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This months featured ministry and members are one and the same. They are all of our sponsoring and partner radio stations and their individual members that help promote us and encourage others to join CMN-USA. We cannot thank them enough. Since the bulk of them have fall fund raising campaigns and we have missed them we encourage you to still pledge and/or give money. They depend on our financial support.
Our partner stations are:
CDR - Southern Oh
WAKW - Cincinnati/N Ky
WEEC - Spfld/Dayton
WFCJ - Dayton/Cincinnati
WORD - Pittsburgh
WRFD - Col/Central Ohio
THANKS AGAIN FOLKS FOR ALL YOU DO!!!
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If you have a suggestion for Featured Member or Featured Ministry please send it to the editor. |
Partner Events
The Mountaintop Economic Summit has been changed to April 1-3. Please mark your calendars.
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Helpful Business Hints |
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Copying: Most businesses have copiers. But have you ever expensed out the price per copy, including service, paper. toner, etc? Obviously the small jobs are economical and efficient.
But sometimes it is less expensive to ship the larger jobs out. You can even e-mail everything to one of the "discount" office stores like Office Depot. Most jobs they will turn around within a few hours.
We are always looking for tips for saving time and/or money or help with producing additional revenue. Please share them with others. |
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Don't forget CBN-USA is a business partner of Constant Contact. By subscribing to Constant Contact through CBN-USA you can save additional money and provide us with a little income.
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From the Editor...
by Bill Gaffney
Why did I call this a special edition? Well it might have to do with the fact that you have all been waiting anxiously for the next newsletter for 10 weeks now. Yes, I have been negligent in my duties. So I am sending this one ahead of the regular November newsletter, which will be out the middle of the month.
There will be some one-time changes. We will be listing all the relevant articles in one section, without the paragraph tickler. The title should give you what you need to know.
Also I have separately included a little of a monthly newsletter article from my friend Vince Crew on Ethics. You will want to go to his web site and read the entire article. Vince has been featured here before. He is known as the ethics guy on Fox. If you ever hear he is going to be on listen to him as he has a way of "telling it like it is" succinctly and accurately. (You will also find a link to another article on ethics.)
In addition to all this great stuff you will find a brief spin on networking from me and a devotional on success from my friend Jody Burgin from Cincinnati. Some of you probably already get it. If you don't it is simply the best daily devotional in the Western World.
Finally don't forget to vote (if you haven't already done so) on Tuesday and encourage friends and acquaintances to do the same. Also don't forget to war your I VOTED TODAY sticker proudly.
Enjoy this special edition of the newsletter.
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
By Bill Gaffney
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I recently had a conversation with another coach. He was writing an article on networking and wanted some input. In his original draft he linked to an article that talked about an outgrowth of social networking being business networking.
WRONG!!! In fact it should probably be the other way around. Business people have networked for decades. The explosion of on-line networking just gives us another tool to use. So let's not call it social networking for us, but business networking.
Here are a few tips:
- Don't use too many different networks. That's all you will end up doing.
- Keep your business and personal separate. You want to be professional. If I am contacting you for business I really don't care about seeing pictures of your vacation or family.
- Don't be into sheer numbers. The one with the most business cards at the end of a trade show or the most names on your LinkedIn doesn't win. If I don't actually know the person and can't tell you in some detail about them, then, in my opinion, my reference is next to worthless.
- Your network is gold and your most valuable asset. Keep it current (Plaxo is a good tool for this) and keep working on it.
- Finally, GIVE! GIVE!GIVE! Who do you know you can introduce to someone else? It is not about you.
Besides volunteering full time for CMN-USA Bill Gaffnaey is a recruiter and career coach. |
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ARTICLES YOU SHOULD READ!!
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SOCIAL NETWORKING and LinkRELATIONSHIP MARKETINGHOW NOT TO LOSE YOUR HEAD Link
DURING A BUSINESS CRISIS
IS YOUR EGO IN CHECK? Link
HOW TO BOOST EMPLOYEE Link
MORALE ON A BUDGET
MORE COMPANIES LETTING Link
FOLKS WORK FROM HOME
ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE Link
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WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' ETHICS TRAINING
By Vince Crew
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There are ultimately five obstacles to truly cultivating and maintaining a firm's ethical culture:
- No compelling reason to focus
- Inability to link everyday ethics to business results
- A lack of strategic growth insight
- Not knowing how to develop a comprehensive initiative
- How to connect employee success with ethical focus
(from Oct newsletter)
Vince Crew is known as the ethics guy and can be heard on FOX. Vince is a consultant, author, speaker and coach. His firm is Reach Development Services. |
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A GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY
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The Cincinnati Christian Marketplace Network is sponsoring its 5th Annual Marketplace Expo and Trade Fair on Friday, November 21st at The Vineyard Community Church in Springdale. Admission is free. This year's event will feature over 30 exhibits of Christian owned businesses, organizations and ministries. Also featured are breakouts sessions with relevant topics to the workplace Christian. .Chuck Proudfit from At Work On Purpose will present the insightful session entitled The Bible and the Briefcase. Ford Taylor of Transformation Cincinnati will present Relational Leadership: The Missing Link. And Kendra Ramirez of Sales Konnect will present What, Where and Why of Social Networking.
Folks, this is always a great networking event!!
For additional information and flyers visit the web site |
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BREAKTHROUGH LIVING
By Jody Burgin |
He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success (2 Chronicles 26:5)
It doesn't say enough, but what it does say is good. Read the following reflections on success from Ralph Waldo Emerson. What would you add to make it complete?
"How do you measure success?
- To laugh often and much;
- To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
- To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
- To appreciate beauty;
- To find the best in others;
- To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done;
- To know even one other life has breathed because you lived -
This is to have succeeded."
Emerson doesn't mention money, status, rank, or fame. He says nothing of power over others either. Nothing of possessions. The verbs are instructive: laugh, win, earn, endure, appreciate, find, leave, and know. The emphasis is outside of ourselves.
These thoughts on success are profound, well worth being memorized, but a vital, dynamic relationship with the Almighty needs to be added. To have succeeded in every area of life and yet lived a life without core-to-core connection with God is to have failed. To guard that relationship is essential, not optional. It isn't easy. It won't come naturally. It requires honesty. It calls for purity.
Lord, as I seek you, give me success as you define success.Jody Burgin is a pastor, counselor, speaker and author. Joday has spoke in front of Congress on men's struggles with their moral compass. More about Jody and the ministry |
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