4 Principles to Get Guests to Come Back
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4 Principles to Get Guests to Come Back

You’ve had the big outreach event and now you have a huge stack of cards with contact information and you’re not sure what to do with it. Should you email them? Send a postcard? Call? Which way will be most effective? What’s going to give you the best return on your investment?

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7 Ways to Communicate Your Church Event to Your Congregation and Community (Part 2)
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7 Ways to Communicate Your Church Event to Your Congregation and Community (Part 2)

You’ve got big news. You’ve been working on this project for weeks and its finally time to make your big debut. You have all the supplies and resources. You’ve prayed and felt that God is with you. Now it’s time to announce to the church and your community what you’re doing and how they can get involved. But how do you do that?

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7 Ways to Communicate Your Church Event to Your Congregation and Community (Part 1)
Marketing, Administration David Reneau Marketing, Administration David Reneau

7 Ways to Communicate Your Church Event to Your Congregation and Community (Part 1)

One of the most valuable tools in a minister’s toolbox is their communication skills.  We’re in the people business and how we communicate with people is vital to us completing the Great Commission.  But how do you do that exactly?  How do you make sure that your message is getting out there?  How do you make sure that you’re not just spitting into the wind?

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5 Easy Steps to Promote Your Summer Events this Easter
Events, Marketing, Holidays, VBS David Reneau Events, Marketing, Holidays, VBS David Reneau

5 Easy Steps to Promote Your Summer Events this Easter

With Easter in just a few weeks, you’re probably deep into prep for the big weekend. Whether you’re doing an egg hunt, planning your worship set, or just getting your volunteers ready, there’s a lot of focus put on this weekend.

Not to pile on, but there’s one more thing to consider for Easter. What are you doing this summer?

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5 Steps to Taking Great Event Pictures
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5 Steps to Taking Great Event Pictures

Maybe this has happened to you. You had a huge event where hundreds of people came. People were saved. Lives were changed. You get ready to make an announcement in the service or post on social what God has done. But you’re stuck. You can tell them what happened, but only verbally. The pictures and video are terrible or non-existent.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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9 Survey Questions  for the Best Event  Feedback
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9 Survey Questions for the Best Event Feedback

Feedback is so important. I can’t tell you how many times I thought something was going to work and it bombed and other times something trivial became a huge success.

Through the years, I’ve found collecting feedback increases my odds of creating success. There are a lot of tools out there to facilitate the collection of feedback, but the one I use for most events is surveys.

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How to Write A Weekly Email
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How to Write A Weekly Email

One of the biggest problems we have in ministry is getting the word out. There are a lot of different methods to tell our people about the events, ministry opportunities, and lessons coming up, and there is no silver bullet that every one will engage with. My communication philosophy is not everyone will engage with every form of communication, but everyone will engage with some form of communication.

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How to Order T-shirts: Part 3
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How to Order T-shirts: Part 3

The day is finally here. Your event is coming up and you now have several boxes full of your brand-spanking-new shirts. But how do you get them out to your people? How do you make sure they get the right sizes? What happens if they ordered the wrong size?

If you’re going to sell them, how much should you charge? Do you have to keep inventory?

It’s a lot to think about. There are no perfect systems out there, but these are some things I do to get them out to the right people at the right time, even if I’m selling them.

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How to Order T-shirts: Part 2

How to Order T-shirts: Part 2

In this post I’ll answer the question how many shirts should I buy?

In a perfect world, you’d have every participant’s shirt size weeks in advance of your event so you can order the exact right amount and eliminate waste or worse, run out of a particular size. But because of Adam and Eve’s failure we don’t live a perfect world, and now we have to guess.

Thanks a lot guys.

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How to Order T-Shirts: Part 1

How to Order T-Shirts: Part 1

Let's do T-shirts!

That’s a question that somehow got skipped in seminary. Nowhere in all my studies did anyone tell me how to design, order, and then sell/give-away t-shirts and somehow in my ministry experience I find myself having to do it at least once a year.

Over the years, I’ve developed some strategies to help me be successful and get the kind of shirts everyone loves.

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A Social Media Strategy for Kidmin
Marketing, Administration, Kidmin David Reneau Marketing, Administration, Kidmin David Reneau

A Social Media Strategy for Kidmin

I’ve been posting and leading the social media for the churches I’ve worked for almost as long as I’ve been a kid’s pastor. For the past 13 years, I’ve moved with the changes to Facebook and Instagram. Established Twitter accounts and even explored Snap Chat and Marco Polo.

Creating daily or even weekly content for all of these platforms can be exhausting and many of these platforms change everything seemingly on a whim. It can be tough to keep up.

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VBS Marketing Made Easy
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VBS Marketing Made Easy

I recently saw a post asking what children’s pastors do to get kids to their VBS. COVID has changed a lot of things, and this summer will be telling if these strategies will still have as much effectiveness, but I know pre-COVID, my VBS continued to grow, and I saw more and different kids every year.

If you want to reach more kids with the Gospel, you need to tell people what you're doing regardless of whether your VBS in-person, online, in the neighborhood, or something else.

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A Follow-up Plan for Easter
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A Follow-up Plan for Easter

Easter is the Super Bowl of Christendom. More people come to church on Easter than any other Sunday of the year. I know last year’s Easter was different than any in recent memory, but now with churches opening up again, and others, like mine in Florida have been open for a while, we’re looking to see the people to come back maybe for the first time in over a year. Looking at 2019’s stats, my ministry doubled in size for that one Sunday. But with all these new people how do we get them to come back? How do we connect them to our church?

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