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I could get on my high horse and talk about how important it is to treat your digital presence much like you treat your physical location. Mow the lawn… Pick up the trash… Plant new flowers… Change your sign every week… I could go on… โ€‹ But, I’ll hold myself back… today. ๐Ÿ˜‰ If you have an […]

Website Design

May 3, 2024

5 ways to make the most of an ugly website

Here are 3 lessons (and applications) from one of my favorite marketing books: Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday. It’s a quick read that I highly recommend – but if you want the highlights, keep reading: LESSON ONE “Products can and should be changed until they are primed to generate explosive reactions from the first people who […]

Marketing

April 26, 2024

3 lessons from my favorite marketing book

So often we get in a groove with our communication and marketing efforts. Use these questions to rethink how you’re communicating over digital channels. Send to the right person Send the right message Send through the right channel Send at the right time As you can imagine, thinking through all these bullet points for every piece of communication takes […]

Marketing

April 12, 2024

4-Tiered Approach to Top-Notch Communication

The “Buyer’s” Journey: How can we apply it to organizations that don’t have true ๐Ÿ’ตbuyers๐Ÿ’ต? The Buyer’s Journey is a framework used by marketers to get inside their customer’s minds. Let’s learn about it (then apply it to churches & schools): Here are the 7 Stages: That might be insightful for mechanics, but what about […]

Marketing

April 5, 2024

7-Step Buyer’s Journey: Let’s apply it to churches & schools…

Our attention spans are getting shorter by the day. That’s why website speed is an important consideration for digital marketers like me (and like you!). Google performed a study about the impact of slow load times on mobile, and the results are super interesting. Read more about the study here.โ€‹ This tells me that churches & […]

Website Design

March 22, 2024

Is your website the tortoise or the hare?