There are somethings you just can't deny

About this same time last month I wrote an article titled "Marketing Blunder or not" Some of you read it. The response was pretty good. I know it was on the 14th of last month because the articles are dated. I can't deny that.

I had recently lost my job and while I did my fair share of marketing in the company I worked for, I hadn't done much marketing online.My health was failing and work in my field was scarce, I turned to the internet to make ends meet because it was all I had at the time. I was concern of all the competition all I had were ideas while they had experience.

I started researching and one day I was found myself listening to a video,don't ask me how I pulled it up that day you know how it is sometimes when you surf the net,There is no telling where you will end up.

In my mind it was purely by chance. In the video I heard about hub pages and decided to go to the site. I signed on and wrote a number of articles. I wrote about some things I like and some times I wrote just to forget what I was going through. Nothing special. A blind man can see I am not a writer. I didn't get my GED until I was 26years old and I haven't been back to school since. I am 53 years old now.

But I did my best ,knowing I tried out dozens of ideas and this wasn't my first crack at writing content in the hopes of generating traffic to my sites. So I wrote six articles here, a number of articles there. I twitted,facebooked,shared it,youtubed it... I can not denied that there is a lot I don't know about marketing online so I took everything I wanted to try and went to work,nothing was not worth trying, I needed to experience somethings for myself.Some of these guys out there marketing today are ruthless. I was putting in 18 and 20 hour days. When I mentioned that to my Pastor she wasn't happy, she asked me not to work on Sunday.She said honor God and you will see that he will honor you. I agreed.

I slept like a baby Sunday (yesterday). I made it to church and her eldest son was speaking on the very thing I am writing about to you today. The only difference is he is very articulate. I am glad I chose to go.

He admitted that things have happen in this world that he couldn't understand. He said he found himself -  where God is in all of this? The message was about the man who was blind from birth and was healed. It's in the book of John. I can't deny that, I saw it there and read the story many of times. I encourage you to have a look and read the rest of that story.

Eric, the associate Pastor surprised me yesterday, the message he spoke was not only down to earth but really hit home. He keeps getting better with age. It confirmed what I already knew but there was an anointing there that only Christian can understand without experiencing it, not because we are special,but because we tune in to stuff like that while others tune out.Let me give you a little back ground so that you might understand how I have been feeling.

The last several months have been difficult. I lost my best friend a while back and the anniversary of the lost came and went and with it ,my heart. I loved that man. My heart sank as low as a man's heart could, he was a brother to me, a father and dear friend.

Just a few months ago lost my elder brother Richard to a heart attack. It was devastating. In early June on a Saturday afternoon I ended up in the emergency room myself,I thought was having a heart attack (and that was before I saw the bill). They placed three stents in my main artery and not long afterward I lost my job which  I loved (andthe only means of support for my family and I).

Are you starting to see the picture. I mean Senior Pastor Eric  planted seeds of hope in me, Richard planted seeds of entrepreneurship in me as far back as I can remember [ I shined shoes for movie money in the streets of NY as a kid].

I didn't have time to question where is God in all of this.If all I had left was my faith it would have to due. I do have faith, The friends and I people I surround myself with pump me up full of faith and hope.So the question was never will the marketing strategy work, but when would it work.I had been through a lot I was more warn out than than anything else.

So I put my hand to it and like everyone else who trying to carve out a piece of the rock, I prompt myself up and hit the books and worked night and day,day and night -sun up to sun down.I planted my little seeds here and there and soon after I began to see the fruit of my labor.

I want to share some of that today.Somethings we don't understand but we just can't deny.

I know that those of you who know anything about marketing online will attest to what I am about to share, I don't understand it and  I won't  deny it.

Normally the search engines don't get you listed in there search engines for free, it takes anywhere between 2-4 months. There are ways to get on sooner. Everyone has a theory or two about that. I built and uploaded 4 websites last month with a system named hyperVRE.

I somehow got an email with a video and story from this Indian man who made an impression on me. An email I was about to delete but didn't. I was convinced it would caused my computer to crash. I don't know why I kept  it because when I finally decided to open it I was still concerned it that it in fact was going to make my computer crash. Little did I know it would make it cash,not crash.

The guy who sent it tells of how he heard of Google ad sense. That they would match the content on your site to ads their clients want advertised.Google put ads on his website and he made something like .58 cents that month. That was enough to spark hope inside of him. He had gotten a hold of the HyperVRE system and the first month he did much better and before long he was making 12 to 15 thousand a month. Most of us would have quit and never even collected the .58 cents. The story inspired me and I more convinced than ever  that the hyperVRE is an awesome tool. I down loaded it and put up the four site in September. Needless to say I've made more that .58

I was so grateful I borrowed a video camera from a friend and put together a brief video under my aka joeygee007. I wanted to personally thank Matt Callen and his staff for developing the system.I guess the best way to show my appreciation is to share it with others who might be in the same place I was. Just as I have thanked Matt I also thanked the folks at hub pages because I saw the work they did would pay off even before I had the proof in my hands. I needed an edge and I got it. It was the rock I needed. David needed something and it wasn't the kings armor,but the rocks he picked up at the river, but thats another story for another time.

One of the four sites I built toward the end of last month was whyplavix.info .If you look up when I got the domain name for that site you will see it was the 25th of September.It's right there for the world to see.I can't deny it.I came up with the name because of the heart disease problem I was having and my doubts about Plavix.

I think I put the site up a day or so later.I am not sure.

If you are feeling down and out, if you aren't sure about things, if your are warn out please hang in there. Don't tune me out put your ears on. The message Associate Pastor Eric spoke yesterday was on the money , not about money.His dad would have said something like, "that dog will hunt", or "that message will preach". In other words, in that strange language we christian sometimes use, It was a great message and inspires hope.(Contact me if you want a copy).

Listen to me please, I didn't wait for 2 to 4 months, or 4 weeks for that matter. I mean I did a video thanking Matt Callen and his staff because I believe in giving honor where honor is due, so Matt thanks again I can't say enough about you or hyperVRE It is a great tool. But I would be foolish to dismiss the obvious.

Last night , I guess it was three O'clock in the morning I was checking Google to see if I could find my site online as others would have to, and there it was 12th from the top out of more 900,000 other choices that could have come up.

I don't understand why, I'm sure there will be some who have turned the dial so far down you won't hear this, but I have to tell you all the skeptic in the world and can not deny, that is the fact that the series of events, as I described them happened.( I always document my testing).

Eric went on to preach yesterday how the man was healed by Jesus. Jesus got a little mud together and placed  it on his eyes and he was healed. The religious leaders of the day questioned how someone could do this in the name of God while it was the sabbath , to them that proved God did not have anything to do with it.

They approached the blind man and pressured him to answer what he thought of all of this and the man simply -but very profoundly stated " I don't know about that- all I know is that I was blind but now I see".

In those days they taught that when someone was sick - they had sinned or their parents sin and brought the sickness down on them.We are funny people in our beliefs sometimes. Even today if you have bought insurance they have disclaimers that state they don't insure against "Acts of God"...what kind of God would he be if he couldn't wipe out an insurance company or two?

You can chose to believe that hub pages had everything to do with it or you can give the credit to Matt Callen and the hyperVRE system but I won't be so foolish as to say that both of those things had nothing to do with it. What I am saying is don't take God out of this equation.

I give the hyperVRE away to people for free and will help them if they need help.I won't deny that it was a vehicle as was hub pages.When I titled one of my other article"Marketing Blunder or Not" it wasn't because I doubted, it was in preparation for this article. These things were used like the  rock in Davids hand was used to take out the giant. Some might give the credit to the rock and some will give the credit to the man that used the slingshot...I chose to believe it was God who created the rock, the man and the giant for that matter.

What I can't deny is the fact that all those site I put up three weeks are coming up on the search engine so high and well and you can't deny that being 12th in Google with over 900,000 others choices, is hard to conceive [in less than three weeks].I think even Matt would agree.

What I can't deny is I never heard of hub pages in the 20 years I have been surfing the net, nor had I any idea hyperVRE existed until recently. What I can't deny and I certainly can't understand is why I pulled up that video I saw or the email I opened or chose the name for the site that I chose.... what I will not deny is that God has been right in the center of all of it.

Please don't get it twisted,like I said, I give hyperVRE to anyone who wants to make a living online, Christians or not, what I can not do is deny what I know (at the risk of turning off potential clients)I just can not . You see for me its too late , God had his hand on healing my wife of cancer , of literally saving my life on several occasions. So you can turn me off if you like the fact is-it happened, just as sure you can't deny you read this. God is Good.

If we go around thinking that life is a series of coincidences and we don't have a part in it whats the use.Nothing is left to chance.I learned 2 things yesterday at church, actually three. First that some of use will come to God because we can't deny him, others will stay with God because we walk by faith and not by sight... and thirdly man, "that dog will hunt". That was some good preaching yesterday.

I didn't tell you of other keywords that came up even stronger than Why Plavix (and blew me away even more). I mean a mans gotta keep somethings to himself. HyperVRE may turn content into cash, but it can't walk on water. It can't love you,it can't bring you peace, if you are struggling with today's economy, in bad health, or have lost something dear to you, there is someone I introduced to you today that can,heal your heart and bring peace to your storm. Someone who will be there and never let you down. He did it for me and so I can't deny it.

Joe Garcia on the front lines

ps , those who know me will tell you I am not the fuzziest bear in the crib or the brightest crayon in the box...but even me in all my hardness knelt down before before the Master. I emplore you don't dismiss the obvious.