An "easy button" to generate a printable newsletter, using your website content, which can then be snail mailed using online "click-to-mail" services
What percentage of people within a 5 mile radius of your meeting place are aware that your church even exists? 1%? 2%? 5%? 20%?
When our founder, Douglas Vos, was a kid (in the 1960s and 70s), his mom was involved in helping the church send out a newsletter to every household in the community.
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come once again. Imagine this: If every household within a 5-mile radius (or 2-mile radius, or 1-mile radius ... you decide!) received a double-sided, single-page newsletter from your church via snail mail, four times a year ... would this increase awareness of your church?
Here's how it would work:
You would click a button in your WordPress Dashboard called "Generate Print Newsletter"
You would answer a few questions about what you want to include in the newsletter: e.g., sermon titles, upcoming events, specific pages, etc.
In less than a minute, you would be presented with a draft of your print newsletter, which you could then edit. QR codes would be generated automatically, to make it easy to visit the parts of your website which interest them.
Once you edit the draft, you would then have a couple of options:
Option 1 - Save a PDF of the newsletter to your computer, which you could then print and mail to whomever you wish
Option 2 - Click a button to be walked through the process of generating/buying a list (e.g., "new movers in ZIP 12345," uploading the list, uploading the PDF, and then printing/mailing the newsletter using a click-to-mail service (e.g., https://click2mail.com/ or https://www.postgrid.com/).
In short, this tool would allow you to create and send a printed newsletter generated from your website content, on-demand, to large lists of local community members, in 60-90 minutes or less (if you are willing to pay the fees of a "click-to-mail" service).