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If you’re new to the newsletter: What is a lead magnet? A lead magnet is a digital resource you give away in exchange for someone’s email address. I wrote more about it in this newsletter.​ ​ Last week I wrote 30 lead magnet ideas for churches. Find that here.​ ​ Arguably, schools have even more reason to implement lead magnets […]

Email Marketing

February 2, 2024

30 lead magnet ideas for schools

A while back, I wrote a newsletter about lead magnets. Read it here. 30,000 foot view if you don’t want to read the old newsletter: A lead magnet is some digital resource that you offer in exchange for contact information. Ex: You receive a 20% off coupon code when you sign up for Old Navy emails. […]

Email Marketing

January 26, 2024

30 lead magnet ideas for churches

Not every church or school has the resources needed to blow up the internet. Let’s start with the absolute basics and make sure we do them well. You have 3 jobs: ​ 🌐 Maintain a high-quality website Your website should win employee of the month, every month. What does this mean? Your website should communicate who […]

Marketing

January 19, 2024

The bare minimum marketing strategy

(it is, of course, not actually trademarked) Subject Line: Avoid “Week of 1/8” syndrome… Make your subject line something unique and unexpected – this is your one chance to convince someone to open the message and see what’s inside. Devotional thought: Write a 3-5 sentence reflection on the sermon, a section of scripture, or something you’ve been […]

Email Marketing

January 12, 2024

The perfect weekly email template™️

I haven’t gotten this nerdy in a while, so buckle up. No matter if you have a website that was coded from scratch – or created on a builder like SquareSpace, all sites are built with roughly the same building blocks. Your computer reads these blocks of code and display the shapes, colors, text, and […]

Website Design

January 5, 2024

What’s an H1 tag and why should I care?