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6 Ways to Help Your Church Website Rank Better in Google

Cory Miller — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:39:20 +0000

Check out Chris Boyd’s article on Ministry Marketing Coach on 6 Ways to Organize Your Ministry or Church Web Site to Boost Your Rankings.

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Great New Christian Podcast: Messenger Insight

Cory Miller — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:58:58 +0000

Check out this great new Christian podcasting site called Messenger Insight today at WebDesign.com.

There are two great podcasts up … with some heavy hitters, including Charles Colson and Timothy George and another with my friends Micah Fries and Dr. Mark DeVine.

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4 Keys to Effective Church Websites: Free Webinar

James Dalman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:52:43 +0000

WebDesign.com co-founders Cory Miller and James Dalman hosted a special webinar titled 4 Keys to Effective Church Websites on Oct. 1.

In this webinar, you’ll learn the essentials of highly effective church websites with two experienced church marketing professionals.

Watch the Church Website Webinar here

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An Exhortation for Christian Bloggers

Cory Miller — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:51:35 +0000

I recently have had the opportunity to meet and become great friends with Doug Baker, who is now the editor of Baptist Messenger, Oklahoma’s third largest newspaper ….

He just wrote an editorial called On Baptist Blogging and it includes a great exhortation to all Christian bloggers, here’s a quote from it:

The challenge for the Christian blogger is to both expose and edify in a manner that obeys Jesus’ process of log and speck (Matt. 7:5). Far too often blogging can be both anonymous and autonomous, tricking the writer into thinking that what they write and how they respond represents true community and reality. The real test for great writing is not its spontaneity or immediacy. Rather it is the ability to write in a manner consistent with Christian doctrine and communicated in a manner that seeks to be salt and light in the midst of a very dark world. With this as the goal, there is hope that blogging might truly be used to the glory of God.

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Church Web Design, WordPress and New Services

Cory Miller — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:15:43 +0000

Over two and a half years ago, I wrote a series called Using WordPress for Church Websites. At the time, I was the communications director at a large Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma City and sought an affordable way to get an attractive website for our church.

You can read the whole series here ….

WordPress was the answer I found … it was easy to use and had numerous benefits – like helping the church get found online via Google and other search engines.

And after all this time, WordPress and one of our deigns is still powering the QSBC website today!

But that experience propelled me into freelance web design for clients all over the world, then eventually our first business, iThemes, where we provide high-quality templates for WordPress. (We’ve even been mentioned in the WordPress for Dummies book!)

It’s been a wild ride from that first website and the ChurchCommunicationsPro.com blog, which is ranked in the Top 100 Church blogs.

Now …. fast forward almost two years later, we’ve launched WebDesign.com to provide website design services and consulting.

Because of our team’s experience and knowledge of church marketing and church web design, we’re offering a special package designed especially for churches and ministries.

You can read about the Church Web Design package details here.

If your church or ministry is looking for a great web design or redesign solution, we’d love to talk with you about your site.

This package is designed to get you an affordable yet attractive website … with some special features like podcasting and an event calendar — both popular requests we’ve gotten from our church clients.

You can visit our contact form and email us, or call us toll-free at 888-743-0274!

In the meantime, thanks for following CCP!

P.S. — If you’ve been wanting to start a blog for your ministry, check out our Blog Design package too. It’s a great way to get started with the right design and tools to give you maximum impact!

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Rick Warren Book Cover Design Contest

James Dalman — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:34:22 +0000

My good friend Michael Buckingham wrote an interesting post and open letter to Rick Warren about his latest book design contest for designers. By the responses in comments, I would say that Michael has hit a nerve! I dig his passion and can see a valid point being a designer myself, but I also see the other side of the coin and the opportunity for design recognition.

If you wanna read the article, visit Church Marketing Sucks, but please remember that as Christians we should strive to be Christ-like in our actions and responses.

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CCP Named One of Top 100 Church Blogs

Cory Miller — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:02:52 +0000

My friend Kent Shaffer of Church Relevance has put together a list of the top church blogs. Church Communications Pro is ranked No. 91 in the list.

This is a great list to surf the Christian blogosphere and we’re in great company.

Check out the Top Church Blogs list here

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Product Review: Mars Hill Church iPhone App

James Dalman — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:28:41 +0000

Mars Hill Church launched their iPhone / iPod touch app on August 11th, 2009 and I’ve been extremely impressed with their application which includes their blog, music from a variety of their bands, the ability to find one of their many locations, give online, and of course, their excellent sermon series. The reason I really dig it is that I no longer have to worry about downloading their podcasts into iTunes and then onto my iPod – I can get the latest right there from my phone. The only thing I’d like to see incorporated into the future is a Bible app but then I guess that’s what YouVersion from LifeChurch.tv is for, which is another great app for the iPhone! Check both of them out.

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Current LifeChurch.tv Series

James Dalman — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:16:32 +0000

Tonight we visited the LifeChurch.tv OKC Campus and had the privilege of seeing Christine Cain from Hillsong Church speak on the current series “Stop Acting Like a Christian: Be One.” Christine was amazing in her message and really laid out some great points. I couldn’t do any justice giving you the cliff notes so why not check it out at LifeChurch.tv? I don’t think they have the message uploaded yet, but you won’t regret waiting for it.

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Baker’s ‘Starting for the Finish’ Editorial a Must Read for Southern Baptists

Cory Miller — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:51:04 +0000

Doug Baker, the new executive editor of the Baptist Messenger in Oklahoma, has an excellent editorial titled Starting for the Finish about the state of the Southern Baptist Convention.

I’ve had the honor of getting to know Doug a little bit as a mutual friend of ours – Micah Fries – introduced us a couple of months ago. In his editorial, Doug deadpans the situation we’re in at Southern Baptists and puts it a lot more eloquently than I could.

I’m hoping it gets forwarded around the SBC and its leadership circles.

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