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.
Thanks for the shout out! 🙂
Steve
Not at all – thank you!
We used the ideas from your photo booth post at Lansdowne Church last year, with brilliant results engagement-wise.