Author Archives: Brian Sun

A How-To Guide for Using Mass Texting Service Signal

Signal is one of the best mass texting services for your ministry. It’s free for up to 500 subscribers and for you to send up to 1,000 text messages a month. If you follow the tips on improving student communication using mass texting services  you’ll stay well within those limits (unless your campus ministry is…   Read more

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A How-To Guide for Using Mass Texting Service Tatango

A How-To Guide for Using Mass Texting Services: Tatango. Tatango is one of the best mass texting services for your ministry. After a 7-day free trial, it’s $24 a month for 0-250 subscribers and allows you to send unlimited text messages and unlimited campaigns. Tatango is easier to use than any other mass texting software…   Read more

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Finding the Best Mass Texting Service For Your Ministry

Finding The Best Mass Texting Service For Your Ministry. We’ve sorted through the billions of mass texting services (see the complete list at the bottom) out there and chose the two most stable and solid web-based options for your ministry: Signal and Tatango. How Signal And Tatango Are Different. Signal Tatango Free for up to 500 subscribers Easy…   Read more

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Improving Student Communications with Mass Texting Services

Over the next four posts, we’ll be breaking down why to use texting and in what contexts, what mass texting services to use and why, including screencasts and instructions for the best mass texting services. Let’s get started. Most of your students use Facebook, some use Twitter, but 99.999% of them text. All the time….   Read more

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Write Blurbs: How to get your donors to want more of your email newsletter

Emails like this don’t get read:    Email blurbs like this do: By using blurbs, your newsletter will be: Easier to read Quicker to read Fun to read Here’s how you do it: 1. Write the long description of what happened like you normally would. Using blurbs in your email newsletter is not about getting…   Read more

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Creative Partner Communications: The 17-Second Prayer Card

My 17-second Prayer Card for November We want to be campus ministers who fundraise in reality. Here’s what I mean: Your donors are busy. Your ministry is not exactly at the forefront of their minds. They don’t open your email newsletters. If they do, they skim. They love you and what you’re doing, but that…   Read more

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Value Physical Presence Over Virtual Presence

The people I’m closest to where I live don’t care one bit about their “web presence,” whereas I daydream about tens of thousands of Twitter followers salivating over my 140-character wisdom or hits to my blog from people who don’t know if I’m actually following Jesus in daily life. In fact, I used to care…   Read more

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Get Your Inbox to Zero

All of this week Staffhacker contributor Brian Sun is going to tell you how to get your inbox in order, from developing healthy mindsets to reaching Inbox Zero and using the Trusted Trio system. It’s time to get the 1,863 unread emails in your inbox under control. There are two methods to get this done….   Read more

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