Video and article: How to create full-color FREE church postcards, business cards and other publications with VistaPrint
Please note: Videos are at the end of this article. Most of the printed publications we do in the church are done with either the copier or a digital duplicator. Sometimes we use color if we have a good color copier. These machines work for most of the products we create, but sometimes we long [...]
Planning Overview: articles, videos, templates for Effective Church Communication Planning, Measuring, Evaluating
In many churches communications are done because “we’ve always done it that way” or as a response to a pressing need for PR to advertise a church event or recruit helpers for a ministry. Though something gets done and it sometimes gets a response, this approach is not the best way to make your church [...]
WEBINAR/VIDEO: How to create and use church communication surveys, how to decide what really works
Because we all tend to communicate in ways that are most comfortable to us and because, as church leaders, we make decisions for people, in this time of changing communications, we may be totally missing out on what the types of communications our audience needs for them to hear the gospel message or our challenges [...]
FREE FOR ECC MEMBERS e-book: Planning Book special edition: Big is busted, try tiny
This Special Edition of our book on Planning is part of our overall materials on planning. So often we tend to think that we have to do big, extravagant things to impress people and to get them to come to our church. Sometimes big and impressive does work, but quite often it is the little [...]
How to create resizable maps for Church Invitation Cards and other communications, Webinar On-Demand
Church Business and Invitation Cards can be powerful outreach tools, but to accomplish all they can and should for your church you need to pack as much useful information in them as possible. One key piece of information is a map to your event. Even in these days of Google Maps, Mapquest and GPS, a [...]
e-book: Church Business & Invitation Cards, outreach, PR, information and caring all in one
These communications may be tiny in size, but they can have a huge ministry impact. No business, even in these hi-tech times would think of being without them and there is no better way to link to the other resources of your church such as your website than to use a church invitation/business card to [...]
Church Invitation Cards, business cards with an eternity-altering purpose
How do you get unchurched people into your church? Despite all the high-tech and expensive advertising methods available today, one method remains the most effective and that is that people respond to invitations from other people. While it is sometimes sadly true that once someone becomes converted, they soon have few friends who are not [...]
Church Survey Creation PowerPoint and MS Publisher Editable Files
Following the webinar on: How to Create and use a church communication survey, a number of you asked for the PowerPoint files so you could present this to your church leadership. In the attached ZIP file is the PowerPoint Presentation and the MS Publisher files. Both are editable. Click here to download the file.
Video: Church & Ministry Business & Invitation Cards
These tiny, but powerful tools can be used for PR, outreach, information and caring. This 12-minute video will give you the motivation for doing them, an overview of how they can be used, plus a number of how-tos for easy creation and production. Any size church or ministry, on any budget can use these to can [...]
Creation of Men’s Logo in LogoSmartz, Webinar On-Demand
This little video shows how easy it is to create a logo for men’s ministry using the very inexpensive logo-creation software, LogoSmartz. After you watch this video, be sure to watch the video on how to use the logo created here to make a business or invitation card for men’s ministry using it. One little [...]
