Church Marketing Strategies

Affordable Church Marketing Expertise

Our mission? To partner with your mission! The local church is still the most powerful evangelical tool to reach more people for Jesus!

Today’s pastors have now embraced a new burden of being a media department. Your message isn’t just reaching people inside of the four walls of your church, but now has the opportunity to reach people on-demand, in their homes, on their phones, on the go. . .anywhere they’ve got connectivity.

This creates a challenge for the local church. And not every church has the resources or giftings in-house to successfully reach beyond the stage.

Our mission is to water.

For some clients, it is a short-term deployment to get your strategies developed and launch. Or to train a team on best practices.

For others it is an ongoing partnership.

Whatever the engagement, know that it is our mission to help you to glorify God in all that we do!

We Grow The Online Presence Of Your Church

Some of your first impressions as a church are found on your website, and through your social media. This probably isn’t new information, but what might be new to you is figuring out how to take control.

For years Google has been publishing studies like ZMOT (Zero Moment of Truth), identifying that today’s consumers experience “micro-moments” of decision making. They want to know, they want to go, they want to do, they want to buy.

Church shopping is no different, and church marketing is one of the fastest-growing segments of the digital marketing landscape.

It may be that you find yourself here today because you are asking one of the following questions:

Is my website in need of a facelift?
Am I being found?
Are people engaging with my social media?

We’ve got the expertise to advise you through the digital and social mediums. We’re founded by a pastor, for pastors and we understand the heartbeat of the local church. Let’s create relationships for the Kingdom!

(For tips on tracking consumer behavior check out a past ZMOT presentation from Fearless Influence’s owner, Jimmy Bogroff)

I Need My Church To Be Found Online

There’s no quick strategy to rank better on Google or Bing. This is a marathon and not a sprint. Still, there are some basics that too often get overlooked. Like we said before, too often we see beautiful sites with rich imagery and amazing content, but they’ve yet to be indexed by Google.

Sadly, this leads to a completely invisible website! One that can’t be found.

We understand search engine optimization. We know H1 tags (and H2 and H3 – heck we simply know tags). We know meta descriptions and why they’re important in getting better search results.

Not only do we have great design (so you can still get your trendy images and sick fonts), but we also couple it with detailed website development and a deep, fundamental understanding of search engine optimization.

All of this, and we understand the heartbeat of the local church.

We work across platforms like Squarespace, Wix, WordPress and more to tackle search engine strategies that increase your rankings for your top categories.

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My Church Needs A New Website

Most churches build their website in-house. Oftentimes this is a cost-saving measure to help extend the limited resources of the church. These websites are heavy on design, with rich imagery and visuals. But they are also oftentimes largely ineffective with huge page speed load times. Their site could be ranking low for a number of reasons. It could be that they lack content, and the text to HTML ratio (SEO term) is low. Or it could be that their images don’t have “alt text.” Images without alternative text are completely invisible to Google and Bing. It could be that they have too many of the same type of header tags (H1, H2, H3, etc.).

Website design and development require expertise and so too does getting ranked by Google.

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Church Marketing For Events And Ministries

We Use Advertising Platforms To Reach More People For Jesus

Using Church Marketing Tools To Reach New People

We’re adept at promotion. Whether it is promoting a new church, new location, new service, special service, ministry, or other important events at your church, we’ve got you covered!

Whether you know the exact audience, or whether you don’t, we’ll make sure that we create a targeted promotional strategy that reaches only those people you most want to reach.

We have expertise on Google, Microsoft (Bing), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more!

Church Marketing Toolkit: Google Grants (Google For Non Profits)

We’re experts in using the Google Ads platform (formerly known as AdWords) to acquire relevant, targeted, and high-quality website visitors to your website.

We also help churches and other nonprofits to qualify for grant money from Google through Google For NonProfits and Google Grants.

Once you’re approved you’ll be happy to know that we’ve been writing effective SEM ad copy since before Google was the top search engine and before Facebook was a thing!

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Church Marketing Toolkit: Social Media Advertising

Each social media channel is completely unique. The users, the tools, the capabilities. . .they’re all different.

We know Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

We’ve run campaigns in each channel. We know the targeting, the creative options, and the communications strategies that work best to ensure that your church is getting promoted the right way.

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Fearless Influence: Church Marketing Digital Strategy Examples

Churches hire Fearless Influence to develop church marketing strategies to help them reach more people on digital and social platforms. To help them in this mission we deploy digital and social marketing strategies such as the following:

website design and development
search engine optimization
social media advertising
organic social media
branding and asset design
google ads

All of these tools are used to help reach new people and to glorify God and promote His Kingdom.

Below, you can see a sampling of our church marketing clients and the type of work that they’ve hired us to do. In some cases we’ve also provided a case study to help you see that types of results they are getting.

Church Marketing: Search Engine Optimization

Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church of San Diego hired Fearless Influence in the Fall of 2021 to help increase its organic rankings and the overall visibility of the website.

Church Marketing Services Provided: Search Engine Optimization

Church Marketing: Multi-Channel Strategy

The Warehouse Church Over-The-Rhine, is located in Cincinnati Ohio. They hired Fearless Influence in 2021 to provide a comprehensive church marketing strategy that would: increase the visiblity of their website and their social media.

Church Marketing Services Provided: Search Engine Optimization, Organic Social Media, Paid Social Media, Google Ads

Church Marketing: Website Design and Development

Resound Church is a global, multi-campus church. In the fall of 2019, Fearless Influence was engaged to provide a responsive design website for their global website and their flagship campus, Resound Church Hillsboro.

Church Marketing Services Provided: Website Design and Development

Church Marketing: Website Design and Development

Resound Church Hillsboro is the flagship campus for a global, multi-campus church. In the fall of 2019, Fearless Influence was engaged to provide a responsive design website for their global website and their flagship campus, Resound Church Hillsboro.