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Do you struggle when you sit down to design a social media post?The blank page can be intimidating. You might know what you want to say, but you don’t know how to make it look. Take some time to do a little work up-front and move forward knowing you’ll always have a design to sit […]

Social Media

December 20, 2024

How to create your own set of social media templates

📼 WATCH THIS INSTEAD OF READING This has gone through many, many iterations, so I’m extremely excited to share with you that… …In the spring, I’m running a free training program teaching you how to manage a church’s digital landscape in about 5 hours/week. I’ll teach you: Pre-reqs (please be honest with yourself): Why free? I could […]

Marketing

December 6, 2024

Learn to manage a church’s digital landscape in ~5hrs/week

I love Canva and I feel no shame about that fact. The professional graphic design community loves to make fun of Canva users. I, on the other hand, think Canva is a great tool: an accessible alternative to expensive softwares. If everyone could be a pro at Adobe Illustrator, that would be great! But that’s just […]

Graphic Design

November 15, 2024

3 easy ways to make your canva designs look better

This is valuable real estate! Everyone who visits your page sees this first. What kind of impression do you want to make? Here are 3 ideas in order of least to most effort: 1) A candid photo of your community I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: You cannot go wrong with happy, smiling faces! Ideally, this is candid, […]

Social Media

November 1, 2024

What should your Facebook page header look like?

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…