Thursday, May 26, 2011

KINGSWAY CHURCH GOES MOBILE WITH SMS...

Kingsway Church is the first church in South Jersey to connect with their parishioners and the community at large using mobile marketing, SMS, keywords, shortcodes and QR Codes...

Today, Kingsway has realized that just reading church announcements from the pulpit and mailing church bulletins are no longer effective ways in reaching their community’s fast-paced members who live electronic communications dependent lives...

More and more, they have heard their people say “If you're not texting my cellphone, I'm not getting the message..."...

So, Kingsway Church took a huge step in connecting with 77we, a leader in mobile marketing, to stay in touch electronically by creating keywords and QR Codes for the church to send and receive instantaneous messages via SMS texting to shortcode 64842 to thousands of people at the touch of a button...

77we’s SMS technology is amazing, lightening fast and highly economical since Kingsway Church realized that  expensive paper mailings are no longer practicable and will gradually become a thing of the past...

Now, Kingsway Church has access to the very same technology you've seen on American Idol and heard advertised on the radio and TV...

We all know it helped President Obama to raise campaign funds and get elected in the last election, and both political parties will use it heavily in the coming year...

Church members can now text “Connect” to shortcode 64842 or "Kingsway" to shorcode 64842 to join the church’s text message distribution list and start receiving messages from the church on their cellphones...


To promote usage, Kingsway Church is now:
  • Creating multiple subscription lists to categorize its group members and staff;
  • During weekly services announcements are made explaining to members how they can text in a keyword to 64842 to join the text messaging list;
  • Contests are being run to generate more signups among youth groups;
  • Inspirational messages, event reminders, donation requests, youth group trip reminders and more are being texted;
  • Parents are now starting to signup in order to keep track of their children’s church schedule;
  • And, it has been especially helpful for last minute updates, or event cancellations/changes due to bad weather.  
In conclusion, Kingsway Church has once again chosen to be a leader in the community...

So, it encourages everyone to get onboard...

Mobile marketing, text messaging, scanning QR codes, posting videos, etc is here to stay...

Kingsway Church continues to be out front in their community and has shown the way toward more effective and efficient communication with parishioners by using mobility marketing solutions provided by, 77we...
 

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