We reached almost half a million dollars in sales in one year. But something wasn’t sitting right.

Psalm 18:2 says the Lord is your shield, the power that saves you. This will provide you with stability in your sales.

Growing up I had leadership, strengths in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship.   My cousin and I took action and spray painted a board “PUPPIES FOR SALE $5”.   We do the sales, marketing AND leadership.

one time where the pastor explained that most miracles are the byproduct of a long obedience in the same waste your partnership pains, he will never waste your human resources hurts, he will never waste your sales

Whatever problems you face in sales, marketing, human resources, operations, or finance, he knows the He said: With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. We need to take on the same kind of phrasing in our business lives. This same kind of belief system; because of God I can. Not: I can’t. I’ll never be enough. Sometimes, the same leadership quality you don’t like about yourself is the same thing God wants to use

us, we have an amazing opportunity to create one-way human interactions that can be multiplied and scaled convinced that your personal brand is not some superficial vanity public relations tool to exploit more sales company, we find talent and bring their products to the marketplace to buy and make royalties on the sales

Between search engine marketing and content creation, to social media advertising and sales funnel development

For many years, all of our posts have looked the same: A piece of Bible-based wisdom for entrepreneurs , a nice image to complement the quote, and the same font usage. trying to sell a new product, it is ok to have a link in the description that redirects followers to a sales

Think of the brain as a muscle that can be worked out and responds to training the same way our biceps Don't judge this as a sales pitch. Stay present with your holy spirit.

Even if you don’t see how it could turn into a sale, now is the time to SHOW SOME LOVE.

problem is that we each have a different definition of work and value, therefore there is no equal scale them was ambivalent if we grew or not, the other had a very short fuse, and neither liked doing the sales That same optimism obscured the reality that I struggle to need them, I am too quick to judge, and prefer Not the same love as my wife, but brotherly love.

My partner and I have an 8:30 am call every Tuesday to connect and game plan.  It’s the best spent 30 minutes of the week. There isn’t always an agenda, but there’s always something to talk about. Last talk we identified a major hiccup in our process and I was able to fix it.  A previous call we simply talked about life and we vented out some frustrations that didn’t even have to do with work. Something I know now that I didn’t know back in my previous partnership was the need for regular meetings between the partners.  I would have meetings, but they weren’t intentional but more reactions to a certain crisis going on. In hind sight, this is probably the biggest reason we failed as a partnership.  I think we all felt lonely and that we each were running the company on our own.  If you asked each of us individually, you’d hear that the biggest weight of the company was on that person being asked. This lack of meeting caused distrust in the accounting, no single vision for the future, no way of venting and no clear leadership. What happens when we don’t meet regularly is that we’re not giving ourselves time to connect with one another. Connections are formed with time spent together.  I’m not talking about a company dinner with all the employees or going to happy hour with friends.  I’m talking about just the partners. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 says "It’s better to have a partner than go it alone. Share the work, share the wealth. And if one falls down, the other helps, But if there’s no one to help, tough! Two in a bed warm each other. Alone, you shiver all night. By yourself you’re unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you round up a third? A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped." You might be at a point in your partnership where you just want to quit and do it alone. You figure that you’ve already been doing it alone, why not make it easier for everyone and just dismantle the partnership agreement. That’s not God’s design. I’d be surprised to find any hugely successful businesses out there that are 100% owned by one person only.  God’s design is for community to be formed and for one hand to wash the other. Pull out your calendar and set a weekly catch up meeting. This can be on the phone. Set up a monthly dinner where you talk in a relaxed environment. Then set up an annual planning meeting. You can do this quarterly, every 6 months or every year.  There is no such thing as connecting too much.  Things move so fast in business that the more we can communicate the faster we can grow. We can let our selfish pride, greed and ambitions rule our lives and make us a LONER in business, or we can choose to embrace the design of connecting with one another regularly. #BecomeDisciplined #SharpenLeadership #BusinessPartnerships

I’m horrible at accounting. Ok, let me rephrase this.  I took finance and accounting in Cornell and lets just say that I loved the marketing and business organization classes better. In the early days of my company, I ran us into a lot of financial problems.  Backed taxes, overpaying employees, bad accounts receivable, you name the financial mistake, I did it. But I never admitted it to anyone. Mr. Cornell business graduate needs to know everything there is about business and can’t look like a failure. Only my accountant knew the extent of the problems. He tried to sell me on a monthly package where I would come in for consulting but I always declined it and committed to doing better that year.  Things got worst. We have difficulty accepting help from others. It makes us feel weak, incompetent, and vulnerable. Receiving help requires letting go of my self-sufficiency – even if it’s just for a moment, its uncomfortable. Instead of feeling vulnerable, many of us prefer to hide behind a mask of confidence and capability. Sadly, this affects our relationships with our employees, business partners, vendors who want to help, our customers, and even God. Sometimes we have it so “together” that it’s hard for anyone to see we are Christians and we need a Savior. We may think we are being strong, but when we fail to admit our needs and struggles, our employees and partners are often reluctant to share theirs. They may feel inadequate in comparison and compelled to hide behind their own masks. This verse in the bible has helped me tremendously grow as an entrepreneur: “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) When I realized that all God wanted from me was for me to admit my need for Jesus, then He could begin helping me out. Furthermore, when I showed others my need for Jesus, I was allowing God to work through them to help me out. In 2014 I hired an accounting agency to meet with me every week.  Money is an area of weakness for me, and now my employees know and they step up to help with accounting too.  Since meeting with my accounting firm, my profits have gone up 4000%.  Yes, you’re reading four-thousand.  It’s incredible what God can do when we admit our weaknesses. Godpreneurs, ask God to reveal where you’ve been depending on yourself instead of Him and remember He often meets our needs through others…even the lowliest employee on your team. Godpreneur Rule #44:  Godpreneurs take risks and allow others to help them in areas of major importance — maybe even one of your employees! #HiringtheRightPeople #AccountingHelp #DebtFreedom

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