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Yard Sale Secrets Revealed
Buying bulk can be really addicting. Imagine saving a few dollars if you buy a six per pack of a product compared to buying just one? The savings that you can potentially have can be really hard to resist.Knowing this, groceries and superstores have been employing this marketing strategy since time immemorial. Buy two and take 1 for free or buy three and save a dollar. There are even packs of items that combine products that are saleable and not so saleable and the strategy works. People buy things that they never really use on the long term.Most of these products are just kept in garages or in stock rooms, often forgotten. So instead of saving their money, they have actually paid for something that they have not been able to use. And they only find out about this when they do a spring cleaning in their houses.To recoup their losses, as often said in business, most organize garage sale or yard sales in order to get rid of the items in the house that they have not been able to benefit from. Buying in yard sale can be really economical since the items are sold in cheaper prices while being relatively new. In fact, some of them are not even used. Below are some yard sale secrets that can help you find a good buy when buying in yard sales.Come early<

t Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Not some of them, all of them. God’s will is for you to delivered out of them all. Paul got delivered out of all of them. The Word of God doesn’t lie. God gives us the power to overcome when we stand on It and don’t back down.

Ephesians 6:10-16. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

Learn who you are in Christ Jesus, search the scriptures and find the promises for yourself.

2 Peter 1:4. by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Grab hold of the promises of God and meditate on them, partake of them; they will cause you to ove

UFOC Uniform Franchise Offering Circular and Franchise Disclosure Documents Problematic
Many approved franchise candidates on their way to be franchisee buyers complain about the large disclosure documents and the very comprehensive agreements that micro-manage their businesses and cause issues with flexibility in the market place. I agree that the UFOC and the regulators often cause problems with the operational aspects of a franchised unit and the ability of the franchisor to move swiftly in the market place and also take care of franchisees need for fast action.I don't believe that the regulators mean harm, after all their entire job is to protect the people of their state from fraudulent business practitioners, but the UFOC is fairly outdated and new changes are in the pipeline, some good, some we'll see, but all are changes to modernize the format, fix technicalities of law and protect people. I think in a perfect franchising world that viability of concept should take precedence over all other issues when granting registration.I also believe that there should be one set of laws for all states. Not 14, 4 & 2 and then the FTC Federal Trade Commission. By having multiple laws to deal with it slows down progress of a system, creates multiple franchise agreements, and adds states addendum pages to the length of pages contained in the UFOC, Agreement a

Mt: 13: 21. "yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Jesus said persecutions arises because of the Word. When you hear the Word of God, Satan immediately comes to steal the Word from your heart. If he can’t do that he’ll try to get you to take your eyes off of the solution and on to the problem, diverting you away so that you will fail. This was part of the parable of the sower? Satan’s main job is to get the church to back down off the Word of God so that doubt and unbelief will choke it out. He is not a gentleman, he is a bully and he doesn’t mind using bullying tactics to get you to back down, only then can he have victory over you. This is persecution because of the Word’s sake. Lets take a look at the whole parable.

Mt: 13:18. "Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

19. "When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

20. "But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

21. "yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

22. "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

23. "But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.''

Satan knows his only real weapon is deception, if he can keep you from the truth, he can lead you around by the nose.

John 8:32. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.''

Knowing the truth is what gives us the power to get born again, knowing the truth and acting upon it, is what causes us to overcome in every situation. When we get to the point that we believe God’s Word in our heart and then act on it by speaking it out of our mouth, we shall be saved.

Ro.10:8. But what does it say? "The word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart'' (that is, the word of faith which we preach):

9. that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

10. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.

Paul later says in 2Cor. 2 Corinthians 12:10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2Cor: 12:10 says for Christ’s sake. Because of the Word. for Christ’s sake

The great redemptive work of Jesus Christ did not cover trials and tribulations, I know we all wish it had, but in all things we are more than conquerors. We are children of a Holy God and we shall prevail. Not only in the life to come, but right now we are more than conquerors.

2 Timothy 3:12. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

If you live in this world and you are living for God, you shall suffer persecution, there is no way around it, just remember from where it comes. When we are attacked by Satan we can know and rejoice, because we have the victory in Christ Jesus.

Romans: 8:35-37: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'' Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

God is not out punishing His children because they are seeking and receiving the revelation of His will, NO, Satan is the one out trying to stop the Word of God from being proclaimed. Satan is the destroyer, Satan is the thief, and Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Satan is the killer. God is on our side. He Loves us with an everlasting love, and wants to see us succeed! Not the other way around. We need to get our thinking in line with the Word of God on this.

Jesus told us in John 10:10. "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

That is the will of God right there. God is the author of life, He is trying to get us to step over into and walk in that life. So when we start to understand the will of God, that is when you know for a fact that Satan is going to come along and try to get you to doubt it, or put something in your path to get your focus off of it. That is where the persecution comes from.

2 Thessalonians 1:4. so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

We know that when we make a stand on the Word of God, that Satan is going to try to knock us off of our stand. His only real power is to get us to waver in our faith; if we refuse to waiver we then get the victory. Say, I refuse to waiver, I am victorious, my faith is based on the Word of God, and God’s Word never fails.

1 John 5:4. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith.

Say, I am born of God and I overcome the world, because I have victory by my faith in Jesus Christ.

James 1:2-4. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Yes, it takes a little bit of patience, but the rewards are great so don’t back down, make your stand on God’s Word, and as James said, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

2Tm: 3:11: Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Learn who you are in Christ Jesus, search the scriptures and find the promises for yourself.

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Sales, Understanding and Valuing the Time Constraints of the Prospect
All too often sales people will be on a sales goal deadline and make mistakes in getting too pushy when all the questions have not yet been answered by the prospect. This leads to a dilemma and many a salesperson will go in for the trial close and get rejected and then handle that objection and then he tries again. Yet he has failed to answer the first question to the liking of the prospect and then tries to slam him back onto the carpet.This can be a clear sign to the prospect that you could really give a crap about their needs or their time. As a Founder of a Franchise company I was constantly bombarded with vendors and their sales people and it always amazed me the BS sales techniques they used. You see running a company and having read all the popular sales books and listened to hundreds of cassette tapes on selling, it was obvious that these people understood how to do sales, but did not understand common decency or my needs as a prospect.What they did not seem to understand was, we often very much needed what they had to sell providing they could help us get to where we needed to be and solving some of our dilemmas and problems. Yet it seemed not only did they fail to solve our problems, they often wasted our time, time which we did not have and really pissed

omes unfruitful.