I teach Catholic churches, businesses, and ministries how to market like Jesus. Every Monday, I send out the latest musings on Catholic marketing from my position as a Catholic marketing professional, former parish employee, and regular old Catholic mom trying not to lose my mind while raising saints. Subscribe if you want to learn how to apply the strategies Jesus and the apostles used to grow the Early Church to your own marketing work today!
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Going to just jump right in today: I'm considering creating a new resource for you all, but I want to know first if it would actually be helpful before I make it! I've been thinking and praying on a Christmas promotional kit for years - customizable templates you could use for Christmas promotions. It wouldn't just be a poster template with all the Mass times, though. The heart of it would be helping you create a holistic Christmas promotional strategy that would encourage people to come to your church for Christmas Mass...and then come back. Because likely, Christmas attendance isn't your problem. Your 4 pm Christmas Eve Mass is already bursting at the seams. Your problem is getting those packed crowds to come back before Ash Wednesday. So I'm thinking of developing a full Christmas strategy to help you encourage more attendees become active parishioners post-Christmas... ...and then giving you the communications suite to make it actually happen. Emails, landing pages, social media posts, flyers, ad designs, and more - all ready to go with the strategy already baked in. All you'd just have to do is just add your information and hit print. (Because let's be real, early bulletin deadlines don't exactly foster creativity.) There's more, but before I spend the time developing it, I want to make sure it would actually be of interest to you all! Could you vote in the poll below if you'd be interested in something like this? If you vote yes, it will take you to a longer form with a few other questions and a space for you to share some thoughts with me. If you include your email on that feedback form, I'll send you a $5 off discount code on the kit if I move ahead with it.
Either way, expect some Christmas strategy tips around here coming soon! For His greater glory, Emily |
Market Like Jesus: The Catholic Marketing Newsletter
I teach Catholic churches, businesses, and ministries how to market like Jesus. Every Monday, I send out the latest musings on Catholic marketing from my position as a Catholic marketing professional, former parish employee, and regular old Catholic mom trying not to lose my mind while raising saints. Subscribe if you want to learn how to apply the strategies Jesus and the apostles used to grow the Early Church to your own marketing work today!
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