Keith Goodrum

Have you ever noticed how some movie stars seem to have a long career while others burn brightly then vanish? I’ve noticed those who have staying power follow 7 easy to copy steps. They are listed below so you can transform your biog into a star.

1. Let People See You With Other Celebrities - The power of association instantly builds credibility. People will associate you with the celebrities you are seen with. You get to borrow from their influence. And probably the best way to do this is to get your picture taken with other celebrities in your niche.

2. Keep Other Celebrities Updated - This is simple to do and very effective. Keep the leaders in your niche updated on your activities. If they find something about you interesting, they could pass your updates on to their followers.

3. Let Your Accomplishments “Slip Out” - Plain and simple, this is no time to be shy. Waiting around for someone to stroll along and notice your achievements guarantees one thing – A long wait. You need to get your accomplishments out into the public.

4. Collaborate With Other Celebrities - One of the biggest boost to your credibility is to collaborate with another leader. You get instant access to their network, and you get to borrow from their influence.

5. Be Seen At “Events” - Getting out and meeting people goes a long way towards legitimizing your business. No need to go crazy and spend thousands attending every event, but a handful a year should do the trick. Remember, there are plenty of free events if you take the time and look around.

6. Be Persistent - “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Sir Winston Churchill. I think that pretty much sums it up. The most successful people bounce back quickly from setbacks, overcome obstacles and deflect unproductive criticism.

7. Get A Coach or a Mentor- You are not an island. Everyone and I mean everyone needs a coach or mentor to help reach their goals. A coach will provide valuable feedback. They will point out the good, the bad and the ugly. (OK, you can stop singing the song from the movie!) Look at it this way – If the world’s best athletes, actors and musicians need a coach, then why would you be any different?

OK, you’ve put hard work into creating your latest blog post. It’s published and is now out in the blogosphere. You want to attract more visitors to read your posts, but how? The answer is to take your newly published blog post and clone it as many different ways as possible. Below are 7 Powerful ways to do it:

1. Rewrite as article - You can easily rewrite the blog post, change the title, and submit it to EzineArticles.com.

2. Submit to Blog Carnival - This option is one of the easiest of all these tips. Go to a Blog carnival, find one that matches your content & submit the post. Take your best one or two posts of the week and use them.

3. Make a video - Fire up the video camera and get busy demonstrating your latest post. But what If your blog post cannot be demonstrated? Simple, turn on the camera & record yourself talking about the blog post.

4. Record as teleseminar - Take your main points of your post and create an outline. Then get on the phone and record yourself talking about these main points. This one is good because people like to get on the teleseminar & interact with the author/host.

5. Turn into questions & do an interview - Take the main points of your blog post and turn them into questions. If you know another expert in your niche, then ask them for an interview. Another option would be to ask a success story to give their views on the questions. Each way has worked well for me in the past.

6. Create a Squidoo/Hubpage page - Harness the SEO love of these two sites. Google is gaga over both sites and likes to give them high ranking. It’s important to change the blog post just enough to not be duplicate content. Then add an RSS feed and/or embed a video, now it’s ready to go.

7. Turn into a report - Creating a report out of your best blog posts will build your credibility as a thought leader in your niche. You could easily take each point and expand it to a page or more. This will give you a 7-15 page report ready to be given away, or sold.

Here is a cool plugin I found recently. This allows people to leave their Twitter user name when they make a comment.

I think it’s a pretty cool plugin…

Here it the link to download the pluging from Andy Bailey’s site…

http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/wp-twitip-id-plugin-add-a-twitter-field-to-your-comment-form-easily/