#2 - Be On Time
Time is crucial. If you’re five minutes late for a plane, bets are…you’re not making it. Ask a woman who is pregnant, time gets more and more important to her the closer to the birth time. Ask her when she’s one week late and time is even more important. When we purchase [...]
The other morning I was watching The Today Show - Weekend edition. One of the stories was on the topic of making a Great First Impression. Campbell Brown was interviewing a lady that walked down a list of 5-8 things to do before and during an interview to make them remember you. I began thinking…(not always a good thing) ”Does this relate [...]
Yesterday something happened that really caught me off guard. I’m sitting in my office working to finish out the week and I get an e-Newsletter from MinistryCom. I usually stop whatever I’m doing when this e-Newsletter arrives and read all the great info related to communication from some of the best in the business.
I scaned the [...]
A few days ago I told you that we had dropped the billboard that our church had for over 15 years. It was going to cost us $63,600 per year. That included the 1yr contract and what it would cost to change the message 6 times. Some have questioned the decision. Others think it was very wise. Some [...]
Here’s a list of projects that I’m currently working on:
New ad campaign including our first ad in the Edmond Outlook magazine. The magazine is direct mailed to 50,000 homes in Edmond, OK. Project includes:
Ad design
Idea and concept for ad
Plans to incorporate a unique web page to track people coming from ad
Design of web page to help answer questions related [...]
We’re trying to improve the way we communicate with our church members and also visitors. Here are a few ways that we are doing that:
By sending out e-Newsletters to certain groups to let them know about upcoming events, programs, changes, etc. related to specific ministries. You can subscribe to one here: e-Newsletters.
Through our weekend bulletin called [...]
I’ve been looking for a free way to map locations of individuals, churches, businesses, etc. but had a hard time finding what I was looking for until…today. Check out CommunityWalk.com. With this program you can import locations, addresses, city, state, and zip codes and it maps each individual location using Google Maps.
Here’s an example of how [...]
I was looking through some blogs and found this, 10 Most Common Web Photography Mistakes by MulltiChannel Merchant. Below is a summary of their story:
Blurry or distorted photos.
Strange or dull colors.
Slow-loading photos.
“Jagged scissor edges” from poor editing.
Too dark or too bright.
Photos that are too small.
A distracting (or just plain ugly) background.
A lack of appeal.
A lack [...]
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve served on 5 different church staffs over the past 25 years. That means I’ve said goodbye four times. Saying goodbye is never easy, at least it shouldn’t be. In my experience there are two ways supervisors or pastors can treat a staff member who leaves, with dignity and honor or disgrace. [...]
The Good
This past weekend we recorded the highest number of visits to our church website www.hendersonhills.com. On Saturday we had 1,000 people come to visit our site. This is pretty amazing since we average approximately 500 visitors per day. Why did we double the number of visitors in one day? Here are a few reasons:
We have, over [...]
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