Ideas for Your Ministry: 19 Ways to Use Your Own Custom Designed Website

What can you imagine?
How big can you think?
God thinks bigger...
Do you want to ask Him for something?
Ask big because you're dealing with a big God.
Ephesians 3:20 from the Discoveries Bible

I love working on ministry websites. As a Christian, I share your desire to bring eternal good into the lives of people worldwide. I direct a 501(c)3 ministry and serve on the board of another ministry, so I bring that added perspective and appreciation to the table when I design web pages and write content for your ministry.

1. Give your ministry 21st Century legitimacy.
Websites are no longer optional. Donors, partners, members and volunteers - everyone expects you to have your own website.

2. Online donations
With your own custom designed website you can: Accept credit card and PayPal donations online, even if you don't have a merchant account. Accept payments from almost anywhere in the world. You can also set up recurring donations - monthly, weekly - any interval desired.

3. Cheap market research
Traditional market research can cost thousands. But we can get good data from donors, partners, members and volunteers for a small fraction of that cost with easy-to-use online surveys and other visitor feedback devices. Find out what your people are thinking with your own custom designed website.

4. Save time.
Constantly re-explaining your expertise, your fees, your policies, your decisions? Your custom designed website can handle a lot of that for you. Educate the public and make your job easier.

5. Tell your story.
Testimonies, news, events, hours, schedules, new initiatives and more can be easily added to your own custom designed website.

6. Reach the media.
Tell your story the way you want it told. You can set up a media kit at your own website and update it any way you want.

7. Cut costs.
To reach people with a full color brochure could easily cost thousands in printing and postage costs alone. Even at that, the brochure could be obselete in a year, a month or even a week. Then you would need to start over. Your own custom designed website is the cheapest way to keep full color images and all the information you desire in front of the public 24/7.

8. Stay up to date.
Printed information quickly gets stale. But spoilage isn't a problem when you have your own website. Time sensitive and rapidly changing information are easily handled online.

9. Save money and increase productivity.
When your own custom designed website is answering frequently asked questions 24 hours a day, you don't need to pay staff to do as much of that for you. That frees your staff and volunteers to be more productive.

10. Open a new line of communication.
Many people prefer going to the web for information about you. Many people would much rather visit your website than call your toll free number.

11. Create a new hiring and/or volunteer recruitment tool.
We can create tools to help you recruit, screen and evaluate potential employees and/or volunteers.

12. Educate the public.
Offer online training, courses, eductation, information. Publish e-newsletters (ezines) for free or fee.

13. Give customers, members or employees remote access to selected confidential information with password protected access.

14. Build a community.
Make connections and serve your customers with your own custom designed website. Build customer loyalty.

15. Extend your reach.
My wife and I operate a ministry. It has been enormously gratifying to form friendships and bring good into the lives of people worldwide: Kenya, Pakistan, India, China, Colombia, The Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the UK to mention just a few. Your own custom designed website will extend your reach in ways that were never before possible.

16. Brand your ministry.
With your own custom designed website, you can post it the way you want it. You're never locked into someone else's format, and you can change it any time.

17. Find the pulse and stay ahead.
When your market changes, you can be ready instead of playing catch up. How? Now it's easy to track visitor comments with your own custom designed website.

18. New opportunities
Find new partners and new opportunities by combining a mailing or advertising campaign with your own website's online marketing efforts.

19. Control your online image with your own custom-designed website.
Your ministry image is an important part of your success. Your site should look the way you want it to look. It should be you, not some cookie-cutter template.

Here's an easy way to get in touch with me to start telling me about the project you have in mind.

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