Insights
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How to Build a User-Approved Digital App for Your Ministry
The digital landscape has shifted tremendously in the last decade. Back then, the question your ministry had to answer was simply, “Do we need a digital app, or will a mobile-friendly website suffice?” But nowadays, a mobile-friendly website is the baseline—it’s assumed your website will work on screens of all sizes. Since a mobile-friendly site…
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How Product Pricing Works (and Why It Shouldn’t Scare You)
If your ministry is considering a new initiative or product, one of the first questions you’ll ask any potential development partner is, “How much is this going to cost?” The answer is: It depends. Think about product pricing the way you might budget for a vacation. If you only ask how much a vacation costs,…
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Why (and How) Your Ministry Should Adopt an Innovation Mindset in the Face of Uncertainty
Whether we’re at the tail end of the pandemic or simply learning to live with it, we face ongoing unrest and other uncertainties: inflation worries, housing market bubbles, gas prices, war, and wildfires. All of these disruptions over the past two-plus years have stimulated innovation at some ministries and stifled it at others—leaving everybody looking…
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7 Digital Project Strategy and Discovery Blunders Impeding Your Ministry’s Success
Discovery allows your ministry to explore a digital project’s goals and define what success would look like so you can build the right solution for your users. It’s a powerful, essential tool. But only when done right. The Discovery phase requires rigor, forethought, and expertise for its results to be truly meaningful. Unfortunately, there are…
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Laying the Foundation: 5 Steps to Get Your Ministry’s Digital Project Right
It’s exciting when it’s time for a new website or app for your ministry. So exciting that you might be tempted to dive right into wireframes or even the build itself. But every successful project begins with understanding the needs of the people your product will serve. And identifying the outcome needed to both please…
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How to Know if You’ve Outgrown Your Ministry’s Current Tech Stack
When you first launched an online presence, whether through a website or mobile app, you probably sought out and used technology that was either free or low-cost and could be easily personalized to your ministry. And it’s awesome to have simple, plug-and-play tech stacks available, especially if you have a young church or ministry. But…
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How to Make Sure Your Project Retrospectives Aren’t a Waste of Time
You’ve been conducting project retrospectives. Your team knows how they work. You’ve read our earlier blog post about how to lead an effective retrospective. But you’re still not getting the value you expect. Does this sound familiar? Well, you’re not alone. Effective retrospectives take time and practice. We’ve detailed the five most common pitfalls that…
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The Power of Human Connection for Team Success
You’ll probably never see a project proposal with a line item for “human connection.” And yet, this idea of human connection is one of the intangibles that play an essential part in both the success of a project and the satisfaction of everyone involved. What is human connection? For the purposes of this post, we’re…
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The Best Way to Invest Your Budget and Improve Ministry Outcomes
The hard part is done: you presented your budget to the board and they approved it. You’ve got (some) money and you’ve got (LOTS of) ideas… so now what?! How do you ensure you’re spending the budget on the right projects? When next year’s budget meetings roll around, how can you provide clear evidence your…
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Futureproof Your Technology for Growth and Transition
Technology is always changing—both its capabilities and the regulations around it. And just as it’s vital to futureproof your ministry’s digital strategy, it’s also important to futureproof the technology itself. Futureproofing determines how well you can pivot in the face of change. This is a key, but often undervalued, part of your role as a…