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| digital marketing for churches: The Church Social Media Marketing Guide Glenda Boone, 2017-09-21 The Church Social Media Marketing Guide is for every Pastor, Media Ministry Leader that needs to introduce and engage its congregation and ministry online using social media. Here are a few problems many pastors and ministry leaders face right now regarding engaging online audiences: Unfamiliarity of online marketing strategies and tools; lack of understanding who their target audiences might be; Posting the right messages at the most ideal times. One important fact is that many potential church members all have one thing in common, they all engage in social media at least 40% of their time. Thus, without your congregation's presence and engagement on these platforms, your church will begin to decline in the area of recruiting new members, which means less opportunity for your church to grow. And, worst of all, many Pastors, Media Ministry Leaders, Church Communications Directors can't get past the idea that even though it's not true, they believe that posting a few fliers of church events and live streaming is all that is needed to actively grow their congregations online. Solutions to these problems are answered in a concise and easy to read manner in this book. You will FINALLY learn how to introduce you ministry to the online space, engage and create appropriate messages to target potential members! So, if you're a Pastor or Media Ministry Leader whose ministry really needs to engage more with social media but don't know how or where to begin, . The Church Social Media Marketing Guide answers questions you've been searching for! |
| digital marketing for churches: Church Marketing Manual for the Digital Age Bryan Foster, 2020-06-30 GOD is Jesus & Mahomad. God revealed to the author that now is the time to share and help explain this Revelation. It was initially revealed to author, Bryan Foster, in the early morning on 28th, May 2016 while camping on the plains of Mt Warning in Murwillumbah. This is the fifth book published in the 'GOD Today' Series. It highlights three Revelations from God that you will love or hate. Key concepts covered in this book's series of articles are: God/Allah is Jesus & Mahomad; the Truth was revealed by God through 21 Revelations received by the author in 2016 and November, 2018; the various Revelations not explained in the first four books are explained now; the prophecy of the author and Tears from God help prove the Incarnations of God as Jesus and Mahomad.God needs the religious leaders, scriptural scholars, theologians, etc., from both Islam and Christianity to explain these Revelations as each applies to them. Other religions should also be included through the offer to become an integral part of God's place in today's world by helping with the explanations, and the theology of One God only, the same God, for all time etc.. Book 4, primarily a photobook companion for Book 3, helps the reader appreciate the Truth from God through some spectacular and original images of the sun's rays, flares, clouds and a double rainbow. Many manifesting as sun arrows, flares and a giant Easter Cross. The author believes that these are shared by God to help both the author and readers alike believe in their accuracy, through the Revelations, images and explanations.The final two books in this Series of seven are about LOVE in our world and ABSOLUTE LOVE from God for each one of us throughout history and into the future until the end of time.GOD LOVES each of us equally and encourages us all to live a life in strong relationships with God and our neighbours throughout the world past, present and future. |
| digital marketing for churches: Church Growth Flywheel Rich Birch, 2018-01-27 Are you ready to see your church impact more people than you have ever before? Are you tired of church leadership books that are long on theory but short on practical help? Have you wanted to reach more people in your community but you weren''t sure where to start? Are you worried that your church isn''t reaching its full potential? Church Growth Flywheel : 5 Practical Systems To Drive Growth at Your Church is full of helpful insights to help your church reach more people starting today! Bestselling author, Rich Birch, has pulled together his own hard-fought experience leading within one of the fastest growing churches in the country as well as over 200 interviews with church leaders from prevailing churches. What Church Leaders are Saying About Church Growth Flywheel: Rich is right again. Momentum is hard to catch, easy to lose, and most important. If Flywheel has any importance, it has loads of importance. Don''t miss this book! - Clay Scroggins, Lead Pastor, North Point Community Church Rich Birch has knocked it out of the park with Church Growth Flywheel. His new book is full of practical helps for church leaders looking to reach more people in their communities. Rich cuts through the theory and offers solid advice and guidance that you can put into action right away. - Dan Reiland, Executive Pastor, 12Stone Church, Lawrenceville, Georgia Rich Birch has been reading my mind! After reading the first 15 pages, I made this book mandatory reading for my entire staff. - Hal Seed, Chief Mentor at PastorMentor.com and Founding Pastor of New Song Community Church What an incredible book! Rich has a unique way of sharing real and relevant practices from his experience and conversations that will no doubt be a game changer for you and your church community. Church Growth Flywheel is a gift to church leaders filled with practical yet challenging steps to help initiate growth and change within your community. And what church leader doesn''t want to see more lives changed by Christ! - Sonja Waltman, Executive Director of Ministries at LCBC Church Rich brings a wealth of passion, knowledge and experience to the subject of church growth. He presents a treasure trove of best practices and learnings around engaging people in your city with the message of Christ. Church Growth Flywheel is full practical steps that you can actually start doing and growing in your church, today. I''m so grateful for Rich''s voice on this subject and I think you will be too. - Carey Nieuwhof, Founding & Teaching Pastor, Connexus Church I''ve followed Rich Birch for many years as he has had a front row seat to some of the fastest-growing churches in North America. That''s why I got excited when I heard he was releasing a book with some of what he has learned. You will be energized, informed, inspired, and equipped after reading Church Growth Flywheel. - Tim Stevens, Vice President of Consulting, Vanderbloemen Search Group Insanely practical... super simple... and absolutely essential! Rich Birch has captured the disciplines and behaviors that will allow your church to experience growth that enables you to thrive. Buy one for every member of your team and read it together! - Jenni Catron, Founder/CEO The 4Sight Group and author of The 4 Dimensions of Extraordinary Leadership Most pastors I meet are frustrated since they are trying tons of tactics for growth, but not seeing any results. It isn''t good enough to just go out and just do 100 things. Rich''s system is what they are lacking. For sustained growth, you need an end to end process that''s strategic and easy to follow. This book gives you the entire blueprint in one shot.- Kenny Jahng, Founder, Church Butler Social Media LOOK INSIDE for more endorsements! |
| digital marketing for churches: Rethink Communication Phil Bowdle, 2018-12-31 I read Phil's book, Rethink Communication, and it's excellent. I picked up several nuggets of wisdom for myself, and highly recommend it to anyone looking for practical ways to improve their communication. -John Maxwell The church doesn't have a message problem. The church is facing a message delivery problem. The old communication playbook no longer works. What worked before isn't working anymore. It's time to rethink communication and leverage the greatest opportunities we've ever had to communicate in the church. In Rethink Communication, Phil Bowdle walks through the new reality for what attendance, engagement, and attention look like for the church. Then he offers a practical communication playbook you can use to communicate anything in your church-and actually connect. These practical tips and proven strategies will work regardless of size, staff, or budget. Communication has been overlooked for far too long in the church. It's time for that to change. It's time to rethink communication for the church. |
| digital marketing for churches: From Social Media to Social Ministry Nona Jones, 2020-06-23 This book outlines digital discipleship principles for building an online community and provides practical instruction for how to do it no matter how big or small a local church may be. There are more than 2.3 billion professing Christians in the world and more and more new churches launching globally, yet statistics show that in-person church attendance is declining or plateauing in every nation. Although social technology has been around for more than two decades, church leaders have long bristled at the idea of church online, ranking it as the last concern on their minds in Barna's 2020 state of the church report published February 3, 2020. And then, three weeks later, COVID-19 closed the doors of every church on earth and suddenly forced them entirely online. Nona Jones, a globally acclaimed thought leader on leveraging technology for ministry, had been leading a movement and sounding the alarm for several years to make digital discipleship a central part of every church’s ministry approach. In From Social Media to Social Ministry, she outlines her digital discipleship principles and provides practical instruction for how to do it no matter how big or small a local church may be. There are plenty of books to help churches build a social media strategy, but this is the first book of its kind that goes beyond digital marketing to digital ministry. Readers will leave this book with: Clarity on what discipleship truly is The data that underscores the urgency for digital discipleship Understanding of the resources required to do it well A step-by-step guide on how to implement digital discipleship into ministry plans Knowledge of the differences among and purposes of the most popular social platforms, as well as the tools best positioned for digital ministry |
| digital marketing for churches: The Unstuck Church Tony Morgan, 2017-05-16 Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health. Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support. Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission—to go and make disciples of all the nations . . . With eternity at stake the Church should be doing most everything within its power to see lives changed forever. The Church should strive for the pinnacle of the lifecycle, where they are continually making new disciples and experiencing what Morgan refers to as sustained health. In The Unstuck Church, Morgan unpacks each phase of the church lifecycle, and offers specific and strategic next steps the church leader can take to find it's way to sustained health . . . and finally become unstuck. The Unstuck Church is a call for honest an assessment of where your church sits on the lifecycle, and a challenge to move beyond it. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Connected Church Natchi Lazarus, 2017-02-07 We are in a new era of communication. The internet and social media have changed the way we connect and communicate with each other. As the body of Christ, it is important that we understand these changes, so that we can effectively serve others. Whether you are an established organisation or an individual starting your ministry, this book will help you understand these global, technology-enabled changes and how they impact churches, nonprofits and individuals in ministry. The four-part communication model and the six-step framework presented in this book will help you successfully implement a social media and digital ministry program, laying a strong foundation for the future of your ministry. Section I - Why the Church should use Social Media: In the first section, the book talks about the importance of using digital, online and social communication medium. The book explores the evolution of a new type of audience - the connected audience and helps the reader learn the biblical basis of social media marketing and its relevance to the Great Commission. Section II - The Communication Model: In the second section, the book introduces the four-part communication model. The author lays out a broader vision of a smooth, seamless communication within the Church, as one body using social media and technology. Section III - The Framework for Implementing the Communication Model: In the third section, the book moves from visioning mode to action mode. The author presents a six-step framework as a practical means to implement the communication model in your ministry. This is a hands-on implementation section that examines management strategies, marketing strategies and operational details. Section IV - Future Trends that will Impact the Church: In the fourth and final section, the book returns to a visioning mode as the author identifies key future trends and discusses ways in which churches, nonprofits and ministries can prepare themselves for the future. Foreword is written by Mark W. Schaefer - Social media keynote speaker, college educator, consultant, and best-selling author of six marketing books including Known, The Content Code, Social Media Explained and The Tao of Twitter. Introduction is written by Rev. Sam P. Chelladurai - Senior Pastor of AFT Church. He is one of the most prominent and respected Bible teachers in India. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Great Digital Commission Caleb J. Lines, 2021-09-02 Attendance in US churches continues to sharply decline. As church leaders struggle to identify both root causes and possible responses, they often feel a sense of despair . . . but there is hope! When social media is used intentionally, it is the greatest tool that the church has ever had to fulfill the Great Commission. In our time, we should hear a Great Digital Commission. The Great Digital Commission offers a theological reflection on the importance of social media—while acknowledging its shortfalls—and suggests practical steps that can help congregations think about strategies for church growth and transformation. This book is designed to be approachable for pastors, church leaders, and church social media managers, as well as congregants who want a clearer sense of why social media is important to use within the church and how they can foster healthy social media accounts. The Great Digital Commission has been commanded! We have been called to spread the Good News from our doorsteps to the ends of earth using not only our words, but our posts, our tweets, our memes, our videos, our events, our pins, and our very lives. May it be so. |
| digital marketing for churches: Churchless George Barna, David Kinnaman, 2014-09-19 Churchless people are all around us: among our closest loved ones, at our workplaces, in our neighborhoods. And more and more, they are becoming the norm: The number of churchless adults in the US has grown by nearly one-third in the past decade. Yet the startling truth is that many of these people claim they are looking for a genuine, powerful encounter with God—but they just don’t find it in church. What are they (or we) missing? How can we better reach out to them? What can we say or do that would inspire them to want to join a community of faith? Containing groundbreaking new research from the Barna Group, and edited by bestselling authors George Barna (Revolution) and David Kinnaman (You Lost Me), Churchless reveals the results of a five-year study based on interviews with thousands of churchless men and women. Looking past the surface of church attendance to deeper spiritual realities, Churchless will help us understand those who choose not to be part of a church, build trust-based relationships with them, and be empowered to successfully invite them to engage. |
| digital marketing for churches: Analog Church Jay Y. Kim, 2020-03-31 As our culture begins to reckon with the limits of a digital world, it's time for the church to do the same. In our efforts to stay relevant in our digital age, have we begun to move away from transcendence? Pastor Jay Kim grapples with the ramifications of a digital church, from worship and Christian community to how we engage Scripture. |
| digital marketing for churches: Strategic Church Marketing Today Ajayi S Stephen, 2023-09-06 Strategic Church Marketing Today is a comprehensive guide that offers practical and relevant insights on how to market a church effectively. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding your target audience and developing a clear brand identity that resonates with them. It also provides valuable information on utilizing various marketing channels such as social media, email, and websites to communicate with potential and existing members. The author stresses the need for churches to embrace technology and innovation to reach new audiences and stay relevant in today's digital age. Moreover, the book highlights the significance of tracking and measuring marketing efforts to evaluate their effectiveness and make necessary adjustments. Overall, Strategic Church Marketing Today is an excellent resource for church leaders, pastors, and marketing professionals seeking to create a robust marketing strategy that aligns with their mission and values. It provides practical tips and examples that can be applied to any church, regardless of size or denomination, to effectively reach and engage their audience. Strategic Church Marketing Today is a timely book that acknowledges the challenges that churches face in today's society, such as declining attendance, changing demographics, and increased competition from other activities and organizations. The book encourages churches to adopt a proactive marketing approach, which involves understanding their community and engaging them through various channels. One of the strengths of the book is its emphasis on the importance of creating a clear and compelling brand for the church. The author provides practical tips on how to define the church's unique identity and communicate it effectively through different marketing channels. This approach can help churches stand out from the crowd and attract more visitors and members. Another critical aspect of the book is its focus on the use of digital marketing to reach new audiences. The author recognizes that many people today rely heavily on social media and other digital platforms for information and communication. Therefore, churches need to leverage these tools effectively to connect with their community and share their message. Strategic Church Marketing Today emphasizes the need for churches to measure the effectiveness of their marketing efforts continually. The author provides useful metrics and tools for tracking and evaluating different marketing channels, which can help churches optimize their strategy and maximize their impact. Strategic Church Marketing Today is a valuable resource for churches looking to create a robust marketing strategy that aligns with their mission and values. The book provides practical advice and insights that can help churches reach new audiences, engage their community, and ultimately, grow their ministry. |
| digital marketing for churches: Church Communications Katie Allred, 2022-08-15 Why does a church’s online presence matter? Expert church communication and marketing strategist Katie Allred outlines how churches can continue advancing the gospel and reach more people using new methods of communication. Designed for pastors, church leaders, and volunteers, Church Communications guides the reader through practical steps a church can take to strengthen their digital footprint. Allred gives guidelines for a range of issues from creating marketing strategy, designing branding, how to set up and run social media, and more. All churches are storytellers on a mission, and new digital mediums play a vital role in the life and growth of the church. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Long Tail Chris Anderson, 2006-07-11 What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? The Long Tail is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the ability to offer vast choice is changing everything, and causing us to rethink where our markets lie and how to get to them. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it, from DVDs at Netflix to songs on iTunes to advertising on Google. However, this is not just a virtue of online marketplaces; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for business, one that is just beginning to show its power. After a century of obsessing over the few products at the head of the demand curve, the new economics of distribution allow us to turn our focus to the many more products in the tail, which collectively can create a new market as big as the one we already know. The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance. New efficiencies in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing are essentially resetting the definition of what's commercially viable across the board. If the 20th century was about hits, the 21st will be equally about niches. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Social Church Justin Wise, 2014-01-29 Did you know you can read online reviews of your church? How often have you talked about “reaching people where they are”—and realized that much of the time, they are on the Internet? We’ve been living in a digital world for quite a while now. Justin Wise speaks about social media as this generation's printing press—a revolutionary technology that can spread the gospel farther and faster than we can imagine. It’s time to take what we know (and admit what we don’t know) and learn together how to move forward as the church. Are you ready to think theologically about this digital age and reach people in a new way? |
| digital marketing for churches: The Funnel Ross Turner, 2020-06-10 The Funnel - 10 Secrets of Extraordinary Church Growth is a deep dive into the world of marketing for churches. The author, Ross Turner, is one of the leading marketing and advertising experts in church marketing. He is the founder of Vibrant Agency, one of the largest media companies in the world for churches and ministries. This book covers topics related to social media marketing, branding, websites, and digital advertising.Many ministry leaders do not have a professional understanding of digital advertising or marketing. With this book, you are taught how to understand marketing like a funnel. When you can visualize how this funnel works, you can finally start to see the results and influence you have been wanting with your marketing. Finally marketing for a church makes sense! |
| digital marketing for churches: Trending Up Mark Forrester, 2017-09-19 Your church has a story that can change the course of people's lives--but how do you share that story beyond your four walls? Contains simple strategies for creating powerful content that can connect your church to the people you want to reach. Leading church communications experts simplify complex social media themes, providing accessible and practical answers to questions that all churches face like: How can I make sure social media will benefit and not hurt my church? How can I use social media to foster community? How do I tap volunteers to manage social media? With this book, your church will be ready to reach one of the biggest mission fields today: the billions of active users on social media. |
| digital marketing for churches: Faith-Based Marketing Bob Hutchins, Greg Stielstra, 2009-04-06 Most businesses don’t have a good understanding of the faith community and how to market to this huge audience in effective, culturally sensitive ways. Many attempts to market to Christians have backfired, because the marketers had little understanding of Christians’ values, taboos, and hot buttons. Yet the size of the opportunity is enormous. Faith-Based Marketing provides everything business leaders need to understand 140 million Christian consumers and effectively reach them. It explains who Christians are, what they want, and provides traditional, new media, and word-of-mouth strategies to communicate with and engage them and their churches. The book also includes a valuable directory of top Christian organizations, churches, and events, to help marketers and business leaders find out whom to contact and how. The book includes a free subscription to a companion website with bonus content. |
| digital marketing for churches: Hybrid Church James Emery White, 2023-02-28 We live our lives in both physical and digital community. We need to do ministry the same way. Because of COVID-19, nearly every church in the US was forced to adapt to a quarantine and adopt new ministry strategies, including digital technologies they may have avoided before. When services began to be offered in-person once more, many church leaders said they hoped they'd never have to live stream again for the rest of their lives. But then came the shock: people didn't return in droves, and declining attendance steepened. The pandemic had only accelerated the profound cultural changes that were already marginalizing the church and reducing its relevance. In Hybrid Church, James Emery White argues that the post-pandemic church must commit to a hybrid strategy as the only means to reach a post-Christian culture in a digital age. This book will help you rethink the church's approach and stretch you to move beyond the mentality of that's the way we've always done it. First outlining the dynamics and depths of the new realities we face, White then walks you through major ways of rethinking digital community, strategic thinking, discipleship, and outreach—tackling practical topics like: How to create an online presence that removes unnecessary barriers to engagement and community. How to rethink your church's delivery, both online and in-person. How to meet the spiritual and communal needs of a younger, digitally-native generation. How to shift from a focus on gathering and attendance to a more biblical vision of togetherness and discipleship. Hybrid Church is written to enable pastors and church leaders to see the positive opportunities in the radical changes of the day and to help model a dynamic new approach to ministry. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes Epure, Manuela, Mih?e?, Lorena Clara, 2018-09-28 In the increasingly competitive global market, successful and meaningful intercultural advertising plays a key role in reaching out to consumers from diverse language and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, it is crucial for individuals and businesses to be able to navigate the field of marketing communications to cut through the noise in a consumerist society to persuade their target audience. The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the power of words and symbols used in promotional strategies and marketing schemes. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as shock advertising, branding, and celebrity endorsement, this book is ideally designed for marketers, managers, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the use of language and symbols in marketing tactics. |
| digital marketing for churches: Digital Discipleship & Evangelism North American Division Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists, 2020-05-31 |
| digital marketing for churches: Ecclesiology for a Digital Church Heidi A Campbell, John Dyer, 2022-02-04 What are the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities raised by technology? How have developments related to the COVID-19 global health crisis impacted churches, forcing a swift move to mediated and online worship? And how will this change the shape churches of theological and programmatic choices for years to come? Drawing together a diverse group of theologians and media scholars, this volume considers the key theological question churches and religious leaders need to engage with as they look towards long term strategies involving church life and technology. |
| digital marketing for churches: Maximize Your Influence Phil Cooke, 2020-09 The digital age has changed everything we know about engaging this culture with the gospel message. Media producer and consultant Phil Cooke has created the ultimate reference to help pastors and church leaders speak the language of this generation. Whether you lead a church of 20 or 20,000, this book will take your ministry to the next level. |
| digital marketing for churches: Click 2 Save Elizabeth Drescher, 2012-05-01 Social media provide an opportunity for congregations to open the doors and windows to their congregational life before people ever step inside. It’s no longer all about “getting your message out” as if people are passively waiting for the latest news from the parish, diocese, or national church. Rather, it’s about creating spaces where meaningful relationships can develop. Click 2 Save: The Digital Ministry Bible is a practical resource guide for religious leaders who want to enrich and extend their ministries using digital media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and church or personal blogs. An ideal companion to Tweet If You ? Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation (Morehouse, 2011), Click 2 Save draws on extensive research and practical experience in church and other ministry settings to provide functional, how-to guidance on effectively using social networking sites in the day-to-day context of ministry. |
| digital marketing for churches: Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Matti Mäntymäki, M.N. Ravishankar, Marijn Janssen, Marc Clement, Emma L. Slade, Nripendra P. Rana, Salah Al-Sharhan, Antonis C. Simintiras, 2016-08-22 This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2016, held in Swansea, UK, in September 2016 The 47 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: social media strategy and digital business; digital marketing and customer relationship management; adoption and diffusion; information sharing on social media; impression, trust, and risk management; data acquisition, management and analytics; e-government and civic engagement; e-society and online communities. |
| digital marketing for churches: The Come Back Effect Jason Young, Jonathan Malm, 2018-07-31 The key to growth as a church, youth ministry, or a business is getting first-time guests to come back. And as any good manager of a hotel, a store, a restaurant, or an attraction knows, the key to getting guests to come back is not actually the rooms or the product or the food itself; it's how guests feel when they're there. It's about hospitality. No matter how much effort and time we spend on excellence--stirring worship time, inspiring sermons, a good coffee blend in the foyer--what our guests really want when they come to our churches is to feel welcome, comfortable, and understood. Written by a church consultant and a hospitality expert, The Come Back Effect shows church, ministry, and even business leaders the secret to helping a first-time guest return again and again. Through an engaging, story-driven approach, they explain how service and hospitality are two different things, show how Jesus practiced hospitality, and invite leaders to develop and implement changes that lead to repeat visits and, eventually, to sustained growth. |
| digital marketing for churches: Religions as Brands Jean-Claude Usunier, Jörg Stolz, 2016-04-01 During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. What does this do to religion? How do religious groups and believers react? What is the consequence for society as a whole? This book brings together some of the best international specialists from marketing, sociology and economics in order to answer these and similar questions. The interdisciplinary book treats new developments in three fields that have hitherto evolved rather independently: the commoditization of religion, the link between religion and consumer behavior, and the economics of religion. By combining and cross-fertilizing these three fields, the book shows just what happens when religions become brands. |
| digital marketing for churches: Digital Marketing Alan Charlesworth, 2014-07-25 Digital Marketing: A Practical Approach 2nd Edition is a step-by-step guide to marketing using the Internet. Concentrating on the operational and functional aspects of this dynamic subject, the book is packed with tactical advice and real-life examples from those leading the field to help you succeed. Written as an accessible guide to equip you for the digital element of any contemporary marketing role, Digital Marketing covers all the key topics including search engine optimization and social media marketing. With real-world case studies to illustrate digital marketing in practice and exercises to help you analyse, plan and execute effective strategies within the workplace, this practical resource will prepare you to undertake digital marketing across a variety of organizations. More than just a book, this complete package features an associated website at AlanCharlesworth.eu/DigitalMarketing which hosts the case studies for the book, offers further tips and advice and provides access to a wealth of extra material such as up-to-date references and web links. This new, second edition builds on the first edition’s success by addressing the key recent developments in digital marketing including an expanded section on social media marketing and an appreciation of the impact of mobile devices. Moreover, it’s been thoroughly updated throughout, with brand new cases and examples with an international range, all of which encourage the reader to quickly learn the practical applicability of the theory and practice of emarketing. |
| digital marketing for churches: Brands of Faith Mara Einstein, 2007-09-14 Through a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, marketing insider Mara Einstein has produced a lively account of the book in the commercialization of religion. |
| digital marketing for churches: Marketing the Church George Barna, 1988 |
| digital marketing for churches: Ministry in the Digital Age David T. Bourgeois, 2013-04-03 David Bourgeois offers a step-by-step guide for discerning and implementing a digital strategy in your ministry. Presenting Christianity itself as a grand communication event, he helps Christians see that the advent of electronic media is truly good news for the world. |
| digital marketing for churches: Religion Online August E. Grant, Amanda F. C. Sturgill, Chiung Hwang Chen, Daniel A. Stout, 2019-03-07 Religion Online provides new insights about religiosity in a contemporary context, offering a comprehensive look at the intersection of digital media, faith communities, and practices of all sorts. Recent research on Apple users, video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, digital music, and sports as religion supports the idea that media and religion, once considered separate entities, are in many cases the same thing. New media and religious practice can no longer be detached; this two-volume set discusses how religionists are embracing the Internet amidst cultural shifts of secularization, autonomous religious worship, millennials' affinity for new media, and the rise of fundamentalism in the global south. While other works describe case studies, this book explains how new media are interwoven into the very fabric of religious belief, behavior, and community. Chapters break down the past, present, and projected future of the use of digital media in relation to faith traditions of many varieties, extending from mainline Christianity to new religious movements. The book also examines the impacts of digital media on beliefs and practices around the world. In exploring these subjects, it calls on the study of culture, namely anthropology, to conceptualize a technological period as significant as the industrial revolution. |
| digital marketing for churches: Church Together Daniel C. Dickard, 2022-01-13 Church Together is a Christian leadership book designed to give pastors, church leaders, and church members a working plan to overcome the greatest underlying threat to the church today, individualism, through five relationships of surrender which correlate to the five core values of the Church of We. Part One examines the three rotten fruits of individualism within the Church of Me—consumerism, pragmatism, and the extremes of legalism and liberalism—and how to spot each of these problems. Part Two offers a solution on what it will take for churches to make a healthy transition from the Church of Me to the Church of We. Church Together, for this reason, gives churches a manageable plan to defy the individualistic spirit of the age as they become the Church of We in the Age of Me. |
| digital marketing for churches: Eastern Christianity in the Digital Space Drago?-Ioan ?am?udean, 2024-05-15 Existing through the ordeals of the Communist regimes of the last century and then facing the expansion of the Internet and the digitalization of the present one, East-European Orthodoxy seeks to re-establish itself on the geopolitical and religious map of today's world. Dragoș-Ioan Șamșudean argues that, within this context, new religious actors such as Ortho-bloggers, manifest themselves in the digital environment of blogs and social media, driven not only by spiritual and religious motivations but also by political, economic and institutional ones. Caught between the inabilities of the Orthodox Church to offer them a safe religious online framework to express themselves and their various personal and socio-political aspirations, Orthodox bloggers become religious influencers, theologians, but also promoters of disinformation and misinformation. Șamșudean chose Romania as a case study on Ortho-bloggers motivations, based on four characteristics of this state: the majority Orthodox population, a well-developed internet infrastructure, a local Orthodox Church active online and offline as well as the Geopolitical position of Romania, at the intersection of the clash between civilizations and cultures. |
| digital marketing for churches: Killing Comparison Nona Jones, 2022-09-27 It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparison and discover a free and joyful life. Join Pastor Nona Jones--who was recently featured on GMA3--as she gives you the tools you need to kill comparison once and for all. Nearly all of us deal with the struggle of comparison and finding ourselves lacking. But there is a way to break free from internal and external messages communicating a lack of self-worth. It starts with identifying the basis of your urge to compare and ends with securing your identity to the unchanging confidence of God's love for you. Nona Jones knows this journey all too well. Throughout her life and in her career--most recently as an executive for the world's largest social media company--Nona discovered that despite professional success, true confidence can only be achieved by defeating toxic comparison and securing our identity to God's approval alone. Killing Comparison provides a fresh, biblically rooted perspective on an age-old human dilemma--the pressure to compare oneself to others--that the era of social media has exacerbated and heightened. This timely and necessary guide will help you: Determine your true source of self-worth Develop practical ways to conquer daily comparison Learn how to control social media instead of letting it control you Discover how to accomplish your dreams without comparing yourself at every turn Identify the root cause leading you to compare your life to others Through practical insight and down-to-earth encouragement, Nona helps you avoid the despair of comparison and pursue a free, joyful life. |
| digital marketing for churches: Becoming a Future-Ready Church Daniel Yang, Adelle M. Banks, Warren Bird, 2024-10-22 Are Church Leaders Missing the Generational Handoff? There's Still Hope. Are we building institutions that will meaningfully serve the next generation of believers and their leaders? How does a church thrive in a culture where we have to earn credibility? How do we create a sense of belonging to the body of Christ and a strong sense of identity for the next generation? Becoming a Future-Ready Church is a blueprint to guide you through eight critical shifts to help lead your church into the future with wisdom and hope. It describes several major converging trends that will greatly impact the church in America over the next few decades: the Great Resignation of Boomer leaders from churches, the shrinking percentage of Christians in America, and the change in felt needs among rising generations shaped heavily by anxiety, skepticism, and fragmentation. Missiologist and pastor Daniel Yang, religion journalist Adelle Banks, and church researcher Warren Bird have come together in Becoming a Future-Ready Church to help church leaders evaluate whether their ministries are entrenched in strategies that worked well in the past but need to be adapted for the future. By helping us ask better questions about the issues and needs facing the church, they reveal practical ways in which the next generation of church leaders can gain a sturdier foothold as they navigate into the future. |
| digital marketing for churches: Church, Market, and Media Marcus Moberg, 2017-07-13 Marcus Moberg offers a new model of religion and religious life in the post-war era, through focusing on the role of markets and media as vectors of contemporary social and cultural change – and therefore institutional religious change. While there is wide agreement among sociologists of religion that there this area is transforming on a global scale, there is less agreement about how these changes should best be approached and conceptualized. In a time of accelerating institutional religious decline, institutional Churches have become ever more susceptible to market-associated discourse and language and are ever more compelled to adapt to the demands of the present-day media environment. Using discourse analysis, Marcus Moberg tracks how new media and marketing language and concepts have entered Christian thinking and discourse. Church, Market, and Media develops a framework that approaches changes in the contemporary religious field in direct relation to the changing socioeconomic makeup of contemporary societies on the whole. Through focusing on the impact of markets and media within the contemporary religious setting of mainline institutional Christian churches in the Western world, the book outlines new avenues for further theorizing the study of religious change. |
| digital marketing for churches: Sustainable Community Development in Ghana Isaac Kofi Biney, John Kwame Boateng, Paul Gary Nixon, 2024-06-28 This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post-COVID-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances. Through the voices of African researchers, it explores the different responses that local, subnational, and national stakeholders and communities initiated to preserve the gains made in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana during the global pandemic. This collection considers how policy makers are tackling the pressing issues of sustainability, climate change and its effects on Africa and Ghana in particular, and multi-stakeholder policy responses to building communities in a post-COVID-19 world. The case studies show how communities are interacting to ensure sustainable community development and learning in the Global South, and the role that education and learning, both formal and informal, play in strengthening livelihoods, choices, and opportunities in African communities. An assessment of multi-stakeholder policy responses to building communities in Ghana, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of Education, Education Management, Sociology, Economics, and African Studies. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners engaged in community development programmes and activities and the development of associated policies. |
| digital marketing for churches: Open the Church Doors and Let Me Out! Marie-Anne Petelo, Simon Petelo, 2012-07-18 The Evangelical/Pentecostal church has 90 million followers in the United States and covers millions more in North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Africa this post-Protestant movement has dominated and captivated the Christian community since the 1970s. Described as emerging, charismatic, modern, reformed, refined, innovative and contemporary; this global church has promoted Christianity to be fashionable. Spearhead by internationally renowned televangelist preachers who teach and adopt a fundamental faith movement. This radical journey of outspoken faith has become the fastest growing craze in modern Christianity and been undertaken by millions of unsuspecting people who are leaving their traditional mainstream churches to join this innovative solution for their faith. Their sermons have become the most listened to gospel in modern time. Open the Church Doors and Let Me Out! is the remarkable true story of a missionary family travelling to North America only to find themselves abandoned by this local church. Following the Evangelical ethos, they discover that the innovation and declaration of its gospel is far from the lights and glamour of its staged productions. A deep, bold, compelling and stirring testimony which exposes controversies and biblically challenges the practices of the global, emerging, Evangelical church. It is the cry of millions of born again Christians around the world who are saying, 'enough is enough!' www.openthechurchdoorsandletmeout.com |
| digital marketing for churches: ALS Awareness Relationships: Attention To Significant Others, Family & Friends Laurence Donelson lll, 2024-04-04 ALS Awareness Relationships: Attention to Significant Others, Family & Friends is a compassionate guide for those touched by ALS. It begins with an **introduction** to the importance of awareness and a brief overview of ALS. The book delves into the **impact of ALS**, sharing personal stories and case studies that highlight the challenges faced by patients and their loved ones. Navigating the complex web of **relationships** affected by ALS, the book offers insights into the changing dynamics within families and the challenges faced by significant others. It emphasizes the creation of strong **support systems**, providing a list of resources and organizations for caregivers. Communication is key, and the book discusses **techniques** for maintaining strong relationships, alongside communication aids and technology. It also addresses the often-overlooked aspect of **self-care for caregivers**, offering strategies for managing stress and the importance of self-care routines. The book encourages **advocacy and involvement** in the ALS community, suggesting ways to become an advocate and organize community events. It shares **stories of hope and resilience**, providing messages of hope and inspiration from the ALS community. Concluding with reflections on the journey and the future of ALS awareness, the book also includes a comprehensive **resources section** with a list of ALS associations and educational materials for further reading. This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and support those affected by ALS. |
| digital marketing for churches: Reawakened Glen Guyton, 2021-05-18 Every church wants to make a lasting difference. Light the spark in your congregation. More and more people are moving away from the church—not because they lack faith in God but because the church is no longer relevant to their lives. The church, not God, is the problem. In Reawakened, Glen Guyton explores eight keys to developing the abilities of congregations to bring healing and hope to their communities. These eight keys give voice to the most urgent needs of a community and offer practical suggestions for how churches can spark holistic and lasting differences in their communities. Built on a solid biblical framework, Rewakened positions churches as catalysts for transformative mission and change. Filled with stories from successful ministries that are actively engaging their communities, Reawakened helps Christians ask the big questions about God’s ongoing work in the world. |
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