The “Social Media” Connection

Today we continue to look at how you can connect with your local volunteer and donor prospects using social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

As a fellow ministry director, I know that it is very easy to get overwhelmed with everything that it takes to be successful in meeting goals and objectives. Ministry directors are very busy running their organizations and usually have little or no time to dedicate to all of the different marketing channels available to help you grow your ministry.

However, social media is definitely one that should not be ignored.

With this extremely popular and effective form of ministry building, you can connect and form relationships with like minded people… keeping your ministry or organization at the top of their minds when they, or someone they know, needs your services or when they themselves want to get involved with what your doing.

Regardless of whether your organization has a website or not, you can benefit from social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Battling Obscurity…

If you are not continually establishing a strong online presence, your chance of connecting with local donors and volunteers is greatly reduced. Without pro-actively growing your on-line presence, you’re letting opportunities to grow lasting relationships slip right through your fingers.

On “Web Wednesdays“, I will be sharing with you ways to help you learn more about different online ministry building techniques (ie. marketing) that will allow you to connect with local prospects on a consistent basis.

You will learn various methods of online ministry building that are available to you and why they’re effective.  In addition, you will learn more about how online marketing works overall, so that you can have a better understanding of how it can benefit your organization or ministry.

Helping You “Figure It All Out”

It can be quite frustrating trying to decide which online marketing strategies to use when you don’t even understand them.

Often organizations and ministries avoid Internet marketing simply because: Read the rest of this entry »