Mycom Church Marketing Podcast: Find Your Audience, Tell Your Churchs Story And Share Gods Message Of Grace And Hope

If someone came up to you in church to say “Hi”, you wouldn’t turn around and just ignore them. Don’t do that online either! This month on the MyCom Church Marketing podcast, Dan talks to Renee McNeill about how to think differently about your church’s social media platforms. For more information on Renee McNeill and … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 074: Reimagining Your Social Profiles"

The future is now! On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, we are talking about church in the metaverse! Virtual Reality becomes actual reality more every day. Dan talks to Rev. Dr. Michael Beck about how his church utilizes the virtual world. For more information on Rev. Dr. Michael Beck go to: For … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 073: Church in the Metaverse"

Summer is quickly approaching, and your ministry team is no doubt ramping up for one of the great summer church traditions: Vacation Bible School! So on this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, we are talking all things VBS! For more information on Cokesbury VBS, find info at: https://www.cokesburyvbs.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CokesburyVBS This episode is sponsored … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 072: Vacation Bible School"

In part 2 of our short series on issues relating to self-care, Dan tackles why a nap might not be the answer to your sleepiness. See why emotional labor might be the culprit and some things you can try to help alleviate the grogginess. Here is the link to the interview published in Scientific American … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 071: The hidden reason why you are so tired"

We have all faced the dreaded blank page – whether it is a literal blank page in our word processor, a blank canvas in our graphic design program, or an empty social media calendar. There are seasons of life when this is an exciting invitation, and seasons of life when it is a nightmare. As … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 070: Why you are out of ideas"

On this third and final episode of the “podcasting trilogy”, Dan runs through several recommendations of podcasts that are incredible examples of storytelling, teaching the Bible and much more. If you want to know what other podcasters are doing within this medium, here’s a great place to start to figure out what to listen to. … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 069: 5 Podcasts you should check out in 2022"

On this episode of the MyCom podcast, Dan talks to fellow podcaster Ryan Dunn, host of the Pastoring in the Digital Age and the Compass podcasts, about the basics on how to get started in podcasting. For more information on Ryan, you can take a listen at his podcasts at: https://www.umc.org/en/rethink-church/compass-podcast https://www.resourceumc.org/en/agencies/communications/church-and-conference-resources/podcasts/digital-parish-podcast or contact him … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 068: Podcasting 101"

On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, Dan talks to Rev Todd Rossnagel, the Director of Communication Strategies for the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. Todd, a podcaster himself, talks about how churches can and should start to consider starting a podcast themselves. For more information on Todd, you can take … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 067: Podcasting as Church Marketing"

On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, we are going to explore this facet of connection and see if you might be making the same mistake in your church communications. This episode is brought to you by: Breeze Church Management – With over 400 5-star reviews, Breeze has been rated the easiest to … Continue reading "MyCom podcast Ep. 066: How to Connect Emotionally without Manipulating"

On International Podcast Day, we bring you this special episode featuring a listener response, and how they have used the MyCom Church Marketing podcast tools and tips to help their congregation. Dan shares how the MyCom podcast has been instrumental in helping churches large and small to reach their communities in new and unique ways. … Continue reading "Bonus Episode: Listener Feedback – International Podcast Day"

On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, we continue with the next installment of our occasional series called How We Work. Dan talks to Nathan Adams, LeadPastor of Park Hill UMC in Denver CO. about how he and his church have used marketing and what has worked for them. For more info on … Continue reading "Ep. 65: How We Work with Nathan Adams"

In Part 2 of Dan’s conversation with Hillary & Jason Demeo of WE ARE CURIO, they discuss the artifact, tangible items used for marketing. For more information on WE ARE CURIO visit: WE ARE CURIO For 80 years, United Methodist Communications has been leading the church in telling inspirational stories of God’s work in the … Continue reading "Ep. 64: The Power of the Artifact (Part 2)"

On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing podcast Dan continues his dive into non-digital marketing by talking to Jason and Hillary Demeo of WE ARE CURIO about the importance of in-person events. For more information on WE ARE CURIO visit: WE ARE CURIO For 80 years, United Methodist Communications has been leading the church … Continue reading "Ep. 63: The Power of In-Person Events (Part 1)"

Many of the episodes of the MyCom podcast focus on digital and social media marketing. But what about other methods? On this episode of the MyCom church marketing podcast Dan talks to Larry Fairley of Marketing Research Solutions about overlooked marketing methods. For more information on Marketing Research Solutions visit: reachmrs.com Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn … Continue reading "Ep. 62: Overlooked Marketing Methods"

Is your church marketing is stuck in a loop? Bible verse. Prayer. Sermon quote. Hip graphic. Worship song. And repeat. On today’s episode of the MyCom podcast Dan explores why not all of your church marketing needs to look like church marketing. Dan’s Website: https://www.defininggrace.com/ For 80 years, United Methodist Communications has been leading the … Continue reading "Ep. 61: Church Marketing doesn’t have to look like Church Marketing"

On the 2nd part of this 2 part episode on Church Communications Dr. Len Wilson returns as our guest. He serves as the Director of Innovation and Strategy at St. Andrew UMC in Plano, Texas, as well as the executive director of Invite Resources. Dr. Wilson gives us his 6 traits on being a great … Continue reading "Ep. 60: 6 Traits of Great Church Communicators"

When you think of the relationship between your work in church communications and the work of discipleship, what do you envision? This relationship is what we are talking about on today’s episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Len Wilson, he serves as the Director of Innovation and … Continue reading "Ep. 59: Discipleship Resources as Church Marketing"

The season of pandemic has been rough on all of us. But the past few months in D.C. have presented unique added challenges for a church sitting 8 to 10 blocks away from the White House. Learn how Kealani Willbanks, staff and members intentionally focused on “doing the most good together instead of trying to … Continue reading "Ep. 58: How We Work with Kealani Willbanks"

2020 is over, and 2021 is here. We are kicking this new year of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast by finally talking TikTok. For some of you, TikTok may be new on your radar, for others of you, this feels like the cool thing the kids are into, but eventually, one of the bigger social … Continue reading "Ep. 57: We are Finally Talking TikToK"

What a year? 2020 is one for the ages. 2020 will be remembered as a year that simultaneously brought parts of life to a halt and rapidly accelerated other areas of life. On this episode of the MyCom Church marketing podcast, Dan shares what he and other colleagues have learned in 2020.