Get my new free “Building a Digital Path to Membership” training when it is released. Subscribe to my email list for congregational leaders at https://www.peterbowden.live/congregations-subscribe. I'll send you link to access training as soon as it is ready. Thanks!
The first place many potential visitors see your congregation is on local MAP and REVIEW listings. If your listing doesn’t include compelling photos and great reviews, some people are going to pass based on that listing alone. Want more visitors? Use your congregation's Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Yelp listings to showcase the best of congregational life!
To inspire participation in congregational life this holiday season and New Year, go beyond announcements!
Learn how to use simple video messages and optional ad campaigns to help newcomers and members alike choose connection, meaning and congregational life this season.
See episode blog post for the Google Document with example scripts mentioned in this episode.
An AI driven meaning crisis is looming. This live stream audio replay explores the coming A.I. meaning crisis for community clergy and congregations. With AI evolving at an exponential rate, artificial general intelligence (AGI) is coming fast. What happens when AI can do any job a human with a computer can do? That's not sci-fi, that's what companies are working on today. As these systems are able to perform the tasks previously preformed by humans, a ‘meaning crisis’ looms, challenging our notions of value and identity.
Do you need to relaunch, rebuild or start a new program this fall? If so, this is for you! I share tips and strategies for rebuilding programs and ministries in this strategy session. I've worked across areas of congregational life and have started many programs over the years. This session shares successful approaches plus the latest from my hands-on work with congregations. Watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKtXD8_CSyM
Growing your congregation requires that visitors have successful first visits. Today the "first visit" is the online and on-demand process people use to research, explorel, and discern if they want to connect with your congregation. The path to membership starts with the digital experience. We need to make sure it is a warm, friendly, relational, and helpful process. In this episode, getting oriented to this reality and some tips to get started!
To get details on my new “Building a Digital Path to Membership” training, subscribe to my email list for congregational leaders at http://www.peterbowden.live/congregations-subscribe.
Get my new free “Building a Digital Path to Membership” training when it is released. Subscribe to my email list for congregational leaders at https://www.peterbowden.live/congregations-subscribe. I'll send you link to access training as soon as it is ready. Thanks!
The first place many potential visitors see your congregation is on local MAP and REVIEW listings. If your listing doesn’t include compelling photos and great reviews, some people are going to pass based on that listing alone. Want more visitors? Use your congregation's Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Yelp listings to showcase the best of congregational life!
Are you vision-casting or manifesting a congregational death spiral? I’ve been reviewing congregational fundraising communications. Many communicators are so caught up in their challenges, the congregation’s vision has been lost. In this session, how gloom and doom communication can undermine your fundraising capacity especially with newomers and how you might approach it instead.
Peter Bowden shares how to use weekly video messages to engage your community and inspire participation in congregation life. This session focused on using video messages to engage people with weekly worship themes, though the strategy may be applied across aspects of congregational life.
Join Peter Bowden for a strategy briefing with Q&A on ways congregations can optimize live-streamed worship services and posted worship recordings for online audiences. This episode features some vision content. You may watch this content on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/live/OgW2IVav5W0
Join Peter Bowden for a strategy session with Q&A on using VIDEO to help first-time visitors connect with your congregation. We’ll talk specifically about first-time visitor landing pages. When people visit your congregation onsite, you welcome them with human beings. Video lets us do the same online on-demand 24/7. Session duration: 30 minutes with Q&A.
Learn how "meet the minister" videos on congregational websites support the visitor research process and membership development.
Have you ever heard someone say they chose to visit the congregation after meeting the minister somewhere? This happens all the time.
After getting to know the minister at a wedding, funeral, protest, or elsewhere in the community, people feel comfortable visiting. Today, we can help people get to know the minister on-demand on your website, on social media, and if you choose, advertising.
This is part of building a digital path into the life and heart of your congregation.
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