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Did David get away with murder? We have the vague idea that David's evil deeds - including adultery and murder - were outweighed by his good deeds, so God gave him a pass. How else can we explain the Lord's gracious treatment of the King? Well, David explains what happened, in Psalm 32... and it doesn't have anything to do with weighing things on scales. God dealt with David the same way He'll deal with us: not by sweeping sin under the rug, but by crediting righteousness. Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free. RS09082021_0.mp3Scripture References: Roamns 4:6-8

This round's New to Two was brought by Nicole, who believes this to be one of the most visually beautiful films ever made. Did David and Brett agree? We talked about the performances of Lee Pace and child actor Catinca Untaru, the hazards of movie stunt work in 1915, and the fascinating contrast between the verbal story-within-a-story the stuntman is telling versus how the little girl imagines it. Have a listen and see what you think. Next week we watch a Netflix Roulette pick, Rambo: Last Blood. Email the show at hi@mgrpodcast.com.

Biblicism might sound like a good thing…but it’s not. Biblicism is a methodology that tends to introduce confusion and mystery into the Scriptures where there isn’t any. It also tends to confuse doctrinal and theological categories such as law/gospel distinction and faith versus works. Jon and Justin consider these things and more in this episode.Semper Reformanda: The guys discuss how biblicism is related to theonomy and unhelpful views on the nation of Israel. And, as a bonus, we get into a little bit of eschatology.Resources:Episode: Is the whole Bible about Jesus? Episode: Is your theological system any good?Series: Covenant Theology seriesBook: “Living in God’s Two Kingdoms” by David VanDrunnenSUPPORT Theocast: https://theocast.org/give/ Podcast TranscriptJon Moffitt: Hi, this is Jon. Today on Theocast, we are going to be explaining what biblicism is. There’s a lot of theological confusion and categories and systems and theologies that have been birthed out of biblicism. We’re going to explain to you what it is, how to refrain from it, and how to spot it when you see it. Stay tuned.Today is a podcast we probably have been needing to do for a long time and we reference it often.Justin Perdue: We even promised to do a podcast on it multiple times.Jon Moffitt: I know. The real estate on the podcast is very small so we have to be choosy on what we pick.Biblicism is a word. I saw someone use it the other day, saying, “I’m a biblicist.” Someone should tell him not to say that.Justin Perdue: It’s not a badge of honor.Jon Moffitt: It’s a negative thing and we’re going to explain to you why. Someone may think, “Why would ‘Bible’ and ‘-ism’ be a bad thing?” Typically, “-ism” isn’t good. Not always the case; Calvinism isn’t necessarily bad—it has gotten a bad rap—which I just did an introduction to that on Ask Theocast. Check that out.But to stay focused: biblicism. Justin, give us a quick definition of what it is. Then we are going to work through about five or six examples of what happens when you don’t use Scripture properly, or you’re a biblicist, this is what it ends up producing.So what’s a good definition, a simple definition, of a biblicist for our listeners?Justin Perdue: Let me define it in a simple way, and even use pop level accessible language in talking about this. You already alluded to it once when you said a person would describe themself as a Bible person. Another way that you hear this commonly presented is people will say, “no creed but Christ”, or, “no confession but the Bible”. People will say that the only thing that we need to use is Scripture and any kind of framework outside of the Bible, or any tools outside of the Bible are not useful; it’s not faithful or it’s not responsible to use such things to understand the Scripture. And so you end up getting this kind of a situation where people will say that if the text does not say it explicitly, then we cannot preach it and we cannot teach it.Jon Moffitt: Or the reverse is true: “The text explicitly said it, therefore I’m going to preach it.”Justin Perdue: Sure. We’re going to give illustrations of this, like you said, in broad categories and the like.What ends up happening is you make the Bible sound very schizophrenic because you quote chapter and verse in isolation and you don’t interpret that verse within its broader context, even maybe within the book that it’s situated in, let alone within the epoch of redemptive history that it’s situated in, or let alone the entire Bible. And so you end up introducing mystery and tension into the Scripture where it does not exist, and you end up introducing things that sound contradictory and really confusing your listener when the Bible—rightly understood on its own terms with appropriate theological systems in place—is not contradictory. It is not confusing. There is going to be mystery, but we want to put the mystery in the right place.Biblicism is dangerous on a number of levels because as you’re going to hear us talk about, there really are hardly any key areas of doctrine that would not be compromised or confused by a biblicism. If you’re using biblicism and you’re a biblicist, you’re going to confuse almost every major doctrinal category.Jon Moffitt: Can I give an example here? A simple one would be Colossians 1:15: he is the firstborn of all creation. You could conclude that Jesus is born, or even is a created being, and I would even dare say the Trinity, if you do not allow all of Scripture to inform you about the nature of who Christ is. Many biblicists in the past have become heretical. Arian would be a great example of this, where they isolate texts and they don’t allow the analogy of faith or all of Scripture to speak into a theological position or a particular text. A good example of this is that there are many people, even in recent days, who do not understand the nature of Jesus because they read individual texts and say, “Well, that’s what it says. I’m going to take it literally in English without even using biblical language. That’s exactly what it means in the English. That’s exactly what it means. Therefore, that’s what I believe.”Justin Perdue: Proof texting is an example of biblicism where you cite chapter and verse in isolation to prove a point. That’s a common mistake that people make. Maybe a humorous way to put this is when you get people really worked up about these things and they will say, as I alluded to earlier, “I have no confession but the Bible and no creed but Christ,” as they wave their study Bible in your face. What do you think those study notes are other than an exercise in systematic theology and biblical theology and everything else that people seem allergic to?We did an episode a while back, Jon, something along the lines of is your theological system any good? That would be a useful episode for people to go back and listen to because we are going to contend today that the Scriptures present to us certain frameworks and systems of theology that come up out of the text that we then can utilize to better understand the text. A couple of those are going to be the redemptive-historical framework, and for us as Reformed guys, a covenantal framework of the Bible. Those things are really helpful. And a biblicist is going to press really, really hard against both of those things. They’re gonna say, “That’s the system that you’re imposing down on the Bible and you shouldn’t do that. You’re being irresponsible in the ways that you’re understanding and interpreting the Scripture.” Hopefully, we’re going to demonstrate how, if anything, biblicism is the much more dangerous and irresponsible perspective today.Jon Moffitt: I do a lot of internet research for things and recently I’m doing a series on Calvinism for Ask Theocast and just reading different arguments here and there. And the proof texting on either side, the Calvinist or free will…Justin Perdue: Just to be very clear, there are people that could consider themselves to be Reformed who can be biblicists from time to time. We want to be fair. Anybody can be a biblicist. I’m sure you and I have been at certain points, not meaning to be.Jon Moffitt: What we’re arguing is that being able to identify biblicist tendencies or passages that we may have interpreted in the past where we have not allowed context and tried and true theological categories.Let me give you this one illustration. It’s the most simple one that I’ve always used. When you read any text of Scripture that has relation to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—if you are an evangelical who’s been trained in a good church, you never read those without understanding that that is one in three. Another way of saying that is you’re reading it by a theological system called Trinitarianism. It’s important that you do so because it helps you fully understand that this isn’t one God working in opposition or in isolation to the other gods, because we’re not polytheists—we’re monotheists; poly meaning multiple, mono meaning one. Where are monotheists who believe in a Trinity. It is a complicated system, but it’s important to believe that because Jesus will say things like “I and my Father are one.” These have to be read in a Trinitarian context.I have met biblicists who will allow a Trinitarian context to be set on the text, but that’s as far as they will go. They won’t allow any other theological systems because “it’s not biblical”, yet they allow the Trinitarian system to guide them. It’s not the only theological system in the Bible presented to us clearly in the text. We’re going to argue for a couple others here in just a minute.Justin Perdue: One of the categories that’s most important that Jon and I are convinced of—and we’re not alone amongst the Reformed in seeing this—is that biblicism really just botches the distinction between law and gospel. There are a number of places we could go. I’m mindful of several examples in the life and ministry of Jesus where people will cite Christ in terms of chapter and verse, in terms of what God requires out from the lips of Jesus himself and say, “See? There it is. There’s the road to salvation. That’s the way of salvation.” When Jesus has in fact been actually speaking a message of law, like, “Here is how you inherit the kingdom of God. Here’s what you need to do in order to be in a right relationship with God.” People will say that’s somehow a part and parcel of the good news.One of the greatest examples of this is a large section of Scripture called The Sermon on the Mount, where people will say things like The Sermon on the Mount is gospel, to which we would say no. A much more careful reading of that text—a redemptive-historical reading of that text, and a reading of that text with an eye for law and gospel distinction—would actually lead you to conclude that that sermon is a sermon on the law, not the gospel, in terms of what God does require of us, not just at the level of outward conformity, but at the level of the heart, mind, desires, and everything else. That becomes quite clear as Jesus begins to discuss the law pointedly in Matthew 5:17 and following: here is what you’ve heard, but here is what it actually means for you. And he more or less damns everybody who hears him by saying, “You think you’ve done okay, but you haven’t; you haven’t kept the law. This is what the Lord requires of you. In fact, you need to be perfect like your heavenly Father is perfect.” That confusion of law and gospel and the life of ministry of Jesus is a big deal.Jon Moffitt: The gospel is the way in which the Bible presents its message or information, but it also is a theological category. The word “gospel” is a very closed tight knit bubble. There’s only so much that can be in there, and if you add anything into it, you are now changing what the gospel is. This is why Paul gets very upset and even says, “If anybody comes to you and starts teaching you anything other than what you’ve already been taught, adding to the gospel,” Paul is arguing for the clarity and he’s saying, “this is encapsulated and cannot be changed. It’s been set forth.” You have to read every passage of the Bible with a clear understanding of gospel, because if you don’t, then you will get “glawspel”—you get the law and the gospel together. So the gospel must be clarified.A great example of this is the rich young ruler, which we use in the past as an example. “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus gives him what he needs to do if he wants to inherit it, like if he wants to receive it by earning.Justin Perdue: Jesus says, “If you would be perfect.”Jon Moffitt: That’s not gospel, that’s law. When you understand gospel, and you have the category of gospel and you’re holding that lens in your mind, and then you read Jesus, you go, “Jesus didn’t give him gospel, but what do we do?” The biblicist will say “No, Jesus answered the question; therefore, it’s good news.”Justin Perdue: Jesus just told people what they need to do to inherit eternal life so we need to go about the business of doing it.Jon Moffitt: That is, to forsake everything. We need to sell all our possessions.Justin Perdue: That is the conclusion of the biblicist when law and gospel are confused.Another great example from the Old Testament: the prophet Micah, chapter six. The context in Micah 6—the Lord begins that chapter by indicting his people. They’re guilty. They stand condemned before Him and then the prophet goes on in verse six and following of Micah 6 to write these things. He’s hypothetically speaking for the people here: “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high?” And sense the sarcasm here: Lord, you’re extreme; what do you require? “Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” And then Micah says, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”Now, what people do with that passage is they read that and they say, “See? Here it is. The Lord is not satisfied with empty ritualistic religion. He is not interested in people’s sacrifices. What he is interested in is the true religion of doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly before it.” And so now you need to be a true religion, an old time religion kind of person, who is characterized by the doing of justice, the loving of kindness and the walking humbly before your God, and the Lord will be pleased with you. Again, that’s biblicism. The prophet there is not giving people a message of gospel either; he’s telling folks that a better understanding of what the Lord requires actually is this heart level reality. It’s not external conformity to a written code, but it’s a heart level reality of doing justice and loving kindness and walking humbly before your God. Nobody’s ever done it well enough. That’s the thing.This is where you go to that verse. Micah 6:8 is often posited as an Old Testament presentation of the gospel. It’s not. It’s an Old Testament presentation of the law very similar to how Jesus presents it in the Sermon on the Mount and other places in his ministry. Learn what this means: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”Jon Moffitt: I believe with all my heart that God blesses righteousness. He does not lie. It reflects who He is. Paul tells us there is none righteous and our good works, according to Jeremiah, are compared to really disgusting, filthy rags. Those are important. They’re not in opposition to each other.Justin Perdue: You just beautifully segued to another category. Law and gospel are massive. This one is at least as important and it is the confusion between faith and works. Biblicism is notorious for muddling this up to the high heavens. How is it that we’re justified? How is it that we’re finally saved even? Is it by faith or is it by our works? The classic text for me is Romans 2. In this context, Romans 2-3 are really illustrative.Paul has already indicted all the brilliant Gentiles at the end of Romans 1. Then he begins, at the beginning of Romans 2, to talk to everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, because we all pass judgment on other people for not meeting our own standards. If people don’t meet our standards and we pass judgment on them, we need to realize that we don’t meet our own standards and thereby we condemn ourselves with our judging. If we haven’t even met our own standards, how much less so have we met God’s standard? We misunderstand God’s kindness, not understanding that it’s meant to lead men toward repentance.And then Paul goes in Romans 2:6 and following, and as the Reformed theologian Robert Haldane once said, you either leave Romans 2:6 and following a Protestant or a Romanist—and I think he’s right. There’s no middle ground here in terms of how you can interpret it. And let me say this kindly, but sincerely: if you pick up a Romans commentary, there are a lot of guys who otherwise are pretty reasonable who absolutely lose their minds when it comes to Romans 2:6-13.Let’s just read a few of these verses and talk about what biblicists do with it, and then talk about how we should understand it in the context of Romans. Romans 2:6; this is true about God: “He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.”What you hear people say—again, otherwise pretty orthodox, like sound teachers, Protestants—they come to Romans 2:6-13 and they’ll go, “We know that we are justified by faith, but somehow—you can see it right here it says in the text—somehow our works will factor into our final salvation, because it says so right here that God will render to each one according to his works. Those who do good, He’s going to reward with eternal life. Those who do evil, He’s going to punish with wrath and fury.” No. That’s not the way to interpret that passage, somehow mysteriously our works factor into our final salvation, because this question has to be asked in the broader context of Romans: what is Paul doing? There’s a flow of his thought that’s going to culminate in Romans 3:21. He’s arguing that everybody has judged themselves and judged others. We don’t need our own standard, let alone God’s. God is an impartial righteous judge who rewards those who do good and punish those who do evil.The problem though is that nobody’s good. Because he’s going to go there in Romans 3:9 and the following: “Nobody is good. There’s not one righteous. No, not one.” We should be thinking we are all damned. How can anyone be saved? Which is why he says in verse 21 and following: “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.” He concluded that whole section of his argument in verses 19 and 20, where he says that the law condemns everyone, Romans 3:19, and verse 24, by works of the law, no human being will be justified in His sight because the law only crushes people. But yet, in a biblicism kind of way, we go to Romans 2:6, and we go to Romans 2:13, and we quote it and say, “Ah, but guys, we’ve got to work for this. We got to do something. Even though we’re saved by faith, somehow our works factor in.” And that’s just an irresponsible presentation. What does it do? It confuses the nature of the gospel itself and robs the saints of assurance.Jon Moffitt: This is another way of saying this: understanding the nature of man and understanding the gospel are two categories we have to hold in both hands as we read every text. We know from scripture that we are in Adam, meaning that we have received the curse of Adam which is that our spiritual nature, the capacity to love and obey and please God, to trust in Him, has been cursed unto death. Paul describes it as being dead cause we’ve had to go from death to life. Obviously we are not physically dead; he is speaking about the cursed nature that we have. So you cannot demand a cursed dead nature to do that which it has no capacity to do, which is to obey God.This is even in James: the classic quote, “faith without works is dead.” We really needle down into that. And if I am looking at someone who says to me, “I’m a Christian,” and yet they don’t see the necessity of producing good fruit in keeping with repentance and obedience, all that… “I don’t need to do that. I just need to say a prayer and I’m good.” I would agree that they are confused. James is even getting it out in the context saying, “You’re saying you’re a follower of Jesus, but the way that you are acting is contrary to that. And if you’re unwilling to repent of that, then the faith you were claiming is a dead faith.” At that moment, you don’t call someone to do something they can’t do. Because at that moment, you go, “Okay, you don’t understand the gospel. This isn’t a works issue; this is a gospel issue.” Because those who have saving faith are going to obey.Justin Perdue: It’s a gospel issue, it’s a union with Christ issue, and it’s a regeneration issue. If you have been born again and if you are not just giving some kind of mental assent to some truth about Jesus, but you are trusting him, and you’re hoping in him, that only occurs via the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. You have now been united to Christ and you will bear fruit. That’s what the Scriptures say. But to confuse that, to invert that, to proof text it and say, “Faith without works is dead; show me your faith by your works,” to then conclude, “We need to go about telling people to do good work so that they know they’re saved.” Wrong. That’s not the conclusion that we draw. We go about preaching Christ. We tell people to trust Christ. Through their union with him, fruit will be produced. You can’t invert that relationship, but biblicism confuses that relationship to no end.Jon Moffitt: I’ll just reference this here for two reasons: one, we have a podcast on it and two, we have a podcast coming. On repentance and biblicism, we did a needle down, focus in on that a couple of weeks ago. You can go back and listen to What Is Repentance? We really unfold that from what biblicism is. I would also say lordship salvation falls into this, where a lot of the arguments that you will see again in the next coming weeks… we’re going to give you some more examples on this, but I’ll just say this now: I think lordship salvation is built upon a biblicism platform.Justin Perdue: It completely is in that there’s a collapsing of law and gospel. There’s a confusion of faith and works and repentance. There’s really a different definition of faith that is given in the lordship camp where obedience and repentance and a sincere desire to obey and all those kinds of things are woven into the definition of faith. And that is something that, historically, Protestants have been very careful to not do. And we’ll talk about that in some subsequent episodes.Jon Moffitt: One example that’s like a precursor to that is as someone Reformed and even Calvinist, when you understand the depravity of man and the sovereign election of God as it relates to our salvation, the biblicism of lordship doesn’t seem to work. I would agree with the fact that when Jesus saves me and brings me to new life, I am now owned by him—and I’m gladly thankful that he is my Lord. But I don’t have the capacity to make that change within myself or determine that that is handed to me. It’s not something that is given to me as if there’s something I must do in order to be a child of God.Justin Perdue: And the bottom line is that when you have been united to Christ by faith, you now—Romans 6:17—have become obedient from the heart. You actually do desire to obey God, but the desire to obey is not a piece of faith itself. The new birth that is worked by God produces faith and then the fruits of regeneration and faith are a desire to obey, amongst a whole host of other things. But you can’t confuse that. We’re going to talk more about that in the coming weeks and I’m excited for those conversations.One of the last couple of big categories in the regular portion of the podcast is also a reference back to an episode. We did one on typology and types and shadows and all those kinds of things called Is the Whole Bible Really About Jesus? Just to briefly pick back up on this and to help explain how biblicism is unhelpful here: we talk regularly about how the whole Bible really is about Christ, that it’s about the plan of redemption that God has had since before the foundation of the world, that centers on Christ, that’s accomplished through him, that’s then applied to us by the work of the Holy Spirit—all to the praise of God’s glorious grace. And so we interpret every passage of Scripture in light of that main message, in light of that main point.We realize that the way that God has revealed His plan of redemption by farther steps through history, and in the pages of Scripture, there are all of these things that serve as types of something greater to come, their shadows and the substance is going to come. There are pointers to things that are going to come later that are ultimate, that will fulfill them. And so when we preach anything in the Old Testament, for example—I could think of a number of examples, the obvious ones are the Passover, when we preach the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea, when we preach the day of atonement or whatever it may be, we’re talking about those in light of Christ and what he would come to do. He’s the Passover Lamb. He is the one who has atoned for our sin and removed it from us. He is going to deliver us not out of bondage to Egypt, but from bondage to sin and death and Satan. But we would argue preaching the entire Old Testament this way.Sometimes people get really worked up when we preach in a very Christocentric, a Christ-centered way, from the Old Testament, a biblicist will say, “Brother, you are not giving appropriate attention to the original author’s intent. Did Moses fully understand everything that you’re saying about Jesus? Did David fully understand everything that you’re saying about Jesus from the Psalms? Did Micah understand everything that you’re saying about Christ?” Fill in the blank. A biblicist will rail against a Christ-centered sermon sometimes from the Old Testament because we are not doing justice to the original author’s intention—to which I want to say this humbly, but I would stake my ministry on this: is it legitimate, for example, to preach baptism from Noah and the Ark? Yes. Peter makes that connection for us in 1 Peter 3. But what should we preach when we preach a sermon on the Ark and the flood? We should preach salvation, we should preach baptism, and we should preach Christ as the emphasis of that passage.What should we preach when it’s the Passover or the day of atonement? We should preach Jesus. What about the temple? We were having this conversation before we hit record. There is an obsession in some circles with the temple and the rebuilding of the temple and all these kinds of things, and when we see the temple being built in the Old Testament—God’s having a house built for Him where he’s going to dwell with His people—when we see the tabernacle for that set up in the camp of Israel, we should be preaching Jesus from those passages. Why? Because Jesus shows up on the scene and says himself that he is the fulfillment of the temple. He is God’s presence on earth. Then as he ascends and sends his Holy Spirit, the church is now the fulfillment of the temple. The Spirit of God Himself dwells in the church with His people and the like. Then in the new heavens and the new earth, there will be no temple because God will be there and the Lamb will dwell among us. There’s no need for a temple anymore. This is how we should preach the temple. And there are going to be people who are going to be saying, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Should you preach the temple that way in the Old Testament?” Yes. If we’re a Christian, we should.Jon Moffitt: All of Scripture is Christian Scripture.Justin Perdue: This is where I think I get really upset with biblicism, maybe as much as any place: Romans 2 and 3 get me worked up, but this stuff really works me up because people almost call into question whether we should preach Christ from the Old Testament from these things that prefigure him and point to him, as though it’s, “Maybe you should, but that shouldn’t be the emphasis of your sermon.” The last time I checked, we are Christians and we preach Christian sermons, do we not? We want to read Genesis or Exodus or Micah or Esther as Christians, for crying out loud.Jon Moffitt: I think there’s a fear of allegorizing there. I remember when I was in Bible college and even in seminary, it’s like, “Oh, we don’t want to fall into that trap where we’re allegorizing everything in the text and putting things in the text that aren’t there.” That’s a legitimate argument: you can’t force into the text things that aren’t there. I would argue that if you got five points of how to be faithful like David…Justin Perdue: Tell me where that is in the text.Jon Moffitt: No, it’s not in the text at all. Let me read you something real quick from Romans 15. I think it will make your point, Justin. Paul says this: “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” And then Paul gives us the motivation—and it’s interesting how he gives us motivation—pay attention to this in verse four: “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction that through endurance and through encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.” So he’s referencing Christ, he’s referencing our needs to bear with the weak, and our motivation is the Old Testament leads us to hope. There is no way you can conclude that Paul isn’t meaning hope in Christ because he just got done arguing for it in chapter 14… well, I would say all of Romans. The point of it is that anytime you see these New Testament writers referencing the Old Testament, they are referencing it as these are designed for endurance and encouragement because the Old Testament gives us hope. Because what is the Old Testament about? It’s about Jesus. This is one more example of a text of interpreting the Old Testament for us.Justin Perdue: I know we said this last week; I’m gonna say it again: whenever we do what we’re describing, where we interpret and read and preach the Old Testament in this Christ-centered way, we’re doing what Jesus told us to do and we’re doing what the apostles did. Full stop.I understand there’s a danger of allegorizing everything, and that is not at all what we are advocating for; all we’re advocating for is to read the Old Testament the way the apostles read and understood it. There are countless examples that we could give from Paul, from Peter, from the writer of the Hebrews, from John, where it’s obvious that they see things in the Old Testament. If they were in a hermeneutics class in most modern day seminaries, they would get a failing grade for saying what they’re saying. “Oh, what about the original author’s intent? Did the Psalmist really mean that in Psalm 68? Were they really talking about Jesus’s ascension and the giving of gifts, Paul, like you say in Ephesians 4? Or the rock from 1 Corinthians 10:4 referencing Exodus 17?” All of these things are just example after example after example of how the apostles read the Old Testament. The writer of the Hebrews—what’s the sacrificial system about? What’s the priesthood about? It’s about Christ. It all pointed to him. Why would we go back to something that’s been fulfilled in the Lord Jesus? What was Abraham about ultimately? He was justified by faith as a pattern for everyone who had ever believed the promises of God realized in the Messiah, and we would be saved the same way. This is how we should read all of these things. Jesus himself in John 3, the snake that’s lifted up on a pole in Numbers 21—it’s about him and how he would be raised up, and when we look to him and what he’s done, we’re saved.Jon Moffitt: We could go on and on and on, but we are running out of time. We did have one left. We’re going to leave it for the other podcast we’re about to do. We’re going to talk a little bit about eschatology and biblicism.For those of you that are new and listening, we have a ministry called Semper Reformanda, “always reforming”, and we started this as a way to connect with our listeners, but also to go to a deeper level. There are many who love what we’re saying on Theocast but have questions and want to go to that next level of conversation. Justin and I step into a different role in that way, where we interact with our listeners a little bit more and we take this conversation to a little bit deeper level. And you can join us.Semper Reformanda is two things: one, it’s a podcast that we do, but two, it’s also a community. It’s an online community, and believe it or not, a local community. By now, our app is out and you can go and sign up to get our private podcast feed, and also join a group. Download our app and see what groups are available. You can join an online discussion group, or you do it over zoom, or you can do it locally in your town. Those are growing. I think we’re over 20 plus so far. People are getting signed up to start their own. So if you want to learn more about that, you can go to theocast.org.Excited to continue this conversation. We’ll see you next week.

Did David's pizza arrive. That's the question that remains from this week's episode. David cracks open a refreshing Grainworks offering Lime Coconut Donut that is a collaboration with Holtman's Donuts.Remember we are LIVE on June 14th at Fretboard Brewing. Event link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/216602760021283/New podcasts drop every Monday. Make sure to visit  MMAMcKinney for a list of all our selections as well as checking out. Use code "MMAMcKinney" for 10% off at Rivalry Brews as well as 10% off at BeardOctane.com with code BeersBeards10.Support us and get a free trial of Amazon Music by heading over to www.getamazonmusic.com/beersandbeards.

Who is at the center of your life? Who sits on the throne? You or God? What does your worship look like? Why is it such good news that Jesus is the Son of David? Did David and Solomon selfishly build the temple? Episode Links: Chronicles: Overview - The Bible Project - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR7xaHv3Ias General Links: Support this Podcast! - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbrpodcast Daily Bible Reading Homepage - https://anchor.fm/dailybiblereading Find us on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkYa0enE6UtdbltMQvUpVLw Resources: Customizable Google Sheets Reading Plan - http://bit.ly/DBRPlan Chronological Reading Plan PDF (starting January 1, 2021) - http://bit.ly/DBRPlanpdf Connect with us: Daily Bible Reading Podcast Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/dailybiblereadingpodcast Send me an email - dailybiblereadingpodcast@gmail.com Follow me on Twitter - @dailybibleread3 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailybiblereading/message

David Hollander of Order Desk talks about launching his SaaS platform and leveraging his passion for development to grow the company to over 30,000 MRR David Hollander is the CEO and founder of Order Desk, a platform that allows merchants to save time in eCommerce order fulfillment. The business that he started as a side-project has since evolved to become an entirely bootstrapped company with more than five employees. He talks to Geordie about his journey.  What you’ll Learn The story behind the Order Desk platform How Foxy cart works What triggered David to restart his operations? How does David’s new platform differ from his old one? Did the relaunch help boost Order Desk’s performance? At what point did David quit the agency (Foxy cart), and how did he go about it? How David’s customers find him Why David thinks that word of mouth is more effective than affiliate marketing When did David get his big break with Order Desk? Importance of teamwork In this Episode: Order fulfillment is a critical part of the eCommerce industry, and Order Desk strives to make the process smooth for their customers. David says Order Desk is a SaaS platform that mainly deals with merchants. The merchants bring in their orders into the Order Desk platform from different eCommerce channels. They (Order Desk) then dispatch the orders based on the merchant’s request to their preferred fulfillment locations. David tells Geordie how the Order Desk idea was born. Listen to the podcast to figure out how David’s association with Foxy cart led him into meeting different customers with varied needs. He also discusses how he leveraged one customer’s needs to come up with an order fulfillment platform. So robust was the platform that some customers advised him to start charging for his platform. David says he was not ready to start charging for his services, but he thought it was a great idea after some time. According to David, the MVP did not cost him real money, but he spent lots of time building it. David continued working for the agency while building and advancing his SaaS platform. Listen to the podcast to figure out how he added his order fulfillment platform to other main eCommerce channels. Soon, David says, he started receiving different demands from different people, which forced him to consider going back to the drawing board. Listen to the podcast to find out how David started rebuilding his order fulfillment platform and the effort it took to achieve success.  During the rebuilding process, David’s old platform was making $1,000 every month, but customers could not wait for the new platform. Often, all you need to take action is one trigger word which is what happened to David. He says a customer approached, and encouraged him to release the advanced platform. Something then hit him, and he realized he had to release it as soon as possible. David went ahead to launch the platform even though it was not ready. He admits that the platform can be complicated for users and highlights measures he took to make it simpler. Find out the details from the podcast.  David mentions that the platform kept growing, and he added numerous integrations regularly, which increased his income tremendously. He worked long hours based on how excited he was, a feeling he admits was triggered by customer excitement and satisfaction. David says he built integrations upon request from customers. He explains how the process worked, and you can figure the details out from the podcast. At some point, Order Desk was evolving fast, and David realized that he needed to hire even though he was skeptical about it. Why did he struggle with hiring? Find out from the podcast. He also explains how he conducted the hiring process. His first hire turned out to be successful, and by the end of that year (2016), they had significant progress. David would later hire more staff from outside the USA who he says has done a great job. However, he mentions that his first developer left after a few months, which he blames on his (David’s) inability to onboard him accordingly. Did David finally get an effective developer? Find out from the podcast. Order Desk has experienced a particular trend, which David explains further in the podcast. If you are an aspiring eCommerce platform entrepreneur, you should not miss this part of the podcast. David says he prefers email support as opposed to phone support. Find out why this is so from the podcast. His big break happened back in 2019 when he and his five employees went for a retreat. He concludes the podcast by mentioning that successful people should work hard towards their goal. Resources David Hollander Twitter David Hollander LinkedIn

2 Samuel 24:1-8 ESV Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” 2 So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.” 3 But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” 4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel. 5 They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon, 7 and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000. GOD RESISTS THE PROUD. The Lord's anger against David was kindled. For what reason? He numbered the nation of Israel. Did the Lord incite him to do it? Why is that 1 Chron 21:1 says, “Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.” “The difficulty in reconciling the statement in 1 Chronicles 21:1, “Satan . . . moved David,” with that of 2 Samuel 24:1, “the Lord moved David,” is not problematic. All temptation is permitted by God, but not caused by God. When evil spirits tempt us, they do so by permission (Job 1:12, 2:6; Luke 22:31). Satan therefore provoked David to number the people, and God allowed him to do so. God allows those things which serve to advance His holy and perfect will.” [from https://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/contradiction-who-incited-david-to-count-the-fighting-men-of-israel/] As far as we know, David decided quickly without consulting the Lord. Thus, Joab boldly asked the king, “Why does my lord the king desire this thing?” Clearly, he implied his prideful motive. Discreetly and tactfully, he asked the king to reconsider this silly numbering of the nation of Israel. But the king didn't budge to consider his and the captains doubt. Didn't Paul say that “ For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.”? [Rom 14:23] And for the next 9 months and 20 days, they knew that there were 1,300,000 fighting men among the twelve tribes, reflecting an estimated total population of about 6 million in Israel. Did David know that this was wrong at the beginning? Perhaps. It's because of Joab and the captains second thoughts and equivocation. Solomon had wisely said, “Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.” [Pro 11:14] Sadly, Pride had a deafening effect in one's ears. Moreover, didn't David know about the warning that Moses said about conducting census in Ex 30:12, that is “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.” The once humble David had been corrupted by the glitter of power. Satan had successfully tempted him. [1 Chron 21:1] Indeed, pride comes before his fall. [Prov 16:18] which angered God. Indeed, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”[1 Pet 5:5]

In the second episode of the second season of my @Alloutcoach podcast I spoke with David Alto, a LinkedIn influencer, coach, keynote speaker, author of the new book "Fear of Confidence". He has over 40K followers effective today (Feb 16, 2021) and about 15K connections on LinkedIn, is a renowned job resume and career coach, with decades of sales leadership experience. In our conversation, David shares some unique insights and LinkedIn tips that you do not want to miss! Here is the timeline of our chat: 1:51 - Introduction / Background 3:47 - Follow vs. Connect on LinkedIn - what is the difference? 6:36 - Most Recommended LinkedIn Features: audio introduction & pitch, etc. 8:18 - David's opinion on LinkedIn Stories 9:59 - How David built his large following on LinkedIn in the last 2 years 13:03 - Why the Message of your post is Most important, not the format, etc. 13:49 - Did David have a particular audience in mind when he built his network? 15:33 - His experiences with Imposter Syndrome 17:51 - How do you use LinkedIn Articles? 21:17 - Free vs. Subscription based LinkedIn features 24:56 - LinkedIn Live Application Process and Expectations 27:39 - Posting Strategy for the Busy Professional LinkedIn Skeptic 28:31 - Specific Tips about Hashtags to Use on LinkedIn 32:34 - Time Strategy for Posting 34:25 - Apps for Posting and Smartphone Video Stabilizer for Social Media 37:28 - David's Opinion on Posting Personal Moments on LinkedIn 43:03 - LinkedIn's Mission to Provide Economic Opportunity to every Professional 43:24 - The Inspiration for His Book "Fear of Confidence" 53:48 - LinkedIn Polls - Current Trends & Practical Uses 55:37 - Virtual Assistants Experience on LinkedIn --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alloutcoach/support

From a very young age, Richard Case could “feel” things. Maybe not always “see” the supernatural, but he knew it was there. He would grow up hearing haunting tales from his stepfather and eventually grow into an adult who would go on journeys around the world investigating and sometimes “challenging” the ideas of specific hauntings. This journey has given him tremendous insight into the paranormal and the spirit world. Today we discuss the life and experiences of Richard Case. PART 2 - AVAILABLE TO GRAVE KEEPERS ONLY - LISTEN HERE (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) In part two of our interview, available only to Grave Keepers (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) , we discuss: What does David think was behind the darkness in the childhood house he found himself possessed in? What drove David back into the paranormal investigation on a more serious level? When David began investigating the paranormal with his new team, what was he hoping to accomplish? Did David feel any reservations investigating the paranormal due to his childhood investigations? What led David to get involved with someone who was possessed?  As a Grave Keeper, for $5 per month you will get: Access to every episode (http://www.thegravetalks.com/category/podcast-episodes/) of our show, AD-FREE – MONTHS BEFORE THEY GO PUBLIC. Access to every EXCLUSIVE PART 2 episode of our show for Grave Keeper Only! Access to submit questions to upcoming guests of our show. The “good feeling” knowing that you are keeping this show alive (It really does feel good!) Listen to part two of this interview and get exclusive access to HUNDREDS of bonus episodes at http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks

As a child, David Pierce Rodriguez spent several of his formative years possessed. Living in a mansion that held its spirits, combined with depressing family trauma, likely led to something very dark taking on David's body and actions. All these years later, David is out to help those affected by the paranormal and those affected by the supernatural world's darkest sects. The demonic. [embed]https://audioboom.com/posts/7718846-house-of-ghosts-a-conversation-with-nick-graves.mp3[/embed] PART 2 - AVAILABLE TO GRAVE KEEPERS ONLY - LISTEN HERE (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) In part two of our interview, available only to Grave Keepers (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) , we discuss: What does David think was behind the darkness in the childhood house he found himself possessed in? What drove David back into the paranormal investigation on a more serious level? When David began investigating the paranormal with his new team, what was he hoping to accomplish? Did David feel any reservations investigating the paranormal due to his childhood investigations? What led David to get involved with someone who was possessed? As a Grave Keeper, for $5 per month you will get: Access to every episode (http://www.thegravetalks.com/category/podcast-episodes/) of our show, AD-FREE – MONTHS BEFORE THEY GO PUBLIC. Access to every EXCLUSIVE PART 2 episode of our show for Grave Keeper Only! Access to submit questions to upcoming guests of our show. The “good feeling” knowing that you are keeping this show alive (It really does feel good!) Listen to part two of this interview and get exclusive access to HUNDREDS of bonus episodes at http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks

As a child, David Pierce Rodriguez spent several of his formative years possessed. Living in a mansion that held its spirits, combined with depressing family trauma, likely led to something very dark taking on David's body and actions. All these years later, David is out to help those affected by the paranormal and those affected by the supernatural world's darkest sects. The demonic. PART 2 - AVAILABLE TO GRAVE KEEPERS ONLY - LISTEN HERE (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) In part two of our interview, available only to Grave Keepers (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) , we discuss: What does David think was behind the darkness in the childhood house he found himself possessed in? What drove David back into the paranormal investigation on a more serious level? When David began investigating the paranormal with his new team, what was he hoping to accomplish? Did David feel any reservations investigating the paranormal due to his childhood investigations? What led David to get involved with someone who was possessed? As a Grave Keeper, for $5 per month you will get: Access to every episode (http://www.thegravetalks.com/category/podcast-episodes/) of our show, AD-FREE – MONTHS BEFORE THEY GO PUBLIC. Access to every EXCLUSIVE PART 2 episode of our show for Grave Keeper Only! Access to submit questions to upcoming guests of our show. The “good feeling” knowing that you are keeping this show alive (It really does feel good!) Listen to part two of this interview and get exclusive access to HUNDREDS of bonus episodes at http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks

#149 Have you ever wondered what happens after we die? That is a seemingly unanswerable question, because most people don’t return from that experience to then talk about it.  But David is one of the lucky few. David Ditchfield is an author, composer, and an artist with an incredibly mind-blowing story. In 2006, he survived being dragged under a speeding train and now has made it his life mission to spread a positive message and change people’s lives for the better. In our conversation, we talked about his near-death experience and how he was able to open up about it almost immediately, and despite being dyslexic, write a book about his journey. I hope listening to this episode helps you understand the concept and the joy of living in the moment. I also hope it gives you something to think about when it comes to the fear of death, and how we are all here for a purpose. Enjoy! About David: David Ditchfield is an NDE-inspired artist, composer, near-death experiencer and author. He wants to use his NDE to make a positive difference to people’s lives. After surviving being dragged under a speeding train in a freakish accident in 2006, David found solace in art and music. He wrote a book called Shine On about his journey, and now spends his second chance at life painting dramatic paintings of what he had seen in the afterlife, with an artistic ability far beyond what he had before, and composing classical music. He discovered a talent for composition after having survived the accident. He had never received any musical training, and to this day cannot read or write a single note of musical notation. However, his debut NDE-inspired symphony, The Divine Light, was premiered at a sell-out orchestral concert to a standing ovation. He currently lives, paints, and composes in a converted riverside mill near Cambridge, UK. www.shineonthestory.com David’s Music: www.shineonthestory.com/#Listen Key points with time stamp: David’s work in his own words (0:16) Reactions to David’s story and near-death experience (1:20) What was David before being an artist and composer? (3:09) Did David always know he was going to be who he is now? (4:13) Writing a book about his journey (5:06) Opening up about the accident (6:41) The near-death experience (9:21) Did David had a choice to come back to his body or to continue the experience? (26:21) Did David experience any physical changes after coming back to his body? (29:07) Seeing the world after surviving a near-death experience (33:29) About spiritual healing (35:12) Becoming a composer (37:22) What does life look like for David now? (42:40) Art, music, and self-expression as therapy (44:12) What David learned through this experience (45:09) Is a low point necessary in order to become conscious and awake? (46:24) David’s plans for the future (48:23) What David leaves us with (50:01) Mentioned in this episode: Anita Moorjani Jeffery Olsen Spiritual Healing Beethoven Bach The BBC NDA (Near-death experience) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder COVID-19 Shine On, David’s book About me: My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co

How did David counsel himself amidst Absalom’s pursuit of him?Did David just focus on how he felt?In this episode of Christian Life Issues for Today, Dr. Wayne Mack analyses Psalm 42 and 43 based on David’s situation that is described in 2 Samuel 15. Should we just be stoic in our response to our situation? What role does God’s promises play when we seek to defeat depression? What does it mean to have a long-distance view of life? All of this and much more is discussed within this episode of Christian Life Issues for Today.Out of the Blues can be found on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Out-Blues-Dealing-Depression-Loneliness/dp/1885904592 To get into contact with us or to ask us to add you to the mailing list, email us at the following address:christianlifeissuesfortoday@gmail.com

Keto Coach and $50K Senior Vice President, Adam Levy presents CTFO Keto success stories from Gisele Guerrette and Otis Riggins live! Benefits of CELLUVie for Keto lifestyle and losing weight What works, what doesn't and why Breaking through plateaus TIPS: How to eat a strict low-carb diet with less than 20 carbs per day. To burn your fat stores you must keep insulin low and burn more energy than you eat If I cheat and eat, can I still lose weight 5 tips for getting back into ketosis Why the scale is not a good measurement of your success To join us live Thursday, October 22nd, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time simply CLICK HERE I think David D'Arcangelo just gave us a sneak peek of one of the potential NEW Products launching soon. Did David really say CBGa in the below video? CBG offers similar benefits to CBD, but can me more effective in many conditions like inflammation, pain, nausea, anxiety, sleep and many other health concerns. CTFO Stays 3 Years ahead of any competition! Watch the entire 15-minute presentation and be blown away What Does CTFO Have in Common with a $3 Billion Pharmaceutical Company? How to Conquer The Crisis And 10 Times Your Life The Person Who Understands the Math/Fact Controls the Business CTFO: The Fastest Growing Wholesale Shopping Club of It's Kind https://bhsales.ctfoshare.com/presentation/video.bh-sales-ctfo-display.f2b61318afca13b8e0277984606f61d88c756c06?fbclid=IwAR2pJDn0_x6EIPjTNJIerkk-7EA6bC7GdLDQaLmwGaY4gkXvy3XcZ6mmiTI --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bhsales/message

David and Stephanie had a second date where he cooked for her, but since the date he hasn’t heard from her. Did David do the wrong thing when she came over to his house? Do you name your car? J.R. kept hearing his friend say a name and she wasn't referring to a person, but to her car. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David barely escapes death in a weird way. Did David sin in his deception- Why did he write two Psalms about this experience- Here we learn about making hard decisions in desperate times.

In this episode, host Joshua Lipstone of The Explain This Book To Me podcast continues his discussion with David R. Carothers, CIC, CRM, the author of the book, The Extra 2 Minutes.  They discuss how important the followup is after your marketing drop, how you need to be creative to gain extra touches with the prospect, and what to do if that first marketing drop didn't go exactly as planned.   Episode Highlights: What is the ideal day at Florida risk partners for David and what is David doing when he spends time with his family? (2:10) Does David want his producers to enter the contact invites by a certain time of day? (6:16) David says everyone on his team collaborates for the scripts to make sure everyone is on the same page. (8:00) Did David follow someone to gain knowledge? (9:17) David says that the book, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, is the most impactful book he read in his career. (10:15) David thinks that social media and platforms like LinkedIn have made it so much easier for us to digest high points and snippets from things. (11:00) What are some common objections that a salesperson would encounter and how can they overcome that in a phone call? (12:28) Do David and his team do any role play? (21:49) Does David have a producer who’s making the follow-up phone call? (25:03) What are the things that David or his producers have changed when something wasn’t going their way? (26:51) David explains the difference between focusing on solving a problem and focusing on selling a product. (27:52) David gives examples of the question that people should be asking their prospect to get the “NO”. (29:50) David shares what guests on the Power Producer Podcast receive. (48:16) Davis shares an idea of how a voicemail script may go if he’s making a follow-up call after being rejected by or potentially rejected by the prospect. (52:07) Josh talks about David’s methods written in the book to help leverage connections. (55:22) David explains why you’re missing the boat if you aren’t using LinkedIn. (1:01:12) Key Quotes:  “When I had kids, I made a commitment. I'm going to raise them right, I'm going to always make time for them so that they never have to wish they had more time with me. I've got a pretty good work-life balance.” - David Carothers “To a certain degree, a shift in how technology has changed things is that we follow people now, not books...social media and platforms like LinkedIn have made it so much easier for us to digest high points and snippets from things.” - David Carothers “I like to be challenged. And these guys will challenge me and I'll challenge them back.” - David Carothers   Resources Mentioned: Florida Risk Partners David Carothers LinkedIn Joshua Lipstone LinkedIn Lipstone Insurance Group Book: The Extra 2 Minutes: How spending an extra 2 minutes on nearly anything in your sales career will take you from good to “best in class”! Advertisers: Veruna Lightspeed Voice Tarmika

Alex Baranyi and David Anderson are the best of friends. But maybe their loyalty to each other has gone just a little too far. David has a complicated history with far too many girlfriends and Alex, a social outcast, is obsessed with David and will do anything to please him.  The desire to kill is just too strong with these two and it all boils over when David decides to target the Wilson Family. Killed in a brutal way, the idea of cold-blooded is the center of this story. Did David really want revenge? Did Alex kill over his obsession with David? What even was the motive? What about the sheer experience of killing? Listen to learn more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/2girlsandcautiontape/message

In today's episode, host Josh Lipstone of The Explain This Book To Me podcast sits down with David Carothers, the author of the book, The Extra 2 Minutes: How spending an extra 2 minutes on nearly anything in your sales career will take you from good to “best in class.” to discuss David's favorite client, how selling fruit at school gets you in trouble with the principal, how his sales process has followed him from the hollers of West Virginia to the beaches of Florida, and much more. This first episode sets the stage for the upcoming ones and this is a book that will be on your shelves for life.   Episode Highlights:   Josh introduces David Carothers. (1:09) Does David’s toilet paper go over or under? (1:37) What was the last book that David read? (2:16) What made David the person he is today, nature or nurture? (2:49) David shares his childhood background and his career. (3:53) David shares a pretty humorous story about the Maxwell book signing. (4:43) David mentions Malcolm Gladwell’s book entitled, Outliers. (8:05) David mentions that he always tells everyone that he's been a salesman his whole life. (10:05) What is David’s job title at Florida Risk? (10:48) Josh mentions that he’s part of David’s Killing Commercial program. (11:26) When did David realize that he’s kind of extra, and how did it change the way he was? (13:16) Did David ever have a passion or a drive to be an entrepreneur before? (17:37) David says that what makes him unique is that he recognizes potential opportunities quickly, and he doesn’t waste time going after it. He’s not afraid to make a mistake and he’s not afraid to take a chance. (18:35) What is a holler? (23:01) Josh talks about what David said that made him go back to his philosophy on the milestone moments. (28:47) When did David come up with the idea of the extra two minutes? (31:50) David says that everybody out there knows that we should take the time to do the job right. (33:55) Where does David use the library card? (36:23) David thinks that a pen portrays self-confidence, an image, and the last thing you want to do as a salesperson is to ask your prospect to borrow their pen to sign your paperwork. (38:52) Is David an iPhone or an Android user? (39:09) Josh shares what he personally implemented in his agency four years ago, along with an E-signature platform. (40:40) What does David’s actual email signature look like, and does it have his name, agency logo, and a link to something they can click on to watch a video? (42:50) David thinks that video just takes things to a completely different level. (43:03) What does David usually use his Evergreen content for? (46:02) David says that his goal is to have one thousand salespeople working for him, 24 hours a day on the internet. (49:18) David says that if you have a good Evergreen content strategy, you're golden. (49:42) What is some quick advice that David could give to the loyal readers, on coming up with their personal mission statement? (54:50) David shares that one of the things he learned through this process was the Hemingway editor. (55:53) David explains why constructing the plan takes so long. (1:00:45) What are some of the pitfalls that people will run into when they are trying to figure out what prospects to go after to achieve their revenue goals? (1:03:39) David thinks that it's evident in a whole bunch of different places in society that we also don't know how to delay gratification appropriately. (1:03:54) David explains the significance of the business plan. (1:04:53) David says that one of the things he says all the time is, “it's never the process. It's always the person, the process works.”. (1:07:59)  Do David and his prospects call on a year to be able to get to the number that he wants to close? (1:12:31) Davis mentions that you need to run your book as if you are running your own agency, and your book is your agency. (1:17:08) Who’s on David’s personal board of directors? (1:17:56) David thinks that it's the human beings who want to be the best version of themselves, and you constantly have to seek that you can't be afraid to get negative feedback from people or constructive criticism, and then use it. (1:19:53) Key Quotes: “You don't write a book to get rich, you don't write blog posts to get rich, you don't create videos to get rich, you do those things to get credibility. The validation that you get for the countless hours that you spend doing those things is seeing other people use what you teach them, and that's the ultimate validation... So that's what fuels every extra thing that I do.” - David Carothers “You’ve got to make sure you hire the right people, and that you train and develop them, and you treat them the right way and do all of the things that we know we need to do to foster a good culture in our agency. But then we overlook how one bad client could destroy that entire culture.” - David Carothers “I always look for an opportunity. I always feel like I'm a very early adopter at seizing opportunity but, if it gets to the point where I'm spending more time than what it's worth for me to try and force something to work, my ego does not keep me pushing down that path... Yeah, I'm not a proud person in terms of that stuff.” - David Carothers Resources Mentioned: Florida Risk Partners Reach out to David Carothers Joshua Lipstone LinkedIn Lipstone Insurance Group Book: The Extra 2 Minutes: How spending an extra 2 minutes on nearly anything in your sales career will take you from good to “best in class”! 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Author and worship pioneer LaMar Boschman discusses with Batsirai Chada God's intent in music to heal and set people free of spirits. They discuss David playing his harp for King Saul and how he was healed and delivered of an evil spirit. LaMar defines what a kingdom musician is and how to see miracles in music.These topics are in a transformational online course called The Music of God that will help you know how to use music to experience God's presence and power resulting in miracles.LaMar's books and blogs on the subject of music are available at LaMarBoschman.comEPISODE SUMMARY:David is called to play for King Saul to soothe his epileptic fits.What kind of music does he play?What are the qualities or principles that cause Saul to be healed?How did Saul get free of the evil spirit that caused his sickness?Why don't we see miracles like David saw in our music today?Kingdom musician who has their identity in Christ and plays and sings with the authority of Christ. Why are some musicians and singers anointed and others aren't even when playing the same song?In our services during worship people experience God's presence and leave healed.David had his identity in God and because of his intimacy with God had the authority of God.Did David play in the moment?The difference between a kingdom musician and a Christian musician.LaMar challenges the listener to be a kingdom musician.Support the show (https://www.lamarboschman.com/give)

Eightball vocalist David Bush is our special guest this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol12! Eightball's new album Love Struck will be released in June of 2020. You can get more information at https://www.eightballrocks.com/.   As always, we're answering YOUR listener-submitted questions. Topics covered this week include Wrathchild America, female rock guitarists, Dr. Seuss, Friday the 13th movies, movie soundtracks, RATT selling insurance, 90's Metallica, Iron Maiden eras, Rush albums, Black Sabbath, DIO guitar players, and much more!   Additionally, David will take on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek; the game show hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did David unseat Chris?? You'll have to listen to find out!   We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol12 and SHARE with a friend!   Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Buy a T-Shirt! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download

Did David really kill Goliath? No one saw the creation, so how can we trust Genesis? Was there a war before Adam? Was there earth before our earth?New Episodes Monday, 7:00 am Eastern TimeBe sure to visit https://sites.google.com/view/perspective-bible-talk/home for episode notes and submit topics for further episodes

King David had big plans for the Lord. He was going to build him a temple. He didn't think that the Lord should live in a tent while He, King David, was living in a palace. His dreams were inspired by the Holy Spirit, and approved by Nathan, the prophet, that told him to go ahead and build it to serve the Lord. David was happy. But that was not the Lord's plan. Did David fail? did he sin? No, he just didn't see the big picture. Has that happened to you? Listen in...

Dr David Hamilton is a bestselling author, international speaker, award winning columnist and educator. With a PhD in organic chemistry and background in the pharmaceutical industry, he became inspired by the placebo effect and left to write books and teach people how to harness their mind and emotions to improve their health. He’s since written 10 books including, ‘The Little Book of Kindness’, ‘How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body’, ‘I Heart Me’ and the Amazon bestseller, ‘The Five Side Effects of Kindness’.  In addition to writing a regular blog on his website and blogs for the US Huffington Post, he is the ‘Kindness Tsar’ for Psychologies Magazine; monthly columnist for Soul & Spirit Magazine and in 2016, he was voted ‘Best writer’ by readers of Kindred Spirit Magazine. As well as appearances on the likes of Channel 4’s ‘Sunday Brunch’, in the UK, and ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ in the US, he starred in the award-winning documentary 'HEAL - A film about the power of the mind' featuring some of the world's most highly regarded scientists and spiritual teachers. Today he acts as an advocate for kindness and works passionately to help inspire a kinder world.   00:00 Trailer 00:30 Introduction 02:30 David’s early life 03:20 David’s career aspirations 06:00 David on doing his Phd 07:40 Working in the pharmaceutical industry 08:30 David’s views on the pharmaceutical industry 12:00 David on the placebo effect 13:40 Did David plan to focus his efforts purely on the placebo effect? 16:00 David’s early books 18:00 How does David come up with the content for his books and blogs? 19:30 How much time does David spend researching? 21:30 Destiny vs free will 25:30 Does David think some people have difficult lives for a reason (as in the soul’s journey)? 28:30 Does David think science will ever be able to prove this? 30:00 How did kindness become part of David’s work? 32:50 Why does David focus on kindness even though he knows it is a less popular topic? 35:30 Why does David think books on kindness are less popular? 39:50 Why does David think people aren’t kinder to themselves and others? 44:00 What does David need to do in order to be the best version of himself? 46:00 How does David know when he’s out of alignment? 55:30 How did David find out his dog Oscar had bone cancer? 58:30 The experience of Oscar passing over 1:01:00 What does David think happens when we pass? 1:03:30 How did David find out he was going to be part of the Netflix documentary Heal? 1:05:00 David speaks about his Personal Development Club 1:07:00 David’s goals for his Personal Development Club 1:09:00 David’s future plans 1:10:30 David’s revelations through maths 1:12:50 Science and spirituality 1:15:30 Division in society, politics and the media 1:20:00 David on his spiritual practices 1:22:40 David on his purpose 1:30:20 David on his legacy 1:31:10 How does David define success? 1:33:50 Best piece of advice 1:34:10 Speaking to 20 year old self 1:35:10 Does David believe in the idea of a multiverse? 1:36:30 Changing the world   You can find David at: https://drdavidhamilton.com/ https://www.facebook.com/DavidRHamiltonPhD/ https://twitter.com/DrDRHamilton https://www.instagram.com/davidrhamiltonphd https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-david-r-hamilton-7169b1/   Find Inspired Edinburgh here: http://www.inspiredinburgh.com https://www.facebook.com/INSPIREDINBURGH https://www.twitter.com/INSPIREDINBURGH https://www.instagram.com/INSPIREDINBURGH https://www.linkedin.com/company/INSPIREDINBURGH

On the newest APOSS, Jack and David gush over the Sonic Hedgehog movie. David, the lifelong Sonic fan, Jack the respectful newcomer. Will Jack be convinced to dive back into his Sonic marathon? Did David’s 3-decade fandom finally get vindicated? Also, events in Japan revolving around anime and gaming are being canceled due to the […] The post Anime Podcast of Some Sort: The Sonic Movie Was Good! Anime…Kinda Isn’t! appeared first on Delta Juliet Mike Media.

The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis, is the first movie in awhile that has led to a serious split vote between our hosts. Did David finally reconcile his disappointment with the famous star to give it higher marks, or did Suzan find a way to see past her one note performance to more good than bad in the film? Find out!

Did David go too far in his honest search for god? Let's find out:

❓On this episode Lauryn and friends dive into the tragic mystery of “A Gray State” documentary. A family slaughtered after making an anti government film on American soil. Did David actually kill his family? Or was it the nefarious hand of the deep state?❓

Jimmy and Joe are dropping a bonus episode to join the freak out frenzy on the Twitter! What happened? Rachael Denhollander said something about the Bible. Then, a number of people gasped passed out. Some attacked Rachel, and others had some thoughtful responses. What is the issue? Did David rape Bathsheba in 2 Sam. 11:2-5? Joe and Jimmy break it down and offer their thoughts. For all the snow notes and links visit www.doctrineanddevotion.com/podcast/david-bathsheba

Did David, James, and Kathryn “Feel the Love” of the new Lion King? Did they have worries going into Jon Favreau’s life-like adaptation, or were they all Hakuna Matata about it? Well, “Be Prepared” to hear their passionate thoughts on the new film, discussing themes ranging from the scriptural to the Shakespearean. If you like what you are hearing and want to help support our show, consider pledging to support us over on Patreon! If you do, you'll be canonized as an official Patron Saint of Popcorn Theology and be given access to an exclusive Facebook group just for supporters, giveaways, polls to decide what films we discuss, and much more! We hope you enjoy the listen and we would love it if you'd share this content with your friends.  Please take a moment to check out our sponsor, MissionalWear - Awesome T-Shirts, Posters, and more... Let them know Popcorn Theology sent you!   www.popcorntheology.com

In this month's episode of #CareTalk, David Williams (Health Business Group) and John Driscoll (CareCentrix) discuss the impact of healthcare on the Democratic presidential race. Overview: (0:36) What impact are the TV debates on healthcare having on the Democratic presidential race? (2:30) Arkansas has been testing out a Medicaid work requirement. What do the results tell us? (4:30) What should be made of the OpenNotes initiative in Massachusetts, which allows patients to access their doctors' clinical notes about them? (7:12) New doctors continue to avoid primary care. Does that matter? (9:20) Did David avoid getting bit by a shark during his Cape Cod vacation? (10:16) A judge struck down Trump’s rule to make drug makers disclose prices in TV ads. Does it matter? (11:01) Is Alexa bad for healthcare? (11:30) Co-design is a new healthcare buzzword - but how important is it? Subscribe to the #CareTalk Podcast iTunes: https://apple.co/2DIDTcr Google Play: https://bit.ly/2RobqMB Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZxUHIX6a7ec

1981 Best Picture Part 2 This week our hosts, Jeff and Cory, press into the issue of which movie should have bested Ordinary People at the 1981 Academy Awards. After trying to explain their metric, they dive deep into the nominees and (most of) the alternates chosen last week with our guest host. Did David […]

1981 Best Picture Part 2 This week our hosts, Jeff and Cory, press into the issue of which movie should have bested Ordinary People at the 1981 Academy Awards. After trying to explain their metric, they dive deep into the nominees and (most of) the alternates chosen last week with our guest host. Did David […]

The Psalms are often prophetic in nature. Some yell of Jesus the Messiah and his death. Psalm 22 tells us about the suffering of our Lord Jesus. There is a prophecy about the everlasting endurance of the throne of David, a throne that the Messiah will occupy. Did David see the suffering of the Messiah, Jesus Christ? We don't know for sure, but we do know that Our Father in Heaven, who loved David, saw His Son Jesus occupying David's throne after Jesus' suffering on the cross.

The Psalms are often prophetic in nature. Some yell of Jesus the Messiah and his death. Psalm 22 tells us about the suffering of our Lord Jesus. There is a prophecy about the everlasting endurance of the throne of David, a throne that the Messiah will occupy. Did David see the suffering of the Messiah, Jesus Christ? We don't know for sure, but we do know that Our Father in Heaven, who loved David, saw His Son Jesus occupying David's throne after Jesus' suffering on the cross.

In this Movie-Go-Round Future Classics, Brett proposed Guillermo's gooey Crimson Peak! Del Toro brought this Gothic romance to the screen, but couldn't resist throwing in some good old-fashioned cholera ghosts and head bashing. Did David find the spectres scary? Did Nicole ever shut up about kissing techniques and the Hiddlebutt? Join us for this episode of Movie-Go-Round and find out!Want to easily find links to everything we talk about at the end of the program? Head on over to social.mgrpodcast.com. Email the show at hi@mgrpodcast.com!Next week's pick is an Around the World pick! David chose 1967's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

JERUSALEM - In his latest attack against King David, Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finklestein now says that the history of the United Monarchy under King David and Solomon, is really just a description of the magnificent kingdom of Jeroboam II, projected back by aggrandizing Jewish scribes centuries later. On today's program, host Brent Nagtegaal looks at a recent Haaretz article featuring this new theory and shows why it is dishonest to the facts on the ground, and in the Bible itself. Did David and Solomon Actually Exist? - https://watchjerusalem.co.il/178-did-david-and-solomon-actually-exist The United States and Britain in Prophecy - https://watchjerusalem.co.il/literature/44-the-united-states-and-britain-in-prophecy Talking Biblical Shiloh With Excavation Director Dr. Scott Stripling - https://watchjerusalem.co.il/388-talking-biblical-shiloh-with-excavation-director-dr-scott-stripling Meet the real King David, the one the Bible didn’t want you to know about – Haaretz - https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-meet-the-real-king-david-the-one-the-bible-didn-t-want-you-to-know-about-1.7062754

Did David sin (clean and righteous)? (Q193) How Should We Treat Our Enemies? (Q204) Has Anyone Ever Ascended Into Heaven? (Q205) Were the men with Paul knocked to the ground; Did Paul see Jesus on the road to Damascus; Did the men with Paul hear the voice? (Q206 & Q251 & Q287) This chapter deals with supposed differences in the text of the Bible. Here's where we should see a majority of mistakes/differences/etc if they exist. But do they? The post Ep. 11 – Keeping Faith In An Age Of Reason – Difference In Details – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

The thought of combining two very successful websites into one would make most marketers quake in their boots. How did David Meerman Scott do it without interruption to his business AND see improvements in traffic and search engine rankings? This week onThe Inbound Success Podcast I'm joined by famed marketing expert, best-selling author, entrepreneur and internationally-renowned keynote speaker David Meerman Scott, along with IMPACT's own principal strategist Stacy Willis.  The two recently worked together on a project to merge two of David's websites into one. Both sites attracted a significant volume of traffic and were important drivers of business for David - something that made the notion of combining them very scary. In our conversation, David and Stacy talk about why they combined the sites, how they did it, and the results they saw. This week's episode of The Inbound Success Podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, IMPACT Live,  the most immersive and high energy learning experience for marketers and business leaders. IMPACT Live takes place August 6-7, 2019 in Hartford Connecticut and is headlined by Marcus Sheridan along with keynote speakers including world-renowned Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith and Drift CEO and Co-Founder David Cancel. Inbound Success Podcast listeners can save 10% off the price of tickets with the code "SUCCESS".  Click here to learn more or purchase tickets for IMPACT Live Some highlights from my conversation with David and Stacy include: David's primary website is DavidMeermanScott.com. He had several other sites including webinknow, which had over 1,500 blog posts and a considerable number of valuable backlinks. When David and Stacy worked together to design his main website, they made the decision to merge all of the content from webinknow into the main site.  One of the main reasons they decided to combine the two sites was they were cannibalizing each other when it came to keyword rankings and traffic. Stacy used tools like Screaming Frog and SEMRush to analyze how David's sites ranked and for which keywords, and that is how she was able to determine that these two particular sites should be merged (while some of David's other sites should not be folded into the main site). Having a plan for putting 301 redirects in place for all of the pages that were going to be merged was essential to the success of the project. Stacy also evaluated David's website traffic to determine which blogs were getting the most traffic and used this as an opportunity to improve the way they were optimized. Central to this process was the development of a topic cluster strategy for David's news site. Within weeks of launching the new site, Stacy was able to determine that all of David's traffic and keyword rankings from the two separate sites were preserved with the move to the new site. In the weeks that followed, they also saw that many of his keyword rankings actually improved further, and he has begun to see an increase in lead flow to the site. David's advice to anyone considering combining multiple websites is to take the project in stages. Resources from this episode: Save 10% off the price of tickets to IMPACT Live with promo code "SUCCESS" David Meerman Scott's website David's books Newsjacking.com Stacy's article on The SEO Implications of Changing Domains During a Website Redesign (& a Successful Example) "Is SEO Dead in 2019?" (pillar content collaboration between Liz Murphy and Franco Valentino) Listen to the podcast to get details of the exact process David and Stacy went through to merge David's two websites and increase his search engine rankings. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host):Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast. I'm Kathleen Booth, and I'm your host. Today we have a special episode of the Inbound Success podcast. I have two guests. The first is my colleague, Stacy Willis, who is a strategist here at IMPACT. The second is David Meerman Scott, who is the famed author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, 10 books... I'm sure I'm missing so much in how I'm describing you, David. For those people who've been living a rock for the last decade, can you tell my audience a little bit about you, who you are, and the kind of work you do? David Meerman Scott (Guest): Sure, and thanks for having me on. This is so much fun. I really appreciate it. David, Kathleen and Stacy recording this episode   About David Meerman Scott David: I was a corporate marketing guy for many years. I worked in Asia for 10 years. I was the vice president of marketing of two different publicly traded technology companies. I got fired in 2002, had to figure out what the heck I was going to do, so started to work with a few clients. Then I started to write, and had a book called The New Rules of Marketing and PR. It hit the international bestseller list. It went crazy, and just has sold to date over 400,000 copies. It's in 29 different languages. I've written nine other books besides that, and I also serve on advisory boards of companies, including HubSpot. I was the first Advisor to HubSpot when they had less than 10 people and no revenue. Kathleen: Wow. David: I've been with them ever since. I wrote a book with HubSpot CEO, Brian Halligan, called Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead. I invented the concept of newsjacking that I know IMPACTers talked about a lot. It was my invention and it is now in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is an awesome thing. I've been working with IMPACT now for a couple of years. As you well know, you've done my marketing work. You've built out four different websites for me, so I really appreciate the effort and work that you've done on my behalf. I can work with anyone on the planet - bestselling marketing author - but I choose to work with you, so I really appreciate that, and I'm really happy that we can have this discussion. Kathleen: That is really very kind of you to say. We are very fortunate that we get to work with you. I think this is such a fascinating conversation to me because you are clearly a man who has a lot going on. I don't think the moss grows under you very often. David: Yeah, when I start to get a little bored I book a speaking gig in a crazy country. I've actually spoken in 46 different countries, most recently last month in Romania. Yeah, the moss doesn't grow because I jump on an airplane so it doesn't. Kathleen: I love it. One of the things that's so fascinating to me about your situation as you describe is you've published many books. You have all these very diverse initiatives you undertake as an entrepreneur, and that could become, as some marketers I know like to say, a "Frankenmonster" of a marketing undertaking. If you have a ton of websites, a lot of different marketing channels, that can quickly become very unmanageable. I know one of the things that we've been working on recently with you - and I shouldn't say "we" because I've had nothing to do with it, it's really Stacy and her team - is looking at how do we maybe combine some of those disparate marketing efforts into a more unified web presence. You obviously have a unique situation, but there are a lot of companies out there that have different brands or different divisions that might have multiple web presences. One thing I do have a lot of experience with is talking to those companies and hearing the anxiety in their voice when they think about, "Oh my god, I'm afraid to touch it because I might break the internet," right? David: Hey, I have that fear too, right, Stacy? That was freaking me out. It was breaking my website. I think I probably said to Stacy and the team 30 or 40 times, "This is not going to break this, right? I'm going to be okay. I don't have to sweat it." We'll get into the details shortly, but I had a blog I started in 2004. There were over 1,500 blog posts. It's so important to my business, and I'm like, "We're not going to break it. We can't break it." But you're right, I do have a bit of that Frankenmonster that you described for a couple of reasons. I've tried to build out a basic website for some of the books that I've written because I try to choose a unique title for books. For example, World Wide Rave, there's a website around World Wide Rave. There's a website for a book I wrote called Marketing the Moon. I've got some other websites out there. I have DMScott.tv. I got some junk out there too, but there's some that are important. Part of that is like I'm like a venture capitalist where I say, "Gee, I've got a new project coming up, and I think that it's got some potential to perhaps be something that's worth a standalone presence, so let's create one." That might be a new book for me or it might be a new concept. In the case of a couple of my books, it wasn't really that beneficial, and in fact now those sites are basically orphans. In some cases, I take the site down and redirect it somewhere else, typically to the book page on my main website, which is David Meerman Scott, but in other cases, it's been incredibly powerful, for example, in the case of newsjacking. Newsjacking is a concept that I pioneered. It must be about six or eight years ago now. When I first started to talk about newsjacking, nobody else was talking about it. It's basically the idea that if you understand the news cycle, you can inject your ideas into that news cycle and generate tons of media attention and grow your business, get sales leads. It's a fabulous concept, and I bought the URL newsjacking as soon as I knew that I was going to be talking about this concept. Man, was that a smart move because every single day there are people who are writing about newsjacking. Every single day there are people who are using social networks with the hashtag newsjacking. All of that points back to me now because I have Newsjacking.com. I have that URL. I am the pioneer of newsjacking, but it's made official because I have that URL. Then when the Oxford English Dictionary listed newsjacking in the dictionary, they wrote about me as the person who founded it, and that drove even more traffic to the site. On one hand, I've got sites that are orphans and maybe they end up just being redirects. In other cases, they become standalone properties in their own right. The Frankenmonster thing is like a VC. Sometimes it's going to take off and do great; sometimes it's not, and I never know which one is going to be which. Combining Multiple Websites   Stacy Willis (Guest): It really made for an interesting challenge for your website. Kathleen: Yeah. David: Especially with one of the sites that we combined, I've had, gosh, 12 years, something like that, the other one since 2004. What's that? 15 years. It's a combined almost 30 years of those two websites with thousands and thousands of keywords, so you're right. It was a challenge. Kathleen: I think that's what's really interesting about this, because you have this very disparate set of sites - things like newsjacking, that have taken on a life of their own. Yeah, you wouldn't want to touch that because, gosh, there's no bigger holy grail for a search engine marketer than a back link from the Oxford English Dictionary. Talk about authority, right? But then you have these little sites that were trial balloons you sent out that maybe didn't go anywhere. It's an easy thing to say, "Well, let's take the trial balloon and merge it into the mothership," but you were talking in this case about taking a site that had a substantial amount of content that was delivering results for you and merging it into another big one. There's the potential to break both essentially. So coming into this, David, can you talk a little bit about what your goals were for this whole undertaking? David: Yeah, sure, of course. So I had two sites that your team - actually, Stacy and the team - recommended that we merge. It wasn't my initial plan because frankly it scared the hell out of me to do it. But the two sites are DavidMeermanScott.com, which is my basic front page to the world. That's the site where I typically will have people who are interested in having me speak will go to that website and learn about my speaking. There's a bunch of videos on that site. That's also where people will go to learn about my coaching services and my advisory work. When people want to quote me in a news article or story, that's the place they'll go. It's basically the home base of David Meerman Scott. Oh, and by the way, I just might add, my middle name is Meerman. I chose to use that 20 years ago when I built my first website because I'm the only David Meerman Scott on the entire planet. There's a whole boatload of David Scotts, but there's only one David Meerman Scott. There's a David Scott that walked on the moon as the commander of Apollo 15. There's a David Scott who's a multiple time Iron Man world triathlon champion. There's a David Scott who's a member of Congress from Georgia. That's just a few of us.  Kathleen: Very good company. David: It's good company, but when I first started my first website 20 years ago, I wasn't going to be able to get any traction against those more famous David Scotts, but putting my middle name in, I was the only one. That was actually a very clever search engine marketing tactic I did a long time ago that I figured out myself. But anyway, getting back to DavidMeermanScott.com, that's my home base on the web. That's where people go to learn about me, maybe to book me to speak, to ask for a quote in an article, to pitch me something, to learn about my coaching services and to learn about my online learning programs and whatnot. My other main web property is the horrifically named webinknow. Don't ask me about that, but when I started it back in 2004, I was trying to come up with a name for my blog. Why I didn't just call it David Meerman Scott's blog I have no idea, but I didn't. I called it webinknow, W-E-B I-N-K N-O-W, which a lot of people didn't know what it meant, so they said, "web in know," which is actually spelled the same way, which makes no sense either. I was trying to imply with webinknow, it's web ink. It's like you're writing. It was a long time ago granted in the beginning of the internet, so it made sense at the time I suppose, but it was a very important property for me because that's where I blogged at least once a week for 15 years. It was a lot of content there. David: There are some blog posts that had millions of views, so there are some blog posts that had hundreds of inbound links. It is a very important property to me. I'd love to have Stacy jump in, but as we were looking at these two properties that were so important to me, we realized that there might be benefit in combining them, which totally freaked me out, but I was talked down from the cliff, and we decided that, yes, this does make sense. I don't know, Stacy, do you want to jump in or do you have another question, Kathleen? Kathleen: I'm going to frame the question for you, Stacy, because this is really interesting to me. As somebody who is a strategist who works with clients, I know you've had multiple situations where there have been companies that have said, "Should we or should we not combine these two web properties?" From your standpoint as the outside strategist looking at this, when would you say, "Yes, you should combine these two," versus when would you say, "These should stay separate"? Stacy: This is actually a really interesting case because we said both to David, right? We said, "Don't combine your newsjacking but do combine webinknow," right? Essentially what we looked at first and foremost was how much cannibalization was happening. Were we ranking for some of the same keywords? Was one site taking traffic away from the other site when it might make more sense to combine forces essentially and get even better rankings and drive all of the traffic to the same place? Most importantly, David, for your site is, were we cannibalizing traffic that might ultimately want to hire us to speak? To look to us for coaching and sending it to the wrong website that doesn't convert people down the right path for that? Stacy: When we looked at the data, we found that it made sense for webinknow to come on to the David Meerman Scott domain, and it didn't necessarily make sense for a newsjacking. Newsjacking had its own really specific topic area. That even made for another layer of interesting keyword strategy because we wanted to be really careful about talking about the newsjacking book. We definitely want that on your website, right? It's really great credibility. It's important to show the world what you've done, but if we talk about it too much, do we start cannibalizing traffic from the newsjacking site and bringing it over to yours? That put a lot of interesting thought process into this strategy that we put together for the book pages. But really the big reason for combining webinknow was that big cannibalization factor, and the fact that we really wanted to drive up the domain credibility for the David Meerman Scott domain. Kathleen: I want to make sure I understand. Let's just focus for a second on webinknow and the David Meerman Scott main site. You were looking specifically at the various keyword sets that each was ranking for. Were you looking at where there was overlap or were you looking simply at like with webinknow, here are the keywords that rank really well, but we would very much like these to be what the David Meerman Scott site ranks for? Stacy: It was a bit of both. The biggest thing that we really looked at was where there was overlap. If we have two websites that are ranking well for the same term, that means one of them is getting the traffic at the expense of the other, right? We wanted to find ways to stop that if we saw too many overlaps, and that was the case with this. We saw enough overlap, and there wasn't a strong enough reason from our perspective when we talked through it with David to keep webinknow separate, aside from that, because there's always things that you can't necessarily just look at data and have an answer to. From a branding perspective, it may have still made sense to keep a website separate even if data tells you to do it. We looked up both sides, and it, just from both ends of the spectrum, made sense to move them together. Kathleen: Stacy made this recommendation. You immediately, David, thought what? David: The biggest thing was I was really worried about doing it because it's such a big part of not just my business but my life because I actually go to my own blog and search on stories to remember things. I'll say to myself, "When was I in Russia?" I'll go to my blog and search "Russia" to see if I wrote a blog post about being in Russia because I can't remember when I was there, that kind of thing, or I'll remember that I did a post about a particular topic. As I'm doing work on, say, another book or whatever it is, I want to get information, so it's not just even the business aspect. It's the personal aspect of how important that blog was for me. I was really, really worried that number one, something disastrous would happen, and it would disappear. I guess that's human nature. I was assured many times that there's multiple backups of this and we can download it locally and we could do all this other stuff, so, okay, fine. Then I was worried because I'm not an expert in this stuff. I'm a marketing strategist, yes, but I'm not an under-the-covers SEO person. I was worried that all of those fantastic inbound links - and I don't know, Stacy, if you know how many we have, but it's certainly thousands of inbounds link - would somehow break. I was worried about that and my credibility would go down, so those things I needed to be reassured or under control, but I was really happy about losing the horrible name, webinknow, because even from the first year, it just didn't make a whole lot of sense. It would have been a very different discussion however if my blog name was really interesting. For example, if I had called it "The Marketing Blog," or something like that, that had SEO in its own right, I'm not sure that combining them would have made as much sense. But when you have a URL for a blog and a name for a blog that's so confusing, people don't even know what it is, then that's a good reason to combine. The Process of Combining Two Websites Kathleen: That's a good point. You all took the decision to do this. Can you walk me through what the next steps were? Did you have to start by cataloging the content? How did you prepare for this undertaking? Stacy: Yeah, so the biggest thing that we went through is the webinknow domain, since that was going to be the one that was going away and moving over the David Meerman Scott domain. Internally, we used a tool called Screaming Frog for this. We went and did an audit of literally every single URL that existed over there to make sure that we weren't going to miss anything when we moved everything over. We migrated all of the blogs in draft form first, so nothing actually changed on the live site. Everything still looked the same to the outside world. We got everything set up and ready, and then we had to create this massive 301 redirect file essentially where we start pulling what were all of the old URLs that we need to make sure, redirect and move to new URLs on the new website. David: There were over 1500 of them. Stacy: Yeah. Kathleen: I imagine that most of our listeners know what a 301 redirect is, but just for anyone who doesn't, fair to say it's like a change of address form for Google basically? Stacy: Yes. It's when you go to the post office and you give them your new address and do mail forwarding essentially. Kathleen: Yeah. Stacy: It moves everything over from your old URL to your new URL. 301 redirects tend to be less scary when they're within a domain. They tend to get a lot scarier, and this is when you get people who get very nervous about moving from a completely different domain to another one. That's when there's a little bit more at stake and it's a little bit easier for Google to get confused, and for traffic to get lost in that forwarding process. We wanted to make sure that we were being really very careful about it. We made sure all those redirects were set up. In addition to that, we took the opportunity to say, "Do we have ways that we could adjust some of the URLs that used to exist and keyword optimize them as we move them to the new website?" We're going to be changing the URL anyway. Can we find ways to actually improve the keyword optimization of any of our existing content? We looked at that, and then we also keyword optimized all of the new pages that we were creating as part of the redesign, so that they fit with the content and the structure and all of the topics that were coming across from webinknow. We took the opportunity to say, "We have all this old stuff that, oh my god, if we lose it, the world will end, but how can we take that and make it fresh and new and still combine it with an updated strategy for today?" Kathleen: Now, for somebody outside of this, that sounds like a massive undertaking. How do you do this in a way that isn't going to take months? This is 15 years' worth of content. David: Let me add a little bit of clarification that might help first, and then I'll let Stacy talk about some of the details. When I first started working with IMPACT, I'm going to guess it was about two years ago or maybe even three years ago. I can't remember. We did two projects together that were essentially setting this up to make this process easier. The first thing that we did was we moved my DavidMeermanScott.come website from a WordPress site to a HubSpot site. That happened, again, I don't remember the exact date, call it three years ago. The second thing that we did was we created webinknow, which was in Typepad, and moved that over also to HubSpot. Again, I don't know, let's call it two or threes years ago that was done. Those two projects were pretty significant undertakings in their own right that happened several years ago, so that now we're sitting with both DavidMeermanScott.com and webinknow.com under the same HubSpot account, which in my mind makes things easier. I'm putting words in Stacy's mouth, but in my mind makes things easier. I personally wasn't as worried as if we had been moving from WordPress to HubSpot with DavidMeermanScott.com and moving from Typepad to HubSpot with my blog, and then combining them all at the same time, which would have given me more sleepless nights. Kathleen: Yeah, I can imagine. Stacy: Yeah, and I'm definitely okay with people putting words in my mouth if they're the right words, so I totally agree with that. I would say the best way to help make this process more manageable, there's going to be parts of the process that you can say, "Let's focus on the best performing content," and there's going to be parts of this process that you would say, "Well, this is going to be tedious. I'm just going to have to put my big girl pants on and do it." The 301 redirects, there's no shortcuts; there's no turnarounds; there's nothing. You have to make sure that you are moving things over appropriately. When you're doing a blog migration this tends to be pretty easy because you can really move things over if you're keeping the same URLs. Everything that's after the slash, so it's moving from domain.com to domain.com/blog/whatever. Everything after the slash tends to stay the same if you're a straight blog migration, so you can do those more simplified where you create a rule for your redirect where everything of this type of the structure, so everything that's got the "/blog" in front of it all redirects to the same thing on the other website. They can be made easier in that way, but anything where you're changing the URL completely- Kathleen: Which you did. Stacy: We did on a few cases, so we didn't do it on all of them. This is where we focus on our highest performing content or the content that needs it the most. What you would do is if you're looking to improve your optimization, you might select the top 5% of converting blog posts, for example. Hey, these top 10% of our posts convert the most visitors. I want to make sure that we're super extra keyword optimizing them to get the most out of them. You might really say if you're going to put in extra effort in any place, just focus on the ones that are going to drive you the most results, right? For the most part, we moved everything over with that same URL structure to keep it simple and safe and less scary. But - we also at the same time that we did this - we put together a topic cluster keyword strategy, and made sure that anything that we could pull into that cluster that was fitting in terms of topic area or already talking about a similar keyword, and we pulled those pieces in and did things like update URLs or update the keywords on the page that we're moving over in order to fit that new strategy. We took the opportunity to do a hybrid, keep what was old and find a way to utilize and make new what we could improve. Kathleen: I like that strategy of prioritization. I want to make sure I understand what you said. You cherry picked, as you call them, the top performing posts. Was it based on conversion rate or based on traffic or was it a mix of the two? Stacy: In this case, we really focused on the pieces that would fit within our topic cluster strategy. If you were doing this and you weren't doing it at the same time as the topic cluster strategy, you may pick the top converting posts as an example, but we really focused on those that fit with the topic cluster. The Results Kathleen: Okay, great. I'd love to jump forward and talk about what happened. You undertook this process. You merged the two sites, and then what? Did everything break? Did David's worst fears come true? Stacy: It was very, very smooth. There's always an expectation when you do something like this, when you move from one domain to another, that Google's going to take a few weeks to catch up. What we do when we launch is we always make sure as soon as everything's up running and looks good, we resubmit our site map to Google to make sure that they are starting to index it immediately, so shorten that process and have them understand those new redirects as fast as we can. Kathleen: You're doing that through Google Search Console? Stacy: Correct, yes, my favorite tool. It's basically like, "Let me talk to you, Google, directly about what you know about me instead of guessing." After that, we kept a really close eye on what was happening. Was traffic moving over? Within the first two weeks after the site was launched, we were at the place where, if you looked at the traffic numbers for each individual domain before and you added them together, they now equaled on your traffic. We were getting almost all of the traffic across. The only difference would be that the traffic that we were cannibalizing now is all coming to one site, which is great. We weren't splitting between the two. Then the keywords that we were ranking for immediately rebounded as well. Each site, if you look individually at the number of keywords, that it had ranking in the top 20, the top 30, the top 50, whatever number or range you're looking at and added those two numbers together. Within two weeks, we were summing up to that total on the new domain. We had everything move over and continue to keep the same ranking level through that move. The exciting part was we actually even saw our rankings improve or new rankings appear for some of the pieces that we deemed appropriate and put as part of our cluster strategy. Lessons Learned Kathleen: Wow, that's great. Any particular lessons learned or things that you would do differently or things that you would advise somebody listening who's considering doing this to really watch out for if they want to undertake this for themselves? Stacy: The most important thing I can say is make sure you understand if you are considering either changing a domain or combining multiple domains together. Make sure you understand everything about how each of those domains is working today before you start making the decision about whether you should even undertake something like this because if you don't actually know how things are working or if you don't know if you're cannibalizing traffic, you may make the wrong decision and go through this process needlessly or make it a little bit harder on yourself. Just making sure that you know what your domain is doing, what keywords you're ranking for, what kind of traffic you're driving from search, and then use that to inform your decision, as opposed to waiting until you've already made the decision. Must-Have Tools Kathleen: You mentioned Screaming Frog, but you used that to catalog the URLs on the one site. Any other particular tools that you think are must-haves for this kind of a process? Stacy: Absolutely, so in order to find out if we're cannibalizing traffic, the tool that we use internally to do that is called SEMrush or S-E-Mrush. I think I've heard it pronounced both ways. But that one, it's great. It actually gives you a really easy visual of how big your overlap is, so it actually visualizes it as a Venn diagram. If you put like, "Here's the keyword universe of site A and here's the keyword universe of site B, and here's how much they overlap," you can really start to understand how that cannibalization is happening or if it's even happening. If there's no overlap, then you're fine. The sites are probably not really causing problems for each other, but if you're within the same topic area, there's usually going to be a decent amount of overlap. That's what we used to decide if it made sense to combine the URLs or not. The Owner's Perspective Kathleen: Great, and David, from your standpoint, obviously there was a lot of trepidation going into this process. Stacy has explained what happened from the technical side, the ranking side, but as the business owner, can you speak to your experience through the launch and post-launch? Was there an interruption to the business? How did that all play out? David: For me, I think what was absolutely critical and made it happen really smoothly was that it was done in stages. As I mentioned a couple of moments ago, the first stage, which happened several years ago, was to move the website from WordPress over to HubSpot and then we moved the blog from Typepad over to HubSpot. Those happened several years ago at two different times. Then we did a redesign of the website, followed by a redesign of the blog, and finally the last step was combining them. For me, it wasn't a massive "tear down the house and rebuild it." It was more like what we did was we were still living in the old house, but we built a new foundation and then we built the new house, and then we painted the new house. Then we built a wall between homes and we tried out the new house for size and it seemed to fit. Then we moved in and we knocked down the old house. It was a really, really staged process. For me, I found that to be a really thoughtful way to go through it that I was able to manage given all the other things that I'm doing. There's many times that we'd be communicating and I'd be in some other country about to jump onto a stage to give a speech, for example. I really appreciated that it was done in those stages. For that reason, it wasn't like, "Oh my god, we just did a redesign and combined everything, and I've got to learn a new tool and how to use it," all at the same time, which would have been a problem. From my perspective, it went really smoothly. I was really excited to see that for certain search terms, instead of being position five and position eight, we'd jump up to position two for the same keyword, things like that. That was a real major part of the strategy, so it ended up working, although, I don't have enough data yet to be able to say. Ultimately the main goal is that I want to generate more leads particularly for my speaking business. I think it was just within the time that this project was finished I had quite a few more leads than I had been getting. It looks like tomorrow I'm going to close a nice speaking gig for an organization in Canada, which I'm excited about, who found me through search. That was the ultimate goal, and it looks like that's playing out. This is not easy. Stacy and the team did the work, but even as the business owner who is involved in the process start to finish, it's not an easy process. But once it's done, it's like moving into that new house. It's all worth it because you live better and happier and healthier and with more prosperity, so it's all worth it. Kathleen: I think that's really fascinating what you said about the stages. A lot of times I talk to companies who are sitting in that situation of, "Oh my god, I have these three websites, or these two websites that I need to combine or I'm thinking I might want to combine." It can seem overwhelming. What I'm hearing is that maybe the first thing isn't to try to, as they say, eat the elephant all in one bite. It's to say, "How can I get myself on a surer footing and maybe put these two websites on the same platform?" It was funny. You used the analogy of the house renovation. In my head, what I was thinking is there's some types of surgery, I feel like ACL replacement, where they tell you you have to get in shape in order to have the surgery. I feel like this is like that. We're going to get in shape before we go into surgery. David: No, and I think that's right. I use the house metaphor because we actually did a massive renovation project on our house that finished up about two years ago. That's exactly how we did it. We not only renovated the original house, but we also created an addition to the house. It was a long three year process to do that, and we decided we wanted to live in the house during the process. That's the same as this project. The website cannot go away. The blog cannot go away, yet we're trying to renovate it and combine it all while it's still running. I think that's the best metaphor is that renovation and addition project that we did it while still living in the house. That's what we did with this project, and I think it worked great. It is hard, but I think so far it's only been a couple of months since we've been completed, but so far it's been totally worth it. We haven't talked about the design at all, but the design of the new combined website / blog is fabulous. It does a way better job at showcasing who I am than what we had originally, which was old and dusty. It was built quite a few years ago. A different company, not IMPACT, worked on it. It was adequate at the time. I wasn't embarrassed by it, but what I've got now, I'm really proud of, so it's really big, great change. Kathleen: Stacy, do we have any before and after pictures of the site? Stacy: We could definitely get some. Kathleen: Yeah, I would love to put those in the show notes, so we could see the transformation. That's always so much fun. Stacy: Yeah. DavidMeermanScott.com Before and After This is David's current website homepage (designed by Stacy and the team at IMPACT): This was David's homepage prior to the redesign (courtesy of the Wayback Machine): Kathleen: Really interesting to hear about this process. I know, Stacy, you're writing an article on this that, by the time this interview goes live. It's going to be up on our site, so I will link to that. Click here to read Stacy's article Kathleen: David, I think you're going to be posting some things on this from your perspective, so I'll link to that as well. If you're listening and you want to learn more or dig in, get more details, head to the show notes on the IMPACT website, and you'll find a link to David's article, Stacy's article, and some cool before and after pictures as well as some screen shots of the results that David got (check out his organic keyword rankings below!). Kathleen's Two Questions Kathleen: Changing subjects for a minute, there are two questions I always like to ask my guests. I'm going to ask both of you. I'm going to start with David. David, I'm really interested in this one because you were an advisor to HubSpot from way back in the beginning. I always like to ask every guest I have, company or individual, who do you think is doing inbound marketing really well right now? David: That's a very, very interesting question. One of my favorite companies to talk about is a little tiny company in York, Maine, called Grain Surfboards. They make sustainable wooden surfboards. They're a little company. I think there's four or five people there. They run out of a barn in York, Maine. They just do a fabulous job at their inbound marketing. They're not marketers. They're people who make surfboards for a living. I ran across them because I did a search on Google for wooden surfboards. I found them. Wow, they have a really cool website. This is really interesting. Then I found that not only can you buy a wooden surfboard, but you can actually go through a wooden surfboard course where you can make your own wooden surfboard, so I signed up. I did that, then I went back and I did it a second time. Kathleen: That's so cool. David: Through one Google search, I think I've spent $4,000 to go through two wooden surfboard building courses at Grain Surfboards. I'm a really big fan of organizations like that that have either zero marketing dollars in their marketing budget or maybe there's $150 and somebody's brother-in-law, but they can still do a fabulous job. Kathleen: I love that example, and I know a lot of my listeners are companies just like that. It's great to hear an example of somebody successful doing this with a shortage of resources. Stacy, how about you? Who do you think is doing inbound marketing really well right now? Stacy: This answer's going to sound totally self-serving, but especially for the topic area as we've talked about, there's two resources that I've relied on super heavily to learn about all of the pieces that built the way that we do keyword strategies, and then all of the technical SEO knowledge to make sure that we could pull something off like this without breaking David's site. That's Liz Murphy internally at IMPACT is an incredible resource for understanding how to build topic clusters and pillar strategies. Then Franco Valentino from Narrative SEO, which is a partner of IMPACT's - those are my two go-to sources of information. They have put out such great content. We just released a pillar page that was a collaboration between the two of them. If you really want the best of the best information on SEO. Exactly, but those the places that I've been going for, especially in this topic area. Kathleen: Great. Yeah, I have to say I couldn't do my job without the two of them, so I would agree with that. Alright, for the second question, I'm going to start with Stacy and end with David. We'll change up the order. Second question I always ask is with the world of digital marketing changing at, it would sometimes can seem like, a lightning fast pace, how do you stay educated and up to date? Stacy, let's start with you. Stacy: I try and find a balance because you could really easily get just swept up in the tons and tons and tons of information that is out there and being produced day in and day out. It's almost impossible to keep up and say you know everything about everything. I've picked some topic areas that I try to make sure that I am constantly up to date on. I'll tend to return back to really specific sources for those areas. For example, the SEMrush blog for SEO stuff specifically is topnotch. It's where I learn a lot of what I do. Then I try to, on occasion, google terms that fit with the topic area as well and find new sources that are maybe outside of what I know already because it's really easy to get stuck in that little bubble of people who think and talk and act just like you, instead of looking out at people who are looking at things a different way. Kathleen: Great. David, how do you stay current? David: I do have some blog and other sources that I read on a regular basis. I get the IMPACT content, which I love, of course. I read Seth Godin. I read a guy called Bob Lefsetz, who's absolutely not a marketer. He writes about music, but he has a fascinating take on the music business, which I think, because I'm such a huge music fan, that I apply those ideas to marketing in general. But the vast majority of the way I keep current is when I speak at conferences all over the world on a regular basis. I don't just go do my speech and leave. I go, I listen to the other sessions. I meet people at lunch. I go out to the dinners or the cocktail receptions and find out what people are up to. I serve on about a dozen advisory boards. I don't do traditional consulting. I'm not a consultant. I'm not a marketing agency or anything like that, but I do serve as an advisor to about a dozen different companies, including HubSpot, who I've been with since 2007. I try in every case, when I'm working with those advisory clients, to learn how they do their marketing. What's working? What's not working? How can we make this better? That's really great because it's almost like I'm not an employee of those companies, but I am essentially an insider, so I'm able to see what's going on in their real world situation. That combination keeps me to the point where I'm feeling like I'm current for what works for me, although there's plenty of people who are way more on the cutting edge than I am. Kathleen: I think it sounds like the common theme between both of you is knowing what you want your area of focus to be, and not trying to be an expert in all things. That's a good take away. David: Yeah, and in my case, working with IMPACT and working with Stacy and the team, it's been great because I consider myself a marketing strategist. I love the strategy aspect. I am decidedly not an SEO expert, not a designer. I don't know what's going on. I know what a 301 redirect is, but that was about the extent of my knowledge of most of what Stacy just said over the last 45 minutes. I'm fortunate to be able to be partnered with you guys on the project because I had a vision for what I wanted to accomplish, but I had no clue whatsoever how to get there. Kathleen: It's been really interesting for me to hear you guys talk about this experience because in my many years of first being an agency owner and then I was on the sales team at IMPACT, I've talked to so many different companies, and this kind of thing comes up a lot. The stress and worry and tension that always bubbles under the surface is really palpable. It's interesting to hear a real example of this process having been carried through to its end and having gone well. Thank you for sharing that. David: Oh yeah, and thank you for having me on, and thank you, Stacy, for all the hard work. Stacy: Awesome. Thanks for letting us tinker with your site even though it was scary. How to Reach David and Stacy Kathleen: I know that you can find Stacy at IMPACTbnd.com. David, if somebody wants to get in touch with you, learn more about what you do, maybe talk with you about coming to speak, can you tell them the best way to find you online? David: The fabulously redesigned DavidMeermanScott is a great place. If you google my name as we spoke about earlier, David Meerman Scott, it will only pop me up, which is neat. On most social networks, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, I am DMScott, D-M-S-C-O-T-T. You Know What To Do Next... Kathleen: Great. Thank you both for being here today. If you're listening and you enjoyed what you heard or you learned something new, of course, as always, I would love it if you would give the podcast a review on Apple Podcast or the platform of your choice. If you know someone who is doing kick ass inbound marketing work, please tweet me at Workmommywork because I would love to interview them. That's it for this week. Thanks.

Why are so many heroes also pricks? ● How pointy was Bathsheba? ● How did David have Bathsheba’s husband offed? ● Did David play Guns ‘n’ Roses on his harp as he seduced Bathsheba? ● How did David spot Bathsheba when she was bathing? ● What Karmic brick did God bounce off King David’s skull? ● What were the options on Absalom’s custom chariot? ● What does forgiveness really mean and how can it help you?

It's week 2 of ROCKTOBER and this week the gang forces Rebecca to Watch DOWNRAGE a groovy new horror / thriller on Shudder. Did Rebecca survive? Did David toss the freaking thing? You will have to listen to find out! Of course we have reviews of Titans, the new Dr. Who, Venom and the Old Man gushes about A Star is Born (He might even get sapp). Of course more animals on flights in WTF news and the Old Man can't catch a break in this week's Halloween Rant! Enjoy!

David Limbaugh has written almost a dozen bestsellers. Recently his focus has been on bringing people to the Gospel of Christ.We discuss his latest labor of love: Jesus is Risen. Why did he write it? Who should read it? How can we apply the lessons of Paul's conversion to our own discipleship? Did David learn anything from writing this book that he didn't already know? Why did Christ tell Peter, prior to His arrest, that when he was converted... he should strengthen his brethren...yet Paul's conversion was seemingly instantaneous?How do we deal with issues of Christian unity in antiquity and today when people are so fickle and disagreement so easy to find.Basically, I pepper him with questions. Enjoy.Pick up your copy here: https://amzn.to/2A3914GThank you David. Truth + Character + Wisdom = Prosperity. *******************************************************************► BOOK NOTES / SHOW NOTES►https://goo.gl/ap1nBgPLACES I GO► PODCAST: SPREAKER- https://www.spreaker.com/show/oh-hale-yeah► PODCAST: iTunes - ► PODCAST: Google - ► QUORA - https://goo.gl/31USZa► MEDIUM - https://goo.gl/fMTWZR► INSTAGRAM- @Oohaleyeah► FACEBOOK - https://goo.gl/7tA4N6► PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/OhHaleYeah► TWITTER- https://goo.gl/85RFf2► PAYPAL- www.paypal.me/OHHALEYEAH► SUBSCRIBE - https://goo.gl/UtxgdyPLAYLISTS► THE CLIMATE SCAM► https://goo.gl/nndfC4► THE EDUCATION SCAM ► https://goo.gl/THvGvn► THE ABORTION SCAM► https://goo.gl/8HbBGx► THE MEDIA SCAM ► https://goo.gl/113Rts►THE GENDER SCAM► https://goo.gl/CSDHvG► THE SCIENCE SCAM► https://goo.gl/JuATSE► MUSLIM JIHAD & THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE ► https://goo.gl/HzRTy4► FEMINISM IS CANCER► https://goo.gl/nsnGJN► COMMUNISM, FASCISM, SOCIALISM, PROGRESSIVISM ► https://goo.gl/kZGSAA► SUNDAY SCHOOL ►►THAT'S RACIST!► https://goo.gl/nDSuFn►LIVESTREAMS►PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support this channel. ********************************************************************Youtube DE-MONETIZES ALMOST ALL OF MY CONTENT. Apparently, advertisers prefer buyers that watch cat videos and "woke" Buzzfeed content and not mature, educated, sentient adults.If you enjoy this content, please support my channel:➜Patreon Page has just been launched. I post all of my preparation notes on this page & would love your support:https://www.patreon.com/OhHaleYeahPAYPAL ONE TIME DONATION: paypal.me/OHHALEYEAH********************************************************************All footage taken falls under ''fair use'' of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998). Therefore, no breach of privacy or copyright has been committed. Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship.***************

Formerly the senior VP for a nine-figure company, David Frey found that working for himself was not only more enjoyable but profitable as well. He has spent the last twenty years authoring multiple marketing training programs that have allowed other entrepreneurs to make their mark in the business world, with his https://www.amazon.com/UK-Small-Business-Marketing-Bible/dp/0954811100 (Small Business Marketing Bible) being chief among them. Since receiving a kidney transplant, David has shifted his focus to health and fitness and written a whopping 21 books on the subject, all part of his “Willpower Secret” program. On top of that, he volunteers in his hometown of Houston and works with the charity Village Impact, which builds schools throughout Kenya (check out episode 010 with Rachel Miller for more info!). In this episode, David discusses his stumbles and successes writing ebooks, when a new hire is and is not worth it, and why schools mean so much to developing communities.   Show Notes: How difficult was it for David to switch career paths when he had already sunk so much time and resources into his former line of work? It was actually fairly easy, as he had a lot of technical experience from his time in the Navy, giving him transferable skills. What spurred him to start his own business? Received a sizeable severance package from his former employer following a merger, which gave him the financial boost to become an entrepreneur. Why did he settle on marketing work? Had marketing experience, and was influenced by the rise in ebooks, so he combined his knowledge with this new passion. What was his first ebook? Pitbull Secrets, a guide to training pitbull dogs.     How did his entrepreneurial career really take off? He drew the attention of local marketers and realized he could use his knowledge on the subject to coach them. How did he learn all of these marketing skills? Primarily rom Dan Kennedy, an early pioneer in the field of marketing. Did David have any early stumbles in his career? An ebook about making good grades in school. He only sold one copy! What beliefs about money did David’s family instill in him growing up? Grew up middle class, with his family rarely going out and buying new clothes for him; inspired his frugality and work ethic. What does David think is the biggest misconception young people have about financial success? That success will come easy, and that they’ll get more for less. What is his advice for those looking to change their negative feelings toward money? Small wins will gradually and positively change your outlook and situation. What are his tips for learning to trust others with work and in collaboration? If you can break even at your business within the first few months of hiring them, keep them on. Don’t hire cheap. How has risk-taking played into David’s success? He’s definitely taken risks, but never ones that could bankrupt him. When did he first recognize his drive to make a difference and help improve the world? Getting involved with a mission to Bolivia through his church. How do Village Impact’s schools positively affect their communities beyond educating children? They’re beacons of hope, helping villagers realize there are future opportunities for their communities. How does David volunteer in Houston? Volunteers through his church, at the food bank, and Nora’s House, which provides housing for families of people going through hospital stays and procedures. Who has been the most impactful person in David’s journey to do well and achieve financial success? Dan Kennedy. Who has been the most impactful person in David’s drive to do good? Amy and Stu McLaren, founders of Village Impact. When David is having a bad day, what does he do to get himself out of his funk? He goes to the gym and listens to the Mormon Tabernacle...

To start our ninth go-round, Brett brought in a film that was New to Two (Nicole and David). His choice was an unconventional biopic by a filmmaker who began his career with a biopic of Karen Carpenter enacted with Barbie dolls. While Todd Haynes used actual humans in his portrait of Bob Dylan, he felt the need to use six of them in I'm Not There, to show the stark differences among the facets of the performer. How well was the music used in this movie? Did David and Nicole have a favorite "Dylan"? Should Christian Bale ever be allowed to have a perm again? (No.) Join us this episode for the discussion of these points and many more!Next week's episode is a Netflix Roulette pick! The Netflix gods provided us with the Nic Cage film 'Pay the Ghost.' This episode will be the first of three Movie-Ghoul-Round haunted episodes in October! So spooky!Head on over to TiltingWindmillStudios.com for more podcast episodes, columns, and more!

David may need some bachelor party advice. David enjoyed traveling alone and his interesting music taste. Did David actually go to New Orleans, or is it a lie? Gotcha Gossip: Ben Affleck has an interesting visitor. People are Crazy: Monkeying around. We celebrate birthdays! Country Music News: Garth shares the secret to a happy marriage. NFL is back!!! What jobs are considered to be the most sexy. What is the last Book you sat down to read? What's on TV tonight?

According to a leaked internal report obtained by the Guardian, European Union diplomats claim that Israel is using archaeological excavations in Jerusalem as a “political tool to modify the historical narrative and to support legitimize and expand settlements.” On today’s program, archaeologist Brent Nagtegaal looks at the EU’s claim in reference to the ancient city of Jerusalem known as the City of David. Did David and Solomon Actually Exist? - watchjerusalem.co.il/2016/12/29/dav…ctually-exist/ www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/…alem-tourism-un Picture of the City of David in the first half of the 20th century: blog2.bibleplaces.com/uploaded_image…eymat08433.jpg

It's the episode that will make you question everything. Who is a hero? Who is a villain? How well do we really know anyone? Did David actually popularise the use of the air horn in the 90s? And where does anything fall on the horny scale? But mostly it will make you question how much we can talk about things that aren't actually the songs of the 97 countdown before we lose the legitimacy of this entire premise... Stay with us. SONGS COVERED: 80. Ben Harper - Faded 79. Portishead - All Mine 78. The Mark of Cain - Degenerate Boy 77. The Cardigans - Lovefool 76. Imani Coppola - Legend of a Cow Girl Theme Music by Sweet Potato (aka Wax Ecstatic) Editing and audio by Adam Buncher LIKE HOTTEST 100S AND 1000S ON FACEBOOK: hottest100sand1000s FOLLOW HOTTEST 100S AND 1000S ON TWITTER: @Hottest100s AND YOUR HOSTS: @AndrewM138 | @DJYwrites | @NLFHarrison and Adam, who is almost definitely in your kitchen right now, stealing your protein shakes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the episode that will make you question everything. Who is a hero? Who is a villain? How well do we really know anyone? Did David actually popularise the use of the air horn in the 90s? And where does anything fall on the horny scale? But mostly it will make you question how much we can talk about things that aren't actually the songs of the 97 countdown before we lose the legitimacy of this entire premise... Stay with us. SONGS COVERED: 80. Ben Harper - Faded 79. Portishead - All Mine 78. The Mark of Cain - Degenerate Boy 77. The Cardigans - Lovefool 76. Imani Coppola - Legend of a Cow Girl LIKE HOTTEST 100S AND 1000S ON FACEBOOK: hottest100sand1000s FOLLOW HOTTEST 100S AND 1000S ON TWITTER: @Hottest100s AND YOUR HOSTS: @AndrewM138 | @DJYwrites | @NLFHarrison and Adam, who is almost definitely in your kitchen right now, stealing your protein shakes.

Did the ATF and FBI mess up again? After last weeks talk about Ruby Ridge, we move on to another sketchy incident that happened in Waco, Texas in 1993. The transmitters (Rudy, Tyler, Kristen, and Toby) talk about David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, the Mount Carmel compound, and try to find out what went wrong during the stand off with the FBI. What were the Branch Davidians or the Seventh-day Adventists? How did they form as a religious group? Who is David Koresh? Did David Koresh have a troubled past? Does Toby and David have something in common? God told David to have a child with a 65 year old woman? Did David have a gunfight with a previous leader of the Davidians? Did the previous leader kill someone? Tyler and Toby has never played Clue? How did David obtain the Mount Carmel property? Was David preparing for the "end of days"? What did the news paper write about David? Director Robert Rodriguez was an undercover ATF agent, or are we confused? A mail man found hand grenades in a package to Mount Carmel? What is a "hell fire trigger"? Did the Davidians need to pay a $200 tax on each automatic weapon? How did the Davidians make money for the compound? Did the Davidians have a meth lab at Mount Carmel? What was "SHOWTIME"? What tactics did the FBI use to try and get the people to leave the compound? All this and more probably won't be answered as we... TRY TO EXPLAIN THE UNEXPLAINABLE! _______________________________________ Our show is available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play and YouTube! Just search for "Secret Transmission Podcast" Please subscribe, rate, and review! Order a shirt to help support the show! https://whatamaneuver.net/collections/secret-transmission-podcast Twitter: @secrettranspod https://twitter.com/secrettranspod Instagram: @secrettranspod https://www.instagram.com/secrettranspod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecretTransmissionPodcast/ Email: secrettransmission@hotmail.com Thank you for listening! _______________________________________ Podcasts you should look up! Hysteria 51 Twitter: @Hysteria51Pod Website: http://hysteria51.com/ Regular Irregularities Podcast Twitter: @podcast_ri Website: http://regular-irregularities.madewithopinion.com/ Zeng This! Twitter: @ZengThis Website: https://soundcloud.com/zengthis Parlipod Twitter: @parlipod Website: http://parliamentpod.wixsite.com/parlipod _______________________________________ Some of our sources: =================== Waco the Big Lie 1 of 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iCfvhl9NXw Waco the Big Lie 2 of 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRaJ5QA1kk&t=466s Waco the Big Lie 3 of 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N5Dm0LmhMg&spfreload=10&bpctr=1491499293 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjKqvj1LRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Jsm74Lkwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CDQn_ZgJs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-waco/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQFB8crxok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Roden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRaJ5QA1kk http://www.conspiracy-gov.com/other-conspiracies/waco-siege/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)

If you’re entirely new to the idea of private label sales, this is the perfect episode for you to hear. Today’s guest is a regular guy from Australia who began his private label journey from square one. David had no prior business experience, no understanding of how private label sales on Amazon work, and very little in terms of resources. When he found this podcast he was turned on to the idea right away and began making plans. In this conversation you were going to hear that David took it from square one all the way to 6 figures per month in less than a year. It's a testimony of how doable this business model is and how realistically a person with zero experience can create a very good living for themselves. Can you do private label sales if you have no online business experience? This episode answers the question with a resounding, “YES!” David story is one inexperienced moving toward experience through the process of learning. David read and listen to everything he could about private label sales on Amazon and started taking action. It was those actions that brought clarity and understanding which is now translated into a very healthy monthly income. Take the time to listen to this episode, you will discover so many nuggets of gold for your private label business, whether you are a newbie or have been doing Amazon private label sales for a very long time. Keyword research tips you may never have considered. As today's guests began his own journey into Amazon private label sales he began to learn a lot on his own about keyword research. Yes, he had read and listen to many tutorials and instructionals on the subject but I learned a lot simply by doing. On this episode David shares some of the insights and tips he has learned about doing effective keyword research and not all of them are things you commonly here. You'll get a lot of value from this episode so be sure you take the time to listen. Do you know the “cash in/ cash out” equation? If you're considering private label sales on the Amazon platform you need to be aware of the many things that will bite into your profit margin over time. David learn the hard way that there is much more that comes out of the gross income figures than he expected. Now he operates according to what he calls the “cash in / cash out” equation. it is a simple way that he calculates the amount of profit he is going to receive from any potential product as he sells it on Amazon. Sticking to the results of the equation helps David to stay in a place of maximum profit while avoiding the pitfall of overestimating his success. If that sounds a bit confusing, it won't have to listen to this episode so be sure you take the time. Everyone wants to take the easy road, but it seldom leads to success. You don't have to spend much time online in the various business communities before you realize there are many, many people who are trying to take the easy way to significant income.  today's guest, David, has made the observation that the easy road may look best at first, but it seldom leads to genuine success. Hard work is involved, even in private label sales on Amazon. David's philosophy is that if you can be the expert, you should be. Yes, it takes a lot of time and hard work, but it is entirely worth it. Find out how David has a apply this attitude to his own private label business on this episode. OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE OF THE AMAZING SELLER [0:02] Scott’s introduction to the episode! [1:20] An email from a TAS listener - 0 to $100K in less than a year. [2:21] Could you share the podcast with someone? [4:27] The interview with David begins. [6:08] David had ZERO business or ecommerce experience prior to FBA. [7:10] Why David became interested in Amazon private label sales. [11:44] David’s path to multiple products. [12:20] The addicting nature of doing well on Amazon. [13:30] How David did his product research (Jungle Scout). [15:12] The changes David made to his product to differentiate. [16:15] Using the reviews of his competition to create the idea product. [17:10] David’s initial sales goals and how he surpassed them. [20:51] How David sources his products on Alibaba. [21:49] Did David’s second product help the sales of the first product? [23:00] David’s launch process: pricing, reviews, keywords, etc. [27:03] How many units David gave away initially. [28:33] David’s process for using Keyword Inspector to choose keywords. [33:48] The “cash in / cash out” equation: what kind of margin do you need? [38:15] Exploring opportunities as they present themselves. [38:39] David’s crazy income goal for the future. [39:51] The one piece of advice David gives to new sellers. [46:14] Scott’s summary of the conversation. RESOURCES MENTIONED Connect with Scott on Persicope - http://www.Periscope.tv Connect with Scott on Snapchat - ScottVoelker1 The TAS Facebook group - www.TheAmazingSeller.com/fb www.TheAmzingSeller.com/workshop - register for a free live workshop www.TheAmazingSeller.com/JS - get Jungle Scout (affiliate link) www.Alibaba.com AMZ Tracker Viral Launch (launch tool) Keyword Inspector

PODCAST #11 DAVID AND GOLIATH AND THE 5 SMOOTH STONES Most people have heard the story of David and Goliath but few have heard the true details of his brothers and all the other giants described in detail in the Bible and other historical accounts. Why does the Bible describe the detail that David picked up 5 smooth stones to fight Goliath? The Bible and other ancient accounts tell the names and accounts of all his brothers and that they were also giants. Did David also intend to kill them as well that day when he picked up 5 stones? Where they true remnants of the fallen angels and the nephilim interbreeding with humans or were these just big dudes who had problems with their pituitary glands? Let's dig deep and find out! Archaeologists have found gigantic spearheads made of both stone and metal up to 26 inches long and weighing up to 4.5 pounds that seem to confirm the existence of gigantic humans from 10 to 15 foot tall or larger living on the earth in ancient times. http://rephaim23.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/giant-spearheads-from-canaan-2600-bc-26-inches-4-5-lbs/ We also go into the scientific ways we can confirm the true origins of these accounts such as the description of some giants having 12 fingers and double rows of teeth being found in certain tribes such as the Morani tribes who have legends of red headed giants that with the same attributes that merged into their tribe during ancient times. http://gianthumanskeletons.blogspot.com/p/giant-skeletons-with-double-rows-of.html http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/waorani/waorani_page7.htm We also play our song David vs Goliath and an amazing audio description of the story of David and Goliath created by Steve Cook with 5 talents audio. http://www.5talentsaudio.com/ https://www.facebook.com/fivetalentsaudio For more Destiny Lab go to: Support via paypal to: destinylab@gmail.com Order Destiny Lab music: www.destinylab.com Watch Destiny Lab videos: www.youtube.com/destinylab Destiny Lab Facebook: www.facebook.com/destinylab

These 2 books describe the events that occured during the kingship of David. What made David a man after God's own heart? Also, in preparation for the book of Psalms, the subject of inspiration was discussed at length. Nathan at first told David that his idea to build a temple was a great idea, but then had to return to say that he was wrong. Can a prophet make mistakes? And, we discussed the story of David and Bathsheba. What is there to learn about God in that story? Did David want God to pardon him or to heal him? Get the powerpoint slides here - http://www.godscharacter.com/files/ppt/2_Samuel+1_Chronicles.ppt