers. Knowing those numbers, those with a “big name” are able to get away with putting $197 price tags on $37 info products. You’ll see some even getting away with the $1997 price tags depending on how much video content they are providing. They all still convert just about the same regardless of the price.

Now, you can’t just go slapping a big ticket on any old info product. The content has to be genuinely useful otherwise you’ll just end up being known as a slimy salesman. You might get a few sales and make a quick buck, but why waste your time and effort on selling a shitty product? It’ll be much more gratifying and beneficial to you if you sell quality goods.

For starters, you’ll be building trust in your brand name and you’ll start to become slightly more influential in the Marketing community. This means more buyers!

As your brand name becomes more popular, you’ll find that it’s much easier to sell other info products that you own. Why is that? Simply because you’ve already gained the trust of your following. All you need to do is create a simple sales page and stick a “Buy Now” button on it and watch the sales come in.

These “big names” are converting at a much better rate than your “average Joe” because they’ve already gained the trust of many marketers. You’ll see them bragging about conversions in most of their sales pitches just to help build up the hype of their product. It’s very rare that you actually see these big marketers using their own products, but when you do, you know it’s a little gem. If you’ve been in the game long enough, you’ll be able to spot exactly when this is happening. And that’s exactly what I did for you today…

One thing that all these big marketers fail to mention, and possibly even realize, is that this Magic Buy Button script relies on JavaScript being enabled on the end user’s browser. Now, I don’t know the exact percentage, but let’s just say that the majority of users will have JavaScript enabled. So you won’t really be missing out on too many potential sales.

Why would you be missing out on sales? Well, simply put… If JavaScript isn’t enabled, your “Buy Now” button won’t show up. No “Buy Now” button means no way for the visitor to pay!

To these big guys that get thousands upon thousands of visitors to their site each month, missing out on a few sales goes completely unnoticed. To someone that doesn’t see nearly that much traffic on their site, missing a few sales could be the difference of an extra couple hundred dollars. I am going to save you from that worry and let you still benefit from this “Magic Buy Button” script that many of the gurus have been using.

I believe I’ve just about bored you to death with all of the reading now, so let’s just get to what you’ve really come here for…

The Magic Buy Button Script For FREE

This first part of the script needs to be pasted into your HTML code somewhere between the and tags. For ease of explanation, open the HTML file for your sales page and simply find the tag. Right before it, paste the following snippet of JavaScript:

That right there is the main part of the script that will be doing all the “Magic”…

What you will want to do is simply edit the part where it says “var secs=5;” to the amount of time in seconds that you want the page to wait before showing your “Buy Now” button. For example: “var secs=300;” would wait for 5 minutes before showing your “Buy Now” button. You can synchronize this with a specific time during your video presentation.

The “MAGIC” comes into play if you have a video on your sales page with you (or someone else) speaking , or even just a simple PowerPoint presentation that you’ve converted for use on the web. If you have a part in your video where you are saying something like, “So don’t miss out, BUY NOW!”, you can “MAGICALLY” have your “Buy Now” button appear at the exact time you finish saying those words. Cool huh?

Now let’s get to the part of your page that will contain the actual “Buy Now” button that will let your customers pay you.

Using A Hidden DIV Layer For Your BUY NOW Button

The whole purpose of using a hidden DIV layer is simply so we can essentially force visitors to finish watching our presentation before we show the price tag of our product. Sometimes a price will scare away someone who might have bought your product if they had only finished listening to what you had to say!

Whatever part of your page that you want your “Buy Now” button to show up, simply paste the following code:

Save Yourself From Losing Any Potential Sales

As I mentioned earlier, the gurus don’t share this piece of information with you. Quite honestly, I don’t think they even know that they, themselves, are missing out on sales. This next bit of code will NOT act as a “Magic Buy Now Button”. This will simply just make sure that a “Buy Now” button is shown to those with no JavaScript enabled.

What you’ll want to do is simply paste this snippet of code directly under the previous bit of code we just pasted. This is the part of code that will save you from missing any potential sales due to some people having JavaScript disabled:

You may not have noticed a whole bunch of difference between this snippet and the one prior. That’s because there isn’t much difference at all! We’ve only added the tags and cut out some of the style properties that would leave the DIV layer hidden. What you may have noticed, is I’ve done this code with PayPal Buy Now buttons. I’ve done that because a lot of you use PayPal, so I wanted to show you how this would look using what you are familiar with.

You would think that with a $197 price tag, these “gurus” would be nice enough to add this little bit of info to help save you some lost sales. Truth is, no matter how much they try to convince you they care about you, all they really care about is taking your money putting it in their pocket.

Let’s See A Demo Of This Script In Action!

Well, since you asked so nicely, I’m going to show you a basic (and I mean very basic) site that shows exactly how this script can work for you. If you are the least bit technically savvy, you could even view the source of the site and simply plug your content in. Without further ado, heres the MAGIC BUY BUTTON SCRIPT DEMO SITE.

Hey! What About Letting Me Download A Copy?

But of course my friends, I got you covered here too. MAGIC BUY BUTTON SCRIPT DOWNLOAD.

I believe that just about wraps it up. If you have any questions, concerns, or anything along those lines… Please leave a comment and let me know what’s on your mind. I hope you guys & girls can benefit from this. I’d love to see some of you put this to use, so if you happen to use it please leave a link in the comments. I’ll be happy to give you the FREE backlink!

2 Simple Methods To Add All Your Friends To A Facebook Fan Page Or Group

Makis Arvo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:25:21 +0000

EDIT: Please read the comments before reading this entire post. This is no longer supported and I will not be held responsible for what you do with it. I’m not even sure any of this still works.

Recently, John Chow made a post (found here) showing us all how to use a little JavaScript trickery to do what normally would be a rather tedious task on Facebook, inviting ALL of your friends to a group or fan page. If you read through the comments made on his post, you’ll notice quite a few people saying the method is dead. I beg to differ!

To resurrect this method and to help John Chow and his hearty following, I’ve come up with 2 simple alternatives to help you continue to easily do this task without resorting back to clicking on each and every one of your friends. The first method uses the same code John posted, but very slightly altered to ensure that it works every time. Here’s how to implement it, if you’re a FireFox user, without having to paste the code into the URL bar every time:

Step 1: Enable your Bookmarks Toolbar (if it isn’t already)

1a: Right-click the menu bar and make sure there is a check next to “Bookmarks Toolbar”

Step 2: Add a new bookmark to the toolbar

2a: Right-click the Bookmarks Toolbar and select “New Bookmark…”

Step 3: Edit the bookmark properties

3a: Type a short name for your bookmark (shorter is better!)

3b: Paste the following JavaScript snippet into the “Location” setting

3c: Click the “Add” button (you should have noticed your newly made button by now)

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('all_friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

That’s all there is to it! You can go test it out now. If you find that this method still no longer works for you, then Facebook is up to its silly little games again. They seem to roll-out changes to people at different times. For me, this method is still alive and well. If you can’t use this method, here’s another simple alternative for you FireFox users:

Step 1: Install the Greasemonkey extension (found here)

Step 2: Install this Greasemonkey script (found here)

Yup, simple as clicking the install buttons found on each of those sites. If you’ve followed all the steps correctly, you should now have 2 working methods to select all your friends on Facebook. Happy inviting!

As you may have noticed, I’ve only explained how to use these methods using FireFox instead of Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, or Google Chrome. While they may work in alternative browsers, I haven’t tested. The only browser I use is FireFox. Please feel free to tryout the other browsers and let me know how it goes for you. The bookmark method should be cross-compatible with all browsers that support JavaScript. As far as the Greasemonkey method goes, there may or may not be Greasemonkey plugins/extensions for other browsers. If there is, I can’t guarantee my script will work on them. Anyways, if you try other browsers, let me know how it goes.

If either of these methods helped you, or if you seem to be having some sort of issue with them, please post in the comments below to let me know. Thanks for reading!

EDIT: As of 8/25/2010 Facebook has changed their coding…

EDIT: I have fixed the coding to work again!!!

EDIT: Sorry guys! The JavaScript broke again. ONLY the Greasemonkey script works now. You can install the Greasemonkey script as a Google Chrome extension if you don’t use FireFox…

I had a video demo of this script in action, but Facebook deleted my account and I no longer have the video. For whatever reason any new account I make, at least the ones with my identity, get deleted. Facebook officially hates me and I no longer partake in any Facebook activities, for the time being. Thanks for all your support, it was fun while it lasted.