CHURCH BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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Help your businesses survive the pandemic

Build Relational Equity with Your Business Leaders

COVID-19 has opened a door for your church to build a relationship with the business leaders who attend your church.

COVID-19 and it’s governmental directives have severely impacted the health of small businesses. Many of them are experiencing a massive reduction in revenue and many are fending off business closure.

Help your businesses survive the pandemic

A Church Business Directory is a concrete way to support Your businesses

We are now seeing more churches take this positive step in supporting their Small Businesses by launching or re-launching an online Church Business Directory.

EXPLORE THE EXAMPLES

Here’s an example of how one of our megachurch clients supports business owners.

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We do the hard parts

We Do the Hard Parts

Our team minimizes the church’s workload, conflict, and friction points. We know how to do this from our 12 years of experience producing Church Business Directories.

Our representatives have years of experience handling sensitive business eligibility matters and dispute resolution. This provides an important insulating layer between the businesses, the customers, and the church.

Things the Church Must Do to Have A Successful Business Directory

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Consistently promote the Business Directory to the attendees of the church.

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Remit to Missional Marketing a one-time payment of $2.25 per weekly attendee for large churches or $3.50 per attendee for smaller churches.

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Maintain at least one (or preferably more than one) prominent link to the Business Directory from the church’s website.

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Have a simple achievable eligibility requirement.

OTHER BENEFITS

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More engaged business leaders

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Community awareness

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Nurture business owners tithing

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Ministry exposure to a new audience

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OTHER BENEFITS

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More engaged business leaders

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Community awareness

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Nurture business owners tithing

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Ministry exposure to a new audience

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We build the web app
We build the web app

Services provided by Missional Marketing:

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Build, launch, and operate the online Church Business Directory, including, platform development, hosting, business engagement and customer service, graphic design, invoicing, payments, and performance reporting.

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Launch a Google Display ad campaign geographically targeted around each church campus to promote the Church Business Directory and the church to the community-at-large.

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Evaluate and determine business eligibility for the Directory by the guidelines established by the Church.

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Provide customer service to all businesses with regards to ad creation, approval, eligibility questions, etc.

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Moderate the business review platform along with any review submissions that may require mitigating solutions.

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Provide a link to live analytics for the business directory.

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Handle all disputes resulting from the directory (if any arise) utilizing Biblical dispute resolution principles.

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Create and manage the Business Directory Facebook page (if the church wants this service). This includes periodic postings as well as featured PLUS Display advertisers.

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Purchase and renew the vanity URL that points to the directory.

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Fees

Fees Paid by the Businesses

A Classified Text Ad is provided at no cost to Businesses for the first year (in return for the one-time payment provided by the church).

Other ad types are reasonably priced.

After the first year, Missional Marketing will approach the “Free” advertisers to ask them to pay for a renewal to continue advertising.

Click here to see a sample Church Business Directory Agreement.

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