GET DAILY CATHOLIC CONTENT FOR YOUR PARISH’S FACEBOOK PAGE WITH OUR FREE TRIAL

efficiency

Fundraising Insights

Achieve Inbox Zero Easily
You can achieve inbox zero easily - a mythical state when you have NO emails in your inbox. Email is a blessing ...
Know Your Social Media Genres
Know your social media genres! It can be a challenge to manage multiple social media accounts. If your Catholic ...
Fundraising Letters or Emails?
It's an age-old question: fundraising letters or emails? If you’re responsible for your church's annual ...
Try Out Ringless Voicemails
There are dozens of ways you can connect to your parishioners these days. These include e-newsletters, emails, ...
Use the Newsfeed for Good
Ever wondered how the Facebook newsfeed works? As of 2019, it takes into account millions of factors when ...
Using Listicles to Communicate
One of the most popular types of writing to come out of the Internet age is the listicle, which is a numbered list ...
Selling Tickets to Parish Events
Have you ever experienced headaches while selling tickets to parish events? Most parishes have 5-10 annual events ...
Claim Your Church’s Vanity URL
In recent years, Facebook has added a "vanity URL" or "username" feature to all Pages, including your parish page. ...
Shorten Links Easily with Bit.ly
Your parish website is likely a simple, concise variation of your church name and/or city, and therefore it is ...
Scheduling Meetings at Your Parish
Ever had trouble scheduling meetings at your parish? Scheduling parish council meetings, ministry activities or ...
User Friendly Online Forms
By now, most parishes have transitioned to online forms for event sign-ups, registrations, ticket sales and ...
Using Task Management Systems
If you’re having a hard time keeping track of all the daily, weekly and monthly tasks required to keep your parish ...
A Magic Wand for Excel
There are only a small number of events in your life that are so meaningful and powerful that the memories stay ...
A Future Without Bulletins?
The Sunday bulletin has been a staple of Catholic life in North America for more than 75 years. But as almost all ...
Publish Your Mass Times Everywhere
What are 95% of the visitors to your parish website looking for? Mass times. That's it. This was brought home to ...
Financial Transparency at the Parish
For centuries religious institutions were some of the most trusted organizations in most cultures. But in the ...
Your Communications and Your Mission
In a previous post, I discussed the 8:1 communications rule - share eight pieces of good news for every one ...
Online Giving Beyond Sunday
At CSM we are always encouraging our clients to optimize technology. Part of the optimization we recommend to our ...
Find Broken Links on Your Website
It's a website admin's worst nightmare: old broken links that frustrate your site's visitors, but that you don't ...
Put Limits on Screen Time
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 ...
Other Benefits of Facebook Live
Facebook Live is a powerful tool that parishes and schools can use to share live video from events, ceremonies, ...
Stewardship a Disciple’s Response
December 31 is just nine short months away, and with it will come year-end giving decisions for many of your ...
The ColorPick Eyedropper
If you or someone else in the parish office is doing graphic design, you know that matching colors can be ...
Verifying Email Addresses
We all have old email addresses we're not proud of. Sure, there was a time when emailing your friends from ...
Internal Linking
If you've ever wondered why your parish's website isn't getting better search engine results, take a look at your ...
Get Website Alerts
Today I’m going to share some information about a great free tool out there that we use all the time in our ...
Writing a Great Email
We use emails for everything. We use email to ask questions, to delegate tasks, to confirm plans and to provide ...
Start Your Meetings on Time
For years I sat on the finance committee of St. Leo’s parish in Omaha, Nebraska. And, unlike many parish meetings ...
Use Bullets and Numbered Lists
Your pastor is busy. Your committee chairs have day jobs. Your volunteers are being pulled in a million different ...
Should Your Parish Offer WiFi?
Every year we are drawing closer to the moment when every man, woman, and child has an internet-enabled device on ...
Running an effective meeting
Do you ever walk out of a meeting and find yourself thinking, “Did we actually accomplish anything in there?” ...
Register as a charity on Facebook
Ever spotted one of those "Birthday Fundraisers" on Facebook? You know, your friend Helen says she'd like people ...
Audits for your Website
The dream scenario for any parish is that when people type its name into Google, the parish website is the first ...
Social Media Management Tools
Do you find it challenging to keep up with the activity on your parish Facebook page? Has your parish Twitter page ...
Parish Planned Giving Seminars
It is no secret that the largest transfer of wealth in human history is starting to take place between Baby ...
Using AmazonSmile at Your Parish
According to Statista, there will be a projected 2.14 billion online shoppers by 2021. With these kinds of ...
Who Should Send the Email?
People receive around 100 emails per day, a mind-bending mix of work-related communications, solicitations from ...
Post Program Surveys
High school teachers, college professors, and even fitness program instructors have started implementing ...
Getting in Touch
If you're watching the news about the further spread of coronavirus and wondering, "What are some ways we can be ...
Google Trends at the Parish
Google Trends is an incredible resource - an up-to-the-minute look at what people are typing into the most popular ...
What Can Continue at the Parish?
What can continue at the parish? In short, most events and meetings on a parish calendar can continue this autumn. ...
If It’s Free, You’re the Product
Your eyes have likely glazed over at the number of "free offers" you're receiving right now. The pandemic's effect ...
COVID-19 and Parish Communications
You have learned a lot about how parishioners engage with the parish over the last several months. Social ...
Returning to Old Posts
Our director, John, recently had an interesting conversation with a Catholic Social Media subscriber in Nebraska. ...
The Need for Speed
We have all found ourselves frustrated at some point about a web page not loading as fast as we would like. In our ...
Update Your Mass Times
Advent is almost upon us , which means it's time to publish your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Mass ...
Publishing Parish Reports
A few weeks ago, this parish report, delivered via YouTube from a pastor in Oklahoma, caught our team's attention. ...
Who and How We Support
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, it's clear how much damage has been done across the globe. The consequences ...
Parish Cost-Benefit Analysis
As a parish, we are concerned with human persons, and yet so often we have tasks on our to-do list that keep us ...
Archiving Parish Livestreams?
Since the coronavirus pandemic hit America in February 2020, almost every parish in the country has livestreamed ...
Eliminate Role-Based Email Addresses
Some years ago, it was popular to create role-based email addresses at companies and non-profits, addresses like ...
If This Then That
We live in the age of Web 2.0, an Internet culture dominated by two things: social media and apps. However, apps ...
Scan like a Pro
We have all had that moment - you have a pile of paper documents in front of you and you want to scan them, turn ...

Start using AskGenius today

Try it now for free. No credit card needed.