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Are you looking for helpful information on a specific topic? Check out our newsletter archives!! There are a variety of articles, with a lot of valuable information.
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Featured Members
Ginger Lehman
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Ginger attends almost every CMN Cincinnati chapter meeting monthly and is always available to help out. She is the back up at the West Chapter meeting for introducing speakers, assists at the registration table at the North Chapter and at the East Chapter meeting she helps announce the door prizes and does theclosing prayer
She has been with Brower Insurance Agency for 10 years specializing in working with businesses for all their insurance needs.
She and her husband Doug are empty nesters residing in Landen with their 2 dogs, Mia and Hank. Children are Amanda, Kris, Holden, Becca, Mitchell and Misty who all live nearby and visit often.
Ginger is a member of the Blue Ash Church of God and loves volunteering with City Gospel Mission in Cincinnati.
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Featured Ministry
This month we are selecting The Gathering (Harvey Hook) and At Work On Purpose (Chuck Proudfit). Not only are they Business Partners but they are ministry partners and good friends as well.
Together the three organizations (including Christian Marketplace Network) have been leaders in changing the face of marketplace ministry in Central and Southwest Ohio as we plow the fields of the marketplace together.
May the seeds we plant continue to bloom and flourish!!
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Happenings/Events | | The Dayton Region's Big Breakfast brought in 19 sponsors and 300 attendees. Congratulations and well done to everyone involved.
Other regions have tried different versions but no one comes close to duplicating the Cincinnati Region's annual success in sponsoring a trade show.
The planning is under way. The date is November 20th and the location is the Vineyard Community Church.
Look for new features and an even bigger event. Keep an eye on the web site for further details. The information should be out this week.
More information on these events can be found by visiting the Christian Marketplace Network web site.
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Partner Events
THIS TUESDAY!!
Cedarville University will be hosting Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A, on Tuesday, August 18th.
The event is free and open to the public. It will start at 12:30 in the Dixon Ministry Center.
His address will be "The Role of Leadership and The Importance of Having a Good Name."
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Helpful Business Hints
social media
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It is now being referred to as social media. Just yesterday it was social networking. Ten years ago it was business networking and done primarily face to face.
It's all the rave but the important thing to know is it can be valuable used correctly. After all if Ashton Kutcher can pick up well over a million followers on Twitter saying nothing what could you do with an intelligent, well designed social media plan?
Six months ago I thought Twitter was a bunch of wasteful nonsense but today I think it is a very valuable sales, marketing and PR tool. Don't kid yourself. Everyone under 35 (maybe 40) is using it. It fits right in with the sound bite, get it now mentality. And Hey, it's free advertising!! I am including a link to a Power Point from Twitter on how to use it for some of your business opportunities. Folks, this is not a fly-by-night phenomenon. The link and article is from FORBES.
The other link I am including is an article on outsourcing the management of your social media. This article is not as important in regards to outsourcing as it is to the real value of social media. The bottom line is, YOU HAVE TO START USING IT!!
Outsourcing is a great idea whose time will come. But you will have to have the scale and find someone that knows what they are doing. Like web site designers that will only be 10-20% of the people who claim they know it.
Finally spend the money and time in the meanwhile to get a staff member training in this area. The revenues and profits will far exceed the costs. Remember a lot of the social media itself is free.
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 CMN-USA is a business partner of Constant Contact. By subscribing to Constant Contact through CMN-USA you can save additional money and provide us with a little income.
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From the Editor... IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU!
by Bill Gaffney
Most of the readers will recognize that line from the beginning of Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Life."
This month we will focus on that but we do have to spend time looking at ourselves in order to make it more about Him.
This newsletter does not contain the normal fare of several pieces on business but four pieces on looking at improving ourselves, which translates into being better Christians and more beneficial to God in the marketplace.
This newsletter does look longer than usual but actually there is less overall content. Three of the pieces I couldn't provide a link so I had to publish them in their entirety.
We start out with the Ben Franklin classic, "Thirteen Virtues" and close with a devotional by my good friend Jody Burgin out of Cincinnati, who writes the best devotionals I have ever read.
I hope these items inspire you.
Enjoy this month's newsletter.
Bill
PS I sent out a special piece on Sunday afternoon called "A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool." You will want to read it. If you didn't get it let me know.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S 13 VIRTUES
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1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation.
2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.
6. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice: Wrong none, by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.
11. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; Never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
12. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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DO YOU LIVE LIKE A MILLIONAIRE
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Twenty years ago, I began studying how people become millionaires.
Surveying residents of posh neighborhoods across the country, I
discovered something odd. Many who live in expensive homes and drive
luxury cars don't have much wealth. They may earn a fair amount of
money, but they spend it all.
Then I discovered something even odder: many who have a great deal
of wealth don't live in posh neighborhoods. In one large metropolitan
area I surveyed, fewer than half the millionaires lived in high-rent
districts. MOREThanks to our good friend Marty Grunder, landscaper extraordinaire and excellent motivational speaker. (If I plug Marty enough he will have to join.) Here are his comments and the original source of the article.
I came across an article I cut out of Reader's Digest in 1992. It was a summary Reader's Digest had done on an article written by Thomas Stanley in Medical Economics. Stanley is the author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind, two of my favorite books. By the way, they are books you ought to read and have your kids read.
By the way you can get in touch with Marty through the web site this piece appears on. Tell Marty we sent you.
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BE HUMBLE, BE CONTENT & SERVE THE LORD
From Bill Gaffney
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I was feeling left out, ignored, not appreciated and largely unrecognized. Was it about me or what? This past Thursday the Dayton Region had a Big Breakfast and I was not recognized. After all I am Assistant National Director! (First of all let me say I am a little leery to write this introduction because I am not quite sure what my cohorts in Dayton will do to me.)
I forgot the 5 R's. Be replaceable. Be reproducible. Be ready to relinquish responsibility.
As a Christian I am simply the messenger and not the message. It is not about me. As a leader in business and in marketplace ministry we have the same responsibility. If you are not training your replacement, even if you own the company, you are not doing your job. God has many more things and plans for you.
Christian Marketplace Network has existed for 8 years and in the last few months we have seen significant changes in leadership positions. After having announced my semi-retirement from titled duty in Dayton last August, Brian Benson asked me to take over the national organization. What was he thinking? We have also changed IT and Marketing directors since then. Columbus is undergoing a significant regional leadership change. The list goes on. THIS IS HEALTHY!!! It is an infusion of new ideas and fresh energy. We all have burn-out points. Any organization should be able to survive and thrive with this type of change. In fact it is mandatory if that organization is to continue, no matter how small or how large.
Next we have to be humble enough not to seek the limelight, something I have personally struggled with for years though it is improving. I know God has called me to that position, not the next great orator one.
There were two people on the podium Thursday that are long time examples of this. First was our speaker Clay Mathile, former CEO of Iams. Clay is well known as the former leader of Iams but as Clay Mathile the person he has always kept a very low profile. Today he and his wife are heavily involved in philanthropy but their involvement is always kept very low key.
The second person was Dick Chernesky, who gave our invocation. Dick is one of the top corporate attorneys in the Midwest and has been outside council to many large companies like Iams. Yet Dick says very little about that. I have gone to church with Dick for 14 years and know a little bit more about his Christian and community involvement than most because of that. But I still know only a little. Most Christians in Dayton, including those in marketplace ministry, don't know that Dick is a pioneer, going back to the 70's.
I strive to be like these gentlemen. We all serve the same Lord and no one is more important than another. Without all of our individual roles being done this whole thing (Kingdom of God) collapses. Remember that!!
So today I seek to be more humble, carry the message, not seek personal glory and train my replacement.
Bill
Besides being assistant national director, newsletter editor and the foil for Dayton leadership Bill is also a career coach and recruiter, Visit his profileat LinkedIn.
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INQUISITIVESNESS
From Jody Burgin
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"So here I am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said." Joshua 14:10-12
John Gardner, a United States cabinet member under President Johnson, once pointed out that by their mid-thirties most people have stopped acquiring new skills and new attitudes in any aspect of their lives.
How long has it been since you acquired a new skill? How many new attitudes have you adopted? Does a maverick (even wild) idea challenge you or make you retreat into your shell? Have you lost that enthusiastic zest for discovery or adventure? Are you becoming addicted to predictability?
I'll let you in on a secret: Living and learning go hand in hand; existing and expiring do too. The constant curiosity and probing inquisitiveness of preschoolers make every day completely fresh and exciting. To a child earning is natural; to many adults it's a nuisance.
If you are saying to yourself, "Well, that's just the way I am; I can't change," then you are limiting God, discounting His power and denying His presence. He's offering you an "abundant life," and you're settling for a bland diet of tasteless existence. Why not broaden yourself in some new way to the greater glory of God?
Caleb was eighty-five and still growing when he grabbed the challenge of the future. At a time when the ease and comfort of retirement seemed predictable, he fearlessly faced the "invincible" obstacle of the mountain. His story is told in Joshua 14. Every new sunrise introduced another reminder that his body and a rocking chair weren't made for each other. While his peers were yawning, he was yearning.
If you are determined and work quickly, you can keep the concrete of predictability from setting up around you. But if the risks of sailing your ship in the vast ocean of uncertainty make you seasick, you'd better stay near the shallow shores of security. Concrete sinks fast, you know.
I challenge you: This week do something totally unpredictable, even if it's only taking a different route to work. A change of scenery may change your outlook but you'll never know until you try.
Lord, show me a new challenge for today and help me embrace it. Amen.
Contact Jody Burgin � Breakthrough Living, Inc. � 6393 Mullen Road � Cincinnati, OH 45247 � Ph 513-807-7200
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| WHAT CAN YOU GIVE BACK
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We are looking for benefits we can provide to our members. Just two or three of these can pay back the cost of the membership and be invaluable to our members. These benefits should be immediately applicable for all of our members, or at least the vast majority. One thing we are starting to look at is a discount gas card. Please be thinking along these lines. If you have a suggestion or idea please contact our membership director, Mary Beth Lewis.
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