Announcing a CCP Church Marketing Service: Affordable Church Logo Designs for $597

Today, I’m happy to announce that I’m now offering professional chuch logo designs for $597.

Check out our design portfolio here.

I hope this service is a way for smaller churches to get started on their branding and identity efforts.

Of course, if you’d like something that we don’t offer, I’d be glad to give you a free quote for it, or point you to a quality church marketing firm or designer!Send me an email if you have questions.

See these related posts: 6 Ideas for Designing Your Church Logo and How to Brand Your Next Sermon Series.

January 23, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Graphic Design

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One Rockin’ Church Marketing Idea & Outreach: Hugging People With Hershey’s

Pastor Jay Jones of The Pentecostals in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is implementing one rockin’ church marketing idea called Hug Grand Rapids, using Hershey’s Hugs, special promo business cards, and a specially-themed website to both reach out into the community and generate exposure for their church.

This church marketing idea (aka outreach ministry) really impresses me because they are using the web for ministry (their specially-themed site rocks of simplicity, beauty and function), empowering their people to evangelize, and most likely, are going to garner some great exposure and PR out of it all.

Anyway, here’s the summary of this project in Jay’s words, with some highlights I added to emphasize some of the things I love about this strategy:

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January 22, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Rockin' Web Sites

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Resource Links for 1/22/07

>> Public domain image resources from Wikipedia that you could use for worship backgrounds or images. Public domain, of course, means images that are no longer under copyright restrictions.

>> Most Innovative Churches on Squidoo is a neat resource from Church Marketing Sucks that includes links and other resources. (Thanks, Kevin, for the link!)

>> Kent sent me this handy article about blogs titled the 10 Sins of Blog Usability, which has some sharp advice, including my favorite sin — “No Contact Info.” Seriously people, unless you don’t care about anyone sending you an email, put your email addy up or have a contact form. Mine is corymiller303@gmail.com, by the way!

>> Speaking of blogs, Dr. Earl Creps has one seriously rockin’ cool blog. Dr. Creps is director of the Doctor of Ministry program and associate professor at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. I interviewed Dr. Creps for this Pastors.com story on questions a pastor candidate should ask before accepting a church/ministry position.

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January 22, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Links

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Reviewing 12 Free Web Poll & Survey Services, Plus Working Examples

Blogs by design are meant to be dynamic and highly interactive. The author posts stories on a regular basis and the content of these posts could vary across a variety of topics. The visitor to that blog has the opportunity to add their own content to the site in the way of comments about what the author has written. Soon a conversation begins between the author and the readers.

One easy way to get the conversation started is with the use of a poll. Polls provide a way for a visitor to interact with the site without actually leaving a detailed comment. Visitors can also get a sense of how your community of readers feels about a particular topic by viewing the results of the poll.

As an author, polls provide a “sticky sauce” to help keep visitors on the site reading and interacting with your content. By featuring a “Poll of the Month”, your readers will return to see what the new poll is and to read about the results of the previous poll.

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January 21, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Surveys

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Church Communications Pro Now Offers Custom WordPress Themes Starting at $350

I’m in the process of adding some church marketing services to Church Communications Pro and am proud to announce today that I’m now offering custom-designed WordPress themes (templates) for churches and ministries (and of course others!) starting at $350.

Learn more about this service as well as preview some of our work here.

If you don’t know already, WordPress is a free blogging platform that can also be used to easily update websites. [By the way, watch for a new series coming in the next week or so talking about how it can be used to run a small church website.]

And I think if you surf around the web much for custom-designed WordPress themes, you’ll see this is a great price for the work.

ON OFFERING PROFESSIONAL CHURCH MARKETING SERVICES

One of my main objectives for this site is to offer affordable, quality services to churches. In addition to custom WordPress themes, here’s some other services I offer here:

>> Rockin Cool Church Website Design – Check out our basic package for $795, which includes one year of website hosting and domain name registration, and more.

>> Website Hosting & Domain Name Registration — If you’re looking for quality and affordable website hosting for your church, please check out my hosting plans. The advantage of hosting through me is that you actually know (virtually at least) the human being that offers the service. (And his email address: corymiller303@gmail.com).

Have more questions? Want a free quote on something not listed here? Send me an email.

As always you can email me with questions about this service or any other you’d like to get a quote for.

January 20, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design, WordPress

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Case Study: A Sample Church Website Layout Based on Wire & Twine’s Design Grid

I found this rockin’ website called Wire and Twine and saw a lot of potential for using the layout for a church website. So I took a screenshot of it and starting hacking away.

To see a printable look with notes of how I thought the layout could be used, click here to download a PDF.

See the before and after screenshots below …

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January 19, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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