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The #1 Tool for Growing is  Knowing

The #1 Tool for Growing is Knowing

Deepen the connection between your church’s people and your church’s goals. If you read any church blog, you will hear many experts, consultants, and thought leaders share their spiel about which methodology makes for proven growth and engagement. Some may tell you it is email marketing, while others say, “No, it’s social!” and a third say it is all about local outreach for global reach.
Ready for the most concrete answer ever? It depends.

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Emerging Trends in Church Growth: Top 5 Focus Areas for Church Growth in 2024

Emerging Trends in Church Growth: Top 5 Focus Areas for Church Growth in 2024

The fall and winter season gives churches a unique opportunity to be the anchor amid the hustle and bustle.

It’s fall, y’all, and soon it will be Christmas. Scratch that, soon it will be 2024. Christmas is even closer. This is the time of year when already busy families feel that time has shifted into warp speed.

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Fall-oh Their Lead: Your 2023 Guide To Member Engagement This Fall (and beyond)

Fall-oh Their Lead: Your 2023 Guide To Member Engagement This Fall (and beyond)

The fall and winter season gives churches a unique opportunity to be the anchor amid the hustle and bustle.

It’s fall, y’all, and soon it will be Christmas. Scratch that, soon it will be 2024. Christmas is even closer. This is the time of year when already busy families feel that time has shifted into warp speed.

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Attendance vs Engagement — The New Metric!

Attendance vs Engagement — The New Metric!

Is ramping up your church attendance still your top priority? Take a second to look at what Jesus says about the importance of a believer’s engagement with the Word, and you might adopt a different perspective on which metrics your church prioritizes.
Remember the parable of the sower? Jesus once spoke about a farmer who sowed seeds in various locations around his farm. Only the seeds that “fell on good soil…produced a crop – a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

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More Than A Tool — It's a Discipleship Strategy | The StudioC

More Than A Tool — It’s a Discipleship Strategy

With a solid background in both the technology industry and the pastoral ministry, Blue Van Dyke has a piece of solid advice for church leaders. When he confers with them about selecting a digital tool to better disciple their members, he tells them, “Technology and even some processes should be submissive to your church’s methodology.”

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6 Resources To Grow Your Team This Summer - Team member leading

6 Resources To Grow Your Team This Summer

It’s officially summer – and you and your church staff look forward to a relaxed schedule where you can catch your breath. Using this season of rest and refreshment to reflect on ways to better serve your congregation can help you grow as a team with a renewed sense of purpose.

We at The StudioC have several favorite resources that we’ve found effective for church leadership retreats and workshops. Here are our picks for a productive program.

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Omni-Channel Church - Woman in a crowd of people

Omni-Channel Church

What Is an Omnichannel Church? No doubt your church marketing and communications teams use a variety of channels to communicate with members and prospects alike. But do you have the capability to direct only relevant messages to the right people?
That’s an omnichannel approach to church marketing. This marketing strategy allows you to zero in on your target market more accurately, providing them with relevant information without bombarding them with irrelevant messages. Let’s look at the advantages that an omnichannel marketing strategy can bring to your church, as well as the disadvantages of the status quo.

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Engagement G.O.A.T.

Engagement G.O.A.T.

A simple example of how the greatest church member engagement movement of all time began, and how you can do The Great Commission in our digital age.
After His resurrection, Jesus tasked his disciples to go out into the world and tell others the Good News. (Matthew 18:16-20). Yet a few doubts remained among the faithful. Thomas, whose name lives on in infamy among the “doubting Thomases” of the world, was one of those who wouldn’t believe unless he had hands-on proof. Jesus gave him that proof, allowing Thomas to thrust his hands into his side where the spear once pierced Him.

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Successful Church Engagement in the Digital Age

Successful Church Engagement in the Digital Age

How to Achieve Successful Church Engagement in the Digital Age If you’re like most senior pastors, the problem of how to grow church attendance and engagement poses a critical challenge for you and your staff. Successful church engagement in the digital age has emerged as a top priority due to two factors: the rise in

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How a Targeted Messaging Platform Can Help Grow Your Church

How a Targeted Messaging Platform Can Help Grow Your Church

No matter how you define it, a recession has crept into the economy. Church ministry teams must use more effective and efficient strategies to cultivate and disciple new people and grow their members’ faith into a deeper relationship with God and each other. Using a targeted messaging platform can help your church do just that

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Data’s Role in Transformational Discipleship

Data’s Role in Transformational Discipleship

Consider the value of insight as a mechanism for spiritual development and personal connection. As a company that creates digital tools for discipleship, we often find ourselves in passionate conversations about the role of technology in the church. We’re humans first, so we know how easily people get lost in their phones, endlessly searching for lighthearted entertainment or feeding into the negativity that runs unchecked on social media.
If your church could interrupt social scrolling with relevant, customized, and life-giving content, should you? An even more important question might be, should the church use technology to engage congregants?

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Church Marketing Shouldn’t Have to be Miserable

Church Marketing Shouldn’t Have to be Miserable

How to Win with Every Ministry & Reach Every Goal It’s the first Monday of the month, and you’re looking at the pipeline of upcoming sermon series, ministry events, campus openings, and outreach activities. You barely take a sip of coffee, and before you can open your browser, you get a slack, ping, or notification

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Royalty Free, Targeted Audiences & Science Hacks from The StudioC

3 newly released features that are about to make your day How it started… and how it’s going If you are responsible for communicating with church members, then it’s altogether possible that the process has given you the urge to turn your morning cup of Joe into a triple shot latte to help you power

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Digital Marketing in 2021

Digital Marketing in 2021

What 2020 taught us and what’s up next for communications There were “unprecedented” uses of “hold my beer” moments… but some interesting improvements in marketing came about in 2020 as well. If it’s been said once, it’s been said about… two thousand and twenty times. There were a few phrases that marketers and communications directors

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More Than a Number: Re-Engage Personally with your Church Online

More Than a Number: Re-Engage Personally with your Church Online

How utilizing church marketing & optimization can impact church engagement growth. The business of running a church can be a sticky subject- but at the end of the day, most churches care far more about someone’s well being than simply increasing church attendance. That being said, paying attention to church member engagement and thinking critically

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The Recipe for a Successful Strategic Planning Session

The Recipe for Successful Church Member Engagement

How to cook-up a successful strategy to better feed your congregation digitally. Have you ever put a lot of time and effort into a meal or a dish and it just didn’t… quite…. come out looking or tasting like the recipe said it would? The same can be true for church marketing– developing and sending

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Shockingly Simple Ways to Engage with your Church Members… that you can start doing immediately.

Shockingly Simple Ways to Engage with your Church Members… that you can start doing immediately.

A Powerful Thing Zig Ziglar famously said, “In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect that inspires and encourages others to do their best.” The power of communication is a big, interesting, important topic. And while many of the things we do to communicate are simple in practice, they can have long lasting effects

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Is it Ethical to Use Marketing Techniques for Church Member Engagement?

Is it Ethical to Use Marketing Techniques for Church Member Engagement?

And can you even do it without sounding cheesy?  More than a Number Have you ever asked yourself, “what is church marketing?” And then perhaps, “is it even ethically ok to think about church in a marketing context?” It’s not uncommon to experience hesitation from pastors when you talk about implementing marketing techniques into a

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