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<\/a>Have you been to our website recently?\u00a0 We’ve been adding new stuff to make it better and better.\u00a0 You’ll find an up to date list of phone numbers, dates and time of events, list of sermon topics and we’ve even put up a whole bunch of new photos.\u00a0 There are some of you!<\/p>\nIf you’ve not joined yet you’ll be able to see some of this on the site but things like the photos are in a restricted members area.\u00a0 You can easily join just by registering.<\/p>\n
See you soon<\/p>\n
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Anything like that.\u00a0 So why thing 1 first?\u00a0 Well it helps you figure out things, 2,3,4 and 5.\u00a0 As you write the letter you figure out what would attract your church members.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s not the events and sermons but the photos.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s finding out the latest news about people in the congregation or even joining a forum and having on line discussions.\u00a0 Whatever it is writing a letter is a good way to figure it our and then let them know what you’re thinking.<\/p>\n
When you send the mail send it individually.\u00a0 Don’t send it by filling in lots of people in the To or CC list.\u00a0 People ignore letters to lots of people, they think it’s just a circular!\u00a0 Instead use a mailing system (we provide one with our websites so I’m guessing other companies will do the same).\u00a0 Mailing systems send the mail to one person at a time.\u00a0 They get the first name, load it up, send the mail, get the next name, send the mail and so on.\u00a0 They do this until they’ve been through the full church website mailing list.\u00a0 You can include images and attachments too.<\/p>\n
When you do thing 1 you should be sure to track the response.\u00a0 If you don’t have analytics installed on your site you should add it first and then watch it as the numbers change when you send out the mail.\u00a0 You should see a rise over the first 2 days and then a return to normal.\u00a0 If you send it on a Friday or Thursday night you’re likely to see a bigger rise.<\/p>\n
So something you can do now.\u00a0 Get the people you have coming to your church website and then you’ll find they’ll invite others, especially if you put up new, useful and interesting material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thing 1 Send out an email to all the members of your church asking when they last visited the website.\u00a0 Tell them of the new things you’ve been doing.\u00a0 Tell them about the interesting material, stuff that might be useful to them: Dear Jan, Have you been to our website recently?\u00a0 We’ve been adding new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,40],"tags":[20,27,26,28,11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}