Church marketing - Similarities between college football and church?? - Discuss
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I came across this interesting post on similarities between church and college football.
Have a look and tell me what you think.
Steve
Lessons in Church Marketing from College Football
I was thinking about how I could easily explain that marketing can help or hurt a church or ministry. What I ended up with was a list of how the marketing of college football works. Hopefully through this you will see how great …
Church blog or church website?
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There are many people out there that engage in the debate website v blog.. Its about time Ignite entered the debate.
As you can see I have gone for wordpress to manage my content for my domain. Why did I go for wordpress when some people say wordpress is blogging software?
Well wordpress is so much more than just blogging software.
Wordpress is:-
CMS - A content management system
SEO Friendly - Once set up the engines love fresh content
Open source - Its free and updates are free
Its a publishing system - A marketer once said to me “if you write the content you
control the content”
You connect with the reader easier when a blog is more personal than writing website corporate copy
This doesnt mean that websites are the wrong way when looking ast providing an online presence..
My home church is http://www.KingsBolton.co.uk
That is our domain and we are currently working on adding a blog on to a subdomian which is
http://www.kingsbolton.co.uk/blog
This way you get the best of both worlds..
How to optimise you church blog with wordpress plugins
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I have been promising for a while now a video tutorial on wordpress.. so I have done a brief tutorial on 3 plugins that help you get stacks more traffic form the search engines.
Enjoy and comments are welcomed.
Steve has been working in online marketing for the last 10 years. Since becoming a Christian 3 years ago his heart changed from making money to building the Kingdom of God and a vision was birthed to create a series of training courses to aid the church and Christian para-organisations