Business Matchmaking

The Business Matchmaking initiative is designed to help small businesses participate in procurement opportunities offered by government agencies and major corporations. The program blends education, training, counseling and tools with face-to-face “virtual” matchmaking meetings with procurement representatives from the public and private sectors.

Business Matchmaking is a program of SCORE, a source of free advice for small business owners. The program is offered at no cost to its participants.

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MyLifeBrand

Online social networks are popping up by the hundreds, and business professionals are flocking to sites like FaceBook, Ryze, LinkedIn and the like.  Between keeping your online profile current and responding to contacts, online networking can suck up an incredible amount of time.

MyLifeBrand is a no-cost service that promises to help you manage up to eight social networks or Web sites in one place, saving you the time to log into each individually. It also allows you to manage your “friends” from various networks and broadcast announcements to all of them at once.

www.MyLifeBrand.com

Sell your broken electronics, help the environment

BuyMyTronics wants to buy your used, new or broken electronics! This new service promises a “fast, simple, and eco-friendly” way for you to get money for your iPod, iPhone, Nintendo, Microsoft, Zune, Sony or PSP Game Console. The company guarantees top dollar for unwanted electronic devices, no matter their condition: “We don’t care about the condition of your electronics. We will accept a Bricked iPhone, a Sad Faced Hard Drive iPod, a New PS3, an X-Box with a Disk Read Error ro an old Wii.”

Meanwhile, BuyMyTronics is working on pricing and getting their ducks in order to be able to take in laptops, cameras, cell phones and more. Sounds like a win-win: “Keep your eWaste out of the landfill and get some quick cash in return!”

www.BuyMyTronics.com

Case Studies: Christ-Led Businesses

Riverview Community Bank: The Story of a Christ-Led Bank

BBC News On Faith-Based Businesses:

Esther Havens, Freelance Photographer: The Safest Place To Be

 

Career Training for Ex-Offenders:

Spiritual Growth

Enjoy the following resources for personal and spiritual growth:

• Spiritual Thirst: 30 Day Devotional & Growth Journal
• Personal Development Plan Workbook, by Michael Zigarelli

Christian Business Groups

Search the following databases for a Christian business group near you:

• Christian Professional Magazine
• International Coalition of Workplace Ministries

Anointed for Business

Read and download an excerpt of Anointed for Business by Ed Silvoso — one of our favorite books on marketplace ministry and the faith-at-work movement.

Click here to download/read the excerpt.

Also from Ed Silvoso: The Power Of One Powerpoint presentation.

Tools and answers for sharing your faith

Below are links to wisdom and resources provided by the Way of the Master and Living Waters ministries:

• Answers to 100 questions and objections about your faith.
• Personal witnessing: How Jesus did it.
• Save yourself some pain: wisdom for new and growing Christians
• Spiritual thirst: 30 days to a deeper walk with God
• Scientific facts of the Bible

Evangelism Audio & Video Messages

We highly recommend you download, share, and listen to Hell’s Best Kept Secret, which might just change your view of personal evangelism, true and false conversions, and what it really means to follow Jesus Christ. The message is available in several languages and may be downloaded and freely reproduced and distributed.

Other (free) personal evangelism audio messages we recommend:

• True and False Conversion
• Freedom from Fear of Man
• How To Get On Fire For God
• 3 Minutes to Live

Now for some excellent videos we’ve found on the Web:

• Click here to watch Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron witness to strangers.
• Search a library of free apologetics videos by Lee Strobel, former atheist and best-selling author of The Case for Christ.