15 Easy Internet Steps to get more Visitors to your Church

There is, without a doubt, nary a pastor or church in the

country that doesn’t want to get more visitors to come

to their church. With a pure heart and a message to

share, their intent is to provide for those visitors

programs and services that will enhance and improve

their life style. As the 21st Century dawns it has 

become obvious to email marketing specialists that the

Internet is a wonderful way for churches to evangelize

and make themselves known to a lost world. Randall 

Mains, Founder and CEO of Pathmaker Marketing LLC,

one of the premier e-mail marketing professionals in the

country, agrees that the following steps are an easy way

to inform prospective visitors about your church and what

it has to offer.

1) Open a channel on You Tube.

2) Open a channel on Vimeo.

3) Open up blogs on Blogspot, Typepad, Blogsome, 

    Blogger, etc.

4) Put out an e-mail blast to a local e-mail list.

5) Put out a send out card.

6) Take an ad in a local Christian Directory - most have an

     online directory.

7) Launch Google Adwords - - target geographically.

8) Get your church found on Google by claiming your 

    Google Place.

9) Get your members to give you posititve reveiws on

    Google Places.

10) Claim your Bing listing

11) Claim your Yahoo listing.

12) Launch Facebook ads - target demographically.

13) Open a Facebook page for your church.

14) Get listed in the top 40 directorires in your community.

15) Get an account with LinkedIn, the top business directory.

And here are three bonus steps!!!

16) Get church in the other top 9 business directories

17) Get a Twitter account for your church

18) Get a Flicker account.

As an email marketing company, Pathmaker Marketing,
LLC knows that the above suggestions will work, if given
the time to develop. If you need a professional e-mail
marketing firm to help you accomplish the above,
Pathmaker and Randall Mains stand ready to assist
you. To learn more, go to http://pathmakermarketing.com/

How to add a Digital Outreach to your Church

Understandably, the first question that might come to mind is, “Why
should we turn our church into a Digital Outreach?” Well, there are
a host of reasons you might want to pursue new ideas for outreach,
and the reasons for Digital Outreach are indicated below:

• You will have the ability to reach out beyond the confines of your
church to a greater, broader community.

• If your church currently ‘serves” those in a ten mile radius, your
Digital Ministry can go nationwide, or even international.

• It will allow you to better fill the Great Commission, per Acts 1:8
 - “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in
all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.”

• Allow you a way of ministering to a vast mission field.

After wondering “why” to go Digital, the next natural concern is
“what to do” to go Digital.  You may want to establish a Digital
Outreach Team, which will coordinate with those in charge of
creating other ideas for church outreach. Together, they can
create a plan to implement all your outreach ministry
ideas.


Steps on how to add a Digital Outreach to your Church:

1) Launch Prayer Walls - An excellent way to facilitate outreach to
 people’s needs, and be added to the website or church Facebook
 page.

2) Establish an E-Mail Campaign - That people can receive for free
 like “40 Days to a Happier Marriage.”

3) Set up a Facebook Page For Your Church.

4) Turn Pastor’s Sermons into e-books.

5) “Stream” your Services on your Website and/or upload Videos
to You Tube.

6) Place “Teaching Videos” on You Tube - Pastor having a
“conversation chat” on various topics via digicam.
                         
7) Develop an “Articles Archive” - Written on a variety of topics,
you are basically creating an “Online Library”

8) Offer Free Downloads - White papers on various topics

9) Offer Electronic Bible Studies - “How to Establish and Improve
Your Prayer Life”

10) Translate your Website into a Foreign Language - Preferably
the predominant one in the area you serve

11) Develop an “Online” Bookstore

12) Develop a “Bulletin Board Forum” do discuss various topics/issues

13) Establish an “e Learning Center” - Classes on virtually any topic
Bible Studies

14) Create a “Christian Calendar” - Upcoming Events, Local & National

15) Have a Church Blog - Discuss current events and life today from a
Biblical point of view (Movies, Political Issues).

16) Create a Prayer Chain - “Text Message” Prayer Chain

Visit http://pathmakermarketing.com/ to learn more about Digital
Outreach to your Church.