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YouTube
These YouTube videos will walk you through some potential promotional tools for your ministry outreach:
Constant Contact
ConstantContact is a fee-based website offering members online marketing services. For those who can afford it, it is a great way to streamline your ministry’s online promotion and outreach efforts. In addition to providing professional e-mail templates, the site allows you to store various e-mail lists so group emails are only a click away. It also allows you to connect e-mails to other social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter. It’s e-mail tracking statistics indicate how many e-mail recipients opened your email and which links they clicked. This video describes Constant Contact services.
Getting Feedback
Take the following list of possible promotion/outreach tools to your young adults and see what they would add. Have them rate each item on a scale of 1-3 (1 – always, 2 – sometimes, 3 – never) to find out which tools they are already using to get information.
- Bulletin announcements
- Liturgy/Pulpit announcements
- Phone calls
- Text messaging
- Community Calendar notices in your local media (TV, radio, print, websites)
- Google+
- Personal invitations
- Networking through parish and other local ministries (marriage prep, baptism prep,colleges/universities, service organizations, coffee shops)
- YouTube
- Public bulletin boards (library, community center, campus, local businesses)
- Constant Contact e-mail services
- Radio station ads
- Newspaper ads
- Facebook Ads
- Snail mail
