Mobile companies have understood that mobile users frequently access the internet to highlight their social presence and carry out socially connecting activities. Short message services earn a great response and are the best way of mobile marketing and establishing connectivity.

With the exponential increase in usage of mobiles, connecting to other people through SMS has become a common habit. The advanced mobile phones help people chat, scan codes, shop and carry out businesses through SMS. You can improve the business productivity of your organization by using SMS for marketing purposes. The best way to reach out to multiple people at the same time and to pass on information instantly with a single tap is to opt for a Bulk message sender.

Tele-marketing or phone marketing has gained popularity in the last few years and now the annoying traditional calls are replaced by the warm and well-conjured up SMSes. A single framed message is forwarded to multiple sources from one ID. Imagine picking the phone and speaking to thousands of customers one by one, isn’t it a tiring proposition? You can now accomplish, compose and send any bulk campaign through SMS’s far and wide at one go.

Mobile and internet companies can reliably get in touch with the customer base through Bulk SMS and if you are running a business you can contact a Bulk SMS sender to load a Bulk SMS software pack for marketing and sales. People are always aware of the small business, pleasure or promotional events planned by the message sending company through SMS.

Business houses thrive on planning and reaching out to a large audience for the success of their trade and business. They desire a reliable way that is cost-effective and easy to manage. Success depends on how to contact multiple people at one go and that too at minimum cost. Communication needs to be cheap but secure and quick for the business to succeed. The ideal way to reach out to a large number of customers or clients at the same time is to get the bulk SMS and email sending software for your organisation.

The sender ID will show who the message is from, and the person who has received it can read it at convenience. You can show your contact that you respect his or her privacy and are not encroaching on it by calling at awkward timings.

Business is booming all around and people are constantly on the look-out for better deals. Customers respond to communication in the marketing arena and are an important part of a well-running business. Marketing teams strategize communication methods and develop creative and easy bulk SMS and email sending software to reach out to thousands of clients instantly. You can even personalize the messages with the help of Bulk SMS software and then personally address the mass messages to different people consistently but individualistically. The software measures and scales the software carefully and sends a personalised message within no time.

This software can be purchased online and many reputed companies offer best packages with a free trial as well. Save your time just contact a Bulk SMS sender. By investing a very little amount of people and reach out to loads of people conveniently at the click of a mouse. You can even carry out SMS communications with the help of your desktop.

GETTING STARTED WITH SHARE TRADING

At what scale?

How much money do you need to start buying shares?

Got £250?

Realistically you need, at the very least, a few hundred pounds. Say £250, to spend on buying shares in one chosen stock. With £1000 you could even kick off with a portfolio of four stocks – buying £250worth of shares in each.

There is no restriction on how few shares you can buy. (You could buy one single share if you wanted to – though the dealing costs involved would usually make it pointless).

Got only £100?

You could open a spreadbetting account with say £100, and bet in very small stakes. Some firms will let you stake as little as 1p per point (a point being a 1p move in the share price), which might sound a bit of a jokey thing to be doing but is actually a very good way of learning the technicalities ahead of

scaling up. Just set yourself the task of turning that £100 into £200 within say 3 months.

Check out this spreadbetting explanation site http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/

Got nothing?

You can take part in one of the many free-to-enter stockpicking competitions that the popular financial websites sometimes run. A few of them offer cash prizes. As a beginner you wouldn’t expect to win. But you could fluke it. And in the meantime it will help hone your selection skills.

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If you do turn out to be so good at sharedealing that you fancy the idea of doing it for a living, you are then looking for much bigger capital requirements of course. In simplistic calculation, the amount of capital you would need will depend on

(i) the performance level you have found yourself to be consistently capable of, and

(ii) the level of income you require.

If you are someone who can scrape along on £12,000 a year, and have found you can achieve a 35% pa net return on sharedealing, you would need a stake of about £35,000 – plus enough to tide you over till the gains are redeemable.

For £20k from the same performance you need £57k invested. Or £80k for £20k if you are achieving a 25% net return.

Start off with too little capital (as I did!) and you end up chasing riskier stuff to try and get greater returns, just to survive. From an idler’s perspective, the aim should be to achieve returns in excess of those needed to merely survive, so the capital base can be added to, and the percentage return needed can then be progressively lowered, reducing the amount of active effort and attention needed thereafter.

Achieving returns in excess of 15-20% pa in good years and bad does require some serious study, and some discipline. There is also an element of luck; but luck favours the prepared. Once you master the art of keeping your average loss smaller than your average win, you can get away with fewer than half your selections being right.

If your average win is more than 1.5 x your average loss size, you can make a profit from winning 4 times out of ten, and losing six times. This is a win ratio many fulltime traders are happy with. Get your average win up to 2x your average loss size and anything better than one win in three will put you ahead. Which gives you some useful leeway if your selection skills are not yet good.) Tight control of losses is a technique that can be learnt and implemented from the outset, whereas stock selection skills take longer to acquire. Most newcomers focus on selection techniques and lose money while doing so.

I’m pretty experienced spread betting the stock markets which is why I’m keen to get my teeth back into trading sports and taking advantage of arbitrage opportunities. Shares are too volatile at the moment and could be for a while for my style of trading. As you can imagine arbitrage spread betting opportunities in sports are scarce these days no matter how good you are at it, because getting decent amounts matched are impossible as spread betting providers keep improving their pricing systems.

By technical arbitrage/hedging I mean, (as an example) looking to exploit cross market performances in sports by stripping out the component parts and reducing exposure or at times creating an arbitrage situation…

I was initially introduced to the sports spread betting arbitrage concept way back when I was a client of SpreadTrades. Sadly they have since disbanded. At the time team performance in football was my biggie. However, the firms just got better and better at pricing it up as time went on and it is harder these days to arb successfully.

What I do to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities is to buy and sell the ExtraBet team performance index and hedge the best available time of the opponents 1st goal. Occasionally one can still get some on the rugby, but they are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.

That was one of the options. The best was the Irish lot’s component where they took off three for a corner conceded. In these days they had an unusual method of pricing up the set markets in tennis, when they first started out. I took full advantage, even though they had a couple of attempts at getting it right, their market maker was way off base. Unfortunately I did not last long with them. They took away my internet trading and when I phoned them up they referred me to the trading manager, who restricted me and moved every price as well. Basically they were telling me that I was not welcome anymore, so I gave up with them. I noticed after that, they changed their tennis set betting to fall into line with their competitors.

Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch or a holy grail and I have to accept that. My next step is to invest in some decent software as trading off the Betfair site isn’t suitable, and thus I need to keep researching.

It is the worst nightmare of every computer user: you wake up one day and realize that you have a virus, and you don’t know quite how to get rid of it. Most people these days understand what a virus is and how harmful it can be, but they are still somewhat unsure how computer viruses spread. The truth is that there are dozens of different ways in which a virus can spread from computer to computer, but let’s take a look at the most frequent ways in which people run into viruses, spyware and Trojans on the Internet.

1. Email attachments. The world became familiar with the phenomena of email attachments carrying viruses thanks to Microsoft’s Outlook Express automatically opening every attachment to every email you received a few years back. Now that email clients no longer do this, the infection rate from email attachments is significantly lower, but it can still be a common problem. The golden rule is that if you don’t know what an attachment is, don’t open it. To this day, many email users never open attachments, no matter what. You don’t have to take such drastic steps to protect yourself, however; simply use common sense when opening attachments in your email.

2. Rogue Websites. It is depressing to know that you may become infected with spyware or a virus by doing nothing more than simply visiting a website, but it is true. Many adult websites, gambling websites and other less than trustworthy websites will attempt to automatically access your computer when you visit them. They often install adware bugs that will cause a flurry of pop ups to appear on your screen. This adware will often allow for other programs with even more nefarious purposes to be installed and before you know it, your computer will be swamped. To stop these rogue websites, adjust the settings on your antivirus software and firewall so that no outside connections can be made and no programs can be installed without your express permission.

3. Networks. If your computer is connected to a home network or if your work computer is part of a larger network, you may find yourself with an infection through no fault of your own. Someone else on the network downloaded a bug by accident, and within minutes, the entire network could be infected. There isn’t much you can do to stop these kinds of infections, short of having your network administrator ensure that everyone’s antivirus software is up to date so that the invading bug can be removed as quickly as possible.

4. Infected Boot disks. Now that hard drives are obscenely large, the overwhelming percentage of us don’t bother to use boot disks anymore, but a virus can still be spread if an infected disk is in your hard drive and you attempt to restart. When you start your computer, your machine will always check your drives to see if a disk with boot information is present. If one is, your computer will likely automatically attempt to boot from the disk and not from your drive. If a virus is present, it will often be activated and you will become infected. Always know the origin of any disk you put into your drive.

5. Phishing Schemes. Learning how computer viruses spread is important to keep yourself, and your personal information, safe online. Phishing schemes are one of the chief ways in which people end up with their identity stolen and a computer fill of viruses. A phishing scheme starts when you receive an email from a website claiming to be your bank or credit card company. You are asked to click a link and log in, but the truth is that you’ve just given away all of your personal information. Often times, when you visit these sites, spyware, adware and viruses are automatically installed on your computer (see Rogue Websites, above). Your lender or credit card will often send out a real notice that let’s you know that a phishing scheme is going around. The smartest thing you can do is to simply call your bank or credit card company if you receive an email saying there is a problem with your account instead of blindly following links in your email.

6. Infected Software. One of the great things about the Internet is how many free games and programs there are out there, but these free programs often come at a price. Too many rogue websites intentionally infect their freeware (like Kazaa) with trojan viruses so that you unknowingly infect your computer every time you download a free game or piece of software. The key here is to only download freeware or shareware from a trusted source like CNet that always ensures your safety.

7. Hackers. The Internet today is a much more law abiding place than it was ten years ago. Not only did most people not have antivirus protection and firewalls that could stop incoming attacks, most people didn’t even know what they were. Today, people understand the value of good online protection, but hackers can still pose a problem if you allow your protection software to lapse. The best way to beat hackers is to ensure that you have a firewall and up to date antivirus software.

8. Instant Messaging. It is difficult to find a computer in this day and age that doesn’t have at least one instant messaging service installed on it. Unfortunately, these programs are often targets of hackers who see an easy way to trick people into clicking links that lead them to rogue websites. Common sense can keep you out of trouble, however. Only chat with people you know and never follow links to sites that you don’t recognize. You should easily be able to keep Internet worms, viruses and other bugs at bay.

9. Fake Anti Virus Software. This is one of the most frustrating ways to become infected with a virus or worm. There are dozens of anti virus and anti spyware programs you can download for free on the Internet and a surprising number of them actually do exactly the opposite of what they claim. The product websites make outrageous claims that their product can protect you from a whole range of threats, when, in reality, their product will only make things a thousand times worse. Only download antivirus programs from trusted sites or from websites that you know are completely legit.

10. From Mobile Devices. A recent story in the newspaper should serve as a wake up call for anyone who is getting ready to plug in a mobile device into their computer for the first time. A family purchased a digital picture frame from a local store and when they attempted to install the software that came with it, they inadvertently infected their computer with a virus. There really is no way to stop such an infection from happening, since we all buy peripherals that work with our computer, but we can ensure that we have the tools ready to go if an infection should happen. Keep your anti virus software up to date at all times and you should be able to wrestle control back from any Internet bug.

11. Friends and Relatives. Often times, we are sent viruses through our email from people that we know and trust. The social networking site Facebook has had to battle this very problem when their serves get a bug and automatically send out emails to everyone on the system that are infected. Often times, these emails are extremely generic sounding and come with suspicious attachments, but people often open them anyway since they have come from a friend or from a site they trust, like Facebook. Remember, if you get an attachment with an .exe extension or a .dll, don’t ever open it.

Learning how computer viruses spread is the best way we can put an end to their reign of terror online. It is only with the right knowledge and the best antivirus protection software that Internet users everywhere can beat online bugs for good.

The concept behind Viral Marketing

word-of-mouth:

The concept of viral marketing is by no means new. Word-of-mouth marketing, viral’s forefather, has been around for ages. The principle behind word-of-mouth marketing is simple; use influencers to generate peer-to-peer product recommendations or buzz. Prior to the advent of the Internet, however, this form of marketing was too disjointed to effectively benefit most advertisers. The effect of word-of-mouth was largely contained to specific geographic areas simply due to the lack of widespread social networks. Word-of- mouth was generally limited by the ability of the influencer to physically speak to another prospective customer, hence the term “word-of-mouth”.

Enter the internet:

The Internet has radically changed the concept of word-of-mouth, so much so that the term “viral marketing” was coined by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson in 1997. The term was used to describe Hotmail’s email practice of appending advertising for themselves to outgoing mail from their users. The assumption is that if such an advertisement reaches a “susceptible” user, that user will become “infected” (i.e., sign up for an account) and can then go on to infect other susceptible users.

While email may have been the original catalyst; the advent of social networks, online communities and chat provide the ability to

distribute information exponentially faster than ever before. Where word-of-mouth marketing could take weeks or months to reach a thousand people, viral marketing can reach hundreds of thousands or millions in a matter of days or hours. The spread of an effective viral marketing campaign is akin to an epidemic outbreak of a virus, limited only by the potency and relevance of the marketing message.

Viral marketing defined:

The Wikipedia defines viral marketing as “marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It is word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it harnesses the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.”

Why viral marketing?!

The proliferation of marketing and advertising, coupled with the onslaught of millions of media channels in today’s world, has given cause for consumers to tune out and effectively avoid a great deal of traditional supplier driven messaging. The creation of technologies such as PVRs, satellite radio and Internet ad blocking software are driving a fundamental shift in the way the public consumes media and the advertising often tied to it. Television ads, radio spots, online ads and even emails are facing increasing competition for effectively capturing the viewer’s attention and provide positive ROI for the marketer.

This competition, coupled with the rising cost of media buys, has caused marketers to search for an alternative means to reach the customer. Viral marketing is an attractive solution because it utilizes the free endorsement of the individual rather than purchase of mass media to spread the word. Because the distribution model is free, viral can potentially be lower cost and more effective than traditional media.it’s the best solution for all start-ups and who want to become an entrepreneurs

the viral effect

More than 90% of consumers said they told at least one other person about a Web site when the original recommendation came from a friend, according to Jupiter Research.

viral marketing advantages

1. Cuts through the clutter of traditional advertising, allowing marketers to effectively reach the audience.

2. Doesn’t require a product with a wow factor in order to raise awareness, generate buzz, and kick-start peer-to-peer spread. Instead, the viral campaign’s communication agent is the element that needs a wow factor or element of interest.

2. Unlike traditional advertising viral is not an interruptive technique. Instead, viral campaigns work the Internet to deliver exposure via peer-to-peer endorsement. Viral campaigns, whether ultimately liked or disliked, are often welcomed by the receiver. The focus is on campaigns with material that consumers want to spend time interacting with and spreading proactively.

viral marketing disadvantages

Viral marketing, like all marketing is hit or miss. However, viral marketing by nature is often more risky or controversial than traditional marketing. If done improperly viral marketing can backfire and create negative buzz.

The Marketing Mix:

Viral marketing is by no means a substitute for a comprehensive and diversified marketing strategy and marketing objectives. In employing viral marketing to generate peer-to- peer endorsement, brands have also learned that the technique should not be considered as a standalone miracle worker.

James Kydd, Brand Director for Virgin Mobile who just launched the 11th release in their successful series of viral marketing campaigns, states, “viral marketing is best used not as a one-off tactical end in itself, but as an integrated strategic part of the overall marketing mix. It is a means to an end whereby it not only generates buzz, but also provides ongoing, quantifiable brand benefits, such as increased awareness, peer-to-peer endorsement and ultimately more sales.”

Common Viral Marketing Messaging:

While the messaging and strategy ranges radically from campaign to campaign, most successful campaigns contain some commonly used approaches. These approaches are often used in combination to maximize the viral effect of a campaign.

free products or services

Many viral marketing programs utilize free products or services to spark interest. Giving away low-cost items such as t-shirts can often lead to the sale of much higher cost items. Marketers often use low cost items as a method of collecting consumer data and building a database of potential customers that are already familiar with the brand.

compelling content

From hilarious to raunchy to controversial good content and concepts can often make or break a viral campaign. Creating quality content can often be more expensive than simply offering a free product, however the results are often better. The general rule of thumb is that the content must be compelling, it must evoke a response on an emotional level from the person viewing it. This fact alone has allowed many smaller brands to capitalize on content based viral campaigns. Traditionally larger brands are more reserved and risk adverse to the possibility of negative reaction.

exclusivity

This form of messaging is designed to appeal to our natural tendency to desire things we can’t normally have. This messaging includes invitations to join V.I.P clubs, access to products or services before they are released to the public and the ability to choose the fate of others within a peer group. While this tactic can be extremely successful, there is a built in cap to its success. If the offer spreads too wide it will loose its exclusive appeal.

get paid

Rewards and financial incentives often play a role in viral referral campaigns. Marketers can incent users to pass along a message in exchange for compensation ranging from points, special offers and in some cases cash.

Making it Viral

user considerations

Successful viral campaigns are easily spread. When creating a campaign marketers should evaluate how people will communicate the message or campaign to others. Marketers should ask themselves the following questions when developing a viral strategy:

• Does the content require special plug-ins?

• Will an attached file in email be too big?

• Does the Web site require broadband?

• Is the URL easy to remember?

• Is the referral mechanism easy to use?

• Is the barrier to entry too high?

The easier a campaign can spread the more successful it can ultimately be. A large majority of campaigns miss the mark because they fail to take this into consideration.

campaign seeding

“Seeding” the original message is a key component of a viral campaign. Seeding is the act of planting the campaign with the initial group who will then go on to spread the campaign to others. The Internet provides a wide array of options for seeding, including:

• Email

• Online Forums (Google groups)

• Social Networks (Google+, Facebook.com)

• IM (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Google)

• Blogs

• Podcasts

When determining where to seed it is important that marketers consider the audience you are seeding for. If a campaign is skewed towards a certain audience marketers should make sure they seed towards that audience. Failure to due so may kill a campaign before it ever gets off the ground.

leverage existing media buys

Marketers should leverage existing media buys by incorporating the promotion of the viral campaign. This can range from a simple reference at the end of a commercial or in print to a fully integrated approach using mass media to directly promote the viral activity.

ability to scale

The goal of a viral campaign is explosive reach and participation. Marketers should be adequately prepared to meet the needs of participants in the event that the campaign is successful. Server space, bandwidth, support staff, fulfillment and stocking should be taken into consideration well in advance of campaign launch. The marketer should have the ability to capitalize on the full success of the campaign.

Some experts say that the more backlinks that you have, the better your position will be in the search engine. Then, they will offer you a software which can help you to spread your backlinks automatically to thousands of websites and blogs. Is this really an effective way to spread your backlinks? The answer is no. Google and other search engines will tend to see these types of backlinks as spam links. Thus, you will risk your position in the search engine result instead of getting better position on it. Here are 5 tips to spread your backlinks effectively:

1. Attract Backlinks With Quality Content

Give your readers some inspiring content that they want to read again and again. This is the essence of backlink building. If you have good content to offer, then people will be willing to link to you. Make each of your content special so that people will be delighted with the value that you offer to them. Whenever you publish your content, make sure that it is valuable enough for people to share it or link to it.

2. Focus On Popular And Authoritative Websites

If you want to write content for other websites for the purpose of building backlinks, you can focus on popular and authoritative websites. For instance, if you want to build some backlinks in forums, choose active forums that have high level of traffic. The same goes for any kind of content that you create. You have to focus on spreading your content only on popular and authoritative websites, otherwise you’re just wasting your time and effort.

3. Make Your Content Viral

Give your readers the ability to share your content with others. You should also share your content in various social media platforms once you publish it in your website. In this way, your social media followers can spread your content further to their networks (by re-tweeting it, liking it on Facebook, and so on), creating an avalanche of viral traffic back to your website.

4. Do It Step By Step

Don’t do your backlink building with automatic software that post spam links to thousands of inferior and irrelevant websites. You should do it step by step in order to achieve the best result for your effort. If you build your backlinks gradually, you will be able to etch your position in the search engine more strongly. Your website will also be immune from various algorithm changes that the search engines are applying today. Don’t rush because the entire backlink building process is not an instant process that will give you an instant result.

5. Keep Your Backlinks Relevant

Only put your backlinks in websites that are relevant with your topic. Linking from irrelevant websites will make your website to be regarded as spam by the search engines. When you hire someone else to build backlinks for you, be sure to know the websites in which they will put your backlinks on. Anybody can put a backlink in any low traffic free blog, but it needs more effort for you to build backlinks from relevant and quality websites.

Those are some tips you can follow in order to spread your backlinks effectively. Remember that backlink building is not a process that can be done in a week or a month. It is a continuous process that will help you to ensure good amount of traffic to come to your website in a regular basis. So, you need to do it the right way.

Most people often have dreams of becoming a millionaire and having more money than they know what to do with. But the problems there is that very few people know exactly how they may become millionaires and therein lays the biggest obstacle towards achieving the millions that you dream of making. You could always start a computer firm of your own and do what Bill Gates id; you can make your own computer company like Steve Jobs or become a business man like The Donald. But really, what are the chances of that happening to people right? But there are other ways that you can become a millionaire. If these things seem to be out of reach for you, why not try to earn millions through spread betting? You can get rich spread trading you know but it will not happen overnight and not without a lot of effort on your part.

Frankly speaking, anyone can have the chance to make millions from spread betting alone. But you will really need a huge dose of discipline and a lot of patience of course, and you will need money to spend on your wagers. Oh there are always people who lose in spread bets and the fact that there are still plenty of bookmakers out there proves the point that more people lose money in the spread bets then those that actually win. But by trading financial derivatives remains to be one way that you can make huge profits in a short amount of time.

If you want to become a millionaire spread trading trader, you must know what is causing the move in the underlying prices. There really is a very wide selection of things that you may place spread bets on but you should really stick with the ones that you are familiar with so you have better chances of correctly predicting where the prices will be going. Also, you should make sure that you out a lot of concentration on not losing money since often times, by concentrating on not losing money on your wagers, you end up having more money. Remember that the best way to make money is to not lose too much of it. This is when your research about trading will come in handy so you will a better idea on how to manage your money better which trains you to never bet more money than you can afford to lose.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ started out as a small spark in the Galilean hillsides nearly two thousand years ago, but rapidly blazed across all geographical barriers to become the world’s most well-known Good News in the history of humanity. A brief overview of how the Gospel spread will not only empower us to be a part of its spread but will help us see that the Gospel is propelled by divine power.

The spread of the Gospel began with the Great Commission Jesus Christ gave His disciples prior to his ascension back to his Father’s side in heaven: “Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19, 20, WEB) Since the spreading of the Gospel was a great responsibility the disciples had to fulfill, it required the power from the Holy Spirit. Thus, Jesus told His body of believers to “wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.” (Luke 24:49) With this power, they would be witnesses to Christ in “Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

The Spread of the Gospel in Jerusalem

Following their Master’s instruction, the disciples waited in Jerusalem for the gift of the Holy Spirit. When the day of Pentecost came, “they were all with one accord in one place. Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages,” so non-Hebrew speaking Jews from various parts of the Roman Empire could understand them in their own languages (Acts 2:1-4).

The Spirit-empowered disciples immediately began working to fulfill the Great Commission. The apostle Peter was first to add new members to the church of Christ; the Holy Spirit enabled this uneducated fisherman to deliver an impromptu preaching so powerful and convicting that it converted three thousand people to Christianity on the same day (Acts 2:41).

In Jerusalem, new believers were constantly being added to the church of Christ, as Yahweh God enabled the apostles to perform many miracles, including the instantaneous healing of a man who was crippled since birth (Acts 3). The increase that the church experienced was so rapid that the Bible soon used “multiplying” to describe the growth: “the number of the disciples was multiplying.” (Acts 6:1)

The Spread of the Gospel to Samaria

Great persecution soon rose against the body of Christ, and consequently, the believers were scattered “abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.” (Acts 8:1) Those who left Jerusalem took with them the Good News of Christ, spreading the Gospel outside their circle to Samaria for the first time. One such believer who spread the Gospel to Samaria was Philip, a deacon who was assigned to serve tables for widows (Acts 6:5).

In Samaria, Philip healed the paralyzed and the lame, and drove out demons from the possessed, all the while proclaiming to the Samaritans the Christ, whom the Samaritans joyously accepted (Acts 8:5-8). When the apostles in Jerusalem “heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 8:14-15)

While Philip was still ministering in Samaria, an angel from God said to him, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (Acts 8:26) God had a greater mission for Philip: to minister to one individual, an Ethiopian eunuch, the secretary of the treasury for the queen of the Ethiopians (Acts 8:27). Unhesitatingly,Philip obeyed and on his way, met the eunuch, who was traveling home on his chariot from Jerusalem where he went to worship. Commanded by the Holy Spirit, Philip ran toward the chariot, and once he heard the Ethiopian official reading aloud from the book of Isaiah, he asked him, “Do you understand what you are reading?” (Acts 8:30) The official admitted that he needed help understanding the Scriptures and asked Philip to “come up and sit with him.” (Acts 8:31) Sitting next to the Ethiopian in his chariot, Philip promptly preached about Jesus Christ, starting from the passage the man was reading: Isaiah 53:7-8:

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.

As a lamb before his shearer is silent,

so he doesn’t open his mouth.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.

Who will declare His generation?

For his life is taken from the earth.”

As they traveled, they came upon some water, and the official said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?” (Acts 8:36) Once confirming the man’s new faith in Christ, Philip baptized him in the water. Upon the completion of Philip’s ministry to the official, the “Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.” (Acts 8:39)

The Spread of the Gospel to the “Uttermost Parts of the Earth”

Following the spread of Christianity throughout Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, Jesus’ Good News of universal salvation had to spread outward; no geographical barrier, either imaginary or real, could possibly hold it back. The spread of the Gospel to the gentiles had a modest start, but rapidly grew like a small amount of leaven in a lump of dough. Cross-cultural ministry officially began with the apostle Peter.

As a Jew, Peter was at first hesitant to preach the Gospel of Christ to non-Jews, as Jews at that time saw gentiles as unclean (ritually polluting). However, after a vision from the Christ, Peter accepted his mission to the gentiles. Immediately following the vision, three men were asking for Peter, and upon the Holy Spirit’s prompting, Peter went to meet them. The men explained to Peter, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.” (Acts 10:22)

Once arriving at Cornelius’ home, Peter introduced Jesus as the Savior of the world. While he spoke, the Holy Spirit came upon the gentiles and, as a result, they spoke in tongues, amazing all the witnesses (Acts 10:44-46). Then Peter had them baptized in water (Acts 10:48).

The spread of the Gospel to the gentiles continued following Peter’s first cross-cultural ministry. Some of those who were persecuted preached the Word at faraway places, including Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, where the term “Christian” was first used to describe a follower of Christ (Acts 11:19, 21, 26).

Cross-cultural ministry flourished under Paul of Tarsus. On the day of his miraculous conversion from a devoted Pharisee who was vehemently persecuting Christians to a devout apostle who would become the pioneer of church planting, the Master said to him, “Arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.” (Acts 26:16-18)

Paul was “not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” (Acts 26:19) In his three Spirit-guided missionary trips throughout the Roman Empire, Paul won lives for Christ from many gentile worlds, including Malta, Cyprus, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Crete, and Rome, where his ministry ended due to execution and where the book of Acts of the Bible closes to open the door for further spread of the Gospel.

The Spread of the Gospel After the Book of Acts

After the close of Acts, the Gospel continued to spread despite great persecution. By the second century, it spread to nearly all of the Roman Empire, and in the fourth century, persecution ceased and Christianity became the dominant religion of the empire after Roman Emperor Constantine was converted to Christianity, and issued an edict of toleration in 313. Then through missionary work and colonization, Christianity spread throughout the western world in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, thousands of Christians spoke against the Roman Catholic Church for deviating from Biblical doctrines, for moral corruption, and for power abuse. Some of these reformers began making the Bible accessible to the common people by translating it into languages other than Latin, to which the sacred text was then confined. During such reformation, many reformers were persecuted and executed, including William Tyndale, who was burned at the stake in 1536 for smuggling copies of his English translation of the Bible into England after illegally printing them in Germany. Their efforts and sacrifice enabled many lay people to personally read and study the Bible on their own for the first time. The reformation was aided by the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, which allowed for mass production of the Bible.

In the eighteenth century, Christians sailed to the New World to seek religious freedom, bringing with them the Gospel to America. From that time onward to the 1900s, several revivalists rose up to radically evangelized the world; among them was William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army and established “Armies” in fifty-eight countries; James Hudson Taylor, the first missionary to inland China who converted tens of thousands of Chinese to Christianity; and John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church who spread the Gospel throughout the United Kingdom.

Today, despite centuries of mass persecution, the burning of the Bible, and clergy power abuse, the Gospel continues to spread and penetrate geographical lines, fueled by technological advances. And when the “Good News of the Kingdom [is] preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations… the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14) Amen!

How to spread God’s word is a question that can be difficult sometimes if we don’t have the true understanding of how we as Christians should go about it. Keep in mind what Paul said, “I will not …speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me.” Paul didn’t place glory in what Christ had done for him, but in what Christ was doing through him. Now did you get the understanding of that?

Matthew 17:2-3 tells the story of the day that Jesus took his disciples to the top of the mountain where he was transfigured before them: “His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.” Peter was so caught up in this spectacular event that he wanted them all to stay there. In verse 4 of the same chapter he says “Lord it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

As you read further into the chapter, you can see that Jesus thought it more important to continue ministering and spreading His Word. Verse 14 begins the story of the demon possessed boy who suffered severe seizures that Jesus healed. The message we can take from this story is that there are definitely rewarding experiences when following Jesus’ teachings but you’ll never reap those rewards if you don’t put the work in and focus on the goal at hand, which is spreading the Word of God to everyone.

Now we all know, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ that it is a great thing to have such a spectacular experience with our God and Father; but we also know that as followers of our Lord we can’t stay there. We have a lot of work to do if we are going to follow in his footsteps, and we as Christians have been called to do it.

Now that we know our Lord works through us, we have become God’s vessels by means of Paul’s statement and it’s time for us to open up our hearts and start spreading the word to others as those who approach us with God’s word. Now that our lives were saved through Jesus Christ through the use of God’s vessels we have become God’s vessels. Now that we are God’s vessels, is it not our duty to spread the word as those who approach us?

Take notice how Jesus’ disciples followed him throughout his ministry and they all had a different point of view yet at the same time leading to God’s message. Their story varied a little bit, but when you read all their stories, you’ll discover that one story will help you to better understand the other. It is the same as when your reading passages in the Bible, one passage will help you to understand the other.

You see brothers and sisters, we are all unique individuals and we all have our own way of relating God’s message. Since we are all unique in our own way, we are given a different point of view on scriptures. Now, because of our uniqueness, one individual will find passages that will lead to the understanding of another passage where another individual may be having a difficult time with that passage and that is where you come in.

The point I am trying to get across is this, we all have a knowledge of certain scriptures that can help others and at the same time others have knowledge of scriptures that can help us. Why is it like that? You will find that a lot of us have our special books in the Bible that we keep going back to over and over again and after a wile you start to specialize in that book. Because now you start focusing whenever you hear someone giving their point of view of scriptures that relate to that book. Then in turn , you go back and check it out, therefore giving you a better understanding. Therefore, by us all working together this will lead us to the true understanding of Gods knowledge and help us to grow stronger in God’s word and at the same time we are showing others how to spread God’s word.

Now that we are doing our part in spreading the word and giving people a better understanding of Gods knowledge, we are helping them to grow stronger. This is because they can now see all the great and true benefits as a result of following our Lord Jesus Christ. As they keep growing stronger in God’s knowledge by Christ working through us (God’s vessels) it won’t be long before they to will start spreading God’s word (and this would be a good thing in God’s eyes.)

Now let us look at this to get the full understanding of what we are accomplishing by taking our part in spreading the word.

1. By us doing our part in spreading the word and opening up our hearts and allowing Jesus Christ our lord and Savoir to work through us, there are a lot of lives being saved just as we have been saved.

2. Through us spreading out our knowledge that we specialize in, you never know who will come across it and cause them to do a farther investigation and at the same time the Holy Spirit is pressing down on them.

3. Doing what we are supposed to be doing through passing along what we have learned so that others may also have this golden opportunity.

4. By us doing our part in spreading the word, we are not only doing our part, we are also showing others how to spread Gods word. Now stop and think for a moment and give this some serious thought. By us doing our part through showing others how to spread Gods word, if you use your imagination you will see how far this will branch out and it started from you.

What is imagination? Ability to visualize: the ability to form images and ideas in the mind, especially of things never seen or experienced directly. Does that sound familiar to you?

If it is in your heart to spread the word and you don’t know how to spread God’s word and want to reach out to many, than give the internet some serious thought by using it as your vehicle. Blogging ,writing articles, start an email newsletter, build a Christian website, these are all good ways to get the word out. And the best part about using these tools is that you can find them on the internet for free to low cost.

Betting on sports is not the easiest thing in the world to do. John Morrison, the author behind the successful eBook “Sports Betting Champ” does make it look easy. It is not hard to be envious of his wealth and the material possessions he has accumulated through sports betting. But at least he is sharing his secrets and the tips that have made him the betting champ that he is today. His, The Sports Picks Buffet, is a membership and eBook that can help anyone find the right way to bet and come out winning instead of tossing money down the drain with constant losses.

Okay, so saying that you are going to get rich just because John Morrison is a statistical guru is going a bit far. Yet why do his sports picks work for him? Because he knows what to bet on and what the spread for each game is going to be. He has the money to cover enough bets that when one pays off, it pays off big. However, you may not be in the same boat. You may not have enough money to spend covering all the various picks so you are not going to see the revenue that he sees.

There is a really fine line between success and failure and The Sports Picks Buffet is supposed to show you that line. Instead of you going to a bookie and gathering information on one game, Morrison does the work for you and covers hundreds of different bets that you can choose from for that particular day. Each bet is going to tell you what the statistics for the spread are and what you should bet on.

The one thing that is easy to forget when you get caught up in the excitement is that not all bets are going to pay off big. There is no guarantee that the Lakers are going to win with a ten point spread. If you fail to factor that in, then you will lose your bet. So you do have to keep statistics in mind when you are betting, especially on sports. You have to factor in human error.

You really must keep in mind that you need to know about sports and betting before you pick up The Sports Picks Buffet. If you have no clue as to what a point spread is or you have an issue with gambling, then this is not for you. Morrison does put a lot of time and effort into his system but it can only do so much. In the end you have to be the one to take the chance on whether or not you trust him and his picks.