If you remember, at the beginning of October I started a bold project: Get a brand new website to 20,000 visitors a month in one year. That number wasn’t by accident; statistically, most small business websites fail to even reach out 1,000 views a month, so 20,000 is a challenge. To be fair though, my […]
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Knowing which social media platform you (or your church) should focus on is a little bit like finding the right type of hot sauce to go with your burrito. All of them could be fine, but which one will provide the best experience? Normally, we tell most everyone to start with Facebook, simply because it’s
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Tucked away near the end of Matthew 13 — after a ton of other parables about the Kingdom — is the Parable of the Dragnet. It’s not very long. In fact, I’ll share the entire parable here for you so you can read it for yourself: “Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet
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Unlike SEO, website development, or a social media strategy, developing an email marketing plan is relatively quick. In fact, if this is something you actually want to do, you could probably set up your email marketing campaign within the next couple of hours and have a few leads before the day is out (unless you’re
Your Email Marketing Starter Plan Read More »
Of all the tools in your church’s toolbox, email marketing is one of the most often neglected. The reason is simple: it’s long, hard, and doesn’t produce immediate results. For those reasons, most churches would rather spend money on ads, beef up their social media profiles, or focus on SEO to drive results. I don’t
Email Marketing For Churches: Can It Work? Read More »
I often hear about people who want to start a Christian-based blog. Maybe it’s one based on apologetics, it’s a daily Bible study, while sometimes its just personal musings on a subject. You know what I think when I hear that? Awesome. Even though it seems like there are already a ton of Christian blogs
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This one goes out to all the preachers out there (cue guitar solo). I know you spend a lot of time in sermon prep. Like, a lot of time. I know that most people joke about how preachers only work 3-4 hours a week (maybe double that for a Gospel Meeting — *gasp*), but I
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Websites have come a long way over the last 20 years. It used to be that you could simply write a lot of content on your website, and a few weeks later, portions of it would start ranking on search engines. It was a lot like the Wild West in those days. Very few rules,
Topic Clusters. Your Church Website’s Secret Weapon. Read More »
Whenever we design a site, the website homepage is always the first thing we design. It sets the tone for the rest of the site; get the aesthetic or flow wrong here, and everything else will need to be changed, too. Because of how important this page is, we spend a lot of time experimenting
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In January of 2023, the company behind ChatGPT (OpenAI) received a $10 billion investment from Microsoft. That’s a lot for a company that most people didn’t even know existed six months prior. What that investment represents though is the tech world’s belief in the future use cases of artificial intelligence. For years now, people have
I Asked ChatGPT To Write Me a Sermon. It Wasn’t Terrible. Read More »
