1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm you have for your product and business. If you’re convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too.

2. End your sales letter or ad copy with a strong closing. It could be a free bonus, a discount price, a benefit reminder, an ordering deadline, etc.

3. Please your complaining customers. You can refund their money, give them a discount, give them a free gift, solve the problem quickly, etc.

4. Make your customers get excited about your business and they will tell their friends. Give them a free vacation certificate, a coupon, etc.

5. Give your prospects extra confidence so they will order. Use endorsements, testimonials, a strong guarantee or warranty, etc.

6. Build your opt-in list by allowing your visitors to sign up for a free e-zine, ebooks, software, contests, sweepstakes, etc.

7. Give your prospects or customers a breath of fresh air. Don’t be afraid to design your web site and ad copies different from everyone else.

8. Allow your customers to get part of your total offer right after they order. If you have to ship the item, make one of your bonuses available online.

9. Write and submit articles to e-zine publishers or webmasters. If you want it to be published, it should be like an article and not like an ad.

10. Show your prospects that you are an expert, because authority can persuade people to buy. You could publish an article, write an ebook, etc.

11. You could cross promote your product with other businesses’ products in a package deal. You can include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and have other businesses selling for you.

12. When you ship out or deliver your product, include a coupon for other related products you sell in the package. This will attract them to buy more products from you.

13. Send your customers a catalog of add-on products for the original product they purchased. This could be upgrades, special services, attachments, etc. If they enjoy your product they will buy the extra add-ons. 14. Sell gift certificates for your products. You’ll make sales from the purchase of the gift certificate, when the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other items from your web site.

15. Send your customers free products with their product package. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see your ad and order.

Most of us have seen at least a dozen different toothpaste commercials that claim, “Three out of four dentists recommend….” You may have wondered, as I did, how each of these claims could be possibly be true. They are based on statistical evidence, so why are there such varied results? If you listen to advertising, there seems to be no clear consensus on which health-related products–aspirin, cough syrup, antihistamines–are the best.

They are all recommended by 3 out of 4 professionals. Is it possible they are making false claims? The truth is that they are all telling the truth. When it comes to marketing a health product, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is always watching to make sure advertisers never tell a lie. Statements such as _____ reduces the risk of cancer, ______ removes harmful toxins from your water, or _____ fights plaque and reduces gingivitis, must all be substantiated. In other words, the products must do what they claim. To avoid the wrath of the FTC, it is always best to tell the truth about your product or service, especially in the health industry. But what is truth? In subjective terms it is difficult to discern.

However, the FTC has many guidelines to help you find truth in your advertising:

*Before you run an ad, you have to have a “reasonable basis” for your claims. A “reasonable basis” is objective evidence that supports the claim. At a minimum, an advertiser must have the level of evidence that it claims to have. The statement “two out of three doctors recommend…” must be supported by a reliable survey.

*If the ad isn’t specific, the FTC looks at several factors to determine what level of proof is necessary, including what experts in the field think is needed to support the claim.

*Ads that make health or safety claims must be supported by “competent and reliable scientific evidence” – tests, studies, or other scientific evidence that has been evaluated by people qualified to interpret it. Any tests or studies must be conducted using methods that experts in the field deem acceptable.

These are just a few of the guidelines to consider when making an advertising claim. But don’t be too worried. As long as you tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, there is no reason to keep looking over your shoulder. Jane Jarvis knows the advantage of truth in advertising, and isn’t afraid to use it.

About The Author

Jarvis is co-founder of cancercuresecrets.com, offering a controversial ebook that details the cancer cures you’ve never heard of, and the reasons you’ve never heard of them. To check out this revolutionary ebook, visit http://www.cancercuresecrets.com

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“I could never write an e-book!”

Snooooooooooooooooooore. Snore. Snore.

I hear this one all the time from from our members and mentees at Building Your Ideal Practice. When I hear someone say this, I usually think the follwoing three things:

1) Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. – Richard Bach

2) Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you are right. – Henry Ford

3) Oh yeah? – Jeff Herring

10 simple steps that work time after time

Whatever your area of expertise, take a moment and list 5 major signs that someone has the problem that you can fix.

Now list the five major things you would recommend someone do to fix the problem.

If my math is correct, you now have ten things listed out, 5 signs of a problem and 5 ways to fix the problem.

Now pick one of the major signs of difficulty and add a few lines. Then add an example, case study or story.

Now pick one of the major solutions you have listed and add a few lines. Then add an example, case study or story.

Do this 4 more times for the major signs of difficulty and 4 more times for the major solutions, add an introduction and a conclusion, and you have an ebook.

That wasn’t so tough, now was it?

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The Millions More Movement looked like a good opportunity for Gay and Lesbian Homosexual Preference Leaders to address a large group and it was well publicized with lots of Television Cameras. But the promoters of the Million More Movement wanted to keep the group event positive and focused, not wanting to attach the negative stigma of the anti-Christian comments which has plagued the Gay and Lesbian movement and probably cost John Kerry the election against Mr. Bush.

Gay and Lesbian Groups around the country are trying to unite to keep their groups going, but everywhere they go, they are finding little unity with other fringe groups. In fact there seems to be quite rift within the gay and lesbian community. One group is trying to be responsible and gain the respect of the country and the other is carrying on with outlandish publicity stunts, half naked frolicking gay parades and screaming and yelling gay adolescent to age 30 males with no sense of reality.

Being rejected by the Black Community now appear that the Black Community is moving up very fast, but the gay community still has that stigma that they just cannot dump. One lesbian I talked to said, “We were that close to getting the State Legislature to allowing the gay marriage bill to pass, but since the gay men verbally attacked politicians previously, it was vetoed and he called them Girlie Men again.”

She went on to tell me if these gay freaks would stop these games, we might be able to get somewhere. The Black Community is moving towards the conservative side now as the speakers for the Million More Rally hosted Rev. Willie F. Wilson among other prominent and respected Black Americans.

The new Pope has sent word to the Catholic Bishops with regards to the gay issue. The Hispanic Groups are following his lead. The Black Americans are moving away from the Gay Community. There is even a huge rift now in the gay community themselves as the more responsible group, will not police its own fringe, but is attempting to distance themselves to a more centrist roadmap. Meanwhile the Democratic Group is also keenly aware that they do not want to lose too many more seats in the next election, although probably will due to the gay stigma which plagued them and cost them countless seats in the last election. Can the Gay Community Survive as everyone runs away from their cause? Think on this.

“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

Just a time ago it seemed like fast notebooks were only being made by a few boutique companies and were built to order, not produced in vast numbers. Even though they did not shift a big amount they still generated the most compared to other styles of laptop. The price was just too massive to justify buying these kinds of notebook for potential buyers. They were pretty much desktop replacements and the most powerful, best laptop you could acquire. Having mentioned that the majority of us most likely did not buy laptops of this variety because of the cost. The primary companies have recently started taking advantage of big opportunities in gaming notebooks, so that is all shifting.

In my view they could get off by selling them at a greater price if they desired. It is definitely a great way to higher profit margins. Giant companies would certainly find it simpler to get us to buy these laptops. I do not know what this will do to smaller companies however it will have a bad effect on them. I know for sure that gaming notebooks will become more affordable for everybody. I reckon buying from an established brand additionally gives the perception of greater value.

To my astonishment the mass produced gaming laptops are as good or even better than the best laptops available. This is most likely the one thing that local companies can provide which the established companies cannot. The custom made feature is a big plus to the customer. People that buy high spec laptops can normally see past the frills. If you are purchasing the laptop for playing games then certainly the performance is the first priority.

Of course from the gamers perspective, its a great situation. I would forecast a couple of price wars taking place in this sector after the initial months. I am not too certain any of that would occur however. Whether laptop computer prices will come down on the whole is another matter however the best laptops are normally expensive. Although I still think effects will be good due to the overcrowded market, we’ll have to wait and see.

Everybody has an enemy, or someone they just do not like or trust. We are going to try a new exercise and give the keys to ours house, cars, and bank account numbers to our biggest enemy. Sounds like a brilliant idea, right? It must be brilliant, our government is doing just that. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/23/port.security/index.html

I have been critical in the past about our government and our politicians in the past. I will continue to be as long as our country is run the same way. We are just four and a half years removed from two planes destroying two buildings, killing thousands of people, and ruining the lives of the people left behind. Those terrorists were of an Arabian background. Obviously not all people can be grouped together but there is a difference between sitting next to one on a bus and allowing our ports to be run by them.

In the article, Bush said he didn’t hear anyone complaining that England was running one of our ports. While it is understandable why we would let England run a port, I do not agree with that either. Why wouldn’t we run our own ports? Why do we need other countries running our ports if they are so important? China, a communist country, is running a dock in Los Angles? Does that make sense to anyone either?

It amazes me what politicians come up with and how they can justify it. I am sure that most people did not know that many of our bombs and tools for defending our country are built in China as well. Yes, our government has contracted with a communist country to build weapons we need to defend ourselves in the event of a war. My question is, who is most likely to attack us besides the terrorists? My answer is, a communist country such as China.

Of course every politician that is hoping to become President in 2008 will jump all over this situation to bring light to themselves. While this is a good reason to criticize the Bush administration I think they will have other motives. As voters we really need to begin seeing through all of this garbage. We have to make much better decisions in choosing the leaders of our country. Common sense would indicate that you would not give up control of our six biggest ports to a country that is well-known for supporting terrorism in the past.

As voters we need to regain control of the country and begin making a difference in how our country is governed. I will continue to make this plea over the coming years through many different articles. Hopefully by the next Presidential election people will be seeing things differently. If you do not like the candidates in the 2008 election you can always feel free to write my name in on the ballot, I know I could do a better job.

Scott Bianchi operates http://www.best-internet-bargains.com. He writes on a variety of topics. If you would like to be added to his distribution list for his new articles when they are published just send an email to articles@bestinternetbargains.com .

Business data is perhaps the most important data that exists on computers, and can literally destroy some businesses that rely on their data. This is why every business needs to do weekly, or daily, backups of their data. But with so many backup choices, a business owner can feel frustrated and worried about their choice. See, some backup methods are more reliable then others, but others are more convenient then the reliable ones. If you are a business owner, you want a backup solution that is both reliable and convenient to use. So let’s talk about the current business data backup solutions available to you, and how to implement them correctly.

The first data backup method I will discuss is hard disk imaging, also known as cloning. This is, in my opinion, the best data backup solution for anyone from home users to successful business owners. The reason being because it saves every last scrap of data that you have on your hard drive, so basically should you ever have to restore your backup because of data loss, all of it will be given back to you. It also is the quickest and simplest method of data backup for someone with little knowledge of computers and doesn’t have time to spend backing up data all day.

The next backup solution for your business is remote online backup. This means your data will be saved on a secure server, in a remote location that is far away from you. This is good for many reasons, but mainly it protects you from losing everything in case of a natural disaster that might take out your whole business or home office. Backing up your files online is also pretty cheap and convenient, and sending your files their can be as easy as one click. Another good reason for choosing an online backup company is because they also backup your files using professional software and hardware, to make sure that your data is literally locked away in a digital vault and will never disappear.

The last business data backup solution I will discuss is external storage devices which are very simple, and pretty useful, so I thought it was worth mentioning. External devices that store data can come in a variety of ways. Most common are external hard drives and memory sticks. Many people are choosing memory sticks these days because they easily plug right into your USB port, and can hold gigabytes of data, which is usually more then enough, especially for text documents and stuff like that.

DVD and CD burners can also be external, and perhaps are the best choice for most people that are always on the move. Just like the old floppy discs, external DVD or CD burners allow you to store data quickly and accurately, but CD’s and DVD’s whole a lot more data then a floppy ever could. As for drag and drop ease, that is actually possible with all burners these days, and should be considered. Imagine being able to just click save on a file, and it saves it to your disc.

Well that is just about all of the major data backup solutions that are available for businesses. There are of course many other backup options that exist, but the ones I talked about are the most common, most effective and easiest to implement. Before I end this article though, I would like to remind business owners that have computer servers, to use disk imaging software on a daily basis. Servers store a lot of data, and most of it is important, so be sure to back that data up or you will be in for one big headache if anything should ever happen.

Copyright 2006 Michael Cottier

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“The Wholesale Misconception” One thing that’s constantly misunderstood by people trying to run a home business on the Internet is the word “Wholesale”. Some people think that working with a real wholesale supplier means that they will magically be able to sell products for less than anybody else on the planet, for ever and ever. They’ll be the only one who ever gets such good prices, and they’ll earn millions because no competition can touch them. They’re retire happily in a couple of months, and buy a big house in Beverly Hills, complete with a butler, a private chef, and a little satin doggie bed in every room for the casual use of the family Basset Hound, Duke. Then they find that they may actually have to compete with companies who have more buying power and get better price breaks, and suddenly the honeymoon is over. They run around screaming that the supplier is not a real wholesaler, and is cheating them. The sky is falling, and it’s time to get Duke to the storm cellar because all their dreams are being blown away by bad, BAD people who claimed to be wholesalers, and really are NOT! The truth is that they’ve simply been confronted with a perfectly normal aspect of retail sales that they had not anticipated, and need to be educated about. Even when using genuine wholesale distributors, you’re going to find some stores selling products at a “retail” price that is lower than your distributors’ “wholesale” price. There are VERY good reasons why you’ll see this happen, and it’s extremely important to understand why it happens and what to do about it in order to sell successfully on the Internet or anywhere else. As I said, it happens for a variety of reasons; the most common of which is that the retailer with the “lower than wholesale” price is a large retail operation that bought THOUSANDS of the product at a dirt-cheap quantity price break, and also qualified for huge manufacturer’s wholesaler rebates. You can’t compete against that with a home business; no one can. The term “wholesale” is relative, no matter who your distributor is or how you find them. What you’re getting as a small business is a supplier’s genuine “first level” wholesale price. For example, one factory-direct supplier we work with has an initial wholesale price for 1 to 36 dart boards. Then the second price level is reached, and there’s a lower price for 36 to 72 boards, for example, then a lower price for the next higher quantity level, etc. When dealing with single item orders in your home business, you are obviously going to be getting the “first level” wholesale price.

Again, wholesale is a relative term. Yes, genuine wholesalers DO sell at significant discounts below Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. However, you have to watch what you sell. Electronics, for example, are a very tough market, because EVERYBODY is trying to sell electronics on the ‘Net right now. All these people are so busy trying to undercut each other that they have driven the “market price” of these items down so low as to make it very difficult to make a profit, even at wholesale. For example, if the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for a VCR is $149, and it is available at “wholesale” for $69.00, that’s a 54% discount off MSRP. That’s a pretty good profit, right? However, with everybody getting roughly the same price break, there are a lot of people out there who are ruining the market for everyone else by selling that product for, say, $79, thinking they will undercut everyone else and make money by selling volume. Pretty soon, everyone else sees this, and tries the same thing. Eventually, the Internet “market price” for this VCR BECOMES $79, and everyone is flooding the market with it at that price. That’s only a 13% percent profit margin, and that product is no longer worth the effort for anybody. So, even though the product IS available initially at a great wholesale price, its market value is ruined by those who (wrongly) assume that the only way to sell is to have the absolute lowest price anywhere. Sales is much more of an art than that. If selling something were simply a matter of the absolute lowest prices, Wal-Mart would be the only store on the face of the Earth. Without going into too much detail, sales is a mixture of choosing the right product, or combination of products, for your web site. It’s presenting a clean, attractive, focused site. It’s giving the customer some little value-added bonus at your site. It’s providing the absolute best customer service that you can. All these things help a customer to trust you, and when they trust you they are willing to spend a little more to buy from you. One of our retail sites is www.ElectronicDartShop.com. We sell Arachnid Electronic Dart Boards there. We sell ONLY those products on that site; just 14 of them. Our site is clean and attractive. We have a page listing all the rules for all the dart games that can be played on those boards. We pay very careful attention to customer service. And guess what? We are NOT the lowest priced store for those dart boards, by any means. Yet we are one of the highest-volume Internet dealers of the products around, according to the factory. Why? Our customers trust us, and are willing to pay a little more because they feel they will get more value from us than they will from some guy who just throws up a cheap-looking site full of all kinds of unrelated products and only pays attention to price-cutting. In fact, a few days ago, I went online and bought a couple of SmartMedia memory cards for my digital camera. I could have gotten them for a very cheap price that I found on the ‘Net, but I chose to pay $5 more each for them because the cut-rate site looked cheesy, and I was not sure I could trust them. I was more than happy to pay the extra ten bucks total when I found the same products at a higher priced site. The site was well-built, easy to navigate, and went out of it’s way to explain it’s customer service policies to me. I’d rather spend an extra ten bucks and be confident that the cards would show up at my door than lose thirty bucks plus shipping to a site I didn’t feel I could trust. As a small business owner, you should remember to choose comparison areas very carefully. Too many people simply go to the big search engines and look for the absolute lowest price on earth, and then give up on selling that item if they can’t beat it. That’s the wrong approach, as I’ve mentioned above. You need to be comparing prices against sites that will be seen in the same places that your site will be seen, and even if your prices are higher, you can bring in sales by building a clean, focused site. Alternatively, you can simply sell the models that others are NOT selling. After you begin to earn some profit, you can then start to buy and stock the better sellers in quantity, lowering your price, if you really want to. Even then, you’re going to run into stores that stock a lot of merchandise, and are getting price breaks on greater quantities. This allows them to sell at a lower price. Go around them. Sell models that they don’t, from the same brand names. You don’t have to purposely go head-to-head with the big superstores. They don’t carry every product ever made on earth. Sell something in the same general brand and product lines that they DON’T have the shelf space for! Besides the reasons mentioned above, there are also too many people who buy entire pallet loads of last year’s closeouts, liquidations, and refurbished goods, and claim that they are NEW. They get that junk at “rock bottom” prices, and of course, sell them dirt-cheap, fooling the customer (and other Internet retailers) into thinking that they have the corner on the best wholesale prices around, when they DON’T. The important thing is to work effectively within the framework of available products and prices, and work around those who have millions of dollars available to stock inventory. That’s what THEY did in order to EARN those millions in the first place. You can do it too. I know it’s frustrating to be just starting out, and thinking that you can’t succeed because of competition from large stores. That’s just not true. We’re succeeding at it, and so are thousands of others. You just have to be willing to be flexible, and to make serious decisions for the good of your business. You may have to give up selling certain products that you personally like, in order to make money on other products whether you like them or not. You’re in business to make money, not to satisfy your personal taste. One thing I tell people all the time is that it’s very important to “jump through the hoops” and form a LEGAL business. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s the ONLY way to work with GENUINE wholesale suppliers. However, anyone in business will tell you that the hoops never end; not for home businesses, and not for big businesses either. Even the big guys spend much of their time “hoop-jumping” in order to be successful. Imagine how the purchasing agents at CompUSA feel when they spend a million dollars on 19″ monitors so they can sell them for $329, and a week later, they find that Best Buy spent three million buying up the same monitor at a better price break, and is now advertising them for $298. Suddenly CompUSA can’t compete. Should they throw a tantrum, and berate the wholesaler for simply performing the normal function of a wholesaler? Of course not. They can simply stop advertising that monitor by itself, and bundle it with an entire computer system that has it’s own serious price breaks, and move the monitors that way. Adapt and improvise. There are no magic bullets, even though there are plenty of people who will tell you that there ARE. Don’t believe them! When you’re in business you will always have to compete. It’s all part of sales, on the Internet or anywhere else. Chris Malta WorldWide Brands, Inc. For more information, visit http://www.YouCanDropship.com

Dear Readers, I received a letter this week that is written in Greek that I have translated and would like to share with you. It is from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and it is addressed to: all my brothers and sisters living in the 21st century. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For many years I have longed to see you. I have heard a great deal about you and all the marvelous things you are doing.

News have reached me that your scientific and technological advances are phenomenal. You have at your disposal automobiles so luxurious that the average man in my day would never have conceived such a possibility. I have heard about your ingenious skyscrapers and huge builders. I understand some folks become a bit dizzy and faint, just looking up at them. It boggles my mind just contemplating the fascinating achievements you have attained.

It is my understanding that your medical strides has made it possible for you to cure in the twinkling of an eye, the plagues and diseases that would destroy us by the thousands. All of this is wonderful. You can do so much more in your day than I could do in the Greco-Roman world of my day. Your educational facilities and advantages are superb and beyond compare to any other time in human history. You can travel distances in 5 days that in my day, required 5 years. All of this is marvelous.

And what is this I hear about that high-tech deluxe jumbo jet called Air Force One. I’m told it’s a floating mansion with sophisticated and extensive electronics. You have computers and cellular phones that make it possible for you to contact just about anybody in the world while cruising tens of thousands of feet in the air. All of this is simply fabulous.

Let me not forget to mention that I have also heard, but can hardly believe, that scientists have successfully cloned animals and human cloning is not far off.

I am a staunch believer in progress. I believe in development, I believe in growth and advancement. I think all of these are splendid. But I wonder if your moral and spiritual progress has kept up with your scientific and technological progress. From what I have been hearing, your spiritual progress lags far behind your technological progress. It seems to me that you have plenty of talent – but very little ethics; lots of gossip – but little Gospel; prey on bad news – ignore God’s good news; play too much – pray too little; fine houses – very few homes; lots of lust – very little love; talk too much – testify too little; lots of churches – few temples of God; lots of formality – little spirituality; lots of beliefs – no faith. And what are these Situation Ethics I keep hearing about? In my day it was, children obey your parents. But it seems like you all have changed it to; parents obey your children.

I am proud to hear America, that through your political genius you have managed to make your world a neighborhood. I understand that you have been able to establish working relationships with far away countries and that is beautiful. But it is tragic that with all you have at your disposal; you have failed to make it a Brotherhood.

Oh yes, my brothers and sisters, you have managed to produce the ultimate in scientific knowledge. In my day in my wildest imagination, we never would have thought of the invention of nuclear bombs; that deadly weapon that can be dropped from a plane on the heads of millions of people and can set the whole world on fire with the press of a button.

You live in an age of technological genius. But I also heard the other day that you live in an age of longing, age of anxiety, age of suspicion and fear. You live in an age in which people are afraid to defend the faith for fear of offending disbelievers; an age of compromise and acceptance and tolerance for the intolerable. You live in an age where all representations of Christianity in the work place, schools, community and government offices are considered inappropriate and to be reserved for the private home environment only. So it seems like you have plenty of genius but no wisdom. Therefore I find it necessary to write to you to remind you; in the midst of all your great knowledge and advancement, of the responsibility laid upon you to represent Jesus Christ in the times in which you live.

In a time when man’s inhumanity to man has reached chaotic proportions and destroying the very foundation of ethical values, we need those who are willing to take a stand for Jesus Christ.

You are the salt of the earth; you are able to be a light in the midst of a dark world. You have become one the richest nations under the sun. You live in a land that flows with milk and honey. You have eaten from grapes that you did not plant; you live in homes that you did not build, and yet I hear the painful cries of people all over the world dying of starvation.

Therefore I, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, deem it necessary to write to you to inform you that God is still sovereign Lord. It seems to me you depend more on pills than you depend on God. I understand you have invented pills to come in all shapes and sizes, all colors and taste. You have a pill for just about everything. But it is strange that out of all those pills, there is not one that will prevent a person from lying and cheating, stealing and killing.

Well, that being said brothers and sisters; I encourage you to take a stand for the Lord. Live or die, survive or perish, stand on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ. “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:10-18. NIV)

Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen. (Romans 16:25-27 NIV).

Rev. Saundra L. Washington, D.D., is an ordained clergywoman, social worker, and Founder of AMEN Ministries. http://www.clergyservices4u.org. She is also the author of two coffee table books: Room Beneath the Snow: Poems that Preach and Negative Disturbances: Homilies that Teach. Her new book, Out of Deep Waters: A Grief Healing Workbook, will be available soon.

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These days you’ll see very many net bingo web sites, all and sundry offering their members tremendous cash bonanzas and a mess of other very special rewards, e. g. the hottest cars, theater tickets and luxury holidays. Another particularly marvellous aspect of net bingo is that we can have a go at it 24/7, if you’ve got a Web account. Games coming out almost ever minute, you can organise bingo with your ordinary everyday life. At the outset it was imagined that the group side of playing bingo would almost certainly suffer due to the shift away from conventional bingo places — but, rather bingo supporters in Britain have absolutely proven any such predictions wrong. A continuously exploding number are utilizing the chat rooms tendered by a huge number of net bingo operators.

At these places anyone can forge an uncounted number of new friendships, gain access to highly attractive tourneys and get fully immersed in other bingo groups. Surveys have also substantiated claims that people are dramatically more likely to rake up a million by playing ‘net bingo as compared to other types of laying a bet e. g. the pools and sportsbook bets. If you become a bit bored with bingo, lots of net bingo web sites will offer a number of alternate pastimes. These will be anything from numbers and slots games, all the way through caption tourneys and fun tests. Faced with so many opportunities, chances are it’s difficult to make your mind up which bingo operator is the right one. Indeed it’s guaranteed to pay out to go for a little bit of research and check who is promoting to the finest premiums. A good number of net bingo web sites will let anyone play a certain number of free ‘net bingo games or up your cash deposits at 1:1 or even better.

If your cronies have already selected any given net bingo web page, you should ponder joining in as the social chat side adds more excitement to the overall amusement.:)