17 Church Marketing Ideas for 2007
ByHere are some church marketing ideas to think about for the New Year:
2. Create a specially-themed Website
3. Start a blog
6. Send out a direct mail postcard
7. Give an award – Pick a worthy policeman or firefighter from your community and honor them with a weekend getaway vacation and nice award.
8. Attend a church marketing conference
9. Invest in a quality logo design
10. Implement a community survey – Or just review your city’s Census demographics to see who’s your neighbors.
11. Implement a congregational survey
12. Offer your facilities for free to schools and community activities
13. Start a guest welcome center - Stock it full of good materials and friendly, loving people.
14. Find a guest shopper – Ask the corner convenience store clerk or a neighbor to drop by your Sunday service and tell you what he/she sees. Thank them a gift certificate to a dinner or better yet, take them out after church!
15. Do something different and “outside the box” - Change up your routine, don’t just do the standard stuff you and every other church does each year. Find a different way to do the same thing from a different perspective.
16. Read one good book on marketing
17. Plan out your marketing efforts – Yes, make a plan! Look at your 2007 calendar and lay out a strategy.
18. Create your own online Social Network.
Make your people the most loved and best fed sheep and turn them loose to live their faith. Shepherds don’t make sheep. Sheep make sheep. Changed lives are the best marketing ever.