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A selection of PDF articles you can print off to give to churches

March 16, 2020 by selltochurches Leave a Comment

Earn the pastors trust
You need to have the pastor on your side before you can sell to the church. These free reprints will help you gain credibility.

It takes time to establish a trusting relationship with churches as you moved toward the goal of becoming a Church Communications Consultant. To help you do that, as I shared in an earlier post, I’ve put a new “PRINT” command on the articles on the Effective Church Communications (www.effectivechurchcom.com) website that will enable you to print off with the click of a mouse a PDF of the article for you to give away or attach in an email to give to churches.

But I realize that often in your busy schedule you don’t have time to do that, so I have links below to PDFs that are already done for you. Just click on the title and the PDF will download for you. I’ve also included a few comments about each article and who might be most interested in it and how you might use it.

Below are the articles mentioned in the PODCAST:

This is a good devotion to give to pastors and other leaders in a church communication ministry:
Devotion #1: The Reality of our situation—challenging spiritual warfare

This is a great encouraging devotion to give to church secretaries and others doing the hard work of church communications:
Devotion #8: You are the Great Ones and far more important than you realize

This is a good article to give to churches that are struggling with large numbers on their roles, but fewer people showing up on Sundays–in other words, most churches:
3,000 on your membership list, 350 in church, it may be a problem with internal marketing

Here are two articles to show that you are concerned about all the communication channels in a church:
Multi-Channel Communications advice from the publisher of USA TODAY
Essential website and social media house-keeping for fall

This is a more in-depth, strategic article that pastors will appreciate:
Foundation of The Five Steps–Disciple-making

 

Complete List of Easter Resources, Everything your churches need!

March 15, 2020 by selltochurches Leave a Comment

Easter Invitation
This is one of the Easter Invitation Templates. You can link to dozens more from this article.

For the last month or so I’ve been updating Easter files and links to all of them are below. After the direct link to Templates are articles and links to first strategy and then articles and templates for all the Easter communications you need for before, during, and after Easter.

Churches need a lot of help during this busy season and if you can offer to print some of these publications, they will be very thankful to you for it.

A shortcut for all the publications:

All Communications Easter Templates
http://wp.me/PDky9-6Qx

Before

Great card to motivate your congregation to invite and pray!

Why it matters if you invite your friends to Easter services
http://wp.me/pDky9-6YB

Free Church Bunny Easter Invitation to encourage children to be inviters
http://wp.me/pDky9-71c

GIS: Innovative way to invite people to Easter services: “Egg” your neighborhood!
http://wp.me/pDky9-3dI

We’ve got a great selection of invitations for you for Easter!

Easter Invitations and how to use them effectively
http://wp.me/pDky9-6Il

Effective Easter Outreach: Door-hangers, an invitation you can’t ignore
http://wp.me/pDky9-2n

No time? Little money? Essential Easter Communications Panic Pack to the Rescue!
http://wp.me/pDky9-3qX

During

Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections
http://wp.me/pDky9-5pu

Bookmarks and Bulletin inserts that explain what you do regularly for Easter Visitors to return
http://wp.me/pDky9-75C

Effective WEBSITE strategy for Children’s Ministry Easter follow-up
http://wp.me/pDky9-ip

Expect and encourage questions at Easter, PLUS ways to answer them
http://wp.me/pDky9-1gQ

FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dn

Resurrection Cookies, a Free recipe that will teach children and parents about Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dD

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Share this PDF about Websites as a service and credibility builder

March 10, 2020 by selltochurches Leave a Comment

PDF to Share with Churches on Website success
Sharing a PDF like this is a genuine help for churches and shows you care about their entire communications program.

In my continuing goal to help make all of you trusted Church Communications Consultants, one very important part of that is to give you materials to share with your churches on all aspects of Church Communications, not just how you can create cheaper copies for them (which the salesman who comes after you will try to do also).

For you to stand out and become that trusted consultant, it helps to share with churches materials that will help them be successful in ALL aspects of their communications ministry.

I just finished an overview article on 10 Essentials to Prepare Your Church Website for Easter. This article has lots of helpful and strategic information for churches and they will be very grateful to you for sharing it.

CLICK HERE or on the image to download the PDF. You can create a cover page if you want to print it off and take it around to your churches, or email them with this PDF attached.

If there are specific topics churches have asked you about and that you’d like to see a PDF on, let me know at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

PODCAST INTRODUCTION: Give yourself and your sales team the GIFT of SALES TOOLS!

February 9, 2020 by selltochurches Leave a Comment

Sell to Churches Podcast from Yvon Prehn
This podcast will help you be more successful in selling to the church market. Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!

******BEFORE PUTTING IN THE PODCAST LINK–actually make this a NEW blog ***PERMALINKS need to change actually did….but redo permalinks

 

NO Business of comparable size prints more than churches and they MUST print large volumes of material EVERY WEEK. If you aren’t making the most of this fantastic market, I can help! One the best way of how do marketing in nowadays is by social media like tik tok, so if you are interesting in start doing this for your business you may be interesting in check the info about TikTok and Microsoft.

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and welcome to the Sell to Churches Podcast!

I’ve created this Podcast to help you because I know you are all incredibly busy and seldom have time to sit down at the computer, but with a podcast format available on iTunes and many other podcast services, each week I can give you updates and tips on how to be more successful in selling to and serving the church market. You can listen while you are driving from appointment to appointment, when working out, or wherever else works for you.

Before I get into some of the specifics of how I will help you, if you don’t know me (and I know many of you listening do) a little bit about my background so you’ll understand why I have the expertise that will be helpful to you.

As far as the church is concerned, my husband was a bi-vocational pastor for many years—we are now active church volunteers. We have been involved in many areas of ministry and I did all the communication work for us. As a result of doing that and working as a writer and senior editor at two international Christian organizations,  I wrote the first book on desktop publishing in the church (The Desktop Publishing Remedy) when personal computers were first being used by churches. Shortly thereafter I became a recognized national authority on church communications.

I was then hired to teach seminars on Desktop Publishing by Pagett-Thompson, the nation’s largest one-day seminar company and later started my own church communication ministry where I continued to write books and speak at conferences and seminars.

At that time the RISO Corporation wanted to grow their faith-based market and they contacted me to do seminars for them. That kicked off the most wonderful working experience of my adult life!

I did seminars for RISO for 15 years where I traveled all over North America, doing seminars for churches. Not only did my work greatly increase their church market (let’s be honest, they wouldn’t have kept me doing it, if it hadn’t), but I learned a LOT about the challenges of selling printing equipment to churches. I KNOW what you go through, I know your challenges, and I know how to make you successful.

After the 2008 Recession, RISO quit doing seminars, but I was hired to continue to train church salespeople by the RICOH corporation, again rehired by RISO, and have done a number of independent training and consulting with individual dealerships. I keep in touch with many of you I’ve worked with who have scattered to working with many different manufacturers and companies. Many of you have started your own successful dealerships.

I can’t get away from this business…..and don’t want to.

But this version of working with those of you who sell to the church market is different.

First of all, it is completely independent of any specific manufacturer or line of equipment.

Three things matter more to me than a specific brand on a box:

  1. The CHURCH, specifically the historically defined Christian Church
  2. ALL of YOU—I’m doing this not only because a number of you keep asking me for resources, but because I truly believe that what you are doing is incredibly important. I believe the church has the most important message humanity needs to hear and I believe YOU can help churches communicate it effectively. I believe that print is still extraordinarily important (I’ll have lots of resources for you to pass on why) and YOU are the ones who can help churches print cost-effectively, efficiently, and making the most of current technology.
  3. I know many of you need HELP (some a little, some a lot) on HOW to SELL to the Church Market and I know I can help. I can not only provide resources that will help you sell to the church (things like samples, Lunch & Learn programs, etc.) but I can also coach you in what makes the church market unique and different from other business markets you may have sold to and how you can be most effective with them.

I’m doing this, not beholding to any one manufacturer. I do admit, I have my favorites in various areas and may have some materials specific to the, but that is not my focus.

Because I’m independent, I also may not be politically correct in all areas to the satisfaction of some. Though any person, any belief system, or any church is more than welcome to use my materials and you are free to share them with anyone, I am a Christian, a follower of Jesus. Though I won’t pound anyone on the head with my views, it will also be very clear in my samples and training that this is the church I am communicating about. Having said that, I honestly think I’m not obnoxious about it. When I taught my live seminars I was very clear about my personal religious preference also and was very happy with how numerous times people from very different belief systems let me know that they found my materials very useful without being offended by my presentation.

Speaking of my samples, if you don’t do anything else after this podcast, do go to www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/ for HUNDREDS of free samples you can share with churches and that can demonstrate what you printing equipment will do.

While you are there sign up for the free newsletter so you’ll get notices of new templates and updates the new ones I create for each holiday or special event in the church.

It’s a whole new system and I hope it works!

An important question to answer upfront is: How will I make money?

Good question, because no matter how much I love all of you and enjoy working in this area, bills must be paid. To do that there are several ways this new approach will make money:

  1. Materials for sale on this website, which will include:
  2. Lunch & Learn Programs which you will be able to buy and download from this site. Other podcasts will describe them in detail.
  3. Ebooks that you can download and also buy the rights to reprint.
  4. Materials on the Effective Church Communications site that you can buy, such as training classes in church communications–again, more information will be coming on them.
  5. Sponsorship of this Podcast. If this podcast is helpful to you, please consider becoming a monthly supporter of it. I do not take advertising nor do I participate in any affiliate marketing for the podcast, this website, or the Effective Church Communications ministry.  I want to be able to talk about resources without any hidden agendas and I want you to be able to access my resources without being bombarded by obnoxious ads. I need your support to that. The site that hosts my podcast gives you the option to support it at .99, 4.99, and 9.99 a month. If the podcast proves useful to you, please consider monthly support. I greatly appreciate it!

What I have planned for the podcast

The podcast will have two types of episodes:

  1. TIMELY TIPS: in this type of podcast I’ll give you quick updates of seasonal events that are important to churches now. In addition, I’ll let you know about resources that are available on the Effective Church Communication site and if I have any additional resources on this Sell to Churches site that will help you be effective in contacting and selling to churches. For example, as I’m putting this together we are about to enter the season of creating communications for Easter. This is a fantastic time for samples, tips, ways to help you help your churches and I’ll be giving you lots of them.
  2. CHURCH SALES STRATEGY: in these podcasts, there are numerous things I’ll include. One of the most basic is that I’ll help you understand the uniqueness of the church market and how to be more effective selling to them. At times these will refer to additional resources on the Sell to Churches site, such as new Lunch and Learns, that will help you. This type of podcast will also go into more depth on the ministry of church communications and how you can coach your churches to be more effective. There will be a wide variety of topics in this type of podcast. Not all of them will appeal to everyone, but I will try hard to label them clearly. They will be timeless (as opposed to the Timely Tips) and you can pick and choose what will be helpful to you and when. You can also use these for training sessions at your dealership.

That’s enough of an introduction–if there are questions you have or areas you’d like me to cover, email me at: yvonprehn@gmail.com.

By the time I post this I’ll also have other podcasts up for you, so check them out and go out and do a fantastic job of selling to churches!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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