Small Churches need social media tips to engage with their audience better! For years, smaller ministries were frustrated trying to advertise with small budgets. Finally, social media arrived and allowed the opportunity to engage with many people regularly. And promote. Plus it’s free! But church social media strategy can be a struggle trying...
Run out of good church social media ideas? It’s important that your posts actually make a difference. Your members are getting together regularly on their favorite social media channels to be entertained, challenged, and informed. So the local church needs to be present with the right content! In fact, Statistica (www.statista.com/statistics/273476/percentage-of-us-population-with-a-social-network-profile/) says 82%...
Remember when we had to write letters in order to communicate? We’d send a letter, wait several days, then hopefully receive a reply in the mail. Then there was fax correspondence. Now email and texting. The modes keep changing (even when most of them are still around). Which should you use?! Maybe your...
Every church should be building an online audience with social media. Done properly, every church should have more people following their social media accounts than attend on a weekly basis. The channels have been created and most of your community is scrolling on it right now. What are they looking for? Something...
I post regularly to social media and train churches how to create a strong brand presence that engages on social media. It seems like only a few days ago that we were trying to convince churches that they needed to be on social media, and now most churches are posting regularly. Is...
For years the church lamented that they had little budget to advertise in newspapers, on the radio, or on primetime TV. We instead turned to word of mouth as our best promotional tool. Then social media came along. It has free tools PLUS it empowers word of mouth promotion. That’s a win/win for...
We’ve been there: in a church service listening to the teaching. Your mind wanders to the game that’ll happen in the afternoon or where you’ll eat after the service. Then the Pastor pauses and starts, “The funniest thing happened to me yesterday at the grocery store” ...
Have you been invited to a social event recently? Or even more importantly, have you invited people to yours? What about your church services or special events? Of course you have (I hope). We love to get together. The church is called to this fellowship. God knows we need to be around other...
Special Extended Snapchat/Social Media Article The rules of communications changed the day that social media launched. I remember hearing about the new platforms of communication. My kids were talking about them and I knew I needed to discover their power. It was 2006. WFX Conference called and asked if I’d teach a workshop on...
