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Planning Center: Overhauling Your Church Communication Strategy in 4 Steps
Church communication can be stressful and confusing. This four-step playbook offers a straightforward, industry-proven roadmap that’s easy to implement in Planning Center.

Planning Center: Overhauling Your Church Communication Strategy in 4 Steps
Church communication can be stressful and confusing. This four-step playbook offers a straightforward, industry-proven roadmap that’s easy to implement in Planning Center.
Church Center App: Your New Communication Hub
When information is hard to find, your church can easily get confused. The result? Inaction. The Church Center app centralizes everything,
Planning Center People Cleanup in 3 Easy Steps
The data stored in Planning Center People is the foundation for all your church communications. In Step 2 of our Communication
Playbook Step 3: Churchwide Email
Contrary to popular opinion, email is NOT dead. It is still the best channel to communicate with your church. Learn how to create and send
Playbook Step 4: Churchwide Texting
When done well, mass text messaging can be a gamechanger for your church. Learn when to… and when not to text your congregation.
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How NOT to Welcome First Time Visitors
How do we most effectively help first time visitors take small incremental steps towards the goal of finding deep, meaningful connection?
A Visitor-Centric Approach to Church Growth
What’s it like to be a first-time visitor at your church? Do your guests feel welcome? Lost? Lonely? It’s time to take a fresh look through a process called visitor
8 Pitfalls of Most Church Websites
Unfortunately, many churches fail to realize the potential of their website because of limited resources and shoestring budgets. In this article, we cover the most common
Five Practical Steps to Improve Your Church’s Digital Marketing
The church is lagging behind the culture in the area of technological adoption. Taking advantage of some simple digital marketing best practices to help spread the gospel is chief among