Recently Prenger Solutions Group conducted a Catholic parish survey assessing the giving practices and social ...
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Your parishioners’ time is precious, and you want to make it easy for them to give; the number one way to do this ...
If you’re administering your Catholic parish Facebook page, spend a little time each week using Insights. Just log ...
Whether you’re planning a change in the Mass schedule or gauging interest in a new program, you can use online ...
You’re working hard to expand your parish’s social media presence; the easiest way is to teach your followers to ...
Our team is always looking at ways to make giving to the local parish more convenient. For most people, that means ...
Know your social media genres! It can be a challenge to manage multiple social media accounts. If your Catholic ...
Do you know social media's 80/20 rule? It's the same as the 80/20 rule in other areas of Catholic parish life. If ...
It's an age-old question: fundraising letters or emails? If you’re responsible for your church's annual ...
There are dozens of ways you can connect to your parishioners these days. These include e-newsletters, emails, ...
Facebook categorizes all organization pages into different groups. However, if your parish's Facebook page was set ...
Ever wondered how the Facebook newsfeed works? As of 2019, it takes into account millions of factors when ...
First impressions and profile pictures are funny things. We all know by now that first impressions matter just as ...
In recent years, Facebook has added a "vanity URL" or "username" feature to all Pages, including your parish page. ...
Your parish website is likely a simple, concise variation of your church name and/or city, and therefore it is ...
Are you using Facebook Business Manager? Most parishes manage their Facebook page from the personal account of a ...
Ever had trouble scheduling meetings at your parish? Scheduling parish council meetings, ministry activities or ...
By now, most parishes have transitioned to online forms for event sign-ups, registrations, ticket sales and ...
If you’re having a hard time keeping track of all the daily, weekly and monthly tasks required to keep your parish ...
There are only a small number of events in your life that are so meaningful and powerful that the memories stay ...
When our team conducted a national research project focused on giving trends in Catholic parishes, we asked ...
Even though it's deep winter, no doubt your calendar is already filling up with all the parish activities you're ...
The Sunday bulletin has been a staple of Catholic life in North America for more than 75 years. But as almost all ...
Facebook followers are often your most faithful parishioners. They not only fill the pews each week, but they are ...
What are 95% of the visitors to your parish website looking for? Mass times. That's it. This was brought home to ...
Earlier this month I mentioned that 95% of your website visitors are just looking for Mass times. The same is true ...
In a previous post, I discussed the 8:1 communications rule - share eight pieces of good news for every one ...
By now, most Catholic churches have staked out their territory online and claimed a catchy web address and ...
At CSM we are always encouraging our clients to optimize technology. Part of the optimization we recommend to our ...
It's a website admin's worst nightmare: old broken links that frustrate your site's visitors, but that you don't ...
St. Simon Sylites is one of the strangest saints we have. He lived on top of a pillar in the middle of a city for ...
Facebook Live is a powerful tool that parishes and schools can use to share live video from events, ceremonies, ...
If you or someone else in the parish office is doing graphic design, you know that matching colors can be ...
We all have old email addresses we're not proud of. Sure, there was a time when emailing your friends from ...
If you've ever wondered why your parish's website isn't getting better search engine results, take a look at your ...
Today I’m going to share some information about a great free tool out there that we use all the time in our ...
Ever since Pope Saint John Paul II coined the phrase, the Church has been laser-focused on the New Evangelization. ...
We use emails for everything. We use email to ask questions, to delegate tasks, to confirm plans and to provide ...
Your pastor is busy. Your committee chairs have day jobs. Your volunteers are being pulled in a million different ...
Every year we are drawing closer to the moment when every man, woman, and child has an internet-enabled device on ...
Did you know the first email was sent 48 years ago? Every year we work with dozens of parishes that appear to be ...
Facebook is always adding new types of posts that can help you increase your reach and engagement. One type that ...
Do you ever walk out of a meeting and find yourself thinking, “Did we actually accomplish anything in there?” ...
Ever spotted one of those "Birthday Fundraisers" on Facebook? You know, your friend Helen says she'd like people ...
Every now and again, someone will wander onto your parish's Facebook page, disparaging the Church or people of ...
The dream scenario for any parish is that when people type its name into Google, the parish website is the first ...
Do you like the way that website you're browsing looks? There's a decent chance some portion of it is run ...
Do you find it challenging to keep up with the activity on your parish Facebook page? Has your parish Twitter page ...
In the past, I've touched on the importance of bullet points and numbered lists. But even more effective than good ...
According to Statista, there will be a projected 2.14 billion online shoppers by 2021. With these kinds of ...
People receive around 100 emails per day, a mind-bending mix of work-related communications, solicitations from ...
Keeping your organization’s contact information current and clean is a never-ending process. We’ve talked about it ...
If you're watching the news about the further spread of coronavirus and wondering, "What are some ways we can be ...
As we move into month six of the coronavirus pandemic, some parishes are wondering, "Should we just direct people ...
With public Masses suspended across the United States, this past spring charitable contributions were in freefall ...
As social distancing and shelter in place orders began to take effect across North America this past spring, our ...
Smartphones have forever changed the way we live, and more than 90% of people in North America are now carrying ...
Google Trends is an incredible resource - an up-to-the-minute look at what people are typing into the most popular ...
The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to do harm to our society in a myriad of ways, but there are some reasons ...
Your eyes have likely glazed over at the number of "free offers" you're receiving right now. The pandemic's effect ...
Our director, John, recently had an interesting conversation with a Catholic Social Media subscriber in Nebraska. ...
We have all found ourselves frustrated at some point about a web page not loading as fast as we would like. In our ...
Advent is almost upon us , which means it's time to publish your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Mass ...
A few days ago we shared advice on how and where to update your Christmas Mass times (see here). But did you know ...
A few weeks ago, this parish report, delivered via YouTube from a pastor in Oklahoma, caught our team's attention. ...
We are sending more emails than ever, and billions of messages crisscross the globe each day. For every legitimate ...
As a parish, we are concerned with human persons, and yet so often we have tasks on our to-do list that keep us ...
Since the coronavirus pandemic hit America in February 2020, almost every parish in the country has livestreamed ...
If you've ever needed to remove a background from a photo but didn't quite know the best way to do it, we'd ...
Some years ago, it was popular to create role-based email addresses at companies and non-profits, addresses like ...
We live in the age of Web 2.0, an Internet culture dominated by two things: social media and apps. However, apps ...
We have all had that moment - you have a pile of paper documents in front of you and you want to scan them, turn ...
We get this question a lot - "The church down the street has its own hashtag. It seems to be everywhere. Should we ...
(St. Paul, Minnesota – December 12, 2023) – Prenger Solutions Group is proud to announce the ordination of John ...
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