Ray Edwards http://rayedwards.com Prosperity With Purpose Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:46 +0000 hourly 1 #062: How to Turn Your Business Around [Podcast] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RayEdwards/~3/9mocgGDYpYE/ http://rayedwards.com/062/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:22:28 +0000 Ray Edwards http://rayedwards.com/?p=6084 What do you do if business is not so good? Do you blow a pile of money on standard media advertising, like radio and newspaper, and hope for the best?  Do you drain your retirement account savings to keep the business afloat? Do you close down the shop, and stick a sign in the window that says, “the economy did it”?

Cheerful business team toasting with Champagne

Or do you use a proven, reliable formula to turn your business around? Seems to me that last idea is the best. And that’s what this week’s episode is all about. How to turn your business around, in any economy.

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On this week’s podcast episode:

  • The power of storytelling to grow your business.
  • Why your level of faith doesn’t matter.
  • Plus, our feature presentation…  How to  Turn Your Business Around

Tip Of The Week

You can change the quality of your life by changing the quality of your stories. Decide how you want your life to be, and tell that story. Even before it’s a fact.

Spiritual Foundations

All things are possible for one who believes.
Mark 9:23

Most modern Christians have been taught this verse means if we have more faith, that all things are possible. In other words, if we can believe, God will intervene on our behalf. He will bring our miracle. If we can’t believe, then were out of luck and God is not going to help us.

I don’t think that’s what this verse means at all. Let’s look at it in context, and let’s also look at how the original language (Greek) is structured.

First, what’s the context of this verse? A boy is brought to Jesus who is possessed by a demon. The boys father says to Jesus, “if you can do anything, have compassion on us.” Jesus points out that the family, and even his own disciples, have very little or no faith. He calls them “faithless”. Then he goes on to say, ” If you can! all things are possible for one who believes.” So just from the context of the story, it seems that Jesus is talking about himself when he says all things are possible for the one who believes. He’s the only one present who has any faith.

Pastor Joseph Prince points out that if you study the Greek structure of the verse, it’s actually saying, “Can you believe that all things are possible to him [Jesus] who is always believing?”

it’s not about how much faith you have. It’s not about what you believe, it’s about who you believe. Believe Jesus, whose faith is always constant. If you can believe that all things are possible for Jesus… That he makes all things possible for you.

Have faith in the one whose faith is perfect on your behalf.

Feature Segment: How to  Turn Your Business Around

Business success, in any economy, consists of about 20% technical skills, and 80% psychology. What you believe about your business, your ability to generate profit, and what is possible determines whether or not you will be successful. You can’t ignore reality, but you can intentionally influence it.

Four Required Steps to Turning Your Business Around

  1. Decide it’s possible
  2. See the situation as it is
  3. See the situation better than it is
  4. Do what is required to make it the way you see it

Nine Business Saving Tactics

  1. Contact previous customers
  2. Improve the physical environment
  3. Improve the sales conversation
  4. Generate referrals
  5. Generate fresh leads
  6. Follow-up relentlessly
  7. Measure everything
  8. Control expenses
  9. Increase marketing

Want To Be On Next Week’s Show?

My topic for next week’s show is “How to Have a Spiritual Business”. If you have a question on that topic, you can ask by visiting my voicemail page (just click here to leave a message). This is a great way to promote your own website. First, make sure you have a great question, and then start off by saying your name and your website. If your question is used on the show, will even include a link back to your site in the show notes.

Your Feedback

Do you have an idea for a podcast you would like to hear? Do you have a question that you like to ask me? Please contact me.

Call in your questions or comments to our new, fancy “request line” at (509) 713-2679 or click here to leave a message on my Voicemail Page

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]]> http://rayedwards.com/062/feed/ 0 http://rayedwards.com/062/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=062 #061: How to Be Smarter [Podcast] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RayEdwards/~3/nebONQ0NQrM/ http://rayedwards.com/061/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 06:46:19 +0000 Ray Edwards http://rayedwards.com/?p=6043 What if you could  become smarter as little as 24 hours? What if you could remember more, come up with more ideas, and think more quickly than ever before?

Active retired people, two senior men playing chess at park

This is eminently possible, and I’ve got the “get smarter recipe” coming up in today’s episode.

Please subscribe (and leave a review) in iTunes. This helps new people discover the podcast.

On this week’s podcast episode:

  •  A new process for better copy.
  •  When you feel separated from God… what to do.
  • Plus, our feature presentation…  How to be smarter!

Tip Of The Week

Read Copy Logic for a new and better system of improving sales copy. This simple book lays out a system for improving the results you get from your sales copy. And copywriters will love it.

When this book was first recommended to me, I was skeptical. It sounded like a book about how to critique copy. I have written lots of copy for clients, and endured many “critique” sessions. Usually, those critique sessions result in weaker copy. They are often a vehicle to stroke the client’s ego. Rarely do they result in better sales copy.

This book is different. It lays out a step-by-step, easy-to-follow system for improving your sales copy that is both humane and effective. And nobody gets their ego wounded or inflated. Every piece of copy I turn out from now on will go through the Copy Logic system. It just makes sense. And you can’t argue with the million-dollar results it has produced.

Spiritual Foundations

I was talking with a friend of mine, we began to speak of God. My friend said, “I don’t think I’m on such good terms with God right now. I’m not sure he would answer any of my prayers.” This made me very sad, because it is the result of poor understanding of the Bible. Too many of us have this picture of a “fire and brimstone” kind of God. In reality God is all loving, and he himself has declared that he will not hold our sins against us.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
Hebrews 8:12

Thoughts that make us feel condemned or cut off from God don’t come from heaven. Those kinds of thoughts come from the devil himself. You may call him the adversary, or the enemy, or even “the resistance”. Whatever you name him, he’s real, and he would like nothing better than to cut you off from your father in heaven.

Once you have accepted the gift that Jesus offers-full payment for all your sin-the deal is done. There’s no more need to confess, or to keep a running list of your sins. Why would you keep a list that God has promised to forget? Be conscious of the fact that he himself has made you perfect, and watch his blessing flow into your life.

Feature Segment: How to Be Smarter

The first proposal I make is that you are neither “smart” nor “stupid”-but you can easily enter into either state. The real question becomes, how do you optimize yourself to be in “smart” state more often, and to be in “high smart” most of the time?

“Inner Game versus Outer Game Of Intelligence”

Nine Ways to Be Smarter Tomorrow

  1. Sleep Better
  2. Drink More Water
  3. Eat Only Plants
  4. Breathe More
  5. Move More
  6. Ask Better Questions
  7. Increase Inputs
  8. Write Down Your Ideas
  9. Become a Noticer

Want To Be On Next Week’s Show?

My topic for next week’s show is “How to Turn Your Business Around”. If you have a question on that topic, you can ask by visiting my voicemail page (just click here to leave a message). This is a great way to promote your own website. First, make sure you have a great question, and then start off by saying your name and your website. If your question is used on the show, will even include a link back to your site in the show notes.

Your Feedback

Do you have an idea for a podcast you would like to hear? Do you have a question that you like to ask me? Please contact me.

Call in your questions or comments to our new, fancy “request line” at (509) 713-2679 or click here to leave a message on my Voicemail Page

And if you enjoy the podcast, I would consider it a great favor if you subscribe (and leave a review) in iTunes. This helps new people discover the podcast. You can also find the podcast on Stitcher.

 

]]> http://rayedwards.com/061/feed/ 2 http://rayedwards.com/061/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=061 #060: How to Attract Business [Podcast] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RayEdwards/~3/PWY--zCRZks/ http://rayedwards.com/060/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 22:14:40 +0000 Ray Edwards http://rayedwards.com/?p=6018 What if instead of chasing after business, you could have business chasing after you? That’s exactly what happens for me, and in this week’s episode am going to tell you how to build a system that helps you attract business.

Welcome, Please Come In Sign

Here are some other reasons to keep listening to this week’s podcast episode:

  •  What are your success rituals?
  •  My update on “The One Thing”.
  • Plus, our feature presentation…  How to Attract Business

Tip Of The Week

From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan…

“What’s the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?”

So how is this working out for me? Listen to the podcast audio to find out.

Spiritual Foundations

Recently, I was reading a book called Business for the Glory of God. I began to wonder, just what is the “glory of God”? Guess what? There is an answer, and it is important for us to know it.

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Exodus 33:18-19

God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5

Do you not know that youare God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
1 Co 3:16

The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
John 17:22-23

Feature Segment: How to Attract Business

  1. Value
  2. Positioning & Authority
  3. Hub & Spoke
  4. Traffic, Lead, Conversion Systems
  5. Path

I am conducting a webinar training that details how to do all this two days from now. Click here for details.

Want To Be On Next Week’s Show?

My topic for next week’s show is “How to Be Smarter”. If you have a question on that topic, you can ask by visiting my voicemail page (just click here to leave a message). This is a great way to promote your own website. First, make sure you have a great question, and then start off by saying your name and your website. If your question is used on the show, will even include a link back to your site in the show notes.

Your Feedback

Do you have an idea for a podcast you would like to hear? Do you have a question that you like to ask me? Please contact me.

Call in your questions or comments to our new, fancy “request line” at (509) 713-2679 or click here to leave a message on my Voicemail Page

And if you enjoy the podcast, I would consider it a great favor if you subscribe (and leave a review) in iTunes. This helps new people discover the podcast. You can also find the podcast on Stitcher.

 

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