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Sometimes God just smiles on you and you find something that you’ve always wanted … but were afraid to ask for. Yes, a high-powered tshirt launcher. From kipkay.com ….
And if that is not enough … here are the plans from kipkay.com
Source: Kipkay.com
http://kipkay.com/videos/explosions-and-loud-things/hi-power-t-shirt-launcher
I have a new cool site to steer you to … pastorgear.com … lovin’ it. The first post I saw was this pulpit that holds your iPad. They call it the iPodium. Sweet. The thing is made by Little Mountain Productions.
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I’ve seen some pretty amazing pulpit designs before but this one has to be the coolest one ever made. It’s from the folks at Little Mountain Productions and it’s called the iPodium. It’s basically a curved stand with a place cut out for your iPad. It holds your iPad at the perfect angle so you can easily see it. And, you can work with the iPad with one hand.
I’ve been preaching from an iPad for a while now and I’ve enjoyed it. It’s great for making changes to my notes between services. I typically preach from a small bar table though and my only complaint has been the reading angle. When the stage lights hit it while laying flat on the table I can have a hard time seeing everything. To fix that, I’ve been using the Apple iPad case in reading wedge mode to prop my iPad up. This podium would eliminate this problem, and look a lot cooler while doing it.
Source: Pastorgear.com
http://pastorgear.com/2010/08/coolest-pulpit-ever/
This is a great article, not only from a sales perspective, but also from a recruitment of volunteer youth workers. I have been following the thread over at orangeleaders.com for the last couple of days with interest. Mainly, because … 1.) I used to be a career salesman 2.) I used to be a career youth pastor and 3.) I used to be a career senior pastor … I don’t think that makes me a guru or anything … it just gives some graphic insight to the carnage of recruiting and holding onto a healthy volunteer army. Anyway … back to this article. Negative Words Kill Sales. It’s true. Not only your words … but your attitude in approaching your potential recruit. You are offering these recruits one of the best jobs in the church … to work with Middle School Students!!! Now, if you can’t say that with a smile on your face … then you need to change your words and your attitude.
from this article.
Surprisingly, most negative words come from your own mindset. And the last thing you want is negativity entering into the mix when you are trying to open the door with new prospects.
Striking negative words from sales discussions probably means restructuring your mind, your behavior, and how you respond to the prospect’s own negative vibe.
Visualize Positive Results
Most star athletes talk about the positive effects of visualize on their amazing performances.
Sales is no different. If you practice and visualize what it takes to get results, then it’s guaranteed to happen more frequently.
Smile When You Present
This may sound like a silly trick, but it works. Pause from reading this for a moment and try it. Smile. Now, try to have a negative conversation. Both your tone and your words will adjust with a smile on your face.
Avoid Negative Influences
In my experience, this is the top killer of a good sales person–a negative entourage. They don’t just introduce a negative mindset and vocabulary, they drag down your whole outlook. You can’t see hope or positive outcomes.
Rid yourself of these people and you will see an immediate increase in your sales–guaranteed.
Negative words kill sales. The good thing is that negative words are most likely more the result of your mind and environment, not any weakness in your vocabulary.
Source: Bettercloser.com
http://bettercloser.com/negative-words-kill-sales/#
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Outlaw is one of my favorite western styled fonts. It’s done by Billy Argel and you can get it at dafont.com here. Argel’s stuff is always good, just know that you will not usually get the full font set from the free download. He does this for a living, so if you want to use this commercially you would need to go to his site and pay for it or ask for it … or something. Anyway … this font Outlaw is nice.
Wild Rodeo is done by Anton Krylov. This font is also at dafont. It may be other places … but this is where I hang out a lot. Here is the download. The font can be a great headline or used in posters.
Rustler is a fun looking western font. Reminds me of the old Quick Draw McGraw cartoons as a kid. The font is done by fontalicious and there main site font bros. Lots of great stuff there, very creative. Here is the download from dafont for rustler.
This always reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie. Helldorado is a cool font brought to us by No Images Font. Is available for download at dafont.com here.
Here is another great font by Krylov … I may like this one a little better than I do the one above. It does come with a couple of engraving filigrees, a pistol, a couple of stars and a bronc rider in the character set. It’s here from dafont.com
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This is a series that I started following yesterday and was encouraged to check out the rest of the series. Being a full time salesman (once or twice in my life), a youth pastor and a senior pastor … I think that qualifies me for … maybe a discount at Lifeway, that’s probably about it. With that out of the way, this article is focusing on the traveling salesman approach … or the Big Push. >> the article >>
There are basically three main ways to get leaders: a Big Push, catching “Show-Ups”, and leaders replacing themselves. I tried to keep with the sales theme from last week’s post on “Selling What’s Important” and I will unveil a different approach over the next 3 days.
#1. The Traveling Salesman Approach
This is the “Big Push” discussed above. Here, we make an appeal, or cast vision, to folks who may or may not be interested. We’re knocking on random doors…the more…the better.
PROS
*Lots of contacts all at once
*Public support from above is important to parents
*Never a bad idea to get buy-in from the top brass
*Works great when you need to “catch-up” all at once.
CONS
*Least efficient method
*People’s inspiration fades quickly
*May get some folks coming for the wrong reasons
*Limited to once a year.
PRACTICAL IDEAS
*See if you can get the head pastor’s support (I realize that this doesn’t always work).
*Get people in as fast as you can, their determination from the “pitch” will fade as time passes.
*Don’t shy away from telling people how challenging the job can be and the requirements you expect out of them. This will inspire the right people and the others will self-eliminate early.
*Getting permission to run a background check right off the bat will send “creepy dudes” running.
What do you like or not like about the “Big Push” method to recruit? What Pros or Cons am I overlooking? Check back tomorrow for another, slightly better way. What image do you think best describes this approach? Send me some ideas and I’ll give you credit!
My take — The “Big Push” should only be used as a “break glass in case of emergency” resort. It’s like seining (method of getting bait fish with a big net), yes you might get some good ones … but you will get every other kind of kook and weirdo imaginable. You will spend most of your time trying to disqualify them after you have them. Plus, it looks desperate. Hey, sometimes it is. In sales, sometimes there are reasons why it looked so easy to get the big client … ha, no one else could satisfy them. I found that if it were easy … there was something that was going to swing around and hit you in the back of the head. 99% of the time it did.
The Big Push … only use in extreme situations.
Source: Orange Leaders
http://www.orangeleaders.com/?p=3459
Let’s face it … some people can flat out just make you laugh. I have read Greg’s stuff for a long time … never met him, but I do like to read his stuff. This post was just too funny not to pass along. I think we all could apply for that job: Minister of Awkward Moments. The High Fiving moment is classic.
from this article.
f there was a position in ministry called Director of Awkward Moments I would be promoted to it. Why? Because I have a tendency, in the words of my old pastor, to keep talking until I start making sense and to make appropriately funny jokes at flat-out inappropriate times. Sometimes my attempts at humor are misinterpreted as serious statements. Sometimes my serious statements are misinterpreted as attempts at humor. It’s always awkward when people don’t know whether to laugh, cry, punch you in the face or run away in terror.
One time, on a TBN-type live television broadcast, I high fived the host’s uplifted praise hand. I could see his hand go skyward out of the corner of my eye as I was telling a moving story of a changed life. My peripheral vision combined with my hands-are-for-clapping Baptist mindset, told me that this TV preacher was wanting to give me a high five in response to my story. But he was just raising his hands in praise to God. I quickly turned to him, and before I noticed his other upstretched hand of praise, I smacked the one closest to me so hard it stunned and bewildered him. The camera guys were laughing so hard that their lenses were shaking. AWKWARD!
I’ve had awkward moments as a pastor. While concluding a service I once misquoted Psalm 150 as “let everything that has breasts praise the Lord!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a counselor. Responding to a guy who told me that he was so spiritual that God told him he could divorce his wife I said, “God just told me something too. He said ‘You are full of crap!’ Now get out of my office before I throw you out!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a traveling evangelist. Once while visiting Europe a group of Scottish evangelists asked me what I thought of their sickening-sweet orange drink called Iron Brew and I responded, “If soda were gay this would be it.” Little did I know it was their national drink that they were immensely proud of. AWKWARD!
there is more. Here.
Source: Gregstier.org
http://www.gregstier.org/rants/awkward-is-awesome/
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I like this approach to getting the quality and quantity youth ministry volunteers that you need. Being a salesman for many years … I know the process of making the calls that you need to make to get the sale. I might add the little thing that one veteran sales guy taught me years ago … always keep your “tickler” file up to date. For all those cold calls that say no … I would still go back 6 months later and still see if they were not interested. The tickler file worked. You can another 30% of those that first said no … into a presentation, at least. I think the same would happen with potential youth volunteers … who say no … now … but things change.
from this article @orangeleaders
There is nothing more important to your ministry than the quality and quantity of your volunteer leaders. So your priority needs to be that.
Normally when I talk about the job of getting leaders, I talk about treating it like a job interview. You can’t be desperate…and you can’t take just anybody. You have to find the right people. I mean that…and still do.
For this post however…I want you to think like a salesmen. Not that you need to sell the job…but you have to think like a salesmen thinks.
Here’s how a salesmen thinks –
check out the rest of this post.
Source: Orangeleaders
http://www.orangeleaders.com/?p=3443
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In my never ending search for the new and unique via Twitter … this caught my eye. Mainly, because it was in Argyle, Texas … another mainly, because it had the word WOW in it … and thirdly mainly … because when I clicked to their site it had colorful playground stuff … I loved the playground when I was a kid.
Our Mission:
Worlds of Wow is the innovative leader in creating destinations for kids at church. Wow provides an easy, one-stop solution for both themed environments and play attractions with our spiritually focused team.
If reaching the next generation is your passion … you should check out their stuff.
Pretty soon our kids won’t know what film is. Until then … I thought this was a pretty cool vector film strip. If you layout posters for events and have to put up small pics … this can be a creative way of placing them on the page … instead of putting them in a boring box. The vector is located at 123freevectors. Here is the download link.
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We have been offering custom digital banners for a long time. We finally have been able to launch our banner templates and have about a dozen up on the site. We hope to get another 24 up there within the next couple of weeks. Banner templates are good for your youth ministry for a couple of reasons. One … there is not art charges. You have the flexibility to change the text at no charge. Two … it’s fast. No back and forth … just pick it, give us the details and go. The banners as they are listed have text as an example. The backgrounds are scalable … making everything flexible to your budget. What that means is this … we can make those background basically any size … unless of course you choose one of the square banners … and they are pretty much limited to a square shape.
Our digital banners are printed on 13 oz, heavy duty vinyl and are grommetted with brass colored grommets. We can either seam the banner or not … if the banner is going to hang inside … you really do not need to seam the banner. If it is going outside … definitely have it seamed.
We will still do a custom banner and the templates can still help us with your designing … if you like certain elements in one banner … we can usually re-cycle those graphics to go into your project. Look around the banner page and let us know when you ready to order. Give us a call or write us an email if you have additional questions.
And yes, this is the skyline of Metro Waco, Texas … 
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