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Easter to Everyday: Retaining First-Time Visitors in the Digital Age

Easter to Everyday: Retaining First-Time Guests in the Digital Age

Mark Tenney Mar 13, 2020

How to Engage Your Church During the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Coronavirus has become a really big deal over the last several weeks. There’s no denying that. Churches are expecting low attendance or cancelling their public worship experiences altogether to lead the way in keeping their community safe from the spread of this disease. But then, most churches are left wondering how they’ll keep their organization strong and their people engaged in their faith while public worship gatherings are sent to the back burner. We’ve said for years that “Church isn’t about this building or this hour of your week. The church is you.” But now we have to figure out…

Mark Tenney Jan 2, 2020

It’s Time to Give Your Church Website An Annual Review!

We’ve all been there… January 1 hits, and we set a New Year’s Resolution. By the end of the first week, we’re already off the wagon. Goals are nothing but dreams until you have a strategy or system to make your goals a reality (Check out Atomic Habits by James Clear). Your church website is one of these systems–a system to achieve specific goals like these: “We want to have more first-time visitors in our church on Sunday.” “We need to be able to communicate details about our upcoming events.” “We need a single place for our people to be…

Mark Tenney Dec 23, 2019

Is Your Digital Church Website Featured In Our Portfolio?

Everybody likes to feel proud of their hard work, and we have some of the very best clients building some incredible church websites on our platform. It’s time to show them off! We’ve put together some of our very favorite Digital Church Websites on our all-new portfolio page. For now, each of these sites lead directly to the website that’s featured, but in the near future, we’ll begin writing featured articles for some of these sites, allowing you the opportunity to dig into what makes them tick, and maybe see how to do something new on your own website. Some…

Mark Tenney Apr 29, 2019

Tips for Video Backgrounds

Video backgrounds are a great way to engage potential visitors on your church website. If you produce the video well, it will support the purpose of the page you are including it on while it gives the user an idea of what the in-person experience is like for your organization. Done well, a video background applies leverage to your online strategy. Done poorly, however, it can do damage to your overall strategy. We put together these tips for video backgrounds on your church website. Keep it short. Nobody is going to stick around to watch your video background, so keep…

Mark Tenney Mar 25, 2019

New Easter Landing Page Template

Great news! We’ve just added an Easter landing page template to the Digital Church Platform! If you’re an existing subscriber, you can create a new page on your current site and import the page template from the templates tab in the page builder. If you don’t already have a Digital Church website, feel free to register a new site and use the Easter at City Church template for your new site. That will automatically import the Easter landing page as your home page. Check out our Easter Landing Page Template All sites on our platform now include an advanced page…

Mark Tenney Mar 25, 2019

Digital Strategies for Easter

Gallup studies have revealed that over half of the people in the United States will plan to attend church on Easter Sunday. If you haven’t already started to build a digital strategy for Easter Sunday, you should start now. Here’s our list of suggestions to get you started on an Easter strategy to bring more people into your church this year. Start with the End in Mind Let’s make sure we have a clearly defined goal. For most of us, it will be something like this: We want to bring more visitors to our church on Easter Sunday. So the…

Mark Tenney May 23, 2018

How to get great photography for your church website

Church Website Photography Shot List This is our list of suggested photography for your new church website. We provide details and examples of what kinds of shots to look for and how to frame those shots to work best for your website. We’ll go through page by page, so you can reference our demo site to see the photography in action. Home Page The home page is all about the HERO IMAGE. The Hero Image is the first image that people see when they load the site. Your website has no more than 8 seconds to grab a visitors attention…

Mark Tenney Jun 20, 2017

Digital Church Marketing 2.0

September 2016 seems like a lifetime ago now. I feel like I’ve already said it a thousand times. “Back in September, I quit my job in full-time ministry.” “We helped start a new church back in September.” “Back in September, we started this new business…” “I had to finally take a step of faith, back in September…” You see, I was tired of waiting. Tired of wanting and dreaming. It was time to stop pretending that I was an entrepreneur and time to show the world (and myself) that I could do it. Even more important, it was time to answer…