2014-09-23T12:55:58-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/publicity/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12549 2014-09-23T12:55:58-05:00 If your church website is prioritized for outsiders (as it surely should be – Col. 4:5), then naturally you will want to attract many to your site. There are various ways to tell people, including contact cards, search engine optimization, and paid-for Google AdWords or Facebook adverts (which can be targeted very precisely, based on searches for your own town name). But here's the thing – the easy, no-brainer starting point is to display the church URL (web address) on the wall of your church building or street-side noticeboard, large enough to be easily read by people in passing vehicles. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10976 2013-05-28T11:51:13-05:00 We all hope for more search engine referrals. Here's what you should, and shouldn't, be doing to improve all your page rankings. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10586 2013-04-09T14:09:21-05:00 Free Kindle ebook for limited period only: Your Church In The News: How to get your church in the media spotlight, for all the right reasons. Plus other free church resources for news releases and social media. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/9601 2012-10-30T12:47:37-05:00 Word of mouth has always been the best grassroots way to communicate. And social networking is just digital word of mouth. Here's a valuable new book, free on Kindle today: Community Wins: 21 Thoughts on Building a Thriving Online Tribe http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/8593 2012-07-03T13:12:34-05:00 Three infographics for the price of one: - Understanding your audience, strategies to use Facebook and Twitter, what to post. - More details on best times for posting. - Good content engages people on social media http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/whose-smile-you-re-working-for-6567 2012-03-13T10:37:50-05:00 Are you playing for the stands, you playing for the other people on the team, playing for the writers, the publicity? I'll tell you this; ultimately every other audience will prove disappointing and unappreciative. You do it for your family, sometime they'll disappoint you. For your church, for some Christian leader, for your employer, for your teachers? Count on it, sometime they're going to let you down. But the Bible says, "We serve the Lord Christ." And the thrill is taking today's activity and saying, "Lord, I'm doing it all for You." http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/3799 2011-03-04T17:40:26-05:00 We are increasingly seeing QR Codes in public – those pixellated black-and-white squares, such as the one in the top right corner of this page. They enable anyone with a smartphone to point it at the code and be taken instantly to a website (or phone number, or other embedded text information). http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/398 2010-08-09T15:37:46-05:00 Are you involved in any sort of advocacy – for web evangelism, missions, or anything? Chris Brogan has suggestions for doing it well. Are you a perfectionist or an optimalist? And what’s the difference? Leading Blog has the answer. There’s a free downloadable ebook Kingdom Partnerships For Synergy in Missions available from WEA. Pew Forum have published a study on why people leave the church. Think Christian blog shares thoughts about it. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/556 2010-08-09T15:35:25-05:00 Communicate Jesus blog shares this very easy idea – an A-frame sign outside the church building. Sounds very effective. For the more conventional fixed church signage, there’s a book that may help: 701 Sentence Sermons L James Harvey Kregel Publications ISBN 0-8254-2887-4 Here’s a new book of ’single sentence sermons’ – quotations and aphorisms – which have been collected together by Harvey to “use on church signs, bulletins, newsletters and sermons”. In fact, many would be useful on church websites too, perhaps on a rotating basis. Many are specifically evangelistic, others are motivational for Christians. http://internetevangelismday.com/writing-pressreleases.php 2010-08-08T06:10:41-05:00 Wouldn’t you love to have free advertising for your next event that doesn’t look like advertising? Well, that’s what a well-written press release can provide. Of course, the key here is “well-written”. Many people send out press releases only to have them discarded by the local media. This isn’t because the editor didn’t like the organization or didn’t want to print the release. Rather it was because in order to fix the release enough for publication would just take too much time.