Andrew Chow
,BBA, Certified Life & Relationship Coach
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Andrew Chow Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Personal Branding, Brand Communication, Social Media, Public Relations, Relationship
- Best Sellers
- Romancing the Media for Business
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Trainer, Author, Business Owner
- Affiliation
- Thames Valley University, NLP, IdeaMart (S) Pte Ltd, Table For Six
Andrew Chow is a certified Life Coach, Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker/Author and Master Match Maker in Singapore. Founded IDEAMART (S) PTE LTD in 1994, Andrew won the Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2008 and the Successful Entrepreneur Award in 2010. Graduated from Thames Valley University, Andrew is also a Certified Trainer, Assessor and Developer under WDA-WSQ courses.
Andrew had more than 130 interviews and features about him or his business since 2005 from Channel News Asia, News 8, 938Live, Business Times, Zao Bao, Berita Harian, Today, The New Paper, My Paper, STOMP, FEMALE, HER WORLD, PEAK, SHAPE, Lifestyle, etc). Andrew was also the business coach on Effective Media Management for Singapore's leading radio station 938live - Positive Business Minute.
Andrew is also one of the choice interview candidates for Singapore lifestyle among foreign media like Canadian TV, Swiss Radio, German TV, AFP, National Geographic and Discovery Channel.
Andrew is fondly called “ideasandrew” in all his social media connections in platforms like Facebook, Linked, Flickr, etc. He has also founded four of his own social networking portals for business or social groups with over 10,000 profiles.
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Ask The Asia Dating Coach - Andrew Chow
STUDIES have shown that late marriage is a becoming common phenomenon in modern, developed countries. Singapore, Korea, Japan are three of the worst hit countries in Asia, and Malaysia is fast becoming the infamous 4th. The more developed a country, the higher the mean age for marriage. So where do lonely hearts go? Besides the normal channels of finding love through internet and dating agencies, now there is a new opportunity to “fish” for a partner in the high seas at the upcoming Singles Cruise Asia, happening from Dec 6-10.
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10 Keys to Social Media Success
10 Keys to Social Media Success a. Experiment different platform. i. Experiment different platform personally before doing it professionally ii. Try a variety of social media tools iii. Be yourself, make some friends, and share your content b. Device a strategic approach to social Media (more on this in the next segment) c. Research and Listen. i. Find where your audience is participating and indentify the influencers ii. Read industry blogs (including comments) iii. Google your company name & your competition iv. Find tools that can help you listen
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S.M.I.L.E for Effective Networking Skills
S.M.I.L.E Not everyone can be a natural when meeting a group of people you never met for the first time. Business networking event is always a time where the most networking-savvy person will benefit the most. You can achieve equal excellence even if you are relatively inexperienced in networking. Try the follow 5 simple steps Introduction A smile is a handshake before the handshake. It helps you to relax though you may be nervous. Believe me, many others in the room are nervous. A smile adds to your personal branding.
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Publicity 2.0 for Business 2.0
Publicity 2.0 for Business 2.0 • Publicity 2.0 is a hybrid strategy of engaging both the mass and new media to communicate your company’s brand. • While mass media may have the authority in objective reporting, it is the social media that provides the authenticity of your brand. • A brand manager must embrace both to in order to engage the two biggest stake holders of the business – the media and the public. • It is often said that social media has make public relations truly public. • The three 3Cs of Social Media are : a. Contents b. Conversation c. Communitiesr
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How to Prepare for a Television interview for your Business?
Dress Code o Do not wear bright white, weather map blue, or chrome key blue. o When you are booked for a studio appearance, find out the colour of the set and dress so that you don't blend in. o Do not wear contrasting patterns. Wear bold, fashionable ties, but not ones that distract. o Do not wear any shiny fabrics or anything that glares. o Do not wear bracelets. Women should wear pearls instead of shiny necklaces. Gestures and Body Movement o Use gestures economically to make points. o Too much body movement is distracting.
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How can social media help your Business?
Social Media for Business Social Media is really about online social conversation from any content generated by people using different tools or media. They are not one to one or one to many conversation but many to many. It is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. The stake holders involved in such conversation can be your customers, your donors, your volunteers, your employees, your investors, your critics, your fans, your competition or anyone who has internet access and has an opinion
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How to maintain positive relationship with the media and press to cover your business story?
Compile a list of journalists and reporter contacts and develop friendship with them. Try to remember their professional interest in their work and seek to be a resource information centre for other contacts. Be truthful about the quality of a story and its sources. Always give reporters special access to you by releasing your personal mobile number. Send them an email once in a while you see their features published.
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Social Media as a Recruitment Channel
Social media is a new wave of internet usage that links everyone in “many to many” conversation using different tools. The most populated sector is the social networking tools like Facebook and Linkedin. Human Resource Managers are beginning to leverage on the large network of professional social network for recruitment and referral.
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How to establish a powerful personal branding online by Article Marketing?
One of the many challenges to achieve respectable google ranking is in the area of backlinks to your blog. While the idea of having links exchanged is good, the quality of the incoming sites comes into play as far as Google is conce ed. If you are someone who is a thought leader or influencer in your domain, article submission to good article repository will make you more credible and enhance your online visibility. In my previous post, I share about a list of 20 article submission sites with good page and Alexa ranking :
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Using Facebook for Business
Using Facebook for Business. a. Fastest growing social network in the world with more than 400 million members b. It is a Powerful tools to engage and understand your audience: i. Brand pages ii. Custom applications iii. Targeted advertising iv. Audience insights/metrics rnv. Opinion polls c. Facebook Fan Page i. Your brand’s homepage on Facebook. ii. Allow you to post photos, videos, events and other messages. iii. Users interact with you by: 1. Becoming fans 2. Commenting on your posts 3. Participating in discussions 4. Post photos to your pagernâr
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How to implement a Social Media Readiness Assessment of your company
There are 8 key categories of 42 Best Practices each to answer before any company wish to fully embark on using social media to connect with the public. Senior Management * Senior Management is interested in leveraging Social Media as a new marketing channel * Senior Management understands that Social Media is a long term priority * Senior Management is prepared to contribute to social media content development (blog postings, press interviews, etc.)r
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How to measure Return on Investment (ROI) of Social Media on your Business
The Return on Investment (ROI) of Social Media: Is it measurable? The ROI of Social Media must be measured from your online presence.
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Beulah Singapore (Christian Singles)
A Christian portal primarily for singles for all Bible-Believing Churches in Singapore/Malaysia to network, meet up and build long term meaningful relationship. Christian and Catholics are welcome. BEULAH means "Promised Land" or "Married" in Hebrew (Isaiah 62:4).
March 22, 2011
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Andrew Chow Blog
Andrew Chow founded IDEAMART (S) PTE LTD since 1994. He is a certified Life Coach, Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker/Author and Modern Match Maker. He won the Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2008 and the Successful Entrepreneur Award in 2010.
March 22, 2011
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Andrew Chow : Training/Presentation Material
Andrew Chow founded IDEAMART (S) PTE LTD since 1994. He is a certified Life Coach, Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker/Author and Modern Match Maker. He won the Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2008 and the Successful Entrepreneur Award in 2010.
March 14, 2011
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Andrew Chow
- Creativity in Business World is to meet a need which the present and future customers have yet to discover but you have already anticipated.
- Plan a road map to implement your ideas into reality or else it will just remain as a dream.
- A good gauge for #credibility and network is to have 5% of your #Connections to give you #Recommendation on #Linkedin
- It's the posture of your heart which determines your attitude
- They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they are all the same
- Life's too short to drink bad wine!
- The first step to think out of the box is to remind yourself there isn't any box in any form or shape in the first place
- Has it ever occured to you that your business card isn't complete without your personal twitter handle and Facebook account?
- Innovation is invention which benefit mankind and has commercial value.
- Leaders : There is no "I" in a Team but there are 2 "I"s in a Vision. First you see then visualize, and finally you lead the team.
- 3 Ms for social media managers : Manage (ensure company buy in), monitor (see what's going on) and Measure (have KPIs)
- 3 Cs of Social Media : Content (add value), Context (good conversation) and Contact (build community)
- An established brand always lead to good sales, but companies with good sales may not have established brands
- An idea is actually a new relationship between or among 2 or more previous known objects
- Branding and Dating have many in common; one of them is "Never enter a relationship which you are not prepared to commit"
- "Never Make a Promise You Can't Keep", one of the similarities betwee Branding and Dating
- Genius make time, the Smart ones use it wisely, the Fools do not know where it has gone to.
- Be yourself! because everyone else is taken.
- Your life isn't measured by the cards you are dealt, but by how well you play them
Contacting Andrew Chow
Contact
- Email – andrew@ideamart.com.sg
- Blackberry PIN – 21ECB057
Social Media
- Social Networking
- Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1081391088&ref=name
- Windows Live – beulahsg@hotmail.com
- Foursquare – http://foursquare.com/user/andrewkwchow
- Business Networking
- Linkedin – http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ideasandrew
- Plaxo http://ideasandrew.myplaxo.com/
- Ning – https://www.xing.com/profile/Andrew_Chow
- Skype – ideasandrew
- Social Media Sharing
- Flickr Collection - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideasandrew/
- Youtube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/ideasandrew
- Slideshare – http://www.slideshare.net/ideasandrew
- Podomatic – http://ideasandrew.podomatic.com
- Social Blogging / Micro-blogging
- Twitter – http://twitter.com/AndrewKWChow
- WordPress – www.andrewchow.sg
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A Christian portal primarily for singles for all Bible-Believing Churches in Singapore/Malaysia to network, meet up and build long term meaningful relationship. Christian and Catholics are welcome. BEULAH means "Promised Land" or "Married" in Hebrew (Isaiah 62:4). BEULAH is an independent portal not affiliated to any church or supported by any Charity, Christian organisation, or offerings from any of its members. It is commercially managed by IdeaMart (S) Pte Ltd