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There are 3 primary benefits to doing a little spring clean of your email list: 1) If you’re paying per subscriber, you’ll save yourself some cash. 💵 2) Your open rate will improve and you’ll stay out of spam. 📬 Your email service watches your open rate to see if you’re delivering high-quality, interesting content. If it deems […]

Email Marketing

September 6, 2024

When’s the last time you cleaned up your email list?

I’ll be frank… if you’re the pastor, principal, or leader of your non-profit, this is a gigantic waste of your time. 🤷‍♀️ Additionally, you don’t know what you don’t know about web design and user experience (two fields you can get whole masters degrees in). It would be like me trying to write a sermon. That being said, I […]

Website Design

August 30, 2024

If you must DIY your website…

Let’s dig into the pros and cons of breaking apart your two sites. PROS CONS I made this change for a church/school a while back. Since then, they’ve shared with me that they’ve seen far more school tour requests come through than they had in the past. Of course, this could be due to more […]

Website Design

August 23, 2024

Should your church and school have separate websites?

Ok, “emergency” might be a strong word… Let’s call it a “contingency plan.” Today, I’d like to encourage you to play a little defense. Think about this scenario… A staff member moved to a different call and was the only one with the password to the church’s Facebook page. It took weeks to regain access, […]

Social Media

August 16, 2024

Do you have a social media emergency response?

Do you want to know one mistake I see churches and schools make that keeps their emails from getting opened – and read? ⚠️ Never put more than 3 punctuation marks in an email subject line. Especially, if those punctuation marks are exclamation points. Some people will argue that it increases a reader’s enthusiasm and […]

Email Marketing

August 9, 2024

Avoid this and stay out of email jail