Vision Sunday is around the corner isn’t it? What’s the word? What’s the statement that’s being plastered everywhere? Where are we going as a church this year? Whats the plan? Here a couple of ideas to try and nudge you and your team in the right direction…
Right away… Let go!
1) Use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp etc to recruit a virtual DREAM TEAM, people in your church who are engaged in social media and will help lead efforts to promote the Christmas production. Call them your social media INFLUENCERS (LOL) if you will…
2) Create a social media promotional schedule in Google Docs. Share it with your dream team, get their input, add to it & improve it based on their input. Make a WhatsApp group if you want to share details quickly…
3) Create a Facebook event for your activation or the start of your years service(s).
4) Post the event to your church’s Facebook page, invite guests, invite your friends. (Your church does have a Facebook page, right?) Right? See more here.
5) You & your virtual dream team share the event on your personal Facebook profiles & encourage others to do the same. Share. Share. Share.
6) Post the event to any other social media profiles your church may have (Twitter, Instagram, etc)
7) You & your virtual dream team share your church’s post promoting the event on your personal profiles (Twitter, Instagram, etc)
8 ) Run a Facebook ad to promote your Christmas production. Boost or promote the post and get more engagement
Create a promotional video for your Christmas service, and…
9) Put the promotional video on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, see number 10.
10) Share the YouTube video on your church’s Facebook page.
11) You & your virtual dream team share the YouTube video on your personal Facebook profiles and encourage others to do the same. Send the link on your WhatsApp groups and get as many people sharing…
12) Share the video to any other social media profiles your church may have (Twitter, Instagram, etc)
13) You & your dream street team share your church’s video promoting the event on your personal accounts on those same social platforms (Twitter, Instagram, etc)
Reach out to other local organizations
14) Find local online guides that have an event calendar. Submit your event, embed or link to the YouTube video. Local churches in PE will be familiar with http://pechurchnet.co.za/
15) Find the Facebook pages for your city, chamber of commerce, & other local community organizations. “Like” their page. Then post the Facebook event to their wall if you can do that in a non-spammy way. Make friends. Be nice. Get the word out…
16) Find on other social platforms (Twitter, Instagram, etc) profiles for your city, chamber of commerce, & other local community organizations. Send them a DM & ask if they would share your post about your Christmas production. Really make it a community event.
If your Activation or Vision Sunday services span more than one Sunday…
17) Post pics from the first day/night to your church’s Facebook page. Be sure to tag as many people as you can. Tagging will cause those pics to show up on those people’s profiles for them and their friends to see.
18) You and your dream team share those pics on your Facebook profiles. Tag tag tag.
19) Post some of the pics to your church’s other social profiles (Twitter, Instagram, etc)
20) You and the dream team, share those pics. Personally.
21) Create a video that includes footage from the opening day & short comments from people afterwards saying good things about it. Post the video to YouTube.
22) Share the opening day/night video on your church’s Facebook pages and groups…
23) You & your virtual dream team share the opening night video on your personal Facebook profiles & encourage others to do the same.
24) Share the opening night video using your church’s other social accounts (Twitter, Instagram, etc).
25) You & your virtual dream team share your church’s posts of the opening day/night video on other social accounts (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok etc).
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