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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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