Church Planting Tactics

Category: Web

  • Don’t Let Your Buddy Do Your Church Plant Website

    Don’t Let Your Buddy Do Your Church Plant Website

    Publishing your church plant website has become an important part of the planting process here in the States. Everyone is going to check out who you are and what you’re about through your website, and usually very early in their relationship with you. Having a website establishes you in the community, helps you communicate, and…

  • Use a Password Manager

    With the advent of Web 2.0 and all of our apps being in the Cloud, I’m sure your online accounts have multiplied exponentially like mine. Now mine’s an extreme case, perhaps, because I work with so many planters all the time. But I just crossed the 1,000 logins mark. Yeah, like I’m going to remember…

  • Electronic Offering Voucher

    One of the residual objections to using online giving at your church plant will be from people who like to make the offering an active, participatory part of the worship service. “If they just deduct it from my checking account, it doesn’t feel like giving.” Give Them Something to Give In light of the many…

  • New Top-Level .church Domain

      New generic top-level domains (gTLD’s) are being released regularly. Are you having trouble finding a domain name for your church plant? If your desired .com and .org are long since taken, here are some new gTLD’s coming: .church .city .center .home .live .online The timing is a little unclear, but a big thanks to…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Google Stuff

    For years I’ve been setting up my church planters with Google Apps for their email service. It’s free for any organization [as of Dec 2012, Google no longer offers a free option], and along with 10 email addresses, you get the standard Gmail suite: docs (now called “drive”), calendar, shared contacts, etc…  I usually add…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – Soft Demographics Reports

      Hard demographics include the typical measures: age, race, income, etc. Soft demographics are a little fuzzier and include things like attitudes, preferences, and tendencies. Experian, whom you may know as one of the big three credit bureaus, has been amassing data of both types for years that gives them (and now you) insight into…

  • Are You Listening?

    There is a lot of chatter on social media – are you listening for mentions of your church plant? What’s the Problem? Social media is designed to be just that: social. Too many churches use it as just another media outlet to push communication in one direction. It’s OK to get information out there, but…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – WiseStamp

      You’re hampering your own church plant communications. That is, if you haven’t taken care to develop an email signature that gives people easy ways to interact with you. Few things vex me more than having an important email conversation going that needs to turn in to a phone call, but the other party hasn’t…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – ToneCheck

      Ever typed up an email when you were really emotionally charged about the subject and immediately regretted pressing the ‘send’ button? Ever send what you thought was a mild-mannered email that was completely misconstrued by the recipient? Enter ToneCheck These guys have written code that detects your tone of voice and throws a red…