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I get often get asked if I have any recommendations on Church Database Management Systems. Well, that is a whole entire “industry” all of its own of which ChurchBuzz doesn’t really focus on… But I did find a great comparison chart put together by the good folks at Ministry Business Services – MBS. I found this great graphic on their …
Google announced this big (bad) change on October 18, 2011 that changes a portion of search data that they track in their Google Analytics data. Background So what we are talking about here is when a user goes to Google.com and searches for something – like “churches in dallas, tx” and then if they were to click on YOUR church’s …
Do you want to know why we started ChurchBuzz? Because we know that every Sunday morning some people wake up and decide to go to church. And, we KNOW they don’t open the Yellow Pages anymore. We KNOW they don’t decide to just drive down to the nearest church and check it out. Instead, they jump on their nearest phone, …
Note: This article has been refreshed as of January 24, 2012. We added our new preferred Email Marketing vendor for 2012 – MailChimp! Why does our church need email marketing services? Email marketing services provide the ability to send out your weekly church news and your monthly newsletter to your congregation via email. Some advantages to using a service that …
Note: Before proceeding with this article, you may want to also read our article: 2016 Best Online Giving Options for Churches PayPal Setup for Churches This document is a guide to setting up a PayPal account for Churches. Once this is setup, ChurchBuzz can then setup any payment / donation forms on your website. PayPal Fee Information: Fees are only applied …
Is your Church listed in Google Places? It MUST BE! 🙂 Not that most churches would ever need to include these words in their Google Places listing, but you should be aware of this nonetheless. According to this article, there are banned keywords that will get your Google Places listing de-activated which then causes a MAJOR pain to get your …
Church Facebook Pages: A How To Guide If your church has a Facebook Group as its main presence on Facebook, you REALLY should change over to use a “Page” (previously known as a “Fan Page”). Here are some of the benefits: You can’t use a GROUP for Outreach! Facebook shows updates to your Fan Pages on the newsfeed of users …
Here is the link to a story about Aldersgate United Methodist in Alexandria, Va. that OPENED their doors for six months to a muslim congregation that needed some temporary worship space. This caused a ruckus in the church, some people got mad and left, but when it was all said and done here is what happened: The two congregations “developed a real …
Churches: Use LinkedIn to Build Trust with First Time Visitors On the Internet, building trust quickly is vitally important. If you want visitors to learn about and then trust your staff when they visit your church website the first time, how about using a little social media. LinkedIn is a great tool for this! One idea is to include a …
30+ Church Website Search Engine Optimization Strategies Onsite Church Website SEO Strategies The following list of SEO todos are ones that primarily concern optimizing the content on your current website. You may use this as a checklist to do on your own website and as a springboard for your own SEO research and SEO planning. Setup automated reporting to measure …
