When Is the Best Time to Send Your eMail?


Find out the best times to send your eMail.
Find out the best times to send your eMail.

Marketers and eMail services have analyzed tens of millions of eMails to help you know when the best time might be to send your eMails. The time of day is one of the most important factors. Continue reading “When Is the Best Time to Send Your eMail?”

Start the new year with an up-to-date giving page on your blog or website


UPDATE (June 3, 2014): Because it’s important not to lose people in a trail of clicks, I made our “Join our team!” tab at the top of our site as a link straight to give.cru.org (Use Appearance / Menus in WordPress) . I still have the two pages I describe below so I can send a potential donor to these for information. Anyone on our site can get to these through a “table of contents” in the right sidebar.

I’ve got an idea for you today that will take less than an hour, but would be a huge positive step to take at the beginning of the year.

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Today is the First #GivingTuesday


I’m sure you’re well aware of Black Friday , Small Business Saturday , and Cyber Monday. Our national holiday to celebrate the goodness of God has become a retail-driven shopping frenzy! There’s a good change in 2012, though.

Several organizations and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, started a national campaign promoting #GivingTuesday, a day to volunteer and/or donate to charitable causes. Continue reading “Today is the First #GivingTuesday”

First Social and Digital Media Panel at Lake Hart


Alonzo, Matt, Howard, Justin, Nifer

We’ve been trying some seminars at Lake Hart in Orlando. This week we did our first panel. Alonzo DeJesus took the reins, bringing knowledgeable staff to the table to present ministry ideas for using digital and social media for MPD, with students, and more.  Stacie also was on the panel (joining us from Washington state) and several staff from Africa and other locations also listened in through video on Google + Hangouts. Continue reading “First Social and Digital Media Panel at Lake Hart”