Podcasts about Braunfels

Geflüchtete in Braunfels und Gladenbach, die Stadtentwicklung in Dillenburg und vermehrte Cyberattacken. Das und mehr heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/gefluechtete-aus-guinea-wollen-arbeiten-duerfen-aber-nicht-4685611 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/gladenbach/24-jaehriger-nach-messerangriff-in-gladenbach-in-u-haft-4720281 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/lahnau/strassenlampen-in-lahnau-bleiben-nachts-kuenftig-laenger-aus-4703264 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/dillenburg/nach-zoff-sachliche-diskussion-im-dillenburger-bauausschuss-4713883 https://www.mittelhessen.de/sport/handball/handball-wetzlar/wetzlar-und-huettenberg-im-fokus-wer-glaenzt-bei-der-u21-wm-4687558 https://www.mittelhessen.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-deutschland/gefahr-von-cyberattacken-aus-russland-und-china-gross-wie-nie-4720918 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Lahnstegbrücke in Naunheim am Morgen mit Autokran ausgehoben, Widerstand gegen Windräder in Braunfels - Abstimmung gefordert, Allianz für Arbeitskräfte in der Industrie im Lahn-Dill-Kreis

Obduktionsergebnis von Leiche aus der Lahn liegt vor, Mahnwache statt Demo am Donnerstag in Braunfels und Personalkarussell bei der hessischen FDP. Das und mehr heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/weilburg/leiche-von-pawlos-an-lahn-gefunden-kein-hinweis-auf-gewalt-4504958 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/aus-wetzlarer-kirche-wird-kuechenstudio-4557044 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/anwohner-kritisieren-zustaende-in-der-wetzlarer-bahnhofstrasse-4535179 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/mahnwache-statt-demo-am-donnerstag-in-braunfels-4571275 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/personalkarussell-wie-geht-es-fuer-die-hessische-fdp-weiter-4563431 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Vereinzelte Ausfälle bei Linienbussen zwischen Braunfels, Schöffengrund und Wetzlar, das Unternehmen Giebeler aus Eschenburg hat einen umfangreichen Personalabbau angekündigt und nach der Todesfahrt von Mannheim ist Haftbefehl gegen den Autofahrer erlassen worden. Das und mehr heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/panorama/aus-aller-welt/haftbefehl-nach-mannheimer-todesfahrt-erlassen-4438273 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/grippe-und-erkaeltungswelle-sorgt-fuer-busausfaelle-4438472 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/ehringshausen/person-auf-fahrbahn-a45-nach-toedlichem-unfall-bei-ehringshausen-voll-gesperrt-4438420 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/eschenburg/41-stellen-stehen-bei-giebeler-in-eschenburg-auf-der-kippe-4435539 https://www.mittelhessen.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/jeder-siebte-schueler-hat-schon-nikotinbeutel-probiert-4391104 https://www.mittelhessen.de/sport/handball/handball-wetzlar/bei-till-klimpkes-neuem-verein-fuehrt-die-spur-nach-daenemark-4440108 Ein Angebot der VRM.

In deze aflevering schuift reisjournalist Gert aan, die met zijn camper een roadtrip maakte langs de Duitse Vakwerkhuisroute. Deze route verbindt pittoreske dorpjes en historische stadjes verspreid over heel Duitsland, elk met zijn eigen unieke charme. Gert legt uit wat vakwerkhuizen zo bijzonder maakt: architectonische pareltjes waar geen baksteen aan te pas komt en die al eeuwen overeind blijven.

Eine letzte Chance für knapp 200 Limburger Tauben und ein klares Windkraft-Votum in Braunfels. Außerdem ein Asteroid, der der Erde gefährlich nahekommt. Das und mehr, jetzt im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/taubentoeten-in-limburg-bleibt-eine-haengepartie-4340144 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/braunfelser-parlament-stimmt-windpark-vertrag-zu-4339708 https://www.mittelhessen.de/panorama/wissenschaft/asteroid-rast-2032-wohl-knapp-an-der-erde-vorbei-4339792 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/marburg/maskenpflicht-in-marburger-krankenhaus-sorgt-fuer-reaktionen-4336931 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/asyl-antrag-so-haben-mittelhessens-abgeordnete-abgestimmt-4341092 Ein Angebot der VRM.

McDonald's hat neue Filiale in Gladenbach eröffnet, Braunfels hat wieder ein Jugendzentrum und Landesbeamte kündigen in Hessen Straßenblockaden an. Das und mehr heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/wuetende-landesbeamte-kuendigen-in-hessen-strassenblockaden-an-4214218 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/gladenbach/mcdonalds-eroeffnet-heimlich-neue-filiale-in-gladenbach-4216823 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/kritik-an-fehlenden-weihnachtsboegen-in-wetzlarer-lahnstrasse-4203318 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/neue-bar-in-wetzlar-aus-cafe-vinyl-wird-typisch-tascha-4103603 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/braunfels-hat-jetzt-wieder-ein-jugendzentrum-4196806 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Über den Dächern Berlins plappere ich in der heutigen Folge Gegenwartsgeplapper mit dem Star-Architekten Stephan Braunfels. Ich bin mir sicher: mindestens eines seiner Bauwerke kennt ihr. Das Paul-Löbe-Haus des Deutschen Bundestages! Aber von vorne. Wie üblich, steigen wir schon im Kindesalter in den Lebenslauf ein. Und selten hat der Spruch "früh übt sich" so gut auf einen meiner Gesprächspartner gepasst. Schon im Alter von 6 Jahren baute Stephan am Haus seiner Eltern mit. Während der Schulzeit widmet er sich neben der Architektur aber auch der Musik. Welche familiären Hintergründe dies bedingten, wieso Florenz die schönste Stadt der Welt ist, wo man in München unbedingt gewesen sein muss, wieso genau 60 Personen auf den Zuschauertribünen in den Anhörungssälen Platz finden, warum dem Fensterputzer ein Denkmal gesetzt worden ist, was 9/11 mit dem Lampenladen zu tun hat und warum diese Folge so heißt, wie sie heißt, gibt es hier und jetzt auf die Ohren. Viel Spaß beim Anhören und wie immer: over and out.

Christian Breithecke bleibt Bürgermeister in Braunfels, Lkw-Fahrer mit mehr als drei Promille auf B49 erwischt und Hochzeitskorsos sorgen für Ärger. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Infos und Hintergründe gibt es hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/liveticker-zur-buergermeister-stichwahl-in-braunfels-4096260 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/beselich/lasterfahrer-mit-mehr-als-drei-promille-auf-b49-erwischt-4111031 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/hessen-will-mit-weniger-buerokratie-mehr-vertrauen-schaffen-4101090 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/reichsbuerger-auf-veranstaltungstour-durch-hessen-4101103 https://www.mittelhessen.de/panorama/aus-aller-welt/hochzeitskorsos-ein-gefaehrlicher-trend-lebt-wieder-auf-4085396 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/wiesbaden/stadt-wiesbaden/so-plant-die-nato-ihr-ukraine-hauptquartier-in-wiesbaden-4101915 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Neue Mountainbike-Strecke beschädigt, beliebtes Restaurant in Braunfels schließt und in Mansoori-Affäre droht der nächste Streit. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/hohenahr/wer-hat-schilder-an-mountainbike-strecke-in-erda-gestohlen-4037535 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/dillenburg/150-jahre-dillenburger-wilhelmsturm-wie-wird-gefeiert-4036666 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/marburg/neues-hotel-eroeffnet-am-marburger-lokschuppen-4042357 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/beliebtes-restaurant-in-braunfels-schliesst-4027137 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/neue-paechterfamilie-in-limburger-buergerhaus-4043748 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/hessen/krebspatienten-abgeschoben-kinder-als-dolmetscher-genutzt-4042512 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/mansoori-affaere-im-u-ausschuss-droht-der-naechste-streit-4038366 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Die Brauerei Schmucker investiert in Freiflächen-Photovoltaik-Anlage, Tesla gibt seinen Standort in Weiterstadt auf und Kfz-Haftpflicht-Versicherung neu berechnet. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Themen finden Sie hier: https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/odenwaldkreis/mossautal-odenwaldkreis/neue-photovoltaik-anlage-odenwaelder-brauerei-versorgt-sich-selbst-mit-strom-3885640 https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/kreis-darmstadt-dieburg/landkreis-darmstadt-dieburg/tesla-sorgt-fuer-leerstand-in-weiterstadt-3898176 https://www.echo-online.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-deutschland/a-wo-wird-die-kfz-police-in-hessen-und-rlp-teurer-3901905 https://www.echo-online.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/corona-wie-ist-die-aktuelle-lage-3896392 https://www.echo-online.de/politik/politik-deutschland/dolmetscher-app-hilft-beim-arztbesuch-3829322 https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/falschinformation-zu-corona-impfung-strafe-fuer-aerztin-3902980 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Ärztin erhält Geldstrafe wegen Falschinformationen zur Corona-Impfung, die Polizei Gießen will stärker gegen Drogenhandel vorgehen und fünfzig Jahre Zeltkirmes in Aßlar. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Themen finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/falschinformation-zu-corona-impfung-strafe-fuer-aerztin-3902980 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-giessen/giessen/polizei-giessen-will-haerter-gegen-dealer-vorgehen-3902005 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/asslar/vater-und-tochter-sind-in-diesem-jahr-asslarer-kirmeswaetze-3885263 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-deutschland/dolmetscher-app-hilft-beim-arztbesuch-3829322 https://www.mittelhessen.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/corona-wie-ist-die-aktuelle-lage-3896392 Ein Angebot der VRM.

An diesem Freitag ziehen die ersten Geflüchteten ins Braunfelser Containerdorf ein und ein 67-Jähriger ist bei einem Unfall auf der B49 bei Leun am Donnerstagmorgen tödlich verunglückt. Das und mehr gibt es heute für Sie im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/landkreis-marburg-biedenkopf/brueder-in-biedenkopf-wegen-fahrlaessiger-toetung-verurteilt-3555662 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/leun/b49-nach-toedlichem-unfall-bei-leun-stundenlang-gesperrt-3571608 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/schwaene-ziehen-von-niedergirmes-in-die-colchesteranlage-um-3568177 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/24-fluechtlinge-beziehen-braunfelser-containerdorf-3570432 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Ursache für schweren Busunfall auf A45 weiter unklar, Conti-Mitarbeiter kämpfen um Erhalt des Werks in Wetzlar und Tausende müssen Corona-Hilfen zurückzahlen. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/marburg/busunfall-mit-marburger-schuelern-der-ermittlungsstand-3569635 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/conti-betriebsrat-wetzlar-lassen-uns-nicht-wegschubsen-3568806 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/warum-die-saison-im-braunfelser-freibad-erst-spaeter-beginnt-3569056 https://www.mittelhessen.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/neue-corona-varianten-flirt-verbreiten-sich-rasch-3565966 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-rheinland-pfalz/tausende-muessen-corona-hilfen-zurueckzahlen-3550331 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-deutschland/reichsbuerger-prozess-gericht-zieht-ins-industriegebiet-3569474 Ein Angebot der VRM!

Der Edeka in Linter schließt, Anklage gegen einen 27-jährigen Frankfurter wegen des Verdachts der Vorbereitung einer schweren staatsgefährdenden Gewalttat und schon wieder Wirbel um das neue Trikot der deutschen Nationalmannschaft. Das und mehr gibt es heute für Sie im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/limburg-will-bauingenieure-selbst-ausbilden-3464042 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/schock-in-linter-schon-wieder-schliesst-ein-edeka-in-limburg-3464423 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/landkreis-lahn-dill/handwerker-spielen-fussball-und-helfen-krebskranken-kindern-3426778 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/rechtsradikaler-frankfurter-soll-staatssturz-geplant-haben-3463802 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/mainz/stadt-mainz/mainzer-sorgt-fuer-verkaufsstopp-von-dfb-trikot-mit-nummer-44-3463933 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/angst-vor-einsturz-braunfelser-kirche-bleibt-zu-3461784 Ein Angebot der VRM.

I denne episoden av Velferdspodden tar vi for oss et høyaktuelt og komplekst tema: lovligheten av ideelle reservasjoner i offentlige anbudskonkurranser. Vi har med oss Aksel Hageler, partner i advokatfirmaet DLA Piper Norge, og Elias Braunfels, managing partner i Oslo Economics, for å diskutere Avkommersialiseringsutvalgets arbeid og de potensielle konsekvensene og skrankene den pågående rettssaken mellom Norlandia/Stendi og Oslo kommune kan ha for utvalgets arbeid. Rettssaken gjelder hvorvidt kommunen hadde rett til å reservere et større sykehjemsanbud utelukkende for ideelle aktører. Norlandia og Stendi mener at denne reservasjonen var i strid med EØS-retten og har vunnet frem i både EFTA-domstolen og i Oslo tingrett, men Oslo kommune har anket, og saken vil komme opp for lagmannsretten i løpet av året. Saken gjelder ikke ideelles frivillige eller veldedige arbeid, men om offentlige anbudskonkurranser kan reserveres ideelle. Aksel Hageler er en av Norlandia og Stendis advokater i denne rettssaken, og utdyper i denne episoden om det juridiske, om rettssaken, EFTA og sakens relevans for Avkommersialiseringsutvalget. Elias Braunfels og Oslo Economics utarbeidet i forbindelse med rettssaken en rapport om samfunnsøkonomiske konsekvenser av reserverte anbud, og utdyper i denne samtalen om deres konklusjoner. Velferdspodden er en podkast fra Norlandia Health & Care Group (NHC), ledet av kommunikasjonssjef Arnfinn Nordbø. Hvis du har spørsmål eller innspill, ta kontakt på arnfinn.nordbo@norlandia.com

Braunfels hat Waldfriedhof, Bauernproteste sind ohne Probleme verlaufen und Biontech bereitet sich auf Markteinführung von Krebstherapien vor. Das und mehr heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu diesen Themen finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/braunfels-hat-jetzt-einen-waldfriedhof-3199783 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/bauernprotest-im-lahn-dill-kreis-das-fazit-der-polizei-3203622 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/weinbach/mordprozess-elkerhausen-wer-hat-die-tat-veruebt-3200075 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/marburg/babynamen-2023-in-marburg-lina-und-emil-sind-wieder-in-3201858 https://www.mittelhessen.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-hessen-und-rheinland-pfalz/biontech-will-2026-krebsmedikamente-auf-den-markt-bringen-3202517 https://www.mittelhessen.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/erkaeltungen-jetzt-kommt-die-schweinegrippe-dazu-3202410 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Keine Waffenverbotszone im Lahn-Dill-Kreis und Braunfels bekommt einen neuen Supermarkt. Das und mehr gibt es heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/landkreis-lahn-dill/keine-waffenverbotszonen-im-lahn-dill-kreis-geplant-3161775 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/ehringshausen/bewaffneter-ueberfall-in-ehringshausen-3162323 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/braunfels-bekommt-einen-neuen-rewe-3160824 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/cdu-und-spd-wollen-mehr-geld-fuer-hessische-schulen-und-kitas-3161485 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/hessen/segnung-homosexueller-paare-schritt-in-richtige-richtung-3161055 https://www.mittelhessen.de/panorama/wissenschaft/curevac-impfstoffpatent-biontech-mit-klage-erfolgreich-3162014 Ein Angebot der VRM.

The guys talk about river people, thankless jobs, and drive in movies. They also tell you how pirates are making a comeback and power rank hot dog toppings. Follow the show on twitter: @passthegravypod, @AlexJMiddleton, @NotPatDionne, and @RobertBarbosa03

Containerunterkunft für Geflüchtete in Braunfels, Wasserschaden in Limburger Sporthalle und Übergewicht erhöht Darmkrebsrisiko mehr als bislang gedacht. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/limburg-massiver-wasserschaden-in-leo-sternberg-sporthalle-2547700 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/auch-braunfels-plant-mit-containern-2547946 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/shuttle-bus-in-wetzlar-ist-das-projekt-bereits-gescheitert-2529009 https://www.mittelhessen.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/studie-risikofaktor-uebergewicht-bei-darmkrebs-unterschaetzt-2547439 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/landkreis-lahn-dill/grundschulen-im-lahn-dill-kreis-kaum-wiederholer-aber-2528754 Ein Angebot der VRM.

Tempo 30 in Limburg, Polarlichter über Braunfels und Letzte Generation plant spektakuläre Aktionsformen. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/kommt-in-diesen-strassen-in-limburg-tempo-30-2347404 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/nordlichter-ueber-braunfels-2346756 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/gefluegelpest-keine-stallpflicht-mehr-in-huettenberg-2347610 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/bilanz-zum-karnevalszug-muessen-die-luecken-besser-schliessen-2346862 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-deutschland/letzte-generation-wird-bald-betoniert-statt-geklebt-2345629

Drei große Lieben haben das Leben von Bertel Hildebrand-Braunfels geprägt: die zum Dirigenten Wilhelm Furtwängler, die zum Komponisten Walter Braunfels - und die zur Musik. Miriam Stolzenwald stellt sie vor. Von Miriam Stolzenwald.

In Bonbaden ist ein Mann erstochen worden, Streit um Lisa Fitz' Auftritt in Wetzlar und Preise für Flugtickets schießen in die Höhe. Das und mehr gibt es heute für Sie im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/braunfels/mord-in-bonbaden-hat-41-jaehrige-ihren-partner-umgebracht-2208787 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/diskussion-um-auftritt-von-lisa-fitz-in-wetzlar-2197798 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/herborn/sollte-der-geldautomat-in-herborn-burg-gesprengt-werden-2209080 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-limburg-weilburg/limburg/nach-facebook-post-limburger-anwalt-droht-gerichtsverfahren-2208145 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/baustellen-bremsen-bahn-in-hessen-rheinland-pfalz-2208044 https://www.mittelhessen.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-deutschland/ticketpreise-flug-in-urlaub-wird-zum-teil-absurd-teurer-2209173

Ep 50: Implementing the ASIM ProcessSheriff Michelle Cook and Police Chief Terry Nichols share their experiences implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist process and their tips for success. Don't miss this discussion!Bill Godfrey:Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. It's good to be back with you today. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm your podcast host, and I have with me today two former C3 instructors as our guest stars today, both of them law enforcement leaders, and hoping that one day when they do retire-retire, we might actually get them back as C3 instructors; hint hint, Chief Nichols, who just retired in the last few weeks. So I have with me Michelle Cook. She is currently serving as the Sheriff in Clay County. She also did ... Michelle was almost 30 years at Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:26 years at Jacksonville, yeah.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, so 26 years at Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Police Department as the operations chief, so she had an awful lot of responsibility there. Did a short stint as the Police Chief at Atlantic Beach, which was kind of a retirement job, but too easy for you. You needed something with more, and so now she's the elected Sheriff at Clay County, which is in north Florida. And we have with us Terry Nichols. Terry was the Assistant Director at Alert from the founding to, what was it? 2018, 20-Terry Nichols:2016, 2016.Bill Godfrey:2016. Left Alert, became the Police Chief in Brownwood, Texas, and then you did, what, a little over three years there?Terry Nichols:Three years there, and then moved to Seguin as chief, and spent three years there, and now I'm retiredBill Godfrey:Like a week and a half ago, two weeks ago? It's been pretty recent.Terry Nichols:It's been a month, it's been a month.Bill Godfrey:So it's exciting to have both of you here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I know the sheriff especially, you have a very busy schedule. But I wanted to have a podcast where we talk about implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist and the process that goes with it. Because it sounds simple on the surface, and when you've gone through training, it's fairly straightforward, but trying to roll that out to a whole organization is a little bit of a logistics machine.And the two of you have each done this, not only in your organizations, but you've done it more than once. So sheriff, you did it at Jacksonville, then did it at Atlantic Beach, now at Clay County, and Terry, you did it at both Brownwood and Seguin. So what I wanted to just get from you guys is, what was it about this process that made you say, "This is the way I want to go," and what were your lessons learned? How did you approach it and go along the way? So sheriff, you want to start us off?Michelle Cook:Sure. First of all, thank you for having me today to talk about this. I'm very passionate about this. You've asked why ASIM, why choose this method of managing an active shooter event, and I will tell you, I'm entering into my 30th year of law enforcement, and I've worked some huge cases, some huge incidents, thousands of them, and for me, being a street cop for so long and then the leader of street cops, the ASIM process, the ASIM methodology, it just makes sense.In our industry, and Terry, correct me if you see differently, we teach young officers, young supervisors, to handle everything themselves. And on 99% of the calls that we handle, that can be done, but on a mass critical incident, like an active shooter event, relying on one person to handle everything is just unrealistic, and that's how things get missed, and unfortunately, that's how people die, is you got one person trying to handle everything.Terry Nichols:Yeah. For me, everything the sheriff said makes perfect sense, and she is spot on. Having been involved with Alert and standing it up from the get go, driving it post-Columbine, and how we were training cops, and then fast-forward several years and get introduced to the ASIM model, and realizing we had been missing the boat early on. When we started first training our officers, we were missing the management piece of this. We were doing good at going in and realizing that we have a different duty. There's no longer sit and wait for SWAT, that we had a different mission on these active shooter events.But there's a whole management piece of this, and like the sheriff alluded to, that we're real good at teaching cops to go handle a problem by themselves, and they do it 9 times out of 10, but these events are catastrophic. They are geographical in nature. It doesn't just happen in a vacuum in one little place, and it takes significant resource management being trained to do that, and that the ASIM, I was just pulled to it and said it makes all the sense in the world.Bill Godfrey:Well, it's very humbling to hear that, and I'm thrilled that you guys ... I was thrilled to have both of you as instructors and as founding members, if you will, of what we were doing a very, very long time ago. Terry, when you were at Alert, you had a hand in helping us get the pilot up and running, and Michelle attended one of the very first pilots. Wait, in fact, I think it was the very first pilot delivery we did for certification, when we did it at Seminole County, so you guys have certainly been on the road with us for a long time. Terry, what was your strategy? So Brownwood, you might want to ... Brownwood was a little more rural, Seguin's a little more suburban. What was your strategy when you wanted to implement it the first time around, and then how did that change for you the second time around?Terry Nichols:I want to back up to something that you said on the intro too, if I can remember what it was now, that it's not just an agency that we implemented these in, it was a geographical area. So it was multiple agencies.Bill Godfrey:Good point.Terry Nichols:Yeah, I may have been the Chief of Brownwood, but I had the Sheriff's Department, and I had two of the law enforcement agencies right there in the county as well, and it was very rural. If you look at Brownwood, Texas on a map, it is in the geographical center of Texas, and I tell people, "You go out to nowhere and turn left, and you're in Brownwood," and not a lot of resources out there.Our closest big city is Abilene, Texas, and that's an hour away. But I knew, A, the need when I got there. I saw the quick needs assessment that we had no active shooter training. We had nothing. We had zero partnership with our fire and EMS partners, we had a third-party EMS provider, we were not working with our Sheriff's Department who was in the same building as us, so a lot of basic leadership stuff.And it was fun to bring the ASIM stuff to us, and we did it through Counterstrike first. That's how we introduced it to the organization, but we brought in the Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in the county. And that brought us all together, where they weren't playing in the sandbox prior to me getting there for multiple reasons, but this was something we could all gather around and actually embrace.And that really helped build relationships and, "Hey, we're not that bad. Hey, the people across the hall, hey, they're not that bad. They wear a brown uniform, we wear a blue uniform." So but it's also a rule. What we had is what we had, and help was a long way away. So we introduced it through Counterstrike, and then we did ASIM and the checklist, and we recurred training on it, and it was a success.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, your first implementation was at Jacksonville, which, contrasting to Brownwood, is about as big as ... it's a big job. What was your strategy there? I know you had to play the long game. It took a while, but talk a little bit about what you did at Jacksonville.Michelle Cook:Sure. So in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office actually, at the time, was the 25th largest agency in the country, so a large agency. And what we decided to do is offer the ASIM class to those who wanted it first, because we thought if we could get those folks who are interested in it to buy into it, then they could go out and help sell it to the rest of the agency. And that really, for us, worked out good, because we ended up with ASIM disciples, is what I call them, and those are folks who were all in, who, on the street, if somebody had a question, they could speak to what ASIM was, and the benefits of it, and stuff like that.So it took us several years. We had to get through about 1,400 people trained, so it took us several years, several training cycles, to get everybody through. Contrast that to ... Let me go back. In Jacksonville, we also had a really close relationship with the fire department, and so they were in on the training from the beginning with us, and that was very, very beneficial.In fact, I think it was in Jacksonville, we started using rescue task forces at special events, and that was a chance for us to practice a concept with our police and fire working together on all of our pre-planned special events, so when the the day did come that we had an active shooter, we would be prepared to ... and we wouldn't have to stop and explain to people what a rescue task force was, so that worked out really well.And we had the active shooter incident at The Landing, and we got fortunate that day because there was actually a fire department unit training a block away. But if you go back and you listen to the radio broadcast, and you listen, and you read the after-action reports, it was very clear that not only the active shooter tactical training that we had been practicing and training so hard for worked, but also, the Active Shooter Incident Management portion of that trained, and people fell right into place.And so it was really ... I had just left when that happened, but it was very gratifying to see all that hard work going into saving people's lives. So move forward to Atlantic Beach, again, much like Terry, a very small agency. We had 30 people total, including myself, and for me, I incorporated not only some of the fire department folks again in this, but public works. Our public works folks had a big presence out there in the city of Atlanta Beach, and so they were pulled into some of the safer jobs, and we trained with public works on these things, and safety...Bill Godfrey:Okay, well, we're not going to let you get away with that that easy. You're going to have to tell a little bit about what you did, and why, and how it worked out.Michelle Cook:So what we did is we got the public works guys because ... specifically the school, but other locations as well, we had ... Atlantic Beach is a beach town, so there's lots of roads leading in, and one of the concerns we had is that when something happened, that traffic would be backed up and blocked so bad that we would not be able to get mutual aid or fire rescue into the scene.So we train the public works guys on how to use their big trucks to hold traffic positions until relieved by a law enforcement officer, and again, they were instrumental and vital to our plan out there, and talking about building relationships and everybody being on the same page. So that worked out really good. Small agency, limited resources. We-Bill Godfrey:Did you get any pushback from the public works guys and gals, or were they pretty excited about it?Michelle Cook:Oh, they were having a blast. We also incorporated them, just on a side note, in our search for missing people. As soon as we had a missing person call go out in the city of Atlantic Beach, our publics works people would getting notified on their phones that we were looking for missing persons, and so they would also help us look for missing people. So it was really just, you go back to, if you have limited resources, if you're in a jurisdiction then you have limited resources, there are other groups that you can pull in safely to help augment or supplement your agency.Bill Godfrey:Sure, sure.Michelle Cook:Yeah, so that...Bill Godfrey:So how did your approach ... Other than the public works, what was the big glaring differences for you implementing it at Atlantic Beach, versus implementing ASIM at the Atlantic Beach versus Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:You know, Jacksonville, there was always the potential for over-convergence just from get go, just because of the sheer number of resources in Duval County. In Atlantic Beach, it was the exact opposite. How long do we have to wait until help gets here, and then how do you manage so much mutual aid? Because in Atlantic Beach, we would have Neptune Beach, Jacks Beach, Jacksonville, Mayport police, all potentially responding, all with different communication, radio channels.And so we had to make sure that when we developed our plan in Atlantic Beach, that all those surrounding agencies knew what our plan was, so that if and when something did happen, they would know what radio frequency to go to. Where would staging be? We preset all those ahead of time so that would be no question day of, and that's the value of a smaller jurisdiction, is you can do a lot of that ahead of time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, you really regionalized your approach, which Terry mentioned even at Brownwood and bringing some of the others in. Terry, when you went over to Seguin, what did you do a little bit differently there at that one? And talk a little bit about how you stepped outside of the city to bring in your regional partners, similar to what Michelle was just talking about.Terry Nichols:Yeah, pretty much the same thing. The good news is we had a great relationship with the fire department there. It's a larger organization. I say larger. We had 60 sworn at the time, but we're a lot closer ... San Antonio's, a rock throw away, Austin's an hour away, San Marcos is close. So we have a lot of resources, and in the Braunfels real close to us if we need them.One thing that this community had lived through was Sutherland Springs. We had first responders ... Sutherland Springs was literally 15 miles, 20 miles, from Seguin, so we had first responders that actually went down there that day. So it was very close to Seguin, meaning and close to their heart. They did not have ASIM, though. They did not have any training. Most of them had been through Alert or some level of tactical training. The tactical piece of it, the sheriff mentioned, but nobody had the management piece.So I took what I did in Brownwood, and we invested in the Counterstrike and they ran everybody through Counterstrike first. Then we brought in an ASIM advance class, and that's when we really got the buy-in. There were already a group going on countywide, they met monthly. An integrated response group, it was run by the county Fire Marshal's Office, and they would meet monthly, and they would meet, and they would sit around and talk about the same thing over and over and over. And then I became chief there, and they all look at me like, "Oh my God, look what just walked in the door. We've got somebody that"-Bill Godfrey:Fresh meat.Terry Nichols:"That knows what they're doing, that'll come rescue us." So we started getting some synergy going there with that, and then the ASIM advanced that we hosted not long before I left, we were lucky enough to get really solidified, because we filled that class. It was great to see so many people.And I got a text on July 4th from the assistant fire chief saying that, "We have a huge parade July 4th in Seguin," and that's largest one in Texas. But, just what the sheriff mentioned, they had rescue task forces stood up, an IEP, the whole thing that ... I'd been walking them through, doing this slowly, baby steps, but they had done it for the parade, and he was so proud of himself, and I'm so proud of them.He said, "Look at your legacy, what you've left behind." I was like, I didn't do anything. I just came and got the ball rolling. You guys now go with it. But it's come time for both places to test, and that I think that, we'll talk about some challenges in a minute, but it's come time to start to test it. Don't wait for game day. We need to start testing these things.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and it's funny, both of you have talked about opportunities to exercise and practice, I shouldn't use the word exercise, but to practice some of these concepts in your special events and pre-planned events, and I know that that's a huge part of socialization and absolutely a best practice.And before I move on, I do want to comment for the audience, if you're wondering why these two both had ASIM advances, they were both leaders who contacted us and said, "If you ever have a last-minute cancellation, all I need is two weeks notice and I can make it work," and that's how both of them got ASIM classes. They picked up cancellation slots that came in from others on short notice.But sheriff, I know that you started off by doing the RTFs, and the idea of contact teams in your IEPs for special events, and for the football games, and things like that in Jacksonville, but not too long after that, you took that a step further, certainly at clay county, I know you've began incorporating some of these practices into other calls not active shooter. Can you talk a little bit about that?Michelle Cook:Sure. So it actually ... the guys in Atlantic Beach started it, and it's carried forward to Clay County, and I really think this is going to end up being a best practice. And so what we've done is, on priority-one calls, where we have an active scene that's dynamic and fluid, whoever is tactical declares tactical, and they have command of the hot zone.So whether it's a burglary in progress to a store, or a fire at a house, or a gas leak, the person that's going to drive the resources to specific tasks based on an overall strategy declares tactical, and then our incident commander goes down the road and declares command, and then supports tactical.And this is really ... like I said, this happened organically in both agencies, but I think it's going to end up being a best practice for us, is this allows the men and women in uniform to use the terminology, use the concepts, and it won't be foreign to them, God forbid, if something ever happened. So they're using it on priority-one calls now.Bill Godfrey:I think that's fabulous, and the history of the fire service, and I know we all like to make fun, the fire department will set up incident command on a barking dog call. And yeah, true, but that's actually how we got everybody to understand it. When the ICS structure first started coming out in the late 70s and then rolled into the 80s, and people started stepping up and taking notice, the way we got it indoctrinated culturally was we used it on everything.Overkill? Yeah. Was it necessary? Probably not, but did it expedite the cultural integration and locking that in? And it really did. And I know we've had some conversations about the idea of morphing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist process into something that's a little more generic, like a generic response posture to violent events or potentially-violent events, and I wonder if you could comment on that?So on the fire service, we have alarm levels. So what we send to a residential structure fire is different than what we send to a commercial structure fire, and when we escalate that and call for more resources, and so that's that standard package. And it seems to me like there might be a real good argument and a logical application for something like that, a standard response protocol for hostile events or potentially-violent events on law enforcement. What are the two of you think about that?Terry Nichols:You know, I can agree. I think that's a great best practice, sheriff, and I commend you for it. I think Seguin, we could have certainly done that in Seguin, and hopefully a little more naturally; like you said, organically. What I think we saw that the cops have been missing, the officers have been missing, is the actual practical application of ICS. Everybody's done the 100, the 200, 300, all of the classes, and we all...Bill Godfrey:Nobody shared answers.Terry Nichols:Yeah, they never share answers, but they never seen the practical application of it, and that's what ASIM brings you, or that's what the Counterstrike tool brings them, is a practical application? "Okay, I see how this is supposed to work now," but you've got to go out and now practice it, and if you can incorporate it into your priority-one-type calls or something like that, I think that's brilliant to be able to do something like that, because it just further ingrains that it should be second nature. when the big one, when that day happens, it's already ingrained in the organizational culture.Bill Godfrey:Good point. Sheriff, what are your thoughts?Michelle Cook:You know, I would agree. The challenge we have in law enforcement is ... because every call that we go on is so different, and to broad brush, saying, "Okay, all of these types of calls, you have to do this," it can be a double-edged sword. So I liked the fact that, at least in my agencies, it happened organically, and when the troops buy in, then you don't have to ram it down their throat; it's better all the way around.But I would love to see some sort of standardization, maybe at each state level, and using the lingo of each state to implement a standard hostile encounter response, or priority-one response, or whatever you want to call it. The challenge for us is, a priority-one call can be somebody shot, to a burglary in progress, to a car crash, to ... So I like it. I'm just not quite sure on how to execute it yet.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I think it's one of those ideas that we ... Let's face it. Both of our industries are not necessarily known for changing quickly. In the fire service, and you guys have heard me say this before, we have a saying, "200 years of tradition unimpeded by progress," and we mean that. But I think this is one of those places where it's an idea, but we need to take time. I think we need to see what begins to develop organically, what works. Where's the stickiness in an organization? What types of incidents or responses does it make sense, and where doesn't it make sense?think we just have to take our time with it, but it's an interesting idea that I want to keep talking about as we move forward. So let me ask both of you this. What, if anything, when you were implementing the ASIM process at any of either of your agencies, what caught you by surprise, or were some lessons learned, or advice that you would give to other law enforcement leaders like yourself, who are wanting to go down this path? Sheriff, you want to start?Michelle Cook:Sure. My advice would be find ASIM disciples first. Let them buy in and help sell it, versus forcing everybody to go to classes right off the bat. Understand that ASIM is a perishable skill, so if you're not using it on the street for your priority-one calls, you have to find other ways to continue the dialogue.And that can include using some of the concepts on pre-planned events. For us, it includes ... we have written out manuscripts, responses, for some of our larger churches and mall, and our personnel read them. And we got this idea from, actually, the Blue Angels, and before every flight, they sit down and they verbally talk about what they're going to do during flight. And so we sit down and we verbally articulate, "If my role is tactical, this is what I'm doing. If I'm a contact team, this is what I'm doing," and that seems to keep the skills fresh.We've also put together some PowerPoints where we have little pieces moving, kind of like the Counterstrike board moving, and then we have people talking about what's happening; again, pushing the concepts out. So my advice would be find ASIM disciples, then push it out to everybody, and then find creative ways to keep the conversation going regularly. And before we get off this podcast, Bill, I want to talk about something exciting that's happening in Clay County right now as we speak, so don't let me forget that.Bill Godfrey:Okay, I'm going to make myself a note. Terry, how about you? What were the surprises or lessons learned or advice that you would offer something to another law enforcement leader?Terry Nichols:In Brownwood, I walked into, I mentioned earlier, a, I won't say adversarial community, but everybody wasn't getting along, and I used it as a tool to bring everybody together. So I thought it was very useful that way. Now see, the fire department, they got along, but they didn't work together. They knew each other, but they didn't get ... that was it. They was the fireman, we're the police officers. But I used it as a unique tool to bring everybody together, and I thought that was unique.I agree with the disciples, or ambassadors, as I often refer to them, as somebody that will go out there and carry that brand. They're passionate about it. They're just passionate as I am, as you are, as the sheriff is, and so many other folks around. Our new ... Our. The city's new assistant fire chief is one of those ambassadors. He was a hire about eight months before I left, and he came from a neighboring agency, and he is an absolute ambassador.He told me at my retirement reception, he's like, "You're part of the reason I came over here, and now you're leaving." He's relating, "I'm passionate about this Active Shooter Incident Management stuff, and you were here, and I was like, 'All right, what a great opportunity.'" I said, "Sorry, dude, it's that time. 33 years is enough time."And I have to agree with you, we did not have the practice at either organization down, like the sheriff explained. We did not have that ongoing, and I learned that the hard way in Brownwood. When we get to that story, I'll tell you that later on, that it is a perishable skill, and you've got to figure out some ways, some unique ways, to continue to get the information out and rehearse, refresh, that going on. And with the events in Texas in the past couple months, I don't think that's going to be hard to do to get that refresher stuff going.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, do you want to go ahead and talk about what you learned in Brownwood about the retention in perishable skills?Terry Nichols:Yeah, so we ran Counterstrike. We did not have the ASIM yet, but we ran Counterstrike. Everybody through the Sheriff's Department, third-party ambulance provider, the hospital, staff attended, everybody. And then a month later, we held an exercise at the school. No SIMS, nothing like that, it was all moulage. We had actually role-players, Moulage, and the hospital was involved.So we did transports, they tested their MCI surge capability. It worked great, and I think our out-the-door time for the first patient was like 20 minutes. It was remarkable. For having only done it, and we had just trained the month before, so it was great, the sad part, we had lost an officer the week before that to an off-duty traffic collision, and I almost canceled the event simply because of that. We had a lot of trauma we were going through as an organization. We didn't, I'm glad we didn't, because it really brought us all back together focused on our mission.The next year, my intentions are always great, but you're not judged by your intention. My intention was to do followup training the following year, that spring, and do another exercise at the school, change it up slightly, and get the hospital, everybody, involved. We never got around to the refresher training. This happened, the world happened, everything happened, but we still did the exercise. My fire chief had pretty much checked out mentally. He just wasn't that engaged. Our out-of-the-building time for our first casualty was like 50 minutes. It was 50 minutes.Bill Godfrey:50? Five zero?Terry Nichols:Yeah, five zero, which, to me, was absolute failure, catastrophic failure. It's like, what happened? And it was a lack of recurring training, is what boils down to. People had forgotten their roles, they'd forgotten ... they had the checklist, they had in front of them, but they'd forgotten how to do the basic fundamental things, the basic fundamental piece of this.So the good lesson learned, keeping that buy-in from those ambassadors, especially the agency heads, I would think that I could sit across from my fire chief, and I could in Seguin, and have a very candid conversation. It was not quite that same way in Brownwood, as it turned out to be. That was part of the issue I faced.The other issue is my own, I had to own it, that I did not continue to push the training. Life happened, other things happened, and I did not make it a top priority as it should have been, and we saw the outcome of that during that exercise, and I was just as mad as a hornet. I was just absolutely furious at myself, not at the performance of my troops, because they did the best they could. It was at me for not doing that refresher training.Bill Godfrey:Powerful story. Sheriff, anything that you want to add on that before I come back to what's going on there at Clay County?Michelle Cook:I'm with Terry. This is a perishable skill all day long, and you've got to find creative ways to continue the conversations. To think that you're going to bring in a class one time, and somehow people are going to retain it, that's just not going to work. You got to continue the conversations, whether it's the Counterstrike board. For us, it's reading scripts and PowerPoints, and handling priority-one calls using ASIM concepts. Also, the preplanned events, using as many concepts as we can during the preplanned event, and that's how you keep the conversations fresh.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I completely agree. So tell us a little bit about what's going on there at Clay that you're excited about.Michelle Cook:So really thrilled about this. We were actually having these conversations before Uvalde, and Uvalde really just cemented our commitment to them. So in Clay County, like all school districts across America, our school board came up with a reunification plan, which sounded great on paper. It looks fantastic in this big ring binder that nobody's ever going to look at. So I brought in the county emergency manager, the safety director for the school board, and the school board police chief, and said, "Guys, we have our plan, you have your plan, the schools have their plan. None of us know each other's plan."So right now, what we're doing is we're hosting, I think we're up to 51 meetings. We're bringing school administrators in; the superintendent; fire rescue; the police agency if it's in a municipality, and we bring that jurisdiction in; the school resource officers; the school board police; the safety director for the school board; my patrol division; my special events division, and my traffic division. And we'll have anywhere from 20 to 30 people in the room, and we put the school up on the board and we say, "Okay, this is Clay High School. All right, so school administrators, what is your lockdown ... what is your policy?"So they tell us what their policy is, and then we talk about what to expect from us. "You're going to have solo officer response. You may see something called a contact team. What do you ... We've made an agreement on where we're going to keep extra weapons and other items locked in the school, so where is that location? How do we turn off your alarms in your school?" And then we challenge our traffic guys, "What intersections do you have to own to lock this school down?"And then to the school people, "How are we going to ... Let's talk about reunification. What does that look like?" And then we tell them, "Hey, this is what our contact teams are going to be doing. This is what our rescue task forces are going to be doing. There's a position called tactical, and if you can find that person safely and provide information on who the suspect is, where they're at, go find that person. This is what's going to be happening at the command post."So we tell them all of that, and really, what we've done is we've taken the individual school plans, we've taken the school board police response plan, we've taken the fire response plan, we've taken our plan. We've really molded it into a document, and since I've been driving the conversations from the beginning, they're very ASIM-centric. And the documents are just a few pages, and I could literally ...We've identified, for example, all the intersections in the area that we need to control. "I'm not telling you on game day which direction to push traffic, but these are the intersections that we have to control." So we have a single sheet of paper, it lists each intersection, and then how many deputies it takes to control that intersection. So if Terry's coming in for mutual aid, and I can pull off this sheet of paper and hand it to Terry and say, "You've got traffic."So we've done this with our schools. We're about 12 or so schools in now that we've been holding these meetings, and I tell you, the sense of cooperation, coordination, the understanding of ASIM, because we tell them, "You guys locking down and us neutralizing the bad guy is really just the beginning. There's going to be so much more that has to happen," and opening their eyes of what to expect from us, what we can expect from them, and we're calling it the Clay County CHIRP plan, CHIRP, Clay Hazard Immediate Response Plan, and it just gets all the special interests together in a room to talk about each individual school individually, instead of trying to cover all the schools with one giant plan.Bill Godfrey:That is so fantastic, and more than I've heard going on in other organizations. Once again, you're always on the cutting edge of making new stuff happen. So I-Terry Nichols:It is, it's brilliant. I'm sorry, Bill.Bill Godfrey:No, go ahead, Terry.Terry Nichols:It's great. It's absolutely brilliant, it really is, especially countywide. One thing I left out of the Brownwood, the exercises we did, the school district did their own little reunification exercise once we finished. So we did our piece of it, but they had staff that was working through the summer, and they worked on their reunification process. They actually brought up school buses, and took them to another facility, and worked and walked through the standard reunification method that they utilize.So again, we did not get involved in that because we were taxed already, as far as the number of bodies we were pulling from the street through the tactical piece of all this, but they were doing it themselves. So it was nice to see them doing that. I know the superintendent out there, I know he's continuing that kind of stuff. It's very important to them. Seguin will be very similar, I'd have no doubt in my mind.Bill Godfrey:That's fantastic. So here's my last question for the two of you. Just within the last two weeks, NTOA, the National Tactical Officers Association, has announced that they're endorsing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist as a national standard. And as I said on one of the previous podcasts, for our fire-EMS audience, NTOA is to law enforcement what the NFPA, the National Fire Protection Agency, is to the fire service. How do the two of you see that changing the conversation as we try to get people aware, trained, and implementing ASIM?Terry Nichols:It would certainly help. Having their endorsement and their stamp of approval is huge. I've been an NTOA member for years, got on their training, I've been to their active assailant training, active shooter training many years ago, back in the early days of Alert. It adds a lot of validity to it, not that it didn't already have it, because it does, but you may be reaching a whole different audience that, especially for your larger agencies that have full-time SWAT teams, and they say, "If we don't do an active shooter training, we've got this stuff done, it's gone ... y'all have to solve long before we get there."But now, they get introduced ugh, or through their structure or their training in the tactical world, they get introduced to the ASIM model and the process that way now. Again, most of the country part-time teams, collateral duty, job, that kind of stuff, but your Los Angeleses, and your New York, and your Houstons, and your Austins and Bostons, and all those big places that may not get ASIM another way, may see it this way now. So I think it's a big deal, Bill.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, how about you? How does it change things, or does it change things, for you at home there in Clay and in your surrounding areas?Michelle Cook:I'm not sure if it changes things. It doesn't surprise me, though, that NTOA would be one of the first to step up and acknowledge this. The NTOA has trained thousands and thousands and thousands of SWAT operators and SWAT leaders, and on a SWAT call-out, there's a process. And you think about, you call the SWAT team when it's really, really bad, and the SWAT team follows a chain of command, there's one talk, there's one commander.So it doesn't surprise me that NTOA would see the value of a checklist like this, and understand that the checklist is really for those dynamic, ongoing ... those calls that are happening right then when we don't have time to wait for the SWAT team. Now, with that being said, my only concern, and this is something that, as a leader, you have to be cognizant of, is the checklist is not the answer. The answer is training with the checklist.Bill Godfrey:Yes, yes.Michelle Cook:So passing the checklist and saying, "Okay, now we have ASIM," that would be my only concern, because I'm thinking firemen are probably like this too, but cops, "Just make it easy for us. Give us a checklist."Bill Godfrey:Yeah, we're all much more alike than we would like to admit.Michelle Cook:Yeah. That would be my only caution, is that the piece of paper is not the answer. It's training to the piece of paper that will help you get to the answer.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think certainly in my conversations with the NTOA leadership, I think they're keenly aware of that, and we're having some very positive conversations about things that we are hoping to do with their organization to begin to push this out. I think we're probably going to start with some webinars, some announcement material, and things like that, but obviously, we've got to get into the training. You got to get into the hands-on training.And I've said this before, and I will say it again, you can sit in a classroom and you can get lectured at, you can watch a video, but until you get up and put yourself in the moment and actually practice this under pressure, you just don't get it. You've got to give responders the opportunity to practice, hot wash it, and then let them practice again, and that's when they they build the competency.I feel like it's a little bit of a trite analogy, but I've said it before, and I don't think there's anything quite better than that, you're not going to get to the Super Bowl with one practice. You've got to practice over and over again, and in a lot of ways, the quarterback on the field is a lot like tactical triage and transport, and then the coaches on the sideline are like the incident command post.Everybody's working together, but how the heck are you going to pull that off on game day if nobody ever bothered to practice? It seems obvious, and when you break it down in those terms, everybody goes, "Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense," but making it a priority for agencies, it's tough. We got, what, 20 pounds of training requirements to fit into a one-pound day? Something's-Terry Nichols:In Texas, you're about to see that get a lot heavier, because again, after Uvalde, I think you're going to see this come to the forefront at the state level. So every state has mandated training for peace officers that we all have to go through every year. You will see we will be heavy on active shooter response, active assailant response, and it'll hopefully give those agencies that already bought in, that have ASIM training, that have the knowledge of it, to give them a chance to actually go out and practice it now, to check that box with the state, as it were.And one of my leadership mentors, Dave Anderson, he says about working out, "How can you expect to go in the gym and squat 500 pounds if you've never squatted 100 pounds? So yeah, you got to practice, practice, practice, repetition, repetition, repetition. So what you said is spot on, but we've got to ... To have a piece of paper, laminated or not, just to pull out of your zipper shirt or out of your visor, is not the answer. You've got to use it.Bill Godfrey:Or on your phone. We've got it as the phone app too. Yeah, I completely agree, and the one thing I would say, in a perfect world, we would get everybody trained so competently and so passionately, and that, God forbid, the day comes that they're called upon, they would nail it and perfect it, and that would be wonderful. But a little goes a long way. A little bit of organization, a little bit of incident management, having a handful of leadership who understands the process and understand what needs to get done, to be able to organize the rest of the troops or the mutual aid people coming in, a little can go a long way. And yes, one day I would like to believe that we'll get every law enforcement, firefighter, EMT, and paramedic in the United States fully trained and competent in this material. But in the meantime, let's do a little something, because as we've seen more than once, a failure on the incident management side can just produce an unacceptable result.Terry Nichols:It's catastrophic, it's catastrophic, and witnessed recently, unfortunately, and it just ... and you're right, small pieces, and the sheriff's got it right. She's hitting it on the head, using it the priority-one calls, and get it ingrained, indoctrinated. And before we went live and started recording, I was joking with you, Bill, about, we have so much to learn from the fire service; we, being law enforcement.Yeah, we may joke all day long about this incident command stuff. There's a cat up in a tree, and y'all set up incident command, there's no one-shot. But there's something to be said for this, and I tried it. I think both Seguin and Brownwood are better ... they are today than when I got there when it comes to this type of stuff. Not just the tactical piece of it, but the incident management piece of it. I hope they are. And it was a great challenge, and I'm an ambassador of it, and hopefully we got much more to learn, even if it's one at a time, one person at a time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think, Terry, between you and, certainly, Michelle, who is a very, very strong leader in the law enforcement community, and very sophisticated and forward-looking, I'm optimistic. I think we're going to get there. I think that this can happen, and we can get it done. And I'll share this one story with you, Terry, in fairness, coming back on the other side, because making fun of the cat in the tree, I always make fun of you law enforcement guys for the 540 degrees of coverage. I'm like, "Yeah, how does that math work? It's 360, and you start over again."And I was teaching a class one day with ... and I make that joke on a fairly regular basis, which I should have known. And one of our other instructors, Adam, he was waiting for it, and as soon as I said it, he goes, "Okay, let me explain it to you, Bill. You get in the recliner, you spin around 360 degrees, and then you pull the lever to kick your feet back and you look up over your head. That's 540 degrees of coverage," and I said, "Okay, I got it. I deserve that."Terry Nichols:I owe him a beverage. I owe him a beverage.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, you have any other closing words or thoughts that you want to offer before we wrap up for today?Michelle Cook:Just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity, and if any law enforcement leader out there, anybody in law enforcement, is looking for any ideas, or suggestions, or support, or how to lead your organization or your agency through the the beginnings of ASIM, obviously, C3 Pathways is the expert in the training, but I can definitely help people navigate the politics of it if needed. So always available to assist.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, that's very, very gracious of you. I have a feeling we're going to have people reaching out wanting your contact information. Terry, any final thoughts?Terry Nichols:I echo exactly what the sheriff said, Bill. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come to share my story, anyway, what I've experienced, but same way. I've done it in a rural community with very limited resources, and now in a larger, not near as large as the Sheriff for Jacksonville, but in a larger agency with ... And there are politics to navigate, there are egos to navigate.Bill Godfrey:Always.Terry Nichols:They're in ... I don't have all the answers, but I'll certainly give you my experience. So yeah, C3 Pathways is the point. Anybody listening or watching, reach out to C3, and if you want to talk to me directly, obviously, Bill will gladly share my contact information, and I will answer any question with anybody at any time about any issue as it relates to this, and my successes and my obvious failures as well.Bill Godfrey:Well, Terry, Michelle, thank you both so much for taking the time out of your day. I think what you've shared can be extremely valuable to those that need to walk in the same footsteps that you guys have already forged ahead, and I just can't thank you enough for continuing to support and be ambassadors, and for the work that both of you have accomplished. So thank you for being with us today on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wrap for our show today. Thank you for tuning in, and until we talk to you next time, stay safe.

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Hey guys, Brandon Olson here, today on Rank Daddy TV. We're going to talk about handling SEO objections. So a lot of times when we're out prospecting, we're out trying to land deals for our SEO agency, we come across certain objections we may not know how to handle them. Recently we did a poll in the group, in the members group, the private group, as well as in the public Rank Daddy group asking for what objections you guys regularly come across. And we're making this video to answer each one, to kind of let you know how to handle them and move on and ask for the sale. So let's get started. So here's the question. How can marketers like us, working only part-time and running our entire business from our laptop or smartphone, how are we able to guarantee insane results to our clients, when the mainstream Internet Marketing Gurus say the guarantees are impossible? That's the question. And this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Brandon Olson and welcome to Rank Daddy. All right, so today's episode is going to be handled right here. I've got these all built up as slides. Go through each one of these. I'm going to show you how to handle the objection, what to say, and then kind of how to move them on to the next step, which is to push them to say, yes. I'm going to be referring a lot to the five points, the five tips that I gave in episode four. It's a great episode. I would recommend go back and watch that. It talks about the different clauses, the different ways we can entice them to say, yes, and agree to at least try our SEO campaign. So let's get into it. Objection one $1,000 a month is way too much to pay for SEO. So when they bring a price to me, that's kind of a buying signal, right? So $1,000 a month is the average for the billing of all of our members and all of their clients. So we use this because that's the common price. That's what we usually go to, you're starting 2000 bucks a month for SEO campaign. When they're bringing up money, it means they're interested, but maybe they don't, you haven't shown them how or why it's worth $1,000 a month. So if you're watching this and you're not in Rank Daddy, these objections are going to be handled in a way that lends to the training and the things and the tools that we give you inside Rank Daddy. So when someone says 1000 bucks a month is way too much to pay for SEO, I ask them if they know how much they're doing now? Do you know what your monthly revenue is right now? Yes. They obviously do. So if I were to bring you an extra $10,000 a month in revenue would you still say that $1,000 a month is too much to pay for SEO? They're going to say, no, obviously. That's the fact. When someone's paying us $1,000 a month, it's because within a few months we're bringing them five, six, 10, even 20, $30,000 a month in some cases of revenue that they didn't have before. They know where they're at today. They know how much revenue they're averaging on a monthly basis. When they let us start, yes, they're going to be putting of that $1,000 a month from their pocket, right? From their budget. As we go through the campaign they're hitting page one within a month or two in most cases. Their phone's going to start ringing more. They're going to start getting more deals, more sales, more clients, whatever. That SEO bill is now being offset by customers that were bringing them, okay? So you have to get them to realize that there is a temporary thing in the beginning. And we'll talk about discounting and things like that and some other objections, but you have to get them to realize that if someone has given you $10,000 a month, when do you stop paying them $1,000 a month? You don't. You say, "Hey, can I give you $2,000 a month and maybe you bring me 20,000 in new revenue?" Can we expand to these other areas? Can we add more services because we also do this and this? You get them to think of what's actually going to happen based on case studies and history of this Rank Daddy model in all of our students. So next one. We don't advertise, the ROI has never been good. I understand that. There's a lot of advertising that is a losing battle. I mean, I still see billboards, I see print ads, I see flyers come in the mail, all kinds of advertisement can be a losing battle. The Google ad words, you can spend money and spend money on Google ad words and still not make as much in return as you're paying on clicks. Within SEO it's different because when you're looking for something online, what's the first thing you do? You pick up your phone or you go to your computer and you Google it. Who do you pick to go with? Who do you pick to do business with? What do you decide, those decisions are made on the first page of Google, the first half page of Google, the first few results. That's where the business is. 90% of all searches are going to select one of the top three to five spots to do business with. This is why SEO absolutely brings an ROI every time because we sit down, we figure out what your keywords are, what city you're in, what niche you're in, what business you're in and that's your main keyword. We make it so that when people are searching that keyword looking for your business model, they find you. So there's no way around SEO not producing a positive ROI. So give this a try, and let me show you what I can do, okay? So there I'm throwing it back into that, give it a try. I mean, I use that a lot. I throw this phrase, try around a lot because in the prospect's mind, the word try doesn't have any commitment with it, right? So let's go to the next one. We have no marketing budget. That's perfect. Let us get you some marketing budget. See, right now, we're asking for $1,000 a month for SEO. I understand you may not have that to begin with and let's do this. I don't mind starting you at half price. I'll start you at $500 a month just so that I can start. We can get some of your keywords to page one, we can get some income rolling in from these new customers that we're bringing you in the form of your rankings and let that money be your marketing budget. So we never like to charge customers more than we're not already bringing them 10 times over in the form of new customers, okay? So if you're paying me $1,000 a month, that's because I'm bringing you $10,000 a month or more in new revenue. We've seen the power of Google. We know what happens when a business goes from page two even and beyond to page one, the revenue doubles. Now when they get above the fold, when they get in the first top three to five positions, it can triple. I've seen businesses, income and revenue triple going from the bottom of page one to the second position. You will have marketing budget once we start. So the point is I know that this works. It's what I do. Let me help you to get a marketing budget in place. Let me let you start at half price and then you watch to see what we can do. Give this a try. Try it for 45 days and let me show you what I can do. So there's that half price, the discounted clause that we've talked about in episode four, kind of combined with the triad. How would you deal with having two of your clients ranking for the same or similar keyword phrases? Who would get preference in being ranked higher? So, that's a good objection. And we get that every once in a while because they're worried about us taking on multiple clients. Say this is a roofer. He doesn't want me to take on him as a roofing client and work on his SEO and at the same time another roofer comes and hires me to do the same thing. The fact is we don't. It's exclusivity. We will take on one roofer in this city. We will take on one plumber in this city. You get all of the attention, you get all of our SEO efforts for your campaign. Again, this type of objection and really most objections are just a request for more information. They're not saying no in so much as they're saying, okay, what happens in this scenario? And objection is what you want. You've got to get through so many of these objections before they're calm and they realize, okay, this is not going to hurt. This is probably going to help. I'm willing to try it. Most businesses are willing to try anything that they have a chance of getting more revenue, especially if they're only going to have to put out 500 bucks for the first month or something like that. It takes too long to see SEO results. So, that's a good point too. We see this a lot come up from time to time because there's so many SEO companies and SEO agencies that do not know what they're doing. Day in and day out, we take over and clients too in the Rank Daddy group, they'll post about it taking over SEO for a client who's done SEO or have an SEO guy or company work on their site for the last two years. We opened it up and their on page isn't even done. If their on page isn't done, their site is not communicating with Google. Google doesn't even know what they want to rank for or what their site's about. So yes, it's going to take a long time to see SEO results, if you don't know what you're doing. The fact is we know what we're doing. We can make Google see what clearly what your site is about, which is what you want to rank for, what your services that you offer and results happen fast. And I'm talking within 30 to 45 days, you see ranking increases. So give this a try, and let me show you what I can do. My brother-in-law does SEO. This one's kind of funny. So if your brother-in-law's doing SEO, how's it going? Because I'm looking at your rankings right now, it looks like you're like on page three. How long's has he been doing it? So let's do this. Let your brother continue to do SEO, hire us, let us really blow up your rankings and give him the credit. Don't even tell them that you hired us or if he makes you mad, let him go and we'll keep doing the work. Either way, it's a win win. Your brother-in-law thinks he's doing something good for you, we're actually providing results. In fact, we've got a money back guarantee. If you don't see a massive increase in rank within the first 60 days, we'll give you all your money back. Why don't you give this a try, and let me show you what we can do. So there's another one, the money back guarantee clause. You can try to weave these and these five things that I brought up an episode four. Pick your back up, use multiple when you're handling those objections. The point is to handle the objection, move on ask for the sale, ask for the deal. Not really ask for the sale because that sounds like pressure, right? Ask them to try it. When they're trying something, there's no pressure. You go to the restaurant and the waiter says, "Hey, try the halibut." You're not suddenly pressured you want to leave that place. You're thinking, "Hey, I might try the halibut actually." So let's move to the next one. I fired my last SEO guy because I couldn't tell if he was staying busy. This is a good one because one, he's already got an SEO guy. He fired him. So he's used to paying money for SEO, so it's a buying signal. He couldn't tell if he was staying busy and here's what I'd say, so with SEO, yes, once we do your on page and the visible things that you can see and create all your citations, we run a press release for you. There's a lot of things that we do in the background that you can't see that we're doing or how busy we are. The fact is once we get you ranked and your site is crawling up the top of page one, it's doing it with sites that we own that already have a massive degree of trust and power in Google. And it's not that we're staying busy so much as these sites that we own that are linking to your sites are doing the work. They're sitting there doing work even when we go home and our office is closed. So for us, it's not a matter of staying busy so much as a matter of showing you the results. So here's what we do at an SEO campaign. We're going to pull all your keywords. We'll start with the four or five most competitive short keywords there are, right? New Braunfels roofing, New Braunfels roof repair, things like that. Short, nothing, long tail, no sentences. We want the most competitive ones. We're going to pull a ranking report, show you where you're ranked for those things right now. And in 30 days we're going to pull another one. You're going to see a massive improvement. In 60 days we're going to send you another one. So at the end of each month before you get your bill, right around the same time, you're going to see your rankings report and you're going to see the results of us being busy. So it's not a matter of time spent on the campaign. It's a matter of we're bringing you the results. If you're paying us $1,000 a month, it's because we're going to be bringing you an extra 10 grand a month or so in extra work and extra revenue that you don't have right now. Makes sense? Let's give it a try. I can hire someone off Craigslist to do what you do. That's a good point. There are people on Craigslist that sell SEO services, but you kind of get what you pay for. So what I would say is when you hire someone on Craigslist, so you're not really seeing or knowing that they're going to do or you don't know if they can do what they're saying, there's no proof. I can show you case study after case study of sites that we've ranked and the results of now. This is what we do. We will absolutely blow your business up with new customers. And usually at that point, I'll tell them a story maybe of a client that I've had, the experience they had, how they went and this is a real case study from $200,000 a summer to almost a million dollars a summer. And so I'll go into stories like that and if you want to see the story episode, I think it's episode six where I go into details on that. Stories really help you to handle objections and kind of eliminate objections too. So this one's kind of silly. I probably would just blow it off. I have a marketing background I can do this myself. Awesome. How's that going for you? I see you're ranked at, you're on page three or you're not existing. So have you started this yet? When I was in business and I had a retail store, I didn't really want to do all the marketing and all the stuff myself. I just wanted to run my business. And if you're like most business owners, that's what they want to do, is run their business. Let us handle your SEO. This is what we do. We help customers day in day out, to get more customers by propelling them to the top of Google. So there's not a contract. You can literally just stop whenever you want. There's money back guarantee. If you don't see a massive increase in rank when the first 60 days, we'll give you all your money back. All I want you to do is try this for 45 days so we can see, so you can see what we can do. Do you have any referrals? We have referrals, but put yourself in this scenario. Once you're in, you're with us, we've gotten gone along for months. Your customer count is increasing, your busier and busier, do you want all the people that are trying to think about coming to us as a client to be calling you every day, asking how your SEO campaign is going? We feel that most of our clients don't want that to happen. So we kind of keep that private. We have referrals, we have case studies that we can show you of proof. But the fact is because we don't have a contract and because we offer money back guarantee, and because I can start off at half price just to prove to you that we know what we're talking about, you shouldn't need any kind of other people to talk to. What if I gave you fake referrals? How would you know? So, that's the thing. You really have to just get out there and if you're serious about wanting new customers, just start, just try this. Let me show you what I can do. Thanks, but we're getting better results with word of mouth which is free. So this one, either they have too much business or they're just kind of brush you off. You kind of have to dig and see, get to a real objection. Getting better results than what? They have no idea what better results are compared to, what word of mouth compares to. Now, if they just operate on word of mouth and that's all they need and they've got plenty of business, they don't need any more, great. Let's just move to the next person. But usually this is just trying to brush you off. So you've got to kind of get past that and get to a real objection. How can you guarantee I'll be on page one, only Google decides who is on page one. Google does decide who's on page one. They put people on page one, websites on page one because they're trusted. Google will not rank you high if they don't trust your website. So we know what websites get ranked on Google. It's the ones who are trusted the most. Our entire SEO campaign is geared to bring a maximum amount of trust to your website. We start off with making sure Google knows what your site's about. If they don't know what your site's about because your titles and your on page things are confusing Google, then they don't even know what to rank you for. So, that's going to be fixed first. That's the communication. Then we started a process of building trust to your site so that Google trusts it. Immediately when Google starts having these trust signals, your rankings begin to climb and claw past your competitors. First thing we do is run a press release. We'll have a professional writing team, creating an article about your business, and then we'll distribute that to 500 different TV, radio, news, media type websites. All of these already have a ton of trust with Google. Each one of them will be linking back to your website. What's that do? It passes the trust right to your website. We follow that up with a social campaign to kind of create a viral scenario off of those 500 new press releases. So all this media is talking about you. Now, naturally what follows is people are sharing and commenting and posting and retweeting and things like that on social platforms. So we run that and that kind of generates more trust back to your site because all these things have triggers and links back to your site. Each day we have links that are being built that point back to your site. See this shows Google that it's consistent. Shows them that it's diverse because these are links that, some of them don't have much power, some of them don't have much trust, some of them do, some of them are no follow links, some are do follow links. So there's a big variety. Google loves that, but it all ends to the trust. The same time we're fixing and creating 350 directory listings for you across the Internet. When Google sees 350 different spots that mention your businesses name, address and phone number. And it's all exact, the spelling of your address, your address spelling in your business and everything is exactly synced across 350 different networks and directory listings across the Internet, that is massive. So we manually go in and have those built sending a huge trust signal. Here's what happens after 30 days, you compare your original ranking from where we start to the 30 day mark and you'll see why we know what we're doing because you'll have a massive increase. In fact, if you don't see a massive increase in the first 60 days of using our service, we give you all your money back. So yeah, Google decides who's on page one, but we know what factors they're looking at to determine who is on page one. So give this a try, to show you what I can do. How do I track how many new leads you're getting me? How do you know you're getting me the new business? That's a good question. So do you know how much you're doing on a monthly basis right now for revenue? Yes. So we don't have to count the leads that come to your site because we're doing the SEO on your site. We're not creating a fake site and having traffic go to it and then they come to you so that we can track each person. We track your rankings. Most people know that the power of Google is insane. And then, if you're getting businesses ranked at the top or even the top few spaces for new Braunfels roofing, you're going to get a crap load of new business, right? So if you know how much business you're doing now and then 30 days from now, you're doing more than that by 25% or something and then 60 days you're doing another half, you can see that your business is growing. And it has to be attributed to what we're doing because we're going to also show you your baseline ranking where you started and you're going to show your rankings increase as we move along through the campaign. So all of this is directly related to Google and where you're listed on Google and your presence. So that's how you know. What about Google's algorithm? It's so consistently changing that's why it's so hard to rank. Like you've been talking to some SEO people. So, yeah, Google's algorithm is changing, but you know what doesn't change about Google's algorithm, their interest in the end user. If Google's algorithms always are interested in the end user, then that's the only thing we have to worry about. Everything we do in the SEO campaign is to bring trust and to be in it for the end user. We make sure your content on your site is good for the end user. Everything we do is for the end user when it comes to the SEO campaign. Then I'll go through and talk about the press release maybe, the directory listings and the different things in the SEO campaign and what's involved in that. So it doesn't matter how many new algorithm updates come about, as long as you're doing things in a natural way and that are beneficial for the end user, Google will love your site and rewards you with higher rankings. I lost $10,000 to SEO. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. We will stop you way before you get that deep into it. So for real though, you're not paying us $10,000 a month, so it's not going to be possible for you to lose that. You're going to pay $1,000 a month and it's going to be a month deal, there's no contract. So you can stop whenever you want. At any point, if you felt like you're losing money you can stop. In fact, if you don't see a massive increase in rank within the first 60 days, we will give you all your money back. This is what we do for a living. We rank sites at the top of Google and prove those presence online, so that they have more customers, more clients, bigger ROI, et cetera. So just try this, give me 45 days and let me show you what I can do. I want to talk to other clients of yours because I've been burned. So, that kind of goes back to the referral thing. We don't like to let all of our new prospects that are thinking about it start calling all of our clients because then our clients will be upset, because they're bothered all the time by all these people, and then they wouldn't be clients anymore. So let's do this. This is $1,000 a month scenario, right? And aggressive SEO campaign in a city this size in your niche runs about a $1,000 a month. I don't mind doing it for half. I'll start you at half price at 500 bucks a month, just so that I can show you, we know what we're talking about, we know what we're doing, you can see results. After 30 days you're going to see rankings increase, after 60 days you'll see another rankings increase and continue to climb and continue to climb. When we get a few keywords on page one and we'll sit down, we'll talk about, okay, well pick your most competitive keywords. When I get three of those to page one and you're actually getting new business from our efforts and you can use their money, the client, your new customers money to offset the SEO bill. Then we'll talk about going to $1,000 a month, but not until you're making it, not until you're in the profit, okay? And if they say, no, to that and they're still on the fence, but they're kind of interested, lock them in like this. This is a program that we have called the Deal Lander. Literally for $100 in 30 days, you can show them that you know what you're doing. So you tell him, "Look, give me 30 days and 100 bucks and one keyword, your main keyword, new Braunfels roofing. I'll take that keyword, I'll show you where you're ranked right now using a third party software. 30 days after we're going to pull that report again and show you where you're ranked now for that same keyword. If I can show you that, I can massively increase the rank of that one keyword within 30 days, do you agree to start? Give me your SEO campaign at 500 bucks a month." Still no contract, still money back guarantee. I just want you to try this. So this kind of pulls them out, right? This sees if they're really serious or not because what business is not going to give you $100 in a month, if there's a chance that they can triple their revenue, it's just not going to happen. Now, what do you do with that 100 bucks? You go into our dashboard, you go into the outsource area and you buy the Deal Lander. The Deal Lander will fix their own page SEO based on that one keyword you get. It will pay for your press release and it'll pay for your social signals. So you'll have a landslide of trust signals coming within 30 days back to that client based on that keywords and that keyword will launch, from wherever it's at. You may hit page one in the month, it may hit two page two from page eight or nine or 10 or not existent, but just doing that in 30 days for 100 bucks for that client, that proves to them now that you know what you're doing. You're going to do what you say and this is the cost scenarios that we set up. We have so many tools like this, we're losing money on this Deal Lander. It costs more for us to do the press release, the on page, the man hours, the social signals, but we want to give this to you to be able to help you land more deals. Use it as a last resort. Make sure you've already gone through the no contract clause the money back guarantee. You've told them to try it for 45 days. You've gone through the half price. This is like the last resort, but this will land deals where we call the Deal Lander. Do I need to pay the monthly fee after you get me to page one? So this is like something that not really, a lot of the SEO guys are thinking this question because they're thinking about their pay, their money, the fee. I've had probably two clients ask me this and the last four years and 60 or 80 clients, but what do you say if it does come up? The answer is yes. Why? It goes back to that. Well, when do you stop paying the guy who's bringing you $10,000 a month in business and you're only paying a thousand? When do you turn that faucet off? You don't. You literally just lay it out to them like that and they say, no, I'm not going to stop paying you a thousand if you in fact are bringing me an extra $10,000 in business. You're probably going to say, "Hey, can I give you 2000." Right? So we get into control and other areas in the group in the training and showing you why you can offer this no contract money back guarantee and yet expect them to stay. It's because we're in control. The links that you point to their site that we show you how to create and obtain in the group and the training or what keep you in control they're what guarantees your paycheck, because if it all comes down to it and you've got a guy ranked at the top and he does want to stop, which I've had before, people have close up business. They give to somebody else. The other guy doesn't want to, whatever. They get too busy. You get to turn that off. So it's almost like you got to be in the training to understand this, but we're in control. We tried SEO, but it doesn't work. We use Trusted Trader for leads. So Trusted Trader is probably like a HomeAdvisor where they'll sell you the leads. I don't know about Trusted trader, but it's probably the same as HomeAdvisor because HomeAdvisor is selling the same lead to five businesses. And if you don't call them first and have the most aggressive sales pitch and probably the cheapest deal, you're not going to get the deal. But you just wasted 75 to 150 bucks on that lead that they sold to five other businesses. So you probably tried SEO, but whoever was doing your SEO is probably trying to figure out SEO themselves. We know how to do SEO. We do this day in, day out. We've watched businesses have to add to their fleet to hire more staff to expand to other areas because the customer volume was insane blowing them up. We have forced businesses to raise their prices because they had too many customers in scenarios where they couldn't add to their fleet or expand or grow their office size. So what do you do when you have too many customers in that scenario? You chop off the ones who are paying the least or not willing to pay that bottom price. So we've had customers literally have to raise their prices by 25% and still were the busiest they've ever been, increased their revenue, cut off the customers who didn't want to pay the higher fee. And those are the ones that cause the biggest headaches. The people who pay the least bringing all the coupons and things, usually those are the ones with the most headaches. So this is what happens in real life with our SEO. We give you problems like having too many customers. So sometimes at this point I'll drop back to another clause and say, look, before we even go any further, are you in a position to expand? Like if we get you to the point with our SEO campaign, I've got to bring this up because it happens, if we get to the point where you have too many customers, are you in a position to hire more fleet? I mean, obviously at that point when there's more money coming in, but can you expand? Can you add to your staff? Can you raise prices if you have to? Is this something you're willing to do? Because if not, it may not be a good fit after all. And then they start back peddling and they're like, "Yeah, no, it's fine. I mean, we can raise prices. We can hire more people." "Great. Let's get started. I will send you an invoice and a fill out this information here and we'll get going. Literally, that's it." I had SEO done before, it was a waste of money. And this goes back to, I haven't found an SEO guy or company on the planet that knows what they're doing. It's sad and it's crazy. And in other words these people are learning in SEO, but they're not even using an actual logic. When you open up a website that had an SEO done to it for years, and it's not even communicated with Google because the titles are wrong and the heading tags are wrong and they're not even telling Google what the page is about. It's like getting a book and the book is about butter and eggs and the first title in the chapter says, how to make Margaritas. That's so confusing. I thought this book was about butter and eggs. That's what we look at. When we come across these websites that people said, I had SEO done before and it was a waste of money nothing happened, here's why. None of this stuff they need for the last two years did anything because your website doesn't show Google what your site's about. How's Google going to know where to rank if they don't know what you're about. Are you about Margaritas or are you about butter and eggs? It's not clear, so we're not going to rank you anywhere. You figure it out and come back to us when you know what you're doing. Basically is what Google says. Next, I'd rather support local digital marketing agencies. Hey, that's awesome, because we are local. We actually build and scale local businesses with our SEO. I don't have to be right next to you in your same city to be able to apply the techniques that we use an SEO to crank you to the top of Google and blow up your business and give you more customers than you ever had. So try this. Do me a favor and try this for 45 days and let me show you what I'm capable of. There's no contract. I'm not going to make you sign anything. I'm telling you the price. I'm telling you what's going to happen. I'll even give you your money back guarantee, if you don't see a massive increase in rank in the first 60 days I'll give you all your money back. Let's go. I'm swamped with business as it is, thank you anyway. So this was probably the one that you can't overcome. I mean, you're doing SEO to get people more business, if they don't want more business, and it happens. I'm in new Braunfels, which is the second fastest growing city in America, that's under 500,000 population. We're about 100,000 population and we're growing like crazy, if we had four more people moved in, we would have been the fastest growing. I cannot give away a website that I own on roofing to these roofing companies. It's ranked at the top of page one. I get leads all the time, come in into the tracking number. This is an all lead generation site that I built. I cannot give the site away because they don't need the business. It's the craziest thing in the world, but they're building and fixing roofs so fast because of the market. So you're going to have businesses that come up like this and it's not fake. Some businesses are actually swamped with business as it is. So there's nothing you can do. Just go to the next. HomeAdvisor is doing just fine for us. And HomeAdvisor is that one that I was telling you about earlier where they'll sell you a roofing lead, but they're also going to sell it to five other businesses. So you better call them first and you better make sure your offers better and cheaper and you can get there faster. Otherwise you just lost your 75 to $150 or whatever it is. And that's about what it is for roofing. Maybe more. It could be 200 bucks by now. I don't know. I'm already spending my budget on radio, newspaper inserts. Now, when I get done a laughing, no. Tweak some of that budget, right? Divert 500 over and over to here. Let me show you what SEO will do. You will soon stop paying for radio, stop paying for overpriced radio newspaper inserts, and you'll have more customers than you can handle. You will have to raise your prices or expand to other areas or higher more fleet or bring on more staff or whatever it is, because that's what happens when people start with us and let us do their SEO. Thanks. But I'm already on page one. That's awesome. What are you on page one for? I'm asking this because I already know the question. I've already googled and done the research before I started talking to this person any further and yeah, they're on page one for this long old keyword or maybe only one keyword, but for the majority of the keywords there on page two, three, four, whatever, because they need an SEO campaign. So how much business are you getting being on page one now for this one keyword? You know how much volume you're doing monthly? How much ROI? How much revenue you do on a monthly basis? Okay, great. Are you in a position to grow that? Are you in a position to, or do you want more customers? Yes. Okay, great. Here's what we do. We're going to start you with no contract money back guarantee SEO campaign. We're going to pull your keywords. We're going to start on the first four to six major core competitive keywords and bring massive amount of trust to your site, so the ranking starts going through the roof. And within a few months you're going to see, yeah, you're on page one, but you're on page one for multiple keywords and you're going to see the difference. It's not just about being on page one for one keyword because not every customer is searching that one keyword. Give this a try. I've been offered SEO more times than I care to remember. Everyone claims her an SEO expert and I think they're all scammers. What makes you different? Oh, that one. I think we've covered through the different points in the previous objections. I'm still only getting a couple of calls here and there, if I start getting a lot more clients I can afford to pay more. So this sounds like maybe somebody who's just started, I'm not sure how this objection would be someone who hasn't really started at all because I can afford to pay more. So, that's great. This is your mid campaign, we just started. We don't want you to pay more right now, we want to put you in the boat where you're using money, that we're bringing you in the form of new customers because of your rankings to pay us. And I'll say this and again, because I love this clause, I never liked to have our customers pay more than, we're not already bringing them 10 times over in the form of new customers due to their Google rankings. I don't want you to use your money to pay your SEO bill in other words. Let me bring you customers use their money to offset your SEO bill and still have excess revenue. That's our goal for every customer. How much is this going to cost? Cost is a funny word. How much would it cost you if I gave you $10,000 a month and you gave me a thousand? And they're going to look puzzled for a minute, and you're going to say that's the situation. That's what we do for businesses. 10x ROI is normally an average. So if a guy's paying me $1,000 a month for SEO, it's because I'm soon enough bringing him an extra $10,000 a month revenue that he didn't have before. So, that's all the ones we've got. If you got more, stick them in the comments to this youtube video, I will reply to them, if they're legit and they're not just jokes. If they're jokes, I'll probably would apply to them also. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. So you don't miss any these podcast episodes. If you're doing this on audio, which a lot of you are on iTunes, Google play, Spotify, SoundCloud, we're all over the place, rankdaddy.com. Get in the training for a dollar. I will give you a 30 day all access, everything's included, full transparency. You can see and try everything for a month before you even decide if it's for you. In fact, I will show you how to land clients and guarantee that you land clients, if you do our 30/30 challenge. You'll see what that is when you get in the group, but basically if you go through the program within 45 days, if you have not landed one client, I will refund your first 199 membership fee because its 199 a month. But the same thing applies. I don't want you to pay me with your money. I want you to pay me with the money that comes from the clients that I help you land. Makes sense? All right guys, appreciate your time. Thanks for listening. This has been a long one. Thanks for sticking with me. We will see you on the flip side.

In this episode you will meet Tripp Lyles, young successful CSO in New Braunfels TX! He gives some great advice on how to put yourself on the fast track! We also dive into the topic of how to choose the best educational institution. 

Tripp Lyles is a young successful CSO, Chief strategy officer. He is responsible for a hospital in New Braunfels TX area. He has been able to walk up the ranks at fast pace and gives some great advice on how you can do the same. 

It's all about location in Episode 10 as Fears and Beers goes on the road to see haunted New Braunfels, Texas!  There is a lot of history here. Its beer gardens, breweries, saloons and historic hotels.  We spend the night and record the podcast in a famously haunted room.  We also visit some incredible historic locations where the beer is cold and the spirits are restless.  So, bring your permission slip because we are taking a frightening fieldtrip on this week’s episode of Fears and Beers!

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When something is described as great, the meaning is amplified.Like this:I have a wife. vs. I have a great wife.2 of my daughters have husbands. vs. 2 of my daughters have great husbands.Adding ‘great’ is a game changer. It gives Focus. Clarity. Value. Understanding. It changes the story. Great defined: Greek / Megas - great, large, vast, big, high, tall; mighty, importantReveals: great mass and weightMakes it: large, spacious Adds: measure and height and lengthGives: statureLarge in: number and quantity: numerous, large, abundantCreates: intensity and increased degree: violent, mighty, strongIn scientific language - Mega: times 1 million - megaton, megawatt, megahit Luke 2:8-12 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. The word suggests the thought of the Shechinah, or cloud of intolerable brightness, which was the token of the divine presence in the Tabernacle and the Temple. Never before had there been such a manifestation to such men as these. What had been the privilege of patriarchs and priests was now granted to shepherds, and the first proclamation of the glad tidings was to these shepherds.10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”And suddenly there was with the angel,....That brought the tidings of Christ's birth to the shepherds: a multitude of the heavenly host: who being caused to fly swiftly, were at once with him, by his side, and about him; and which was a further confirmation of thetruth of his message to them: these were angels who were called an host, or army, the militia of heaven, the ministers of God, that wait upon him, and do his pleasure; and are sent forth to minister to his people, and encamp about them, preserve, and defend them;15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. 17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. 18 And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.1. On this day, Great Joy Came.Great Joy Came by, with & through Jesus. Luke 2:10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.Joy - What comes to mind? Jesus, The word of God, The Spirit of God, the Mercy of God, the Love of God, the Grace of God, My wife, My children, My family in heaven and on earth, His church. Strength. Heaven. Family & Friends who have surrendered to the Love & Grace of God. 3 John 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. This is so true. Joy defined:  joy, gladness, cheerfulness - the joy received from you; the cause or occasion of joy - of persons who are one's joyJoy is a state of mind and an orientation of the heart. It is a settled state of contentment, strength, confidence and hope in/from Him. It is something or someone that provides a source of strength, gladness & gratitude. It appears 88 times in the Old Testament in 22 books; 57 times in the New Testament in 18 books.Matt. 2:9-11 - The Wise Men9 When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. 11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.Mega-Joy came by, with & through Jesus. But that’s not all….2. Great Joy still Comes. a. When we remember again that He Came. Phil. 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!b. When we choose to rejoice in the Lord. Rom. 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.1 Peter 1:8-98 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.c. In believing in Him. Acts 8:5-85 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. 6 And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.d. Engaged in His ministry.Acts 15:3 Paul & Barnabas sent to Jerusalem - 3 ‘So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.’e. In seeing His redemptive work in people. Mega-Joy came by, with & through Jesus. Great Joy still Comes. But that’s not all….3. Great Joy is coming. Heb. 12:1-3 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.There is Joy that is set before us. He came. He comes. He is coming again. We celebrate His first advent during this season - but there is another advent to come. Something incredibly significant is in front of us. 1 Thess. 4:13-1813 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.2 Cor. 5:4-8 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.One way or another all of us who are in Christ will be present with Him. 1 Cor. 15:57-58  57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.These are some of my favorite verses in the N.T. They were written in light of the resurrection that is to come. We were made for great joy. To rejoice exceedingly. To rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Jesus is our Great Joy. His joy came. It comes. It’s coming. Do you know His joy? Do you know His Name? Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”So we call on His name. We believe on His name. We need Him. He’s ready to forgive. He’s ready to begin His work in Us. Call on His name. Believe on His Name. Why? All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. He has not sinned and He is worthy of the Glory of God. He has made our way. He is savior, He is the only Lord. He is King of all Kings. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 13.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} He is the way the truth and the life. They only way. Call on His name! 

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What kind of church am I? Is the church perfect? Col. 1:9-10 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Let us be a ___________________________ Church.1. What kind of church ___________________I? Matt. 16:18Cooperate with the builder.2. The church has been commissioned by Jesus to make ___________. Matt. 28:16-203. What is discipleship? The process of learning how to think, talk, stand, step, walk & live in the newness of life in Christ. To learn how to live life “Inside Out”.  Matt. 5:27-28 27/Prov. 4:23 4. What is the ___________________ of my heart?Who sets this temperature? Matt. 6:21/Gal. 6:7-9What’s our Church __________________ set on?a.    Spirit of the Church:b.    Commitment of the Church:c.    Growth of the Church:5.  Am I _________________________? Col. 1:27/1 John 4:4/Rom. 12:11Enthusiasm - “energy that boils over and runs down the side of the pot.”  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929; min-height: 12.0px} p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: #262626} li.li1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font-kerning: none; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #000000} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} ol.ol1 {list-style-type: lower-alpha} Enthusiasm is _____________. It drives out indifference, overcomes apathy, changes the atmosphere of any room or church. 

What kind of church am I? Is the church perfect?  Col. 1:9-10 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;  Let us be a ___________________________ Church. 1. What kind of church ___________________I? Matt. 16:18Cooperate with the builder. 2. The church has been commissioned by Jesus to make ___________. Matt. 28:16-20 3. What is discipleship? The process of learning how to think, talk, stand, step, walk & live in the newness of life in Christ. To learn how to live life “Inside Out”.  Matt. 5:27-28 27/Prov. 4:23  4. What is the ___________________ of my heart? Who sets this temperature? Matt. 6:21/Gal. 6:7-9 What’s our Church __________________ set on?a.    Spirit of the Church:b.    Commitment of the Church:c.    Growth of the Church: 5.  Am I _________________________? Col. 1:27/1 John 4:4/Rom. 12:11 Enthusiasm - “energy that boils over and runs down the side of the pot.”  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929; min-height: 12.0px} p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: #262626} li.li1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font-kerning: none; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #000000} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} ol.ol1 {list-style-type: lower-alpha} Enthusiasm is _____________. It drives out indifference, overcomes apathy, changes the atmosphere of any room or church. 

What kind of church am I? Is the church perfect?  Col. 1:9-10 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;  Let us be a ___________________________ Church. 1. What kind of church ___________________I? Matt. 16:18Cooperate with the builder. 2. The church has been commissioned by Jesus to make ___________. Matt. 28:16-20 3. What is discipleship? The process of learning how to think, talk, stand, step, walk & live in the newness of life in Christ. To learn how to live life “Inside Out”.  Matt. 5:27-28 27/Prov. 4:23  4. What is the ___________________ of my heart? Who sets this temperature? Matt. 6:21/Gal. 6:7-9 What’s our Church __________________ set on?a.    Spirit of the Church:b.    Commitment of the Church:c.    Growth of the Church: 5.  Am I _________________________? Col. 1:27/1 John 4:4/Rom. 12:11 Enthusiasm - “energy that boils over and runs down the side of the pot.”  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929; min-height: 12.0px} p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: #262626} li.li1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font-kerning: none; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #000000} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} ol.ol1 {list-style-type: lower-alpha} Enthusiasm is _____________. It drives out indifference, overcomes apathy, changes the atmosphere of any room or church. 

What kind of church am I? Is the church perfect? Col. 1:9-10 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Let us be a ___________________________ Church.1. What kind of church ___________________I? Matt. 16:18Cooperate with the builder.2. The church has been commissioned by Jesus to make ___________. Matt. 28:16-203. What is discipleship? The process of learning how to think, talk, stand, step, walk & live in the newness of life in Christ. To learn how to live life “Inside Out”.  Matt. 5:27-28 27/Prov. 4:23 4. What is the ___________________ of my heart?Who sets this temperature? Matt. 6:21/Gal. 6:7-9What’s our Church __________________ set on?a.    Spirit of the Church:b.    Commitment of the Church:c.    Growth of the Church:5.  Am I _________________________? Col. 1:27/1 John 4:4/Rom. 12:11Enthusiasm - “energy that boils over and runs down the side of the pot.”  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #292929; -webkit-text-stroke: #292929; min-height: 12.0px} p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: #262626} li.li1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font-kerning: none; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #000000} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} ol.ol1 {list-style-type: lower-alpha} Enthusiasm is _____________. It drives out indifference, overcomes apathy, changes the atmosphere of any room or church. 

Sallie Leifeste shares on a "life of Honor."

Isa. 61:1-3 The truth is that there has been and will be, no one like Jesus Christ. From His birth to His life, to His death, to His resurrection... there is none like Jesus. 1. I’m thankful for The God of _________________.  Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, Now we can begin to see what He is like... and He is, far better and amazing than we could have ever imagined or thought.  I am thankful! 2. I’m thankful for The God of ________________. Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn... 3. I’m thankful for The God of the _______________________. Isaiah 61:3 / 2 Corinthians 5:21 Psalms 40:1-3 A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry. (2) He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. (3) He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;  4. I’m thankful for The God of __________________________. Isa. 61:4-5 He makes all things new from the Inside Out. 2 Cor. 5:17 / John 3:3 / Tit. 3:5  5. I’m thankful for The God of everlasting _________________. Isa. 61:6-7 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none} Our Response: ___________________________________________