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By admin on December 17, 2008  |  Comments 0

Developing an Internet Presence

We want to introduce you to a website that will help in your church marketing planning. This site is called Church Web Master. The Church Web Master provides a wide array of services to help you utilize the Internet in growing your church. The potential impact of the Internet is an amazing thing.

“The Church Web Master is here to help churches with their web ministries and church websites. The Internet offers a huge ministry field and yet some churches have not yet moved into the ministry because of a lack of expertise or people power. That’s where Church Web Master steps in. We offer a wide range of services and plans to help your church get involved in this exciting area of ministry. We look forward to laboring with you in the future to advance the Kingdom of God and hope that you will consider us your Church Web Master Online!”

Not only does the site provide a lot of information for potential church webmasters, it also offers some very reasonable services for setting up and even maintaining church websites. People who are searching for churches today use the Internet. You need to have an Internet presence! We have included the RSS feed on this site so you can read the latest articles from Church Webmaster.

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By admin on December 16, 2008  |  Comments 0

Talking it Over

Another important part of church marketing is the ability to talk through your plans with a consultant. We would like to introduce you to our sister site, Church Growth Consulting.

This is a helpful website with a lot of free information on church growth and church growth ideas. They also offer very reasonable church growth consulting services. The following is taken from the Church Growth Consulting site:

This site was born out of my passion to share with pastors some ideas for helping to grow the church. You can find a wealth of ideas about church growth by reading through the articles on Church Growth | Software and Consulting. You can read about how to set up a web ministry or church website. You can read about servant evangelism projects. You can read about how to think through the process of helping your church to grow. I have spent my ministry figuring out how to do things that people said couldn’t be done. Your church is to small to do that. You need to wait until you have more money or more people or more this or that. It seems to me that there is a scripture that says “With God, all things are possible.” I like to think of this site as Church Consulting for pastors and churches that really can’t afford it. To that end, you will find a wealth of information for free on this site. If you need a little extra help I can help you to work through a lot of issues over the phone. Go to the Church Growth Consulting page and read about the service we provide. We can help you think through a lot of different areas of ministry. Below is a partial list:

  • The Advantages of Multiple Services (even for small churches)
  • Church Planting (Starting a church)
  • Pastor Transition (Good and Bad)
  • Servant Evangelism / Outreach Ideas
  • Short Term Mission Trips
  • Affinity Groups
  • Small Groups
  • Raising Up and Training Future Leaders
  • Internet Ministry
  • Internet Radio Station
  • Video Venues
  • Prayer and Ministry Team Training
  • Pastor to Pastor Mentoring / Encouragement / Prayer
  • Recovery Ministry

Feel free to contact me with any questions. I always try to answer as many questions as I can by email and of course for free. I look forward to hearing from you. I hope you enjoy Church Growth Consulting and encourage you to sign up for the free RSS feed or email subscription.

We have included the RSS feed on this site so that you can click on the latest articles they have published.

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By admin on December 15, 2008  |  Comments 0

Starting a Web Ministry

Starting a multi-faceted web ministry is another strong church marketing strategy. The Web Ministry site encourages the development of web ministries for in-reach, outreach, missions and evangelism. A pastor’s blog is a powerful tool for in-reach. A great way to cast vision and keep people involved. A blog that reaches out to the lost is another powerful ministry. Web Ministry Online provides custom designed web ministry sites and ideas to help in the process.

From the website:

On Web Ministry Online we are developing a number of Web Ministries for sale. These Web Ministries, which we will customize to fit your ministry needs, will have a huge advantage because they will already have some age on the Internet. This will cause them to show up on search engines far more rapidly than starting from scratch. This will will allow you to have an almost immediate impact on the Internet for the Kingdom of God.

Here are the sites we are currently developing:

Web Ministry also writes articles about the process of starting and running your own web ministries.

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By admin on December 15, 2008  |  Comments 0

God’s Daytimer

The God’s Daytimer site is another interesting use of a blog for church marketing.  The following is from their website:

God’s Daytimer is a website designed to be a place to spend a few minutes each day to connect with God. The Online Bible Studies page provides a short daily Bible study and hopefully a time for a moment of reflection.

Check out our latest feature on God’s Daytimer, Fifteen Minutes With God. This is an opportunity for you to spend fifteen minutes with God by following the Lord’s Prayer as a model. Click here to go to the Fifteen Minutes With God page. This will help you to develop a consistent daily prayer time.

As you end your quiet time don’t forget to check out what’s happening in the world. Click here to go to the Christian World News stories page. This will help you to direct your prayers more effectively.

We have included the RSS feed for God’s Daytimer in the middle column of this site for your convenience.

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By admin on December 15, 2008  |  Comments 0

Internet Pastor Online

The Internet Pastor Online site is an interesting way of using a blog for church marketing.  The following is from their website:

Internet Pastor Online is here to help answer the tough questions we all face. You can ask questions about living in the Kingdom of God, about the Bible, and anything else that might affect the life of believers. You can use the Ask the Pastor page to send in your questions. You will find helpful reading materials recommended by the Internet Pastor on the Products page. We also encourage you to take time to respond to the articles and to comments that other readers leave.

Internet Pastor Online | Ministry is provided for education and entertainment purposes. This site is in no way a substitute for a relationship with a local church/pastor or with a licensed counselor when necessary. We look forward to spending time with you in the days ahead.

We have included the RSS feed for Internet Pastor Online in the middle column of this site for your convenience.

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Church Marketing and Internet Presence - Part 4

The Church Marketing site is writing this series of articles to highlight the importance of a web ministry and developing an Internet presence in regard to Church Marketing. These articles attempt to provide information to help the process of starting a blog for web ministry a little easier. In this article we will talk about WordPress themes and plugins.

One of the advantages of using WordPress in a self hosted format (this was discussed in a previous article in this Christian Blog series) is the availability of wide variety of themes for your site. A WordPress theme is the design of your blog. There are thousands of themes for WordPress, many of them are offered for free. A nice looking theme will have a significant impact on your site. A well designed theme will also make the blogging process a lot smoother. There are also themes available which you can purchase for $50 (fifty) to $250 (two hundred fifty) or more. We have found that the themes from Solostreamhave worked really well for us. The themes from Solostream.com are attractive, easily customized, and very easy to work with. This Christian Blog site is using a theme called WP-Vybe from Solostream. If you want to check out the themes that are offered just click here to view more details.

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Once you have a theme in place you can really fine tune your WordPress web ministry blog by adding plugins. There are thousands of plugins which are available for WordPress and they are all offered for free. You can find a plugin to do almost anything you can imagine on your blog. We use plugins to provide a verse of the day, backup the site automatically, make it easy and safe for people to contact us, make it easy and safe for people to donate to us, and more. You can check out the plugin directory at WordPress.org to get an idea of the plugins that are available. Installing a good theme and some nice plugins will really make your web ministry blog pop!

March 27, 2009 | admin | Comments 0
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Church Marketing and Internet Presence - Part 3

The Church Marketing site is writing this series of articles to emphasize the importance of a web ministry in regards to church marketing.  These articles should be helpful in starting your own web ministry.  In previous articles we have discussed some of the free options for web ministry and how to get a domain name.  In this article we will discuss the advantages of getting a web host and working with WordPress software.  WordPress is easy to work with, it is free to use, and there have been hundreds of amazing plug-ins developed to help you really tailor your web ministry for church marketing.  There are also a lot of really amazing themes that have been developed, some free and some for sale, which can help give your Church Website a unique and professional appearance.

When it comes to web hosting there are a lot of options available. I use Good News Domains for my web hosting needs. They have several good web hosting plans to choose from, and their customer service has always been top notch. The process for getting a web host starts like this. Go to Good News Domains at www.goodnewsdomains.com and then click on the Web Hosting tab. You will see the following screen:

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On the bottom of the page are the three options for web hosting at Good News Domains. They have an economy plan, a deluxe plan, and a premium plan.

webhost2For most of you the Economy plan will work great. If you think you might start more than 10 blogs as part of your web ministry then go with the Deluxe plan. One of the advantages of a web host is that you can have multiple sites hosted without having to spend more money. The Economy plan would allow you to have up to 10 different blogs hosted. The Deluxe plan would let you have uo to 25 blogs and the Premium plan would let you have up to 50. This might be a good option if part of your vision for church marketing inicludes encouraging members of your church to start their own blog as part of your web ministry. You could purchase one web hosting plan and then let people start their own Christian Blog for free, or you could split the cost by how many people start a blog and it would only be $3 or $4 dollars a year. Starting multiple blogs on a web host is done by utilizing sub-domains. Be sure to choose the linux version if you are going to be using WordPress for your blog. Speaking of WordPress, one of the reasons I use Good News Domains is that they include WordPress in their value applications and will even install it for you.

webhost3The process of getting WordPress installed is fairly simple and I have written a series of articles on how to create a blog at My Newbie Blog (www.mynewbieblog.com). You can check out the articles there if you need a little extra help. In our next article we will talk about picking a theme and installing some plug-ins.

February 10, 2009 | admin | Comments 0
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Church Marketing and Internet Presence - Part 2

In this series of articles on Church Marketing we are discussing the importance of establishing an Internet Presence. In our last article we talked about two free blog services; Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. While theses services will work well for some churches, others will do better with a registered domain name and a web host. We will focus today on domain names. A domain name is your web address or URL. This is the address that locates your site on the Internet. You can get your own domain name for about $10/year. Before you register a domain name there are a few things you should know.

A domain name should be specific to your church. Do not use abbreviations or nick names that no one knows. You want a domain name that has potential to create the most amount of traffic to your site. A well chosen domain name can have a big impact on the search engines. For example, let’s say we were starting a Church site for the First Christian Church of Fairbanks. Do not get a domain name like FCCF.com. You would be better off getting “FirstChristianChurchFairbanks” or “FairbanksChristianChurch”. Why? It seems that it would be easier for people to type in FCCF.com than FirstChristianChurchFairbanks.com. The issue is about how people who don’t know your domain name find your Church blog or ministry site. With the right domain name, people could find you by searching for Fairbanks Churches or First Christian Church or Churches in Fairbanks. Since your domain name contains those words it has the potential of showing up on the search engines.

Once you have decided what an appropriate domain name for your church would be, you have to see if its available. To do this, I like to use Good News Domains (www.goodnewsdomains.com).

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Once you are at the Good News Domain site look for the “Start a Domain Name search” box:

goodnewsdomains2Now just type in the domain name you would like to have, like this:

goodnewsdomains3If the domain name you want is available, you will see the following screen:

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Sometimes the domain name you want isn’t available. Good News Domains will provide you with some suggestions when that happens. Keep plugging away at the search until you find the best available domain name. Once you have your domain name, follow the instructions on the Good News Domain site to get it registered. Once you have your domain name, you will need to get a web host. We will talk about that in our next article in this series on Church Marketing.

January 12, 2009 | admin | Comments 0
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