Resourcing the Church – My Favourite Communications/Marketing Sites

Resourcing the Church – My Favourite Communications/Marketing Sites

Here’s my thinking – I want to equip churches and charities the best way I can for their communications endeavours. I’m no fool – much as I try, this site will always have its limits as a church communications resource; what better reason, therefore, to provide links to some of the other sites around that I’ve found helpful.

My hope is that this is a living post, that gains more church communications resources, and hopefully more value over time. The list is separated in to two sections, one with content aimed at churches/ministries and another with a wider audience, but still broadly marketing-focused.

To avoid the cliché of a list with a bunch of names and not a lot more, I’m also providing a hyperlink to one piece of content in particular that has stood out to me as useful, insightful or even just amusing. I say one, we’ll see how disciplined I am. Resources are listed in no particular order.

Here we go!

Church Related:

Church Marketing Sucks
Favourite post/content: Chasing Church excellence can drive you crazy
Close runner-up: Is marketing a dirty word
Site link: http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com

ChurchMag
Favourite post/content: Church Tech Snack Packs
Site link: http://churchm.ag

Unseminary
Favourite post/content: First Time Guest Gifts: 26 Lessons from 33 Churches
Site link: http://www.unseminary.com/

Waiting Tables (Podcast)
Favourite content: Episode 5 featuring… ChurchTrain!
Site link: http://waiting-tables.com

Premier Digital Awards and Conference
Favourite post/content: 2015 Award Winners (Plug Alert)
Site link: http://www.premierdigital.org.uk/Premier-Digital-Conference

ProChurchTools
Favourite post/content: 5 Tips for Explaining the Importance of Communications to Your Church with Justin Dean
Site link: http://prochurchtools.com/

Steve Fogg
Favourite post/content: How A Simple Photo Booth Supercharged My Social Media
Site link: http://www.stevefogg.com/

Chsocm
Favourite post/content: Twitter chat transcripts
Site link: Chsocm Twitter

Other marketing/communications:

Buffer
Favourite post/content: The Time It Takes to Write a Buffer Blog Post (And How We Spend Every Minute)
Site link: https://blog.bufferapp.com/

Tecmark
Favourite post/content: How to stand out from the crowd
Site link: http://www.tecmark.co.uk/

Copyblogger
Favourite post/content: 3 Surprising Stages of Successful Landing Pages
Site link: http://www.copyblogger.com/

Audiense (formerly Socialbro)
Favourite post/content: The Science of Success on Twitter
Site link: https://www.audiense.com/social-strategy-blog/

Moz
Favourite post/content: The Beginners guide to SEO
Site link: https://moz.com/

Creative Market
Favourite post/content: How to Write The Perfect Creative Brief
Site link: https://creativemarket.com/blog

Alex Turnbull at Groove
Favourite post/content: How We Got 1,000+ Subscribers from a Single Blog Post in 24 Hours
Site link: https://www.groovehq.com/blog/best-of

Found
(Formerly White.net)
Favourite post/content: How to Create the Perfect 404 Page
Site link: https://www.found.co.uk/blog

(The Social Media Genius of) Innocent smoothies
Favourite post/content: 99 problems
Site link: https://twitter.com/innocent

Ministries:

Here are a few ministries I support or have been involved with.

MOET

Lansdowne Church

OMF

321 gospel

2 Responses

  1. Thanks for the shout out! 🙂

    Steve

    • Joe

      Not at all – thank you!

      We used the ideas from your photo booth post at Lansdowne Church last year, with brilliant results engagement-wise.

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