But isn’t God is a god of surprises? Time after time He comes through right at the last minute to save us or bless us with a God-sized opportunity.

We believe our INAUGURAL “Words From Jesus: How To Hear God’s Voice” webinar launch is just such a surprise and God-sized opportunity for YOU.

We’ll be sharing what we consder our BIGGEST GOD STORY of 2009.

But don’t just take my word for it. Listen to Nancy Slocum’s excitement in her audio message. She called me out-of-the-blue yesterday bubbling over with excitement and prophetic words.

http://wordsfromjesus.net

Whether you are available to participate in the LIVE webinar at 8 am EST tomorrow (Sat Dec 5) or not, we still encourage you to register so you can watch the recorded webinar.

The topic for this inaugural and global WFJ webinar is “The Spiritual Triangle Between Virginia, the U.K. And Italy!”

The cost is only $50, $25, or $0, depending on your financial circumstances.

And all (100%) of the proceeds from this webinar will go to Renato and Patrizia Amato, Italian missionaries for more than 30 years, and the ones who started this Words From Jesus global movement. Join Team Destiny in SOWING SEEDS to bless the Amato family and God’s BILLION SOUL VISION.

http://wordsfromjesus.net

Prepare the way for the greatest Christmas ever!

Blessings for ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches!

Randy Peck, M.D.
“Blessed to be a blessing”
THE CONNECTOR and The Journal Guy

TEAM DESTINY

P.S. Psalm 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.

P.S.S. “The business of the church is PRAYER!” – Holy Spirit

Source: http://www.alexmandossian.com/2009/11/24/the-7-most-important-tele-interview-questions/

See also http://teleseminarsecrets.com/faculty

When preparing your presentation, make sure you have specific answers to these seven critical teleseminar interview questions.

1) WHY is [TOPIC] so important for our listeners to achieve greater success?

2) WHAT is [TOPIC] by definition?

3) HOW do your students typically get started with [TOPIC] on a step-by-step basis? [If you are going to give steps on how to get started, Alex recommends using 5-9 steps (7 +- 2)]

4) WHAT IF any of our listeners got started today with [TOPIC] – what would their life look like in say, 30 days? 90 days? 1 year? How about 3 years?

5) What are the specific ROADBLOCKS that typically prevent your students from getting started? [What are the roadblocks getting the way? Every door has a lock. Every lock has a key. Mention 3]

6) What are the specific STRATEGIES that are like keys to unlock “roadblock doors” to achieve WILD success? [Not just any success, but wild success. Each roadblock has a strategy to it.]

7) What’s the first PHYSICAL ACTION STEP you’d want a listener to take to get started with [TOPIC]? [Alex likes to call continuing education is education]

The first 4 questions come from David Colb, the next 2 from Dan Sullivan, and the last one from David Allen.

You have the WHY learner, the WHAT learner, the HOW learner, and the What IF learner. Be sure to ask and answer these questions in this order.

A team is a group of people doing something together to produce a specific result or outcome. None of us, no matter how good we are can be great at everything. So what are 6 key advantages of teams?

Advantage 1: Increases productivity
Organizations are continuously looking for efficiency or productivity gains as a source of competitive advantage. Teams, especially those that are close to the point of delivery can identify what needs to change to boost productivity better than any group of senior managers could ever hope to. Let the team focus on productivity and the organisation gains.

Advantage 2: Improves communication skills
For teams to succeed they need to be able to get their messages across, listen effectively to other points of view and build on ideas. As a result of being on the team, people are getting the opportunity to develop and improve their communication skills.

Advantage 3: Diversity of skills
Some people in organisations thrive in dealing with the big picture stuff. Others get their kick from getting immersed in the detail. There will be others who thrive on idea generation and others who love to take something from concept to finished article. This diverse range of people skills and working together have the potential to deliver a much better solution than any one individual could ever hope to do.

Advantage 4: Improved problem solving
Think about a time when you had a problem that you needed to solve. You probably get so far and then end up getting stuck because of your own range of experience or knowledge. When you have access to the wider range of skills and knowledge you ultimately solve problems faster and better.

Advantage 5: Process improvement
Few business processes operate in isolation just within one area of the organisation. They tend to cross functions and even geographical boundaries. A team with insights of different parts of the process will clearly be better placed to make successful process improvements.

Advantage 6: Smarter use of resources
When a team has focus on getting a specific result, chances are they will find creative ways of using the resources at their disposal rather than focusing on the constraints.

Bottom Line – There are numerous advantages of teams. What else would you add to the list of advantages.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps professional people to improve their leadership and management skills and getting better results through teams. For information about services and programmes click here.

The Great Commission is a TEACHING as well as PREACHING commission!

Mt 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (NAS) Teach them all I commanded you.

Did you know that Jesus gave us 50 commandments to take to the nations?

The 50 commandments of Christ will change a nation. Notice how Jesus commands us to both preach repentance and TEACH THEM TO “OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I COMMANDED YOU”. We tend to focus on getting people saved, or born again. That is certainly the start. This however is called the “Gospel of Salvation.”

The “Gospel of the Kingdom” on the other hand is the Gospel we are called to preach. It includes the call to repentance but goes much further. It 7 Mountains of Culture reaches into the world system and threatens Satan’s control over the nations. It is a teaching commission along side a preaching commission. It has been neglected too long.

To disciple a nation you need a philosophy that governs all aspects of behavior yet is flexible enough to apply to all sectors of society. What are the sectors of society the gospel must penetrate in order to disciple nations?

There are in fact seven mountains or world kingdoms that make up the matrix in which the culture of every nation exists. These mountains are also called “mind molders”, because the person who controls the tops of these mountains has leverage over the minds and lives of those beneath in every other mountain. The church has a message for each of these mountains. We need to both demonstrate the power of God and recover our confidence in the practical, life changing dynamic that is unleashed when society is built on non optional universal life principles- the commandments of Christ! It is the absence of this moral foundation that explains why it is easier to liberate a country from dictatorship than it is to bring it into order and prosperity once the dictator is out of power.

LEARN How To Harness The Power Of The Web
To Share YOUR Stories, Products, And
Services With The WORLD

How can YOU best LEVERAGE YOUR TIME to do what you already do well?

How can you best communicate your “GIFT” with the world
(10’s, 100’s or even 1000’s of people at a time)?

Web 2.0+++ is at least 100 times more powerful than Web 1.0
How and when are YOU going to take advantage of that?

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Imagine how good you will feel when…

• you LEARN how to LEVERAGE your Time, Talent, and Treasure through the POWER of the web to have the potential to see a 30-60-100 fold increase in profits and impact in just 12 months
• you have an ever-increasing GLOCAL impact – both local and global
• the web becomes your best friend instead of a stranger or foe
• you become the go-to guy or organization in your niche

What You Don’t Know About the Internet Is Costing You …
Money, Market Share, And Leverage

Your Web Presence Is The Foundation of
Your Organization’s Future Survival and Success

My “gift” is CONNECTING and I’m passionate about coaching YOU to share YOUR stories, products, and services with the world.

The internet is the number one business tool of the 21st century. It’s what everyone is talking about. The best way to LEVERAGE your time, talent, and treasure is with Web 2.0+++. But what is Web 2.0+++ and how do you use that STRATEGICALLY?

The web is a place were opportunity-hungry prospects are looking… waiting… for what you have to offer. But the million dollar question is how will they find you with the hundreds of millions of blogs and websites already out there.

Most people and businesses are more confused than ever about how to build their business online. Chances are you are one of them.

What’s stopping you from grabbing your slice of the internet pie?

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What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is also known as Social Marketing, Attraction Marketing, and Relationship Marketing. My favorite name is Relationship Marketing because that is what Jesus said life is about in the Greatest Commandment.

Web 2.0 is called Relationship Marketing because it’s about relationships first, business second. It’s called Attraction Marketing because it’s about attracting people to you and your business automatically. It’s called Social Marketing because it uses a variety of Social Media to market your stories, products, and services to the world.

Why use Social Marketing?

• Go where the fish are … and where they are going
• First mover’s advantage
• Your market spends the bulk of its time online
• 83% watch video clips, up from 62% in June 2007
• 78% read blogs, up from 66%
• 57% are now members of a social network
• > 200 million Facebook users
• RSS consumption is up from 15% to 39%
• 48% listen to podcasts

Social Marketing Areas

• Blogging
• Content sharing (e.g. Squidoo)
• Driving traffic with articles (e.g. Ezinearticles)
• Driving traffic through bookmarking (e.g. Digg)
• Social sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Video Sharing (e.g. YouTube, Tangle)

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Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is said to be the definition of frustration. Many times I need to step outside of my normal routine to discover new solutions to the challenges in business. Today’s business environment is compelling us to find new ways to develop the profit needed to grow our businesses.

One of the best ways to get this process going is to ask the right questions. For example, what are the changing behaviors of my customers? Should I revisit my business concept? What should my strategy be in light of changing competition? How do I identify and benefit from changing trends in my business environment. Or, are there new and better ways to market my services?

Locally, we have a wealth of easy access resources for businesses to find answers to these questions and so much more. As I have mentioned many times, Germanna’s Community College System is focused and committed to the growth and development of education for local business needs. They offer both credit and non-credit courses that equip businesses with tools for their business success. Also, the Small Business Development Center is now located on East Davis Street in Old Town Culpeper. The center offers direct access to some of the best business information for small business development. Much of this information is free and easy to take advantage of.

In addition, The Chamber of Commerce offers programs and educational opportunities for the businesses in our community. We are working closely with Culpeper County Department of Economic Development, Culpeper Renaissance, Inc., and the Culpeper Department of Tourism to bring a program for our retail and restaurant businesses. On September 9th, we will provide a seminar funded largely by Culpeper Renaissance, Inc., that will answer many of the questions about the new economy in retail. This is a must attend event for retailers in preparation for the holiday season. You will not want to miss out on the new ideas as you consider your holiday retail plans.

The Technology Council of the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce will also be offering a Web 2.0 online course thru one of our Chamber members. The course is an 8 week course offering an extensive understanding of this powerful marketing tool. Brick and Mortar businesses can extend their customer base globally by knowing the new tools of web 2.0. Go to the Chamber website for a link to the online course information. www.CulpeperChamber.com. The course begins on September 8th.

Finding the answers for your business may mean getting out to the next seminar. Or, it may be that you are able to find the answers from the comfort of your business location thru an online course. Either way, your success is determined by your actions. Change your daily routine to change your fortune. Education is the key to preparation. Preparation is the key to capitalizing on opportunities when they come your way. Take advantage of the opportunities to fine tune your business. They are so easy to find and so worth the investment. Can you afford not too?

Best Regards

Jim Charapich
President / CEO
Culpeper Chamber of Commerce

Get it? Jesus came to seek and save “that” which was lost, not just “those” that were lost. I’m not playing a game of semantics. This makes a HUGE difference. Basically, three things were lost in Adam and Eve’s fall in the garden: 1) Man’s vertical relationship with God, 2) Man’s horizontal relationship with people, and 3) The marketplace was cursed (thorns and thistles).

OK, so what difference does that make? When Jesus rose from the dead 2000 years ago, He redeemed all three things that were lost. However, because of free will, it’s our responsibility to reclaim those.

I am convinced that the Body of Christ as a whole must develop a new mindset in order to reclaim the marketplace for Jesus Christ. Way too many followers of Jesus have a poverty mentality which is keeping them from fulfilling their God-given assignments. Where do you stand on this?

Yesterday morning I received an email from Kevin Nations titled “If you EVER want to make money with teleseminars – Get on this call TODAY…” Kevin is well known in top Internet Marketing circles as “The Big Ticket Guy.” In his email, Kevin wrote:

“Do you really want to make a small fortune working from home and helping people by sharing your ‘gift’? Ever thought – “If more people knew about what I could do for them, then I’d be able to help more of them and make a TON of money in the process?” The BEST way I’ve seen to get this message out and to connect with a large audience with your personal message has been through teleseminars. And Lisa Sasevich is holding a training today that is a MUST HEAR if you EVER plan to use teleseminars in your client-getting efforts. Drop whatever you’re doing and get on this call today!”

I chose to receive the blessing that God was passing along through Kevin. As a result, I participated in the outstanding FREE teleseminar by Lisa Sasevich titled “”5 Simple Secrets to 6-Figure Teleseminars: How to make BIG FAST MONEY doing what you LOVE!” Wow! Wow! Wow! I discovered the reason Lisa is known as “The Queen of Sales Conversion” in the Internet world.

Before going to bed last night, I discovered that Lisa will be doing an ENCORE TELESEMINAR on Saturday July 25 at 1:30 PM EDT (10:30 AM PDT). This morning, the Holy Spirit prompted me to share the blessing with YOU.

If you’re interested, please CLICK HERE.

Blessings to prosper using your God-given gift!

Randy Peck, M.D.
“Blessed to be a blessing”
The Connector – connecting people, ideas, and resources in Christ through the POWER of the Holy Spirit

Are you struggling to attract clients?

Many small business owners mistakenly assume that once they have a web site, clients will appear on their virtual doorstep. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen unless you make your website findable by optimizing it for the search engines.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is simply designing your website in a way that makes it possible for people to find it when they search online. It’s the process of modifying your web site so that the search engines rank your site more highly and send you more visitors.

Even if you don’t design your own website, you need to know enough about what you’re paying someone to do to know whether or not they’re doing a good job.

Most web designers don’t know much about SEO. If you don’t plan on hiring an SEO expert, you need to make sure you know enough about SEO to be able to give your web designer clear instructions about what you want them to include where.

Even the most awesome website is no good if nobody can find it

If you write your website pages around keywords that people aren’t actually using to search for what you have to offer, you won’t have many visitors. Your keywords are the foundation of your marketing strategy. Take time to choose them carefully, if you don’t, the right people may never get the opportunity to find your site.

The first step in plotting your strategy is to gather and evaluate keywords and keyword phrases. You probably think you already know EXACTLY the right words for your search phrases. Unfortunately, if you haven’t done keyword research, you may be WRONG.

Getting started with SEO can seem a bit daunting but it doesn’t have to be, you just need the right information from someone who speaks your language. SEO is actually very straight forward; anyone can learn how to optimize their website for the search engines. Yes, really!

SEO isn’t the only key to your success, but it is a must do if you want potential clients to find your website and make your website work for you. Small business owners need to use every tool and strategy available to ensure their success. I can think of nothing more vital, more accessible and more easily implemented than SEO. A site that effectively targets your ideal clients and makes it to the first page of search results will bring you all the potential clients you need.

If you have a website, be smart enough get to know and implement simple SEO strategies, start climbing your way out of the search engine doldrums and turn your website into an effective marketing tool. It will be time well spent.

Click here, for the keys to more search engine traffic.

5 Keys To Getting Your Website Found

If you want to get more visitors to your web site and you don’t want to pay for advertsing, you need to optimize your website for the search engines. It’s much easier than you think.

When you follow simple tried and tested strategies you will start to climb in search engine rankings and you will get more visitors to your website.

Once your web site is ranked on the first pages of search results you will get much more search engine traffic. The time invested in search engine optimization is well worth it.

Here are five keys to get you started with search engine optimization or SEO

1) One of the first steps to SEO is to brainstorm and research the keywords potential visitors use to find what you have to offer. You can’t afford to guess the keyword phrases that your visitors will use to search. If you build your pages around keywords that your potential visitors don’t actually use, you will wallow in the search engine doldrums and remain invisible to your target market.

2) Once you know the keywords your target market use to search, write your pages around those keywords and make sure that you include your keywords in all the right places.

• the file name
• title tag
• description
• keyword tag
• headings
• throughout the text
• in anchor text
• in image tags

3) Another very important aspect of search engine optimization is links. You need a good linking structure within your site. Make sure you link your pages to each other with anchor text (a clickable link using your keywords)

4) You also need links from other websites, the more links you have, the better. Do make sure that the links pointing to your site are from relevant sites and try to make sure that you have links that use your keywords in anchor text.

5) Make sure that once your visitor lands on your site that they have good reason to stay. You need good quality information, attractively laid out with lots of white space. Look at your site through the eyes of a visitor and make sure that it is user friendly or they will just click away.

If you want to rank well in the search engines so that you can have more than your share of free traffic, I invite you to check out Optimize Your Website

Optimize Your Website is a clear step by guide to Search Engine Optimization written for non techies. It simplifies the process and gives you links to all the tools you need.

Click here and start optimizing your website today.

Search engines constantly change their algorithms, shuffle their indexes, merge results and share content. The only consistent thing about marketing your website to them is that what works really well today probably won’t work so well tomorrow.

That’s why you need an experienced search marketing professional who keeps two fingers on the pulse of the major search engines. If Google hiccups, we know about it. If Yahoo! gets stubborn, we’ll coax those rankings back to the first page.

Working with search engines is a long-term, high maintenance relationship and we’re dedicated to managing that relationship so you don’t have to, and at an investment you can feel good about.

So How Exactly Does SEO Work?

This is the million dollar question. And we can almost guarantee you that for every person you ask, you’ll get a different answer. That’s because marketing to the search engines is like any creative endeavor: cooking, painting, carpentry, etc.

If you ask five people to bake a cake, you’ll get five unique cakes each with different ingredients. Ask ten people to craft you a chair and you’ll get ten distinct pieces each with its own style.

Because the search engines change their ranking algorithms (the equations they use to analyze a website’s reputation and rankability) so often, and they each use such widely varying criteria, there are literally hundreds of ways to promote your site to the first page of search results.

However, there are certain universal guidelines regarding what central principles and elements are vital to your search marketing strategy. There are also very clear rules against certain practices that attempt to cheat or trick the search engines.

Fundamental Principles for Successful SEO

1. Content

Content will always be your key ticket to top rankings. Without it, any rankings achieved will be short-lived. For content to help your ranking, however, you need a lot of it and it has to be updated regularly. Most importantly, each page of content must target a specific keyword term.

However, if your site possesses content that is auto-generated or is poorly written, i.e. a human visitor would not find it useful and informative, the search engines will figure it out and demote your site, possibly even blacklisting you and preventing you from showing up in their results at all.

We develop well-written, keyword targeted content for your site that is updated consistently and monitored for rankability. Your business will enjoy the added benefit of an ever-growing resource library of information that your site visitors will enjoy and which will also help with your sales conversions.

2. Links

More specifically, one-way links from authoritative sites in your niche market. You can find out how authoritative a site is by looking at its Page Rank.

Page Rank, or PR, is a ranking system Google devised to show how much weight or authority a particular site has. No one can say the exact methodology Google uses to assign Page Rank, however all SEO experts agree that it largely has to do with the amount of incoming links a site has, how long it’s been around, and visitor activity on the site (yes Google even knows how long someone remains on your site after they click through from the search results!).

What this means for you is that you want as many high PR sites linking into your site as possible (without you linking back to them). This is because Google gives these sites a lot of respect and values their “recommendations” signaled by who they choose to link to.

If all this sounds a bit complicated, think of it this way:

Google and the major search engines analyze your website the way scholars judge academic papers. The more journals and other reputable papers cite your research and quote you, the more authoritative and “expert” you become.

We negotiate inbound links on your behalf, concentrating on links from sites related to your market whose reputation thematically relates to the reputation you’re trying to build. We also make sure these links deep-link into your website, meaning that they link to various pages in your website, rather than just to your homepage (also a sign that you’re highly authoritative).

3. Visitor Behavior

Google knows everything. Other Search Engines like Yahoo! and MSN aren’t so far behind. If a visitor clicks from their search engine into your site, and leaves immediately, Google knows that they didn’t find what they were looking for. If too many people do this, Google will drop you from their rankings because they assume you’re not relevant for that particular term. This is why site design, compelling content, and conversion analysis are important.

We offer Website Conversion Optimization in addition to SEO to help you address this particular issue.

4. Human Idiosyncracies

Google wants to know that a human is running the show. Automated SEO software, or any techniques that add hundreds of pages to your site within a week, or which create content automatically, are a dead giveaway that you’re doing something Google doesn’t like.

This won’t just get you knocked off the top 10 rankings – Google and other search engines will ban your site from ever showing up in their results – even when someone searches your exact domain name. This is why any illegal or unethical techniques will kill your business.

We hand craft every single page of information on your website and upload those pages consistently over several months.

Universally Illegal SEO Practices: Avoid at ALL Costs

Search engines may be vague about what you can do to get top rankings.
However, they are not vague about those practices that will get you banned from their rankings. For instance, Google provides Webmaster Guidelines that detail what you are NOT to do when promoting your website.

When you are looking for an SEO professional, be aware of these illegal techniques and the different “pet names” given them by dubious fly-by-night companies. We’ve provided several of them here for your easy reference. You can also download these tips in an easy-to-read PDF format.