Category: Finances

  • 4 Tips to Maximize Your Church Plant Fundraising Commitment Card

    4 Tips to Maximize Your Church Plant Fundraising Commitment Card

    Your church plant fundraising commitment card is an important tool in the fundraising process. But it’s actually pretty easy to use it wrong and shoot yourself in the foot. I’ve seen planters use a church plant fundraising commitment card well. And I’ve seen some wonder why they’re getting such a low response. Here are 4 […]

  • 11 Church Plant Health Insurance Options (yes, eleven!)

    11 Church Plant Health Insurance Options (yes, eleven!)

    Turns out there are lots of church plant health insurance options. It’s still a little complicated, but you have more options than ever to choose from. Here’s an overview as a springboard to your research. If you’re a new church hiring staff or an established church that’s never offered health insurance before, you have two […]

  • How to Get a Church Nonprofit Authorization Number and Save Thousands

    How to Get a Church Nonprofit Authorization Number and Save Thousands

    The following is a guest post by Holly Goff, production manager at d2design, which specializes in direct mail solutions tailored to churches and their goals. Chances are, you’re planning to use direct mail at some point in your church’s marketing plan. It’s cost-effective and maintains great response rates: Once again, direct mail response rates rank […]

  • How to Save $530 by NOT Getting a Church Bulk Mail Permit

    How to Save $530 by NOT Getting a Church Bulk Mail Permit

    If you’re sending out direct mail to announce the launch of your weekly services, save $530 and don’t open a church bulk mail permit (but still get all the benefits using this secret). There are two permits required to get the lowest postage rate for your church plant’s mailing: the church bulk mail permit the […]

  • How Much Money CAN Church Plant Postal Permits Save You?

    How Much Money CAN Church Plant Postal Permits Save You?

    In addition to your community service and word of mouth marketing, you’re thinking about sending out direct mail postcards to your community to announce the Grand Opening of your church plant. You could potentially save thousands of dollars in one mailing with church plant postal permits. A 1st class postcard stamp costs 35¢ these days […]

  • How to Review a Worship Facility Lease (with FREE Worship Facility Lease Checklist)

    How to Review a Worship Facility Lease (with FREE Worship Facility Lease Checklist)

    If you’re on the hunt to rent meeting space for your church, you need to know how to review a worship facility lease. Here’s how: Lease contracts come in all shapes and sizes. Don’t just hope that they’ve included all the important details. Likewise, don’t just hope that they didn’t put any onerous clauses in […]

  • Use This 1 Trick to Pick Church Software

    Use This 1 Trick to Pick Church Software

    All of the choices that available in just about every category can make it confusing when you have to pick church software. This one trick will bring the most clarity and make your decision easier. The church planters I support ask me from time to time which software in a given category is best: church […]

  • Are These 3 Church Software Services on a Collision Course?

    Are These 3 Church Software Services on a Collision Course?

    There are lots of church software services that are doing great things to serve staff and congregants alike. Increasingly, I see these 3 software categories on a collision course. It used to be that you’d have to find a different vendor for each of these: electronic giving church management software (ChMS) mobile app But already […]

  • Use this Free Mobile Expense Report App to Save Time

    Use this Free Mobile Expense Report App to Save Time

    Filing expense reports used to be a painful, manual process. Thanks to free mobile expense report app options, it’s now a lot faster and easier. Ever lost a receipt before turning it in for reimbursement? Worse, ever had to tape original receipts three to a page on a blank sheet for submission? I have suffered […]