Growing Churches
Helping churches reach out to their communities
 
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There are  a number of other tools that are useful in helping you get the word out.  I've listed them below. 
Animoto is a super cool site that allows you to create incredible multimedia presentations that combine pictures, videos, music and words.  Use them for presentations at the church or website.  Either way you will be amazed at the professional video you can quickly and easily create.  At $30 a year it is the best buy on the web.

Here is what Animoto says " Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button.


Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same.


Many of the post-production techniques that the founders used while working as producers for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC are used in Animoto's patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor and director. The resulting video is produced in a widescreen format, containing the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer."


Save $5.00 off by entering this code when signing up: jixgsebw.  I've put together a demo of what you can do with Animoto.

Items that will remind them of your church


There are opportunities to give visitors something that helps them remember your church.  For those occasions we recommend a combination of print and ad specialties.  Use the print to tell them about your church and use the ad specialty item imprinted with your church name as a permanent reminder of your church.

Items such as:

  • Coffee Mugs

  • Pens

  • Water Bottles

  • Tee-shirts

  • Magnets

  • Calendars


These items are a good way to keep your church's name in front of them.  I've partnered with Bryan Biddle to offer these items. 


Bryan brings a unique combination of experience, training and gifts to the table in helping you find ways to bring about growth in your church.  His professional training and background is in Marketing and Management as well as in music.  He has a BA in Marketing as well as in music.  He has a BA in Marketing and an MBA with concentrations in Marketing and Strategic Management.  He has been a Sales and Marketing professional for 30 years and has been involved in a volunteer and professional capacity as a church musician since age four.


He is the owner of Proforma Bottom Line Marketing, a full service marketing company located in Winchester, VA and Worship Leader at Braddock StreetUnited Methodist Church, also in Winchester. He is a Certified Lay Speaker and a Certified Lay Minister of the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church.  If you would like to contact Bryan please fill in the form below.
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Tube Mogul


You may not have thought about it but your church generates a lot of content that can be put on the web.  Here are some of the items:

  • Worship/podcasts
  • VBS
  • Children's programs
  • Youth service projects
  • Youth group
  • Fall Festivals
  • Trunk or Treat
  • Special services

Google ranks videos high in searches and You Tube has become the second most popular search engine. 

So how can your church take advantage of this?  I recommend Tube Mogul.  This website will post your videos to a number of sites automatically and let you know how many people have watched them.

It does take a while to set up because you need to set up each account that you want to post to, but they do make it as easy as possible.  Next to each one that you want to submit your videos to is a link that allows you to reach the sign up page of each site.  Once you have signed up for each site Tube Mogul will remember that information so uploading videos becomes very simple.

The service is free.  Here is a link to the site.