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It took me far too long to learn this: Sometimes when we look at a web page, we can tell that something is off, but we can’t put our finger on exactly what. This could be a host of things, but most often it’s a problem with the sizes of your text. Either the wrong proportions, […]

Website Design

March 7, 2025

Font size guideline cheat sheet

A while back I posted in the WELS Intersections Facebook group offering to critique/improve a logo. I had a lot of interest, so THANK YOU if you submitted yours. If this newsletter gets a positive response, I hope to do more in the coming months. Our subject today is the logo for St. Mark Ministries in De […]

Graphic Design, Logo Design

February 14, 2025

Logo Makeover: St. Mark Ministries | Green Bay & De Pere

It was an absolute pleasure to present at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary this week. Here’s the description shared with attendees: The Church Marketing Playbook: Throwing Wide Open Your Digital Front Doors Within the next 4 to 40 months, you can confidently say you’ll be carving out Saturday mornings for church workdays, receiving emails titled, “Re: New […]

Social Media, Website Design

February 7, 2025

The Church Marketing Playbook: Throwing Wide Open Your Digital Front Doors

I’m working on materials for my presentation at Mission & Ministry next week…While I’m at it, I thought I’d share this resource with you. Have you ever sat down to formulate a plan for promoting an upcoming event and thought… “Where should I begin?” Then… you get overwhelmed by all of your options, procrastinate, and […]

Email Marketing, Paid Advertising, Social Media

January 31, 2025

Event Promotion Timeline & Checklist

Don’t go digital for digital’s sake. Go digital for the humans on the other side of the screen. Here are 10 ways that the internet intersects with traditional Word of Mouth interactions. 1) Write stuff that makes sense to share publicly. If someone reposts your graphic on their Instagram story, they, in essence, just sent that sentiment […]

Marketing

January 24, 2025

Word of Mouth still wins: 10 ways digital tools can bolster personal outreach