1. You must be a self-described (on the blog, itself) coach.
2. Your blog must be about coaching themes. (School of Coaching Mastery reserves the right to determine what constitutes a coaching theme.)
3. You must abide by the following contest rules:
- You will not vote for your blog or any other (up or down) more than one time during the entire contest (Unless you make it to the semi-finals. See below).
- You will not encourage anyone else to vote for your blog or any other (up or down) more than one time during the entire contest.
- However, you are encouraged to invite your readers, clients & friends to come and vote for your blog. Just be clear that they can only vote one time during the entire contest from any computer address.
- If you know that someone has voted more than once for your blog, you will disqualify yourself from the contest.
- Cast your votes based on the quality of blog content, not who wrote it.
- Do not add comments to your own blog. If you comment on other blogs, keep your comments positive.
- If you make it into the semi-finals, you will be invited to participate in a closed vote for the 10 winning blogs. You'll have a limited time period in which to vote. If you don't vote in that period, you will lose your vote.
4. The contest will be monitored closely by a team of volunteers who will look for signs of irregular voting coming from any one computer address.
5. If we find evidence of someone voting more than once for a blog, even if the blog owner is not at fault, the blog will be stripped of all votes and comments without warning.
6. If the above occurs more than once, the blog in question will be banned from the contest.
7. School of Coaching Mastery reserves the right to remove or reject any blog entry for any reason.
Sorry for the heavy language. We're just trying to avoid confusion. Good luck!