Pro Church Podcast With Brady Shearer

Storytelling is one of the most important communication skills. Brady gives 3 tips on how to make your stories more engaging.   Pro Church Daily is brought to you by Storytape.com;. Unlimited stock video downloads on a single monthly subscription. For the month of January, join Storytape Unlimited and use the coupon code “daily” to get a 10% forever discount, along with Brady’s private vault of 25 proven video templates.   What's In This Session? Be specific: He was tall vs. He was 6 foot 5 inches tall - adds credibility and helps audience see in their mind's eye what you saw with your real eyes (1:00) Dialogue: He said and she said; dialogue is more powerful than narration - people want to be in the moment, not hear about the moment (2:14) Five senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste - The chilly barn smelled like fresh sawdust as sun rays slipped through the cracks of the walls and the floor boards creeped beneath me with every step (3:24) Summary (6:02)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned Pro Churc

Millennials are currently the largest living generation. Brady discusses the facts, and how this affects everyone - including churches. Pro Church Daily is brought to you by Storytape.com;. Unlimited stock video downloads on a single monthly subscription. For the month of January, join Storytape Unlimited and use the coupon code “daily” to get a 10% forever discount, along with Brady’s private vault of 25 proven video templates.   What's In This Session? Millennials are the largest living generation in the United States (Pew)(0:55) 79.8 million people between the ages 20 and 37; 74.1 million Boomers (1:44) Millennial population expected to continue growing until 2036 because of immigration and top out around 81 million (2:32) 1 in 3 American workers is a Millennial (3:11) 26 year olds are the single largest age cohort in North America (Wall Street Journal) (3:21) Why Millennials scare me (4:50)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned Pro Church Tools Pro Church Tools on Facebook Pro Church Tools on YouTube

Storytelling is the most important skill you can learn to help your church grow, succeed, and accomplish your vision and mission. In this episode Brady shares his 3 step storytelling formula.   Pro Church Daily is brought to you by Storytape.com. Unlimited stock video downloads on a single monthly subscription. For the month of January, join Storytape Unlimited and use the coupon code “daily” to get a 10% forever discount, along with Brady’s private vault of 25 proven video templates.   What's In This Session? Storytelling formula overview (1:23) Step #1: A character with a desire (1:36) Step #2: Encounters a problem (2:14) Step #3: Makes a decision (2:23) BIG story example (2:39) SMALL story example (4:31)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned Pro Church Tools Pro Church Tools on Facebook Pro Church Tools on YouTube Brady Shearer on Instagram Brady Shearer on Twitter Alex Mills on Instagram   Find the full transcript for this session of the Pro Church Podcast at http://prochurchtools.com/3-step-church-s

http://prochurchtools.com/197 - Getting people to go from visitor to a fully integrated member of your community can be difficult. Kyle discusses how to make the most of your visitor follow up process.   What's In This Session? Leading the way with MORE free resources for the local church (8:27) How your church can take advantage of the free items on Open Network (11:19) Avoiding band-aid solutions by copying other churches (13:04) Tracking the metrics that truly matter to your church (21:25) How Life.Church manages follow-up with their new visitors (23:12) The gap between automation and individualization in visitor follow-up (27:34) The future of Open Network (30:37) The Scrum Methodology (32:57) How to convince your senior leadership to begin using new resources (37:34)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned The Open Network Life.Church Open Network Blog Life.Church Church Metrics Church Online Platform Develop.Me Trello   3 Instant Takeaways Avoid bandaid solutions by understanding the why. It's easy

http://prochurchtools.com/196 - It’s important to look ahead and plan for the future. Phil joins us to take about this next generation of churches, and where he sees the church going in the future.    What's In This Session? Ministering through the biggest communication shift in the last 500 years (9:11) Recognizing the importance of change despite being wildly successful (10:35) How much longer will the megachurch model remain viable? (14:05) Why churches are missing the mark when it comes communication (17:55) What makes change so difficult (23:08) Navigating difficult decisions & relationships with senior leadership (27:45) 3 questions to continually ask your team/leadership (30:46) What to do if you’re an older pastor recognizing the need for change (34:28)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned West Ridge Church PhilBowdle.com Phil on Facebook Phil on Twitter Drift   3 Instant Takeaways In the last decade the average church hasn't changed how they communicate, but the average person has. It's cr

http://prochurchtools.com/195 - Most people will look at your website before visiting your church. Greg talks about how to make a great first impression.   What's In This Session? What makes a church website so important? (6:38) Improving your website’s SEO (search engine optimization) (13:43) The most important button on your church’s website (18:55) Checklist for your website’s ‘I’m New’ page (19:00) Allowing for kids pre-registration on your church’s website (23:53) The importance of setting expectations (28:52) Pro tips & tricks for church websites (34:16)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned ExPastors.com Worship Impressions Full Strength Network GregAtkinson.com Secrets Of A Secret Shopper by Greg Atkinson Countdown   3 Instant Takeaways Have a single call to action. It's important that your congregation always knows where to find the next step. A great way to ensure this is to always point them to the same place, such as a website. Whether they're filling out a connect card, signing up for c

Watch the video version of this episode of The #AskBrady Show here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProChurchTools   #TIMESTAMPS:   1:01 - Churches are predominantly made up of an older generation, knowing they need to change, but struggling to know how. How can we help them and what should that compensation look like? 12:20 - How do we adjust the sound between the worship time and the video of our announcements? 16:48 - How can my church become the top result in the search on YouTube? 22:06 - We want another person on our communications team. Are there any specific questions I need to ask them in the interview process?   Brady Shearer is the CEO of Pro Church Tools Inc., a company helping churches communicate better. Through weekly videos, podcasts, and articles, Pro Church Tools reaches more than 25,000 churches every month.   Brady is the host of The #AskBrady Show, a church communications focused Q&A video show and podcast, as well as the Pro Church Podcast, a weekly interview audio podcast.   Follow Me

http://prochurchtools.com/194 - Balancing multiple jobs can make it difficult to feel like your ministry is reaching it’s full potential. Casey shares his tips on making the most of your productivity.   What's In This Session? The rise in prominence of bi-vocational lead pastors (6:00) Productivity tips from a busy bi-vocational leader (11:37) Tip #1: Powerful Exercise: Determining your hourly rate and then putting a dollar amount on each of your weekly tasks (12:37) Tip #2: Transitioning to a digital calendar to instantly save time (22:30) Tip #3: Long term vs. Short term productivity formula (25:22) Tip #4: Turning off mobile device notifications (29:15) Tip #5: Locking in on the perfect productivity tool for you and your team (32:09)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned C3 Church Lucid Books Sermon To Book The E-Myth Revisited Calend.ly ScheduleOnce System Busters Trello Slack Podio Asana Basecamp Butler For Trello Ultimello Clear Todos   3 Instant Takeaways Take a week and track your tasks. Write d

http://prochurchtools.com/193 - Storytelling is the best form of communication, but sometimes it can be difficult to translate it to social media. Rob discusses how to share micro stories on social.    What's In This Session? How to track down the worthwhile stories in your church community (7:04) Why it’s important to begin capturing stories before you need them (10:28) The storytelling “c word” (if you don’t have this - you don’t have a story) (12:45) Examples of conflict in Jesus’ storytelling (17:28) How to make your congregation the hero of your stories (20:27) Using social media to share “micro-stories” (27:58) Common mistakes churches make with their storytelling efforts (32:21) Why storytelling is the most powerful form of human communication (35:55)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned OriginalStoryteller.com The Orange Conference Product Hunt   3 Instant Takeaways Create a story database. One of the best ways to be prepared is to have a single place where you keep the a list of stories for fu

Watch the video version of this episode of The #AskBrady Show here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProChurchTools   #TIMESTAMPS:   1:04 - I was wondering if you had a solid workflow there at Pro Church Tools with how you manage your photography? 8:51 - Do you have any tools or thoughts on how to help my staff understand how people will perceive what they communicate? 15:50 - Most churches use their logo as their profile, should we use our logo or a person as our profile picture? 16:48 - Any tips on how to tell someone that they aren’t what we are looking for on camera?   Brady Shearer is the CEO of Pro Church Tools Inc., a company helping churches communicate better. Through weekly videos, podcasts, and articles, Pro Church Tools reaches more than 25,000 churches every month.   Brady is the host of The #AskBrady Show, a church communications focused Q&A video show and podcast, as well as the Pro Church Podcast, a weekly interview audio podcast.   Follow Me Online Here: Instagram: http://instagram.com/bradys

Engage Church is taking reaching their community through social media very seriously. In fact they set the audacious goal of being the most followed church in their city on Instagram. Currently they are 835 people away from reaching this goal. Their storytelling architect, Billy Humphrey, joins Brady to figure out what they can improve to hit their goal.   Meet The Church Being Coached Church Name: Engage Church Church Location: Tallahassee, Florida Church Age: 5 years Church Size: 400 On the coaching call: Billy Humphrey - Storytelling Architect   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned Engage Church on Instagram City Church on Instagram Storytape.com Linktr.ee Bit.ly EngageTallahassee.com Pretty Link for Wordpress WhenToPost Buffer Later Grum Iconosquare Brady Shearer on Instagram Gleam.io CreativeLive.com Tek Syndicate Photography Tutorial Building A Volunteer Photography Team At Your Church with Dave Adamson   3 Instant Takeaways Set a goal. Having a goal gives your work purpose. Like most projects, soc

  On this episode, we switch up the podcast and have our friend Peter Guirguis interview Brady about Pro Church Tools, how it started, and how he deals with set backs.   What's In This Session? What Brady was like as a child (7:41) Why Brady decided to attend Bible College (15:34) How Pro Church Tools began (19:14) Learned vs. innate abilities (24:25) God's role in the accomplishments of Pro Church Tools (28:03) What's next for Pro Church Tools? (33:08) How Brady stays so productive (38:22) Rapid Fire Fun Questions (50:40)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned MailChimp Pro Church Podcast 039 NotAshamedOfTheGospel.com Audible Tribe Of Mentors by Tim Ferriss Tools Of Titans by Tim Ferriss The E Myth Revisited Blue Ocean Strategy #AskGaryVee Book Steal The Show Nucleus   3 Instant Takeaways Hustle hard and know what your talents are. When it comes to success, a willingness to work hard; to try and fail and try again is imperative, but so is knowing where your innate skills and talents lie. Know your lane,

Watch the video version of this episode of The #AskBrady Show here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProChurchTools   #TIMESTAMPS:   0:59 - I’m about to be hired as the director of media and communications for my church but neither of us really know what to charge. How does one go about figuring out the numbers? 5:24 - Do you have mic recommendations for announcements or interview videos? 12:53 - Do you think it’s necessary to post signs throughout your building that video/audio recording will be going on in the service? 17:13 - How often do you change your church profile and cover photos?   Brady Shearer is the CEO of Pro Church Tools Inc., a company helping churches communicate better. Through weekly videos, podcasts, and articles, Pro Church Tools reaches more than 25,000 churches every month.   Brady is the host of The #AskBrady Show, a church communications focused Q&A video show and podcast, as well as the Pro Church Podcast, a weekly interview audio podcast.   Follow Me Online Here: Instagram: http://i

  Being a once a year event, Bold Conference is struggling to build a year round advertising strategy. Brady sits down with Carson to put some plans in place.   What's In This Session? Church Name: Bold Conference Church Location: Kansas City, Missouri Church Age: Pre-planning Church Size: Sponsor church is 500 On the coaching call: Carson Cooper - Creative Contract   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned That Church Conference Start With Why by Simon Sinek Boomerang for Gmail Helpscout Intercom Storytape on Instagram Brady on Instagram Jab Jab Jab Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk   3 Instant Takeaways Be more than promotion. You want to be present in the lives of your audience, but this can be more than just advertising. It can be blog posts, behind the scenes content, podcasts, videos - anything that is valuable to your audience. Find ways to accomplish the vision of your conference in an online space. Have a measurable goal. If your goal is too broad, it will make it difficult to work toward because so mu

http://prochurchtools.com/191 - One of the struggles when it comes to storytelling in your church is finding stories to tell. Adam shares his strategy, as well as storytelling structure in this session.    What's In This Session? How to discover stories in your church (and why not everyone’s story is worth telling) (14:13) Convincing individuals in your church to share their stories on camera (17:59) Church on the Move’s story structure (21:37) The best place to record a video interview (27:59) Essential gear for story videos (30:55) Pro video storytelling tips from the trenches (35:18)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned The Story Guide Church On The Move Adam on Twitter Adam on Instagram Manuscripts Books   3 Instant Takeaways The key to stories worth telling is change. Every great story has a main character who changes. Use this as a guide when choosing stories from your congregation to tell. Look for someone who has changed. What location will support this story? When choosing where to film your s

► Subscribe to my channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ProChurchTools   #TIMESTAMPS:   1:03 - How do we measure if a creative project “moves the needle forward” enough? 9:48 - What’s your opinion on website video background? 16:28 - Any suggestions to improve our countdowns so people in the lounge stop ignoring them? 23:38 - We are looking for a solution for sending nursery alerts to parents during our worship service. Any suggestions?   Brady Shearer is the CEO of Pro Church Tools Inc., a company helping churches communicate better. Through weekly videos, podcasts, and articles, Pro Church Tools reaches more than 25,000 churches every month.   Brady is the host of The #AskBrady Show, a church communications focused Q&A video show and podcast, as well as the Pro Church Podcast, a weekly interview audio podcast.   Follow Me Online Here:   Instagram: http://instagram.com/bradyshearer Facebook: http://facebook.com/prochurchtools Website: http://prochurchtools.com Twitter: http:/

Peninsula Covenant Church is just about to launch their second campus and are wanting to flesh out out what that means when it comes to structure and communications. Brady weighs in with his thoughts.    Meet The Church Being Coached Church Name: Peninsula Covenant Church Church Location: Redwood City, California Church Age: 65 years Church Size: 900 - 1,000 On the coaching call: Tony Gapastone - Worship Arts Pastor, Kristin Hernandez - Communications Director   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned MailChimp Slack Spotify Building A Volunteer Photography Team At Your Church with Dave Adamson The Best Social Media Strategy of 2017   3 Instant Takeaways Keep your social together and streamlined. Splintering your audience apart based on campus location can dilute your online presence. It can also make it confusing for new visitors, or people searching for information. Community trumps programming. What will make your outreach sticky is whether or not students can identify the group. As human beings we were

http://prochurchtools.com/190 - Carey Nieuwhof is a pastor who does Instagram well. He joins us to discuss learning Instagram when you’re not a digital native, and his best Instagram tips.    What's In This Session The origins of the name Connexus Church (11:34) Why an older pastor would dive into Instagram (17:01) Using social platforms aspirationally (21:44) How to learn Instagram when it feels foreign to you (25:35) The best way to use Instagram Stories to drive results for your church (32:03) Carey’s favorite moments on Instagram (36:57) Best advice for Instagram rookies from an older pastor (39:41)   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned Carey on Instagram LeadLikeNeverBefore.com CareyNieuwhof.com Carey Nieuwhof's Leadership Podcast Connexus Church Breaking 200 Craig Groeschel on Instagram Brian Houston on Instagram Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss   3 Instant Takeaways Do market research. When Carey was first starting Connexus he took the time to poll his target audience and understand his community.

Watch the video version of this episode of The #AskBrady Show here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProChurchTools   #TIMESTAMPS:   1:04 - How can we pray for you? Also, what are your top five things that are quality content that a mobile church can offer to their community that could convert into a non-creepy invite? 13:34 - Why is ‘hello@whatever’ better than ‘office@whatever’ or ‘info@whatever’? 15:57 - Where can you get cheap, quality background music? 18:53 - Everyone thinks their event is the most important. Can you share some strategies on how to deal with the inevitable conflicts that will arise?   Brady Shearer is the CEO of Pro Church Tools Inc., a company helping churches communicate better. Through weekly videos, podcasts, and articles, Pro Church Tools reaches more than 25,000 churches every month.   Brady is the host of The #AskBrady Show, a church communications focused Q&A video show and podcast, as well as the Pro Church Podcast, a weekly interview audio podcast.   Follow Me Online Here: Ins

  Calvary Apostolic Church wants to project a unified welcoming message across everything they do, but aren't sure how to get everyone on the same page. Brady talks with their Creative Director about their current new visitor follow up sequence, and how they can improve their retention.   Meet The Church Being Coached Church Name: Calvary Apostolic Church Church Location: Columbus, Ohio Church Age: 100 years Church Size: 350 On the coaching call: Isaac Cowden - Creative Director & Band Leader   Show Notes & Resources Mentioned CalvaryColumbus.com Squarespace Calvary Apostolic Church on Instagram Storytape Nucleus 37 Copy-And-Paste Email Subject Lines For Churches   3 Instant Takeaways Have consistent handles across every platform. Consistent handles make it easy for your audience to find you on every platform. Where as needing to remember multiple handles can be confusing and can keep people from following your church on social media. Develop a true sense of community. With the coming of the digi