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Promote Your Christmas Event for Free

Promote Your Christmas Event for Free

Is your church having a Christmas program of any sort? My church just put on a family event for our community called “A Wonderful Life.”  It was open to the entire community and it was free! There was live music and lots of activities like:  gingerbread house decorating, cooking decorating, ornament making and family photos. [...]

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Free Christmas Media stuff

Free Christmas Media stuff

Who doesn’t like free stuff? The guys over at Echo Hub put together a list of Christmas Media Freebies. My favorites from their list are: WorshipHouse Media- 12 Days of Christmas.- Visit their site on the days marked with a bow on their calendar and unwrap your free gift. Igniter Media-  Giving away a free Holly Branch Loop Muddy [...]

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Christmas Outreach Kit Giveaway

Christmas Outreach Kit Giveaway

This Christmas season, we want to equip you with the tools you need for your Christmas outreach! We’ve put together a Christmas Outreach kit…complete with a banner, invite cards, door hanger, web graphics and even a worship service slide. There are lots of designs to choose from…click here and let us know which one if your [...]

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Top Posts for July

Top Posts for July

1. 4th of July Staff Party 2. Social Media Usage 3. Facebook New Video Chat 4. Why does your church plant need church management Software? 5. Facebook Advertising 101 6. Reaching the Reached 7. The Q: How do I choose a web design company part 4- Teams 8. Reach Your Members 9. Twitter- Where is it Today? 10. The Q: Branding part 1

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Twitter- Where is it Today?

Twitter- Where is it Today?

5 years ago, the first tweet was sent, currently, the popular micro-blogging site has more than 200 million tweets each day. Just how fast did Twitter grow? 2006- Users were sending about 224 tweets per day 2009- Users were sending around 2 million tweets per day 2010 – Users were sending around 65 million tweets per day 2011- users are [...]

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Why a Logo is Not a Brand

Why a Logo is Not a Brand

We talk a lot about building your brand, whether you’re a business, church or just a person. If you have a place of business, you probably have a brand, whether you like it or not. Your brand, however, isn’t your logo. You can get 10 new logos a year and still have the same brand. [...]

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How Much Time Should Churches Spend on Social Media?

How Much Time Should Churches Spend on Social Media?

In Facebook’s discussion board section, someone posed the question, “How much time do you spend managing your social media presence?” Most of the respondents answered that they spent around 2 hours per day managing their business’ social media accounts. A Few spent up to 4 hours and very few spent less than 1 hour. Of course, each [...]

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The Intersection: ShadyCrest Baptist Church

The Intersection: ShadyCrest Baptist Church

Shadycrest Baptist Church is located in Pearland, Texas. Below is an Q&A  with Pastor Ryan Jennings. Can you give me some background about the Church and how long you have been there? Shadycrest will celebrate its 40th Anniversary this July.  I have been here for nine months and I am the newest member of the team.  We [...]

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The Q- What is Social Media?

The Q- What is Social Media?

Good Monday to you, loyal readers! I am having webcam issues this morning, namely audio issues, so I decided to scrap the video for the day and write to you! Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard the term “Social Media” thrown around lately.  Typically, you hear it hinged to the words Facebook, Twitter or [...]

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Best Practices- The rest of the year

Best Practices- The rest of the year

Resurrection Sunday was great at my church. I haven’t laughed so much at church in a very long time. Amongst the gems from Pastor Tony were “Jesus is like the death star. When you get close, he pulls you in with his tractor beam”, “Mo’ money, that’s right, mo’ problems”, and “if you hate your [...]

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