I’m Speaking About How Churches Can Use Social Media In England!

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One of my dreams has been to use my talents and gifts serve the church in the United Kingdom. If you didn't know I was grew up in the UK. I'm so excited to share with you some upcoming social media seminars I'll be speaking at in late May and June 2013. If you or your church are just starting out in using social media then these seminars will help make you more effective!...

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6 Reasons Why A Hosted CMS Solution Might Be Right For You

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Earlier this week I wrote a post on Church Marketing Sucks - What's best for your church website? WordPress or Hosted CMS? I was explaining the journey and decisions we have been making over the last 6 months in choosing our web platform for our own church website. There are important tactical reasons why we have made the decision to switch. However, there are many good hosted CMS solutions that offer church web hosting, have the right features and functionality which have design templates ready to go when you want them.

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3 Insightful Questions You Need To Answer Before You Start Your Next Project

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Working in church communications is an honour and a privilege. Helping ministries and churches reach their full potential and communicate their vision or launch a new idea never gets old. In the day-to-day of being in the trenches of working in church communications it can be easy to have your head down just taking on every project that comes your way without asking probing and insightful questions....

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The Burning Question Everyone Should Ask Before Rebranding

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Everyone comes to the point where they need to rebrand. For some it has taken some time to "discover who they really are" and realise that their brand identity doesn't fit their existing reality. For some others, you have literally outgrown the existing brand. You have grown, entered into different areas and your brand identity just isn't you.

Each category both need to have a compelling and convincing answer to the follow question:...

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10 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Start Your Social Media Strategy

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This is a guest post from Richenda Vermeulen from ntegrity. Richenda is a social media diva who really knows social media. I met Richenda at a recent conference I attended where she was a keynote speaker on social media. I wrote some in-depth notes from Richenda's Session's on social media, well worth checking out.

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“We need a social media strategy.”

That’s the statement I most commonly hear from people after they’ve learned about my job as a full time social media director. And my response is usually:...

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How To Create An Email Newsletter For Your Church

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I haven't written a specific 'How To' post for a while. But having just been through the process again myself I thought it would be good to share some brief ideas about how to create your own church email newsletter (Bulletin). If budget is an issue you can actually create your email newsletter for free. Some of you have marketing budgets too which is fantastic and this post is just as relevant for you as I operate on a budget too. Email can be a great marketing tactic if done well, more on that later on....

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How To Become Flawsome

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At home we recently bought some new cooking scales. Unfortunately when my wife opened the package the battery cover kept on falling off. She could have taped it on and moved on. Instead, she called the company that sold it to us and asked for a new battery cover.

They said that they wouldn't provide her with a new battery cover, but they could provide a complete new set of scales.

Stop.

Yes. A. New. Set. Of. Scales. BOOM!...

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Church Marketing 101: Tactics fail without strategy

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I confess that I've made this rookie church marketing 101 mistake many times. I've gotten a bit excited about a project and rushed a few steps forward too quickly. That mistake is simply this - implementing marketing tactics before nailing the marketing strategy. It's a simple mistake, but it can be deadly and cost you a lot of money spent in the wrong places. What a waste.

Any church marketing or communications campaign needs to have a clearly defined objective or goal. (I wrote about why that is so critical to define your goal or objective in the social space recently.) Here is a step by step example of how to do it right:...

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What A Restaurant Can Teach You About Brand Experience

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My wife was recently invited out for a brunch with some of her friends down at the local golf club. Lou has some quite specific dietary constraints, so she called the golf club and told them that she could be coming down the next day and asked what there was on the menu that she could eat. There was no point in her going down just to watch others eat. The staff member at the golf club took her number and said that they would call her back to let her know what was suitable.

Did she hear from them? No. Did she go to the brunch? No....

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