Enough theory. Time to execute.
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Use this Free App to Scan Business Cards with Your Smartphone
Save a ton of time and data entry when you scan business cards with your smartphone. Your new friend’s contact info goes straight from their card into your address book. As pastors and church planters, you should be out in your community meeting with civic leaders and community influencers. Imagine a successful week of meeting […]
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How to Mail Automated Thank You Notes for Guest Followup
Did you know automated thank you notes were a thing? I’d heard rumor that there was a business that would print and mail them for you. I was not prepared for what I found out. Turns out, there’s a whole industry that has sprung up around doing small batch mailings for you. Without your ever […]
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How to Get a Church Nonprofit Authorization Number and Save Thousands
The following is a guest post by Holly Goff, production manager at d2design, which specializes in direct mail solutions tailored to churches and their goals. Chances are, you’re planning to use direct mail at some point in your church’s marketing plan. It’s cost-effective and maintains great response rates: Once again, direct mail response rates rank […]
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How to Look Up Mobile Carriers so Your Church Software Works
Ever notice that your church management software asks for your people’s mobile number and their carrier? Here’s why they do that and how you can look up mobile carriers to get past the roadblock. Has this happened to you? You build your guest followup system in your church management software. It includes emailing or texting […]
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How to Save $530 by NOT Getting a Church Bulk Mail Permit
If you’re sending out direct mail to announce the launch of your weekly services, save $530 and don’t open a church bulk mail permit (but still get all the benefits using this secret). There are two permits required to get the lowest postage rate for your church plant’s mailing: the church bulk mail permit the […]
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How Much Money CAN Church Plant Postal Permits Save You?
In addition to your community service and word of mouth marketing, you’re thinking about sending out direct mail postcards to your community to announce the Grand Opening of your church plant. You could potentially save thousands of dollars in one mailing with church plant postal permits. A 1st class postcard stamp costs 35¢ these days […]
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How to Organize a Church Plant Door Hanger Campaign
It’s Saturday morning and your volunteers have showed up to execute your church plant door hanger campaign. Now what? You’ve already invested the time to design the door hangers as part of a larger campaign. And you’ve paid to have them printed. It would be a shame if the wheels fell off for lack of […]
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5 Ways to Maximize Church Plant Door Hangers
Using church plant door hangers to get the word out about a new church can be effective. If you know how to maximize them. I’ve had multiple planters over the years use church plant door hangers. Some of those planters would tell you that they would absolutely use them again. Others would tell you they […]
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Call Me Back When You’re a Real Church
If you haven’t heard this response yet in your church planting journey, you will: “Call me back when you’re a real church.” Have a plan to address this before you’re hit with it. Oh, they never say it exactly like that. But when you invite someone to get involved in the church plant before you […]
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