4 Ways To Make Your Church Website More User-Friendly
Many churches miss out on growing their congregation and improving attendance to various church events due to their church webpage. A church webpage is an extremely useful tool, which if used properly, can grow a congregation, improve attendance and inform curious visitors and guests about your church community. Here are four ideas to consider when looking to improve your church website for 2016: 1. Make it easy for guests and...
How Can Offering Recurring Giving Benefit Your Church?
As more and more churches continue to adapt to the idea of offering online and mobile giving, many churches are discovering that the use of technology to provide alternative giving methods correlates with increased giving. The notion of giving made easy, and allowing individuals to give more conveniently, has proven to increase overall giving. Thousands of churches across the country have now bought into the idea of recurring giving,...
Maximize Your Year-End Online Giving Plan
Most churches rely on their year-end giving to help compensate for any budget shortcomings throughout the year. In fact, over 15% of giving comes during the month of December, while nearly 4% of all giving takes place on New Year’s Eve. Individuals show increased financial generosity and gratitude in the final weeks of the year, and a quality end-of-year giving plan can maximize these giving efforts. As online giving continues to...
Be a Student of Church Tech
Technology is an exciting world these days. It provides some of the best job opportunities and is home to many of our greatest advancements as a society. It is an ever changing and fast paced environment. Everything about technology changes at a rapid pace from the hardware itself to the software that runs it and even down to the languages used to create that software. As a leader in church tech, you must first become a student and...
Custom Site Versus Template (Which is better)
In the early days of the Internet, building a website was extremely costly. Because of this, template sites like GeoCities and Tripod were created, allowing the average person to build a website. Use of the word “website” in this since is probably pretty generous. Many of these were poorly designed and not very functional. Which brings us to today. Now, there are hundreds of companies to choose from when looking to build a...
Questions Small Churches Ask About Websites
Continuing our look at questions small churches ask, this week we are taking a look at websites. Despite rapid advancements in website technology and design in recent years, the Internet is full of poorly built websites that are in desperate need of an upgrade. Sadly, many of those websites belong to churches. Let’s take a look below at some questions that small churches regularly ask about websites (and maybe make the Internet...