Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Advertising on Facebook

Advertising on Facebook is convenient, easy to setup and can be pretty effective! We can select a specific audience by age, location, interests, etc. and then bid on how much we are willing to pay per click that we get. A nice thing is that we can limit our expenses per day so we don’t go over budget.

For our leadership conference we wanted to get the news out to the online crowd. Using Facebooks advertising we made one (see at right). We’ve currently draw about 13% of those who come to our leadership site through this ad.

To track traffic to our websites we make use of Google’s Analytics and run reports for leadership through the free tools Google provides. Pretty handy.

Thoughts by Michael Shead

Learning from each other

I came across this blog while looking for other ideas today.  In it Vandelay Designs comments on the improvments that churches have made on the web.

Vandelay writes… “As far as web design is concerned, churches have come a long way in recent years. It wasn’t too many years ago that most church websites were several years behind the times. Apparently a growing number of churches today are recognizing the importance of their web presence.”

Check out the list of 50 church sites they liked here.

They’ve also got other great resources and ideas on their site.