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As I've mentioned before, Outreach.com has a "WelcomeOne" new mover's direct mail program — they don't charge for the list, but they charge $0.79/customized (with name) postcard including postage. They only have a single $80 set-up fee. The math they offer is 100 new movers list per month x 12 months = $1028 for 1,200 postcards mailed over a year (they refresh the newly moved-in families list with each mailing). If the campaign successfully yields one new family who brings offering/tithing of $20/week, you'll basically break even. If the campaign brings in any more families over one, the church will have a financial gain.

The key of course is making sure the list is specific enough so that the target recipients are closely matched with your church's vision for visitor demographics. Here's more info: http://www.outreach.com/new-movers.aspx

Producing a direct mail campaign via self-serve would reduce expenses further of course, which is why I like @blogofsumyunguy's idea so much!

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You can do all your ordering online, or call and have one of the representatives help you detail out the list.

I was just messing with it a bit and in my zipcode there are 11,298 records (addresses) available for purchase. For a single use mailing the cost is $135.58, which is a little over a penny per address. Those are legitimate addresses that you KNOW will receive a card. (I just realized that would include all business addresses too, which may or may not be what you want).

I would recommend calling the list company the first couple times and help them walk you through all the specifics you are wanting. You can get VERY specific! You can request lists bases on business, residential, income,sex, kids in the home, kids of certain age groups, how long have they owned their home, etc.

I see they also do email addresses.

You can purchase resident lists (all residents within a certain area usually no names) easily and target people directly in a specific community and or purchase a list with names for a little bit more.

A postcard (4.25"x6") is small but inexpensive to print in quantity, and the postage is usually around 22-23 cents per piece (presorted and mailed through a mailhouse), but that could be worth it if you are getting in contact with real people in the area of your church.

If you want a larger postcard, the postage is not much more in quantity, and you can mail anything larger than 4.25×6 up to 6.125×11.5 all for the same postage rate. You would just pay more for the printing.

Maybe you can find a local printer (or one in your church?) that would donate the printing or discount it because you are a church. Just make sure to coordinate with your mailhouse to help design the piece to meet postal regulations so you can get the discounted postal rates.

On another note, if your church qualifies as a non-profit, you can register with the post office to get a non-profit permit and get even better postal rates. I am not as familiar with the regulations on that. May still need to use a mailhouse, but something to look into!

Thanks,
Patrick

Dave, where can we find more about the chapter/book you are writing? Will you be talking about it on your blog, etc? Please leave some info or links!

I've found social media to be a great way to get people to visit our website. At the moment, our website is not where it should be. We're in the process of developing it for our church plant, so it's still a work in progress. However, in terms of generating hits on the site, social media is a nice back-door approach, specifically facebook. Many people spend a lot of time on facebook, and often times people do connect with pastors and leaders through it. So long as your website has a must-see component to it (i.e. blog, sermons, videos, etc.), generating hits through social media is actually fairly easy to do. At the moment, we're doing a sermon series that has been pretty popular among the congregants. I place short comments on my FB and Buzz along with links to the sermons. This has generated a lot of traffic to the site, but also to other pages on the site as well.

Also, I find that developing an approachable rapport with congregants on FB helps generate hits as well. It makes them more wiling to check out the church site if the pastor is approachable.

This is actually something that works for new comers. FB is a great way to shorten the intimacy lag between members of the church and new comers. It takes time to build intimacy between people, and FB should not be a replacement for face time. However, by placing comments on people's sites and writing down-to-earth status updates that reveal aspects of your personality (but also that you're a regular dude)…I find it really helps in making newcomers feel connect to you the next time they come to your church. Pastors and leaders and members can all do this.

I've used FB in many different ways, and it's a tremendous tool for ministry, but you, of course, have to be careful. Don't be a creepy stalker. ;p

When we use these platforms, we try to use the same strategy online as we do offline – by following Christ's example of leading with grace and applying truth. Using the story of the woman at the well as an example, Jesus first showed her grace by speaking to her despite the fact she was a Samaritan woman (grace) and then applied truth to her life (telling her of her sins). The result is found in John 4 28-30 that a whole town became followers.

Liquid does this offline by showing grace in the way we serve our community through free gas giveaways, town parties, concerts, and 'free markets', then we apply truth through relevant messages that speak God's truth into people's lives with practical applications.

When people experience grace and truth in that order, it's very attractional. We apply this online through promoting our offline events, providing highlights of the same, and providing our messages online via iTunes and church online services. Once people experience an expression of grace, they are more open to accepting God's truth.

Love your ideas.  Hope others find them useful too!

Beyond this, I've used wiki software for a few church websites–this has the advantage not just of promoting community, but making the website itself a community creation. And at the very least, using blogging software like WordPress to build a website adds the dimension of commentable posts and social plugins (like whiteboards, polls, user submissions, etc.) that allow visitors and members to interact in various ways. CMS systems like Drupal and Joomla are pretty good with this capability as well.

On the other hand, churches have been one of the dominant global forces in "social networking" for the past two millennia, long before the advent of the internet. In some ways, web2.0 websites and online communities are just starting to wake up to what the church has known all along: It's about the relationships!

Back to the original question: Tactics to draw visitors to a website? Given what I've just said, I think the answer to this *should* be identical to what draws people to the church in its physical manifestation: That the website has features that allow for the building and nurturing of relationships and community.

That said, we are constantly looking to built qualitative measurements on the different sources of traffic. Google Adwords has already helped us generate 1mil uniques to Church Online this year, but the stickiness of those numbers is potentially less then the traffic generated by social networks. So we are still looking at what the over all return is, AND are looking got create better return from the larger sources of traffic we have. SO, trying to adjust our site and content to even better connect with someone who isn’t familiar with us, Christ, and spiritual conversations.

If I had one bit of advice it would be to focus on what the users want and respond to, not what you feel you need to say on your site. That and lowering the bar of language and familiarity for people visiting your site to engage with you will help tremendously as you try to connect with visitors.

Yes, Michael Hyatt is great on Twitter. I'm just not sure how much time he spends building his network beyond Twitter. Beth's chart includes developing communities online via things like FB fan page and Ning. Also, I wonder if he has others co-tweeting with him.

I personally spend about 15-20 hours a week on projects that need social media push. Also, I will periodically hire some people to manage some accounts. I simply guide and direct the strategy behind it.

As far as our church is concerned, we really haven't leveraged social media/networking too much for our ministry. Our objective for our site is to primarily share our resources and be a hub of information for our community. Our staff spends a few hours a week interacting people from our church at a personal level rather than as a representative of our ministry.