Archive for Archive for May, 2009
Why Visitors Don’t Come Back
Lynette Hawkins, writing on churchsolutionsmag.com gives a list of 15 reasons why visitors may not return after visiting on Easter.
No welcome from the parking lot to the pews.
Finding the right door to sanctuary appeared difficult.
People in the pews held on to their “good seats.”
Too many “churchy insider words” like doxology and introit [...]
What Does Your Building Say?
When an unchurched person drives by the church building - what is it saying to them?
Many times churches spent a lot of time and effort on websites, printed materials, music and communication while neglecting a frontline mode of Public Relations - the physical plant. The one thing potential guests see and are impacted by before [...]
E-book On Biblical Productivity
I just came across a free E-book on Productivity written originally as a series of posts on C.J. Mahaney’s blog. While quite short (only 36 pages) it does have some good material. Well worth the short time it takes to read it.
You can get the .PDF file here.
Friday Facebook Update
We’re a couple of days into our second Facebook campaign and already there are some obvious differences from the first. This campaign is using the same ad as the previous however the demographic parameters have been modified. Where previously we had targeted Facebook users 15 and up now we are targeting users 25 and up. [...]
Facebook Update
Our Facebook ad has been running since April 23 and to date we have had 1.3 million impressions (times it has been displayed) and 261 clicks through to our website. All of this cost the princely sum of $60.43. Our average cost is $.05 per thousand impressions.
The nice thing about Facebook is that you can [...]
Microsoft Power Toy
Last week I posted about the Microsoft Power Toys for XP. I’ve since had a chance to try out the picture resizing function. If you need to resize pictures for email or the web this is the tool for you. Rather than having to open each picture individually you can select multiple pictures (by holding [...]
2009 French Evangelism Conference
Cindy and I drove down to Trois Rivieres yesterday for the annual French Evangelism Conference. As always when the conference is in Trois Rivieres the local church did a marvelous job of hosting the conference.
It was great to spend time with other pastors and ministers who are involved in French ministries and to hear of [...]
