35 Best Tools To Help You Grow Your Church, Business and Startup Exponentially
As the world advances,
the way of doing things changes and also the way people respond changes. The
way Internet is eating into our lives is so amazing that the church cannot be
left behind. They must take their place. God gave man wisdom to create these
products, from social media platforms to project management channels, whether
on mobile or desktop.
Luke 16:8 (KJV)And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
It is great to see how
more churches are getting on with the advancement of technology. They now take
advantages of live streaming because somehow some people won’t be in church on
Sunday because they are not born again and for the believers’; maybe they are
not in town. There is no excuse anymore.
The world have moved from the CDs and DVDs to online
streaming platform where you take the word of God with you everywhere and whenever.
We have researched some
online tools that can help the church perform better. The bible talked about
“people getting born again as much that should have been saved [reference]”.
This is about knowing the numbers, being accountable. We cannot do less than
that now. We must be able to track our numbers, do proper analytics and take
appropriate decisions too. Gone is the era that a church will just design a
website, go and sit without updating it or doing some marketing.
Whether you are working
on a big project or a small one; or you just want to keep financial records,
marketing of your ministry materials or keep your ministry online presence at
top notch, there are many tools that can help you achieve all of these and
more.
It doesn’t matter if you
are a solo minister or you run a congregation of thousands. These tools are
essential for everyone that want to be productive from the music ministers to
the small business owners to the school teacher.
Below are some tools
that can help us achieve maximum result.
1. Crayon — The most comprehensive collection of
marketing designs.
free and paid
Free
3. Hey Press — Free searchable database to find
tech journalist for your startup. They’ve collected hundreds of thousands of
articles for thousands of writers, saving you precious hours of research. And
you might want to check their new product – If No Reply.
Paid
14 day trial and Paid.
5. Colibri.io — shows you where your customers
are engaging online so that you can insert yourself into relevant
conversations.
6. HOKO — Easily set up your apps for mobile
search and deep linking.
Free
7. Summer of Marketing — 12 weeks of Marketing.
From 0 to 10,000+ visitors/month.
Free
8. Marketing Podcasts — Discover podcasts that
can help you become a better marketer.
9. Unbounce — Build, publish and A/B test landing
pages without I.T. Unbounce makes it
easy to build custom landing pages and add overlays for even more conversions
on your existing site
30 day trial and Paid.
10. Nimble — combines all your contacts, email,
social signals, activities and follow-ups from everywhere you work. It is Everything
You Need in a CRM to Grow Your Business without the Work.
14 day Trial and Paid
11. Zapier — Makes it easy to automate tasks
between web apps.
Free and paid
12. BuzzSumo — Research the content your audience
really wants, especially the ones that work best for your competitor.
14 day trial and paid
13. Mention — Monitor conversations that matter
most to your brand.
Paid
14. ArticleBunny — Get fast, professional articles
at an affordable price.
Paid and Subscription
15. Outbrain — Promote your blog post or article
in ‘From Around the Web’ sections of CNN, FastCompany, Slate, Time etc.
Paid
16. Notify — Get notified in Slack when your
startup is mentioned online.
Free
17. SumoMe — Collect the email addresses of your
site visitors.
Free and Paid
18. Canva — Create designs for free; from logo design
to social media design: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, Twitter
Covers etc.
Free and Paid
19. Ocho – You can use this app to create
eight-second short videos that provide a “window to the world”.
Free and available only in IOS
20. Muckrake — Easily find & build
relationships with journalists, monitor news and build report.
21. Really Good Emails — Great email newsletter
examples. RGE aims to be the best showcase of email design and resources on
the web. We’re providing transparency into product email and customer email
cycles that are not available anywhere else.
Free but you can contact them for sponsorship
22. Growth Hacker TV — Interviews with leading
growth startup founders and growth people.
Discount code available and Paid
23. Anewstip — allows you to find media contacts
by what they have written or by what they tweet. Anewstip Database indexes more than 200 million
news articles and 1 billion tweets from more than 1 million media contacts.
Free and Paid
24. Pay With A Tweet - give
people access to your content or product once they’ve tweeted or posted about
it. This is a great way to go viral in the early stages of a product launch, or
to make sure your content or product spreads further across the web over time.
Free and paid
25. Click to Tweet - this
is a free, easy way to promote and advertise your business or product on Twitter.
I used this in a recent product launch by asking new users to share the product
on Twitter and got amazing results.
Free
26. Twilighter - This
is one super product from Sumo to help you grow your traffic by making sharing
easy. With Twilighter, visitors to your website or blog can easily highlight
any part of your content and share it immediately on Twitter.
Pricing: Free
27. Hello Bar - This is a delightful simple tool that allows
you to insert a call-to-action button within a horizontal bar at the top of
your site. You create your bar and CTA around one of three goals: drive
traffic, collect emails or point visitors to your social media channels. This
will help you get more signups and sales from the traffic you already have.
Free
28. Bounce Exchange - Bounce
Exchange helps you turn abandoning site visitors into customers by inviting
them to convert right before they leave your site.
Paid
29. SessionCam - SessionCam
allows you to watch recordings of your website visitors (including mobile) so
that you can identify problem areas and increase conversion. SessionCam analyzes customer
interaction on your website and automatically identifies potential barriers to conversion
Free and Paid
30. CrazyEgg - CrazyEgg
shows you how visitors are behaving on your website and what makes them leave:
where they’re clicking, where they stop reading or watching, how specific
segments of traffic behave differently and more.
30 day free trial and Paid
31. Totango - Totango
is a customer success software solutions that empowers you to drive website
visitors and users to experience your product in ways that influence
conversion.
Free trial and Paid
32. Optimizely - Optimizely
lets you experiment on everything—from design choices to algorithms. That way
the best ideas always win, and the best customer experiences get even better.
It helps you increase engagement, interactions
and conversions on your website by making a/b testing super easy.
30
day free trial and Paid
33. Consumer
Baromoter - Consumer
Barometer gives e-commerce companies the information about online consumers
they need to make more informed business decisions. The
Consumer Barometer is a tool to help you understand how people use the Internet
across the world.
Free
34. Typeform – This is not your
regular form. Typeform humanizes online surveys with a
beautiful, fun and interactive way to ask and answer questions.
Free and Paid
35. ListBuilder - ListBuilder
is a free way to collect the email addresses of your site visitors.
Free
There are still many
more tools that the church can take advantage of. The tools are endless but you
as a church can start with this ones. We would like tohear from you if there
are tools you use in your local church.
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please share!
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