One of the primary elements of a church’s online marketing is their website.  All the link building and SEO can be rendered virtually useless (or even harmful) if the church’s website gives a bad impression to the people who find it. Read more…

Kevin Hendricks over at Church Marketing Sucks has a great article about the recent flash mob video from Second Baptist Church, “Dance Your Shoes Off”.  He makes some great points what a viral video like this which involved so many people can do, including:

“Such a public event does have the benefit of multiple perspectives. It’s not limited to the official video. Loads of people watching the event can be seen snapping pictures and taking cell phone video. These alternate perspectives show up online, spreading the core idea even further.”

You can watch the Dance Your Shoe Off video below:

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The Catalyst Conference in Dallas took place May  11-13. I was reading a couple of blogs of people who were attending the conference and live blogging the event.  It struck me.  Every one of these bloggers is providing free marketing for the event.

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Earlier this week Bing announced that they were rolling out some great new features which integrate Facebook into their search results.  These features influence search results, show you your Facebook friends “liked” pages, provide for Facebook interactions with your friends while searching.  You can read more about the features here, “Bing and Facebook Launch New Integration Revolutionizing Search“.

While there are a lot of cool features Bing has announced, there are something that can really benefit churches greatly.  Here’s how… Read more…

The other day, I posted about a video of Kelsey and the miraculous story of her birth.  You can view the video here.  This is an amazing story, but also a great example of how taking a few minutes to setup sharing buttons on content can make a huge difference in how much your content is shared. Read more…

Friday! Friday! Friday! To help get your weekend off on the right foot, here’s a funny church video from the folks at RightNowTraining.org. Well, I feel like I’m already getting too deep here.

Enjoy!

Do you have a church video? Share it with us.

Social media is a revolution.  At no other time in history has a message or news about an event or even video of that event been able to be spread to so many people so quickly.  Consider the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Within 12 hours of the quake, there were over 4.5 million related Facebook posts from every continent (except Antarctica).  Millions of people posted to Twitter with the rate of related tweets getting to over 1,200 tweets per minute.  Within a few days there were over 9,000 earthquake related videos posted to YouTube and over 7,000 tsunami related videos.

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The purpose of your church’s website is to have an online presence for your ministry. Link building is a way to increase that online presence, to reach more people, and expand your ministry.  If you aren’t pursuing search engine optimization, including a link building strategy, you are not utilizing your church’s website to it’s fullest.  In fact, you may only be use a fraction of it’s potential. Read more…

Mother’s Day is this Sunday.  (Hi Mom!)  In honor of this wonderful celebration here’s a church video from The Skit Guys called “The Mom Song“.  It’s fun video and it’s cheaper than flowers.

Check it out!

Do you have a church video, let us know in the comments below.