Navigating Church Communications: A Guide for Small Churches
For many pastors in small churches, one word often describes their experience with church communications: overwhelming. The landscape is filled with countless options, each claiming to be...
5 simple ways churches can digitally reach new visitors
It feels like everyday it gets harder and harder for churches to reach new people. There’s just a million things always competing for people’s attention. How can a church compete?
The Three Growth Pathways Every Church Needs
Three essential strategic pathways to help your church attract new visitors, turn visitors into attenders, and help attenders become committed members
The most important page on your church website
Why is the homepage so important? Yes it’s because it’s usually the first thing visitors see. Because it determines whether or not the visitor is going to continue to explore your website OR if they hit the back button and look at the next church website on their search results.
How to create a sermon library in Squarespace
Sermon libraries are one of those things you can’t find on Squarespace. But here’s an easy work around that when done right, can actually give you even more design and function flexibility.
How to create a great staff page on your church website
Your church website’s staff page is one of the most frequently visited pages on your church website. Here’s how to create a great one!
How to build a church website on Squarespace
For churches and pastors who are interesting in learning the steps to take to build a new church website on Squarespace.
How to design a church plan your visit page that reaches new people
Learn how to create a Plan Your Visit page with a clearly marked landing page where you give people a clear and compelling rundown of what Sunday morning is like and what people can expect when they visit.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Church Communications Platforms
A Church Management System (ChMS for short), if you are unfamiliar, are platforms built specifically for churches to help them manage their membership in a wide variety of ways.
How To Rebrand a Small to Midsize Church
An important step in your journey toward thriving church communications is to discern your brand. The word “branding” may stir some superficial images of Social influencers, sneaker companies, or diet soda, but don’t let that deter you from engaging in this important step.
Essential Communications Strategies for Small to Midsize Churches
The goal of this post is not to tell you what exactly your communications strategy should be. I can’t tell you that because I don’t know your church. But I can tell you it will be unique to your church, culture, gifts, resources, and a bunch of other factors.
How To Create An Amazing Church Communications Team
Your church communications ministry needs a team. You can’t personally fill every communications role, nor would you want to! Church communications is inherently collaborative and interdisciplinary, which means you have to work with other people.
The Overwhelming Challenge of Church Marketing and Communications for Normal-Sized Churches
If I were to choose one word I hear most from pastors when talking about church marketing and communications, that would be it: overwhelming.
How to use Lists in Planning Center People
Today we’re going to be talking about how to use “Lists” in Planning Center People. Mastering “Lists” will help maximize your outgoing communications with your congregation.
How to use Slack with your Church Leadership Team
Today we’re going to be talking about how to use Slack to keep your church leadership and teams working together more efficiently.
How to Embed Planning Center Groups & Events Directly Into Your Website
We all know Planning Center is an incredible tool that helps churches in a multitude of ways. But did you know that you can actually embed the Events and Groups you
What kind of content do churches need for a new website?
Even if you hire someone else to design and build your new church website, the church will still be responsible for creating a certain amount of content for it. There are four types of content I’ll mention to help you prepare.
4 Types of Content You Need For Your Church Website
Getting ready to build a new church website? Here’s the content you’ll need to create before you get started.
What platform should our church build our website on?
When you buy a car you don’t just look at the cost, you also look at key features. Ultimately the cost and features will add up to the right car for you. The same is true of website platforms.
On which platform should our church build a website?
Your church has lots of website platforms to choose from. In this post we’ll discuss your opens and some of the pros and cons.