Agora gets rock star adulation.

An online business-success coach, who has teamed up with Agora for an unspecified new launch, has been the hit of the internet in the past three months. Rich Schefren wrote the Internet Business Manifesto, which he posted online for free. He followed it up a couple of weeks later with Manifesto--The Missing Chapter. To date they have been downloaded 80,000 times and talked up by virtually every internet marketing guru in the business.

Now, Schefren has released Manifesto--The Final Chapter, which you can download free at www. StrategicProfits.com/finalchapter.

In it Rich goes into more detail about what he's learned from Agora. With a breathless voice more appropriate for oohing about a glamorous rock star, Rich is telling all internet marketers that they don't know squat. That the real geniuses in internet marketing are Agora Phillips, Boardroom, KCI, and others. And that to be successful, they all need to move to the type of business model Agora is employing.

In short, that they need to become more like the leaders of our newsletter industry. (So pat yourselves on the back!)

While I'm amused at the tone, there's some good content here. His Missing Chapter installment is especially good for small-business entrepreneurs who don't understand why they're not more successful.

And the Final Chapter has some intriguing dangling carrots about just what kind of business he and Agora are going to come up with. There's also a few good competitive research tools listed, several of which are free.