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What is the Blogger navbar?
Blogger navbar is the *navbar* you see at the top of your blog, and which allows users to move to a next random blog. It allows user to search your blog and also to mark any blog as spam.

So why should I remove it?
It depends on your perception. I find it unprofessional, because it sometimes spoils the look of your blog. If you have a subtle layout, they might get too obvious.

Are there any problems if I remove it?
Some of your viewers might be accustomed to a navbar and may miss it. Blogger calls navbar the bloggers equivalent of remote, as it allows bloggers to switch from one blog to other.

Ok how do I remove it?
If you are using Blogger for any length of time, you must be knowing how to edit the templates. So in your template find a >style type=”text/css”> tag. Just after that insert
#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

That’s it. Save and republish. Your navbar should be gone.

This trick was first published at blogger-templates.blogspot.com

But does this not violate my Blogger TOS?
Blogger makes no explicit term that you may not remove it. But they do not also say if you can remove it. Also this is a pretty standard trick. So doing this should be no problem.

Shabda Raaj is a freelance web designer and an avid Blogger. He designs Blogger templates for fun and for money. Blogger templates designed by him can be found at http://blog.shabda.name/. Web design tutorials from him can be found at http://free-tutorials.blogspot.com/.

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You’ve got your blog set up and you’ve started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don’t write things like “nice blog” or “great post.” Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines:
http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as ‘feeds’) may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com

Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

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Amarante Golf Plaza is a 4 star hotel in Sainte Maxime, located in Domaine du Golf, BP 29

Diving view on the bay of Saint-Tropez and on the border of the internationnal golf of Sainte-Maxime,the Amarante Golf Plaza ****, hotel and country club, is an honour to the Provence.
It disposes of more than 100 rooms, all air-conditionned, oriented south with balcony, amongst them 13 penthouses.

With a golf of 18 holes, its two swimming pools amongst which one is heated, its tennis court, its fitness center and its Phytomer center.
Even more, equiped with 4 panoramic seminar rooms changeable into 9, mainly used for the organisation of seminars and private gatherings.
Amarante Golf-Plaza is the ideal place to combine work and pleasure.

Accomodation
106 rooms including 13 penthouses, oriented south with balcony, air-conditionned, direct telephone line, television, radio, mini-bar, individual safe.
3 restaurants : the ‘Relais de Provence’, the gourmet restaurant the ‘Saint-Andrews’ and during Summer the ‘pool-grill’.

Services
Money-exchange, pressing, parking, transport (towards the beach).

Sports and Leisure
International golf 18 holes.
Golf academy ‘Mark Wallace’.
Outside and inside swimming pool (heated).
Tennis court (lightened).
Fitness room (hammam, sauna, body-building).
SPA : 14 private cabins, shops….

Business

4 panoramic seminar areas changeable into 9 (from 10 to 120 people).
Fully equiped with technical material (available at the hotel).
Services : secretary, fax, photocopy machine.

Other than AccommodationZ.com, our network also includes Reserver.it (where we list more than 2500 Hotels in Italy with secure online reservation) and Siteseeings.com, where you can make reservations for sightseeings in Italy, tours in Rome and also in the Amalfi Coast.

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Adored, respected and coveted by customers and organisations alike, corporate brands represent one of the most fascinating phenomena of the business environment in the 21st century. Their importance is unquestionable. Brands, in their various forms, are integral to our everyday existence. This is particularly the case at the organisational level where the concept of the corporate brand now enjoys wide currency in business parlance. There is an increasing realisation that corporate brands serve as a powerful navigational tool to a variety of stakeholders for a lot of purposes, including employment, investment and, most importantly, consumer buying behaviour.

Corporate branding has been defined by Van Riel (2001, p. 12) as:
“a systematically planned and implemented process of creating and maintaining a favourable reputation of the company with its constituent elements, by sending signals to stakeholders using the corporate brand.”

Creating a coherent perception of a company in the minds of its various stakeholders is a major challenge faced by many companies. Particularly in large multinational corporations speaking with one voice is a challenging task. Especially when grown through extensive merger and acquisition activities, large companies often comprise multiple subsidiaries and subsequently multiple brands and cultures. Managing the signals these diverse corporate subsets send out to their stakeholders is often impeded by various aspects such as historic turf wars between divisions, cultural and language differences, deficient management structures and unclear responsibilities, or simply by spatial separation. Furthermore, incoherence in messages and difficulties in coordination are often fostered by communication representatives’ narrow focus on their particular stakeholder groups.

For example, investor relations representatives only have a small community of investors in mind. Those responsible for a certain product brand focus on their particular customer base and the internal communicators primarily see their recipients, the employees. Such thinking in a box and acting in narrow realms of stakeholder groups often leads to the communication of messages that might be suitable for each individual stakeholder group, yet all in all the picture drawn of the company as a whole is blurred or even contradictory.

This article asserts that a stronger integration of the different internal units responsible for stakeholder relations is needed in order to foster more coherencies in messaging and to eventually generate a coherent corporate brand image and favourable corporate reputation. The management process of creating and maintaining a coherent corporate brand image in the minds of each individual stakeholder which is the basis for a favourable overall corporate reputation shall be labelled corporate branding.

The importance of corporate brands has been ignored in the literature for a very long time. It was only during the 1990’s when branding and communications consultants went on to assess what is called as a ‘corporate brand’ (King, 1991). Writers about a few decades ago always focused on the importance of a ‘company brand’ rather than a ‘corporate brand’. However, there is an overarching explanation as to why there has been a growth in the importance of studying a ‘corporate’ rather than a ‘company’ brand. Some of the early academic work in the area of corporate brands reached a broadly similar set of beliefs. The importance of staff in corporate brand building was emphasised, as was culture. The role of the chief executive as brand manager was also stressed. Balmer (1995) also said that the new millennium would witness increased importance being assigned to the corporate brand. It can also be found in academic literature that marketing scholars have largely ignored the challenges presented by corporate brand management.

The reasons for this short sightedness can be seen in a lot of branding and marketing textbooks, which though acknowledge the importance of corporate brands but fail to highlight the following attributes:

* corporate brands have a wider scope and management as compared to product brands;

* corporate brands have multi-stakeholders rather than customer orientation and

* the traditional marketing framework is not sufficient when one is studying a brand at a corporate level

Most of us today fail to understand the difference between what is and what is not a corporate brand. Brands such as McDonalds, British Airways, Vodafone, Virgin and Manchester United are examples of organisations with clear corporate brands. However, in the case of Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Diageo, it is more the product brands that have a clear recognition as compared to the corporate brand. In such cases organisations face a lot of difficulties in building their corporate brand because of their stronger focus on building their product brand portfolio. A corporate brand may be viewed as a contract in that the company needs to articulate its accord with its key stakeholders by demonstrating, unceasingly and over time that it has kept true to its corporate branding pledge. As such, the brand name and/or logo play an important part in creating awareness and recognition but also as ’signs’ of assurance. However, a number of authorities have cautioned against seeing branding as a one-way process that affects the image of those engaged in some form of branding partnership such as customers and employees. This is because these groups also have a key role in defining a brand’s image (Johansson and Hirano, 1999).

The relationship of corporate reputation to the success of a brand

Corporate Reputation has never been considered so important than it is today. In the recent years it is not just the markets which have nose dived in the corporate world but it is the corporations themselves. Scandals such as that of Enron and WorldCom have seriously hampered the trust among stakeholder groups and widespread public scepticism about company ethics. If we look at the case of Andersen, the major reason why the company ceases to exist is because of the negative reputation that built up over a short period of time. Since the mid-1980s senior managers have recognised the strategic necessity of building and sustaining a favourable corporate reputation to create corporate competitive advantage. This recognition has been reflected by a wealth of academic publications that have highlighted the value of a favourable corporate reputation as a means of enhancing an organisation’s financial value, influencing intention to buy, acting as a mechanism for assuring product/ service quality, influencing customer and employee loyalty, and offering inimitability to the organisation. Authors over the years have also recognised that an organisation’s corporate reputation is affected by the actions of every business unit, department and employee that comes into contact with another stakeholder.

Reputation is a concept more generally known to us as how an organisation lives up to the expectations of its stakeholders. A firm with a good overall reputation owns a valuable asset ‘goodwill’: brand names, corporate logos and customer loyalty. Brands in general are used by the consumers as a symbolic meaning in their recognition and decision making process. Often brands develop a ‘personality’ of their own that has an effect on whether users decide the product’s image is consistent with their needs. With this ‘personality’ often goes a reputation as well. Brand names can often be repositories for a firm’s reputation: high quality performance on one product can often be transferred to another product via the brand name.

For a firm expanding its product line, a well-known brand name can be advantageous in facilitating user acceptance of the new product because of its existing brand reputation. Family branding, that is a company placing the same brand name on all products in a product line, enjoys the distinct advantage of instant recognition, benefiting from the “halo effect” of the brand’s established reputation. This leveraging effect has led some firms to enter new fields under the same name - brand franchise extension. The advantages of such an approach are the facilitation of the adoption process and acceptance of new products, since users assume new products have the same quality level as existing ones; a minimal cost of branding to the manufacturer, extensive advertising for brand name awareness and preference will not be necessary; and user response will tend to be faster, thereby reducing the introduction stage in the product life cycle where profits are negative.

In addition, another advantage often obtained is the greater ease in gaining distribution (particularly shelf space) due to its familiar name. While the reputation of the established brand name can facilitate the introduction of a new product, any problems with the new product can, conversely, affect the saleability of all items bearing the same name. If consistency in new product quality is not maintained, user dissatisfaction may result which may carry over to older, successful brands in the line. Family branding, therefore, places high demands on quality control because every single item is considered representative of the entire line. A lower quality item may hurt sales of the better quality products. Promotion of a better quality product may result in credibility gaps among potential buyers. A new product failure may well tarnish the reputation of sister products carrying the same brand name. One bad egg may well spoil the entire basket.

Reputation is thus the assessment of the continuous sustainability over time of an attribute of an entity. This assessment is based on the entity’s willingness and ability to perform repeatedly an activity in a similar fashion. Reputation is an aggregate composite of all previous transactions over the life of the entity, a historical notion, and requires consistency of an entity’s actions over a prolonged time for its formation. A firm will lose its reputation if it repeatedly fails to fulfil its stated intentions. Having a good reputation also insures high quality firms will be larger and have more customers since fewer customers will depart from high quality firms in the long run and more will arrive because of word-of mouth activity from other customers. Thus, to become successful and hence profitable, brands must develop a positive reputation.

Gaurav Bahirvani
MBus.(UK,2004), MSc.(UK,2003), BMS.(INDIA,2002)
Corporate Brand Development Consultant
Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Email: gaurav.bahirvani@gmail.com

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It doesn’t matter if you live in Columbus Georgia or in Orem Utah a just online examination will scavenge you often a lot of anguish.

Translated in Dutch is says: Woon je in Brielle of Cromstrijen en heeft u BKR verleden. Lenen met een BKR notering is nergens zo eenvoudig. Koop een nieuwe caravan met met notering bkr negatief lening, 109626 euro is geen enkel probleem om te financieren. Van Woudrichem tot Apeldoorn, financieren met en BKR codering kan hier altijd.

Nowadays you can check out rates quickly online and learn if there are possible sneaky traps you should be aware of. now you really need to check into and run into if you can have a credit loan at a right percent rate. A merchant bank in Lowell Massachusetts or so may have a total totally different actual loan rate for a 10000 dollar credit loan then a moneylender in Leavenworth Kansas and that makes a large clear difference in your weekly pay backs. 18.8 percent interest rate may seem so fair but will that be perpetual after you have to repay your loan. You should be fresh today to check out if you have a bargain or if you don’t with the bank that offers you a money loan. Many of the banks wil show you a rate of interest that looks effective but feels badly or so after a period of time. Investigate to see if the bank who wants to give you a loan is solid.

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Blogs are the great equalizer because they simplify the task of adding content to a website on a daily or weekly basis. They make it simple for the average joy to add content to their site on a daily basis with just a few clicks of the mouse.

What is more, the spider search engine companies recognize this and make it a point to spider the blog networks on a regular basis, sometimes a daily basis.

It may take a spider search engine up to three months to spider your site if you go directly to their submission page to add your domain to their database. On the other hand, with a blog, you can put a story about your domain on a blog with a link to your domain, and your website can generally get crawled within a week or so of putting your link on the blog.

Blogs Require A Commitment On Your Part

Daily additions to your blog should be your goal. If you do not have time to do daily additions, you should at worst do a weekly addition to your blog.

Just like in the real world of websites, if you don’t update your blog on a regular basis, the spiders will save their time and resources by not spidering your blog on a daily basis. If however you do update on a daily or near daily basis, then the spiders will visit your blog with the same fervor you bring to your blog.

Additionally, it sometimes seems like the search engine spiders are giving some additional weight to the results culled from the blogs. The point in this additional weighting is that blogs are filled with personal comments and recommendations rather than sales pitches.

Now that you have also learned this important lesson, it is time to put this knowledge into action. Make it part of your daily or weekly schedule to add fresh, interesting content to your website. Your banker will thank you.

But if you do not wish to have your own blog, there is another way to promote the site - fill other blogs. Actually, there are thousands of blogs on different themes in the Internet. Why not to use this simple way of promotion?

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If you are fairly new to the Internet, you have probably heard the word “Blog” flying around. But what is a blog? How does it work? And how can I use it on my website? These are all good questions, which I hope to answer for you.

What is a Blog?

A blog, in simplest terms, is a daily journal of your thoughts that is maintained by a blogger (which would be you) on the web. When posting to a blog you will notice that it is arranged in chronological order - with the most recent additions on top.

You can choose to allow your readers to add their own comments/feedback to any issues you may have addressed on your blog. Or, you can add audio to your blog. Pretty neat, isn’t it. What a great way to have contact with your customers.

Can it be used on my website?

Can it be used on my website? Definitely. It can be a great tool for you and your contacts. However, I personally feel that it would be a greater benefit to the established website that has a following. In other words, start with a newsletter first, to build your mailing list, than go for the blog.

If you have a following, than go for it. Don’t want to pay for it? That’s okay, you can go to www.blogger.com, they have a great tutorial and the blog is free.

What can it do for my website?

I see many inventive uses for a website that is based on content. Such as:

1. Strong communication tool - a form of contact with your customer.

2. Allow you to get to know your customers and their wants, as well as, allowing your customers to know you.

3. Can provide daily, quality content - which will pull the search engines and thus, increase your traffic.

4. Use it to advertise your links. Taking a conservative approach, and blend it in to the topic.

5. Use it to answer inquiries that people may have.

6. Use it to inform.

As you can see, the list can be endless. But I do see only one slight drawback for those who do not want to keep a constant vigil over their website - and that is maintaining the blog. The blog should be maintained on a regular basis. Why? People get bored, and on the Internet, it’s very easy to click their boredom away. Thus, keep yourself enlightened and it should keep them enlightened.

If you find this small drawback inconsequential - then go blogging.

To your success.

Vickie J. Scanlon

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Marketing. She left the corporate world as an Reports Programmer,
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Yes, yes, we’ve heard it all before… loads of life coaches, consultants and therapists are struggling to make a decent living but still stick at it because they love their job.

Want to know why nearly every coach or consultant out there will always struggle?

…if you’re one of them then you’re not going to like this one little bit…

It’s a lack of CREDIBILITY

BUT before you hit the DELETE key just bear with me…

This lack of CREDIBILITY has a cause…

lack of FOCUS.

If I have a particular thing I’d like to improve in my life or business, wrongly or rightly, I will seek out and trust the advice of a SPECIALIST over a GENERALIST any day of the week.

And that’s the problem - LIFE, MARKETING and BUSINESS - is just too general.

If you want to become truly attractive and have CREDIBILITY you need to stand for something. If you’re a generic life coach then know this. People want to be able to turn to someone for a specific area of LIFE - this could be relationships, health, wealth etc.

The same is true if you’re a generic business or marketing consultant. People want to find the person who can help them with a specific BUSINESS challenge unique to them. You could choose a situation - say Legalised Tax Dodging, Setting Up Automated Business Systems, Getting People Working, Cutting Marketing Costs etc. or you could focus on a particular business-type such as - Solo Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Manufacturing Companies, Coaches, Speakers etc.

So ditch the shopping list right now - you can’t be the best at everything - and even if you are no-one will believe you. Choose to be the best (or look the best at one thing). Because as soon as you focus, your CREDIBILITY will skyrocket. You’ll have instant ATTRACTION just by getting clear about who you are and what you do.

Let me introduce Mollie McDonald

She has a fun, rewarding job and makes all the money she needs. She gets to add value and improve people’s lives every day. She loves her job and I’d hazard a guess that she gets as much, if not more, satisfaction than any Life Coach does from her work.

And yes… she gets to coach, cajole, support and work with inspired clients who want to make a change in exactly the same manner.

Is she doing anything drastically different to all the Life Coaches who are struggling? I know she’s not!

But she has done ONE thing differently. She’s tapped into a profitable, niche and provided a solution to a genuine gap into a considerably HUGE marketplace. In fact 90% of New Year’s Resolutions lead into this one niche perfectly.

Read Mollie’s book to learn you she does it…

Finally, some hints and tips while finding your niche…

* “Me Too” businesses are never in as high demand as unique specialists

* Would you trust your GP (General Doctor) to do brain surgery or would you prefer to be in the hands of a brain specialist?

* People don’t buy coaching/consulting etc. - they buy the solution. What’s their big challenge and what’s your solution?

* When you get VERY focused on solutions to problems - you’ll be able to make a strong “Targeted Promise”. The result? People will seek you out!

‘Dangerous’ Debbie Jenkins
debs@debbiejenkins.com

(c) Copyright 2005 www.BookShaker.com

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Brand new careful GPS measurements carried out on the 14-15th Oct have established that Monte Bianco measures 4810.4 meters. Monte-Bianco is layered by a deep icecap which has increased by 2.15 meters in exactly 2 years but more unexpectedly the bulk of the ice and snow has just about grown twofold . Leastwise that’s according to the experts.

The volume of ice was worked out for the inaugural time in 2001. It was measured at 14100 cubic meters above 4750 meters. It comprised merely 13800 cubic meters in 2000 maybe due to the high temperatures with positive temperature even at 4950 metres alt. However the ice cap has all but doubled up since then and now measures 21000 meters cubed.

Chamonix Mont Blanc’s esteemed near by weather forecaster Kimberly Boyd stated the increment in the size of the ice is among the contrary results of climate change: The amount of snow has not multiplied overall in the Alps only with climate change we are seeing added warm westerly air currents which bring in rain lower down however during summertime this results in thick snowfall that falls higher up than 3800 meters elevation thus the volume of the ice is expanding. Counterpoint this to the state of affairs during winter time when the snow crystals are very cold and are transferred by wind and so don’t settle down on the summit.

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If the name Walt F.J. Goodridge isn’t yet a household name, chances are it soon will be. That is, if a Jamaican-born, former civil-engineer turned self-help guru with aspirations of stardom is successful in his bid to achieve national fame in 365 days beginning January 1, 2006.

Goodridge is a career coach and business book writer who lives in an inner world of Prophets, Inspirers, Wow Masters, Adepts, Creators, Saviors, Gurus and Guides. Those are all terms he’s created to inspire, inform and instruct others on exactly how to become “passionpreneurs”–entrepreneurs who’ve discovered their passion, harnessed their “wow factor” and launched passion-centered businesses to make money doing what they love. It’s earned him the title “Passion Prophet”, and he’s already achieved a degree of local fame doing it.

But it’s not just his knack for coining new words and catchy concepts that makes his approach unique. Goodridge has forged a path of success by writing “how to” books about the specific journeys he’s personally taken to achieve his success. Inspired by his own frustration with and successful escape from the nine-to-five work world, every book has been an object lesson in the pursuit of entrepreneurial freedom.

“Every book I write comes from my own personal experience. From running a record label, managing artists, escaping from corporate confinement to pursue my passion, to the level of commitment and positive thoughts necessary to live a passion-centered life–they are all things I’ve learned to do from my own journey. The books are my way to ’share what I know, so that others may grow’,” he adds, quoting his personal mission statement.

This prolific author and poet–he’s written and published 12 books and over 435 poems–has been churning out trendsetting ideas at a frenetic pace, concepts that thousands have seized on to see the world a little differently and empower themselves to create the lives of their dreams.

His first book, entitled Change the Game is a how to guide for hip-hop entrepreneurs. It was inspired by his first business venture–an independent record label he started after graduating from Columbia University.

His second book, entitled The Game of Artist Management, was culled from his stint managing recording artists.

Once he mastered the art of being a self-sustaining entrepreneur after walking away from his civil engineering career, he wrote his groundbreaking classic, Turn Your Passion into Profit, using the creator, savior guru and guide concepts to defining one’s purpose–a vital first step in focusing the direction of one’s passion. It’s also where he defined the term passionpreneur, and added the “passion-centered business” to the business lexicon.

In 2000, in response to coaching clients’ questions of how to really succeed in business, an coinciding with his own embrace of Taoist principles, he wrote The Tao of Wow/Art of Wow introducing the world to a mysterious “Wow Master” who spoke in rhyme and offered the key to discovering one’s Wow Factor.

And through it all, every week for the past 8 years, he’s written and sent to his 26,000-strong subscriber list an original brand of poetic motivation he calls Life Rhymes–designed to sustain the perspective necessary for success. So, for his 7th book, he compiled 365 of them into a 455-page tome entitled Life Rhymes for the Passion-Centered Life.

But wait, there’s more. Goodridge, a strict vegan, attributes his own business success to his lifestyle and makes the connection between dietary choices business success. Consequently, his latest The Ageless Adept (written under the pen name A Seeker) is the story of an ailing man who goes on a quest for a mythical immortal who reveals the secret to perfect health, long life and the fountain of youth.

He’s launched websites, made money online, created online communities, and helped others do the same.

It’s this holistic, spiritually-based, multi-disciplined, “been-there-done-that, here’s-how-I-did-it” approach to business self-help that has garnered attention from such national media as Entrepreneur, Essence, the Wall Street Journal, while winning him rave reviews, and a loyal base of fans, followers, clients and customers. Teachers use his life rhymes to teach their students; professors recommend his books to business majors; and Hip Hop Entrepreneurs use his manual as the bible of music industry success. A perusal of his websites reveals testimonials from clients who’ve benefited from his coaching to discover their passions, create products, launch websites, and make their first sales within hours. Others have followed his example and quit their jobs, while some even request dietary advice.

With total gross sales of over half a million dollars in sales of his independently published books, it’s a mission that’s been quite financially profitable as well.

But even with all this to his credit, he remains relatively unknown on a national level. That will all end, Goodridge hopes, with his latest project: Elements of Fame.

The idea is to chronicle his rise to fame on a blog where a fame-curious public, as well as fame-seekers will be able to follow his week-to-week, step-by-step rise to fame as it happens.

But not only is he documenting his fame-seeking adventure on his blog, Goodridge, true to his prior mode of operation–intends to publish the process as a book entitled Elements Of Fame, A Step-By-Step Guide For Becoming Famous. Goodridge calls this real-time blog-to-book project a “blook.”

“It starts as a blog, and ends as a book. I had no choice but to call it a blook,” he explains in rhyme.

On the surface, this blook is about fame. But, as Goodridge explains, fame is a metaphor for success. Everyone has their own unique elements of fame they can use to be successful. The challenge with writing a blog which becomes a book how to become famous is that you have to become famous, or it’s all meaningless! No one wants to read a book about an attempt at fame. So failure is not an option here. So it’s basically an object lesson in the level of commitment one needs to have in order to be successful.”

And that lesson has already begun. Already available for download on the Elements of Fame blog are Goodridge’s analysis of the Levels of Fame, and his Fame Checklist which includes among other instructions: deciding what you’ll become famous for, deciding what you’re willing to give up, and setting clear, quantifiable goals for success.

Among the goals Goodridge himself has set for his fame, and as criteria for whether he’s been successful are: appearing on the front cover of specific national publications; being interviewed on national television; and becoming a bestselling author–quite a tall order!

And while Walt possesses many potential elements of fame: creativity, clarity and one heckuva commitment,, the question remains: will it all be enough to create the stardom he’s committed to achieving? Will he succeed? Will his “blook” on how to achieve fame then be credible?

If he succeeds, you won’t have to wonder. He hopes you’ll hear about him in the usual places you get your celebrity fix. In the meantime, however, you can read how Walt F.J. Goodridge becomes famous for becoming famous on the Elements of Fame blog at www.elementsoffame.com

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