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How Consumers are Influenced: Socially, Locally and Mobil-ly

Source: Nielsen Wire

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Social Media Marketing or Traditional Marketing?

Social Media Marketing or Traditional Marketing?

If you’re a decision maker for your church you’ve either at least thought about social media and how to use it for your church or had a discussion with someone else on the same subject. We tend to cringe a little bit when we combine church and marketing in the same sentence. We don’t want to “sell” [...]

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Sharing is Daring…

Sharing is Daring…

With over 750 million Facebook members and over 50% of those users logging into Facebook each day, it sometimes make me wonder just how safe my information really is. I mean, putting my faith in Facebook’s privacy policy is like putting my faith in a blow up raft to get me from Los Angeles to [...]

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More Adults Now Use Social Networks than Ever Before

More Adults Now Use Social Networks than Ever Before

In a recent survey completed by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 65 percent of the world’s adult population uses social networks. In 2005 only 8 percent were using social networks to connect with people. While we all are aware that social networking is most prevalent among young adults, 33 percent [...]

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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 [...]

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Facebook- Where is it Today?

Facebook- Where is it Today?

Facebook started in  February 2004. By December 2004, Facebook already reached nearly 1 million active users.  In September 2005, Facebook decided to expand to add high school networks and reached 5.5 million users by December 2005. One year later, after adding the share feature, news feed and development platform,  it reached 12 million users.  In [...]

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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 [...]

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Social Media Usage

Social Media Usage

Lifeway released research earlier this year regarding churches and their usage on social networks and the web.  While I believe it is kind of sad that less than half of churches are actively pursuing Facebook as a means to reach people, there was other interesting information regarding website updates. How can we expect people to [...]

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How to be More Likeable…Online

Freebies – everyone loves free stuff. If you give away stuff, people are going to love you.  But don’t think you just have to give it away without any pre-qualifiers. Make them work for it. Make them leave you a comment or review and then send them something. Respond to Comments- don’t leave your fans [...]

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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 [...]

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