There are some excellent websites that allow you to create newsletters and more importantly manage a list of subscribers, but here is a good tip that you should follow starting out, and do regularly to maintain a professional look to your newsletter: Test your newsletter with different email providers and in different browsers. You can do a search for "popular email providers" to get a short list of email accounts to sign up for. I recommend testing your newsletter in ...
I recently attended an event at a local mega-church where I filled out a visitor card. On it I included my email address. Within a few days I received an email telling me about an upcoming event and the kick-off for a new sermon series. What's wrong with that you might ask? They did score big on the follow-up meter. However, the presentation of the email - the look and feel of the communications left a lot to be desired. Now, ...
I was inspired by a recent article to write about the subject of email forwards. Do you have one of those people at your church who send every FWD known to man? What I want to uncover in this post is not all the evils of forwarded emails, but rather ask a more direct question: Is the communication coming out of your church predominantly email forwards of the cute kitten and support our troops variety? I'm not knocking kittens ...
