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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…