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There are dozens of ways you can connect to your parishioners these days. These include e-newsletters, emails, ...
Have you ever experienced headaches while selling tickets to parish events? Most parishes have 5-10 annual events ...
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 ...
A year after the clergy abuse crisis came to light again, news reports continue to come out that can disturb and ...
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 ...
For centuries religious institutions were some of the most trusted organizations in most cultures. But in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many clergy, theologians, and lay ministers have been thinking about the Church's response to loneliness. Study ...
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 ...
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 ...
Magazine subscriptions. Chocolate sales. Caramel corn delivery services. We've all participated in these sorts of ...
Do you ever walk out of a meeting and find yourself thinking, “Did we actually accomplish anything in there?” ...
With 2019 almost in the books and 2020 around the corner, it's likely you have some positions you are thinking of ...
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 ...
It is no secret that the largest transfer of wealth in human history is starting to take place between Baby ...
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 ...
High school teachers, college professors, and even fitness program instructors have started implementing ...
If you're watching the news about the further spread of coronavirus and wondering, "What are some ways we can be ...
As social distancing and shelter in place orders began to take effect across North America this past spring, our ...
In the face of global pandemic, the day-to-day work of a parish employee may seem pointless. After all, what can ...
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? In short, most events and meetings on a parish calendar can continue this autumn. ...
Is a return to normalcy coming soon? Even while social distancing continues around the world, it's time to begin ...
Your eyes have likely glazed over at the number of "free offers" you're receiving right now. The pandemic's effect ...
You have learned a lot about how parishioners engage with the parish over the last several months. Social ...
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 weeks ago, this parish report, delivered via YouTube from a pastor in Oklahoma, caught our team's attention. ...
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, it's clear how much damage has been done across the globe. The consequences ...
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 ...
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 ...
After the busyness of Holy Week, it can be difficult to muster to enthusiasm to analyze your Easter collection. ...
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