Do you see this group having a conversation together? Can you see who’s in that mass of people? Can you tell what they’re talking about? Can you tell me if you can easily join that group if you wanted to? Why am I asking these questions? Because I think your church is stuck in a […]
4 Ways Churches Can Use A Website Landing Page
Most church communications teams understand the need to have a website. But many don’t know how to maximize the web presence and the traffic coming into the site. Building a landing page is key. In fact, many people don’t know the difference between the homepage and a landing page. But if you want to have […]
Facebook Timeline Cover Images For Churches And the One Option To Avoid
What do you use for your Facebook Timeline Cover Image? It’s seems to be one of those controversial questions that doesn’t seem to have the right answer. But if you if you ask me, it is not as trivial as the age-old question of over-the-top or under: Generally speaking, you will see many churches use […]
10 End of Year Giving Campaign Best Practices
THE END OF YEAR IS HERE Can you believe it? We are in the last quarter of the year. The countdown has begun! Soon we will be in the full throes of end of your giving campaigns. Here is an infographic with a list of 10 best practices for when you were sitting down to […]
Use Google Maps Photos To Gain Thousands of Web Views
A recent post shared how to optimize a Google Maps with Photos and the listing itself. The recommendations in that post is something every church or nonprofit consider doing immediately. Here’s the link again if you haven’t seen it yet: Easiest Way to Win on Google: 5 Key Ranking Factors on a Google Maps Listing Today […]
What Is Your Website Strategy? So Many Miss The Point
Website strategy. Everyone has one, right? Building a website is like printing your business card in today’s times. People don’t take you seriously if you don’t have one. You don’t legitimately exist if there’s no website. And that is the start of the problem. So many organizations today build websites without thinking about WHY they […]
Using Quuu Promote for Blog Content Marketing Promotion
I’ve been testing out a new blog content marketing promotion tool called Quuu Promote. WHAT IS IT? It is a service that offerings a content recommendation engine for social media influencers. And Quuu Promote allows you to submit up to two different web pages of your articles, blog posts, resources into their database for 30 […]
Easiest Way to Win on Google: 5 Key Ranking Factors on a Google Maps Listing
Today’s guest post comes from Tyler Rominger over at MinistryDesigns.com. Tyler points out a set of key ranking techniques for SEO that almost everyone either ignores or doesn’t know about. While the tips are “advanced” ways to approach maps optimization successfully it doesn’t require any specific “advanced” skillsets other than being strategic. That’s a good […]
Post Catalyst Atlanta Meet-Up Video Report
The Catalyst Blogger Meet-Up was a blast! But things were in its favor, as always when returning to Duluth, GA and the Infinite Energy Center (it will always fondly be known as the Gwinnett Arena to me haha!) in October. Catalyst continues to march on in the post-Brad Lominick world — Although Brad was an inspiring […]
Honor In Your Work
Today I got a piece of direct mail. Instead of throwing it out into the recycle bin, I am keeping this one for good. It’s the first official printed piece from my alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, with its new logo mark on the envelope in the return address area. I’m keeping it because it […]