Evan Courtney

ESPN Tournament Challenge

Evan Courtney — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:25:02 +0000

Ok, big shot.
You’ve been talkin’ smack all year.
It’s your time to put your skills on the line.
Join my Midwest Mayhem group at ESPN’s NCAA Tournament Challenge. It’s free.

Group name: Midwest Mayhem
Password: coolio

What’s the winner get?
This sweet 2002 Upper Deck NBA All-star Bobblehead of Ben Franklin at your doorstep.

Join the group, and pick your winners here.

Sweet Sixteen Tonight Mizzou plays Memphis in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen....

Saving The Church $$

Evan Courtney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:13 +0000

Recently shot this out to our office staff, on different ways we can save the church money.

Places to find the cheapest prices online
Google Products
Bing

Get money back on purchases
Bing Cashback – When you search for a product, look for the cashback coin. You will get that percentage given back, after the purchase. Brad Ruggles has a great post on how to take advantage of this.

Amazon Associates – Anything you purchase on Amazon, create a link for the specific product with our associates account and get up to 10% cash back. Just be sure to purchase the product with a different account in Amazon, than the one the link was created with.

Amazon Subscribe & Save – Items that are reoccurring purchases we can get 15% off + free shipping. Limited to household supplies, grocery and health products.

Online Coupons
Always do a quick google search for the company + coupon codes before finalizing any purchase online.

http://www.retailmenot.com/ has some great coupons too.

What are some ways you save $$ online?

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Easter Marketing: Offline

Evan Courtney — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:20:58 +0000

Our offline marketing stragety for Easter.

Week of March 8: Send Medic Kits to regular attenders
Week of March 15: Send Postcards to entire database. (everyone and their dog that has even thought of coming to those who have attended for 25 years)
Week of March 22: Send Postcards to regular attenders

Today we sent out our “Medic Kits” to attenders of The Fields.

Included in the kits.
Coloring Pages & Crayons for Kids
Media Cards with links to music, videos, and games for Teenagers
5 Invite cards, 1 Prayer card, 1 Postcard, 5 Stickers
Roll of lifesavers.

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Invitation Tools for Easter

Evan Courtney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:37:37 +0000

At The Fields Church we feel that Easter, is an opportunity for us to tell the greatest story of humanity.
I don’t think anybody would disagree.
Easter is when churches have the largest crowds.

Our question each year has been, “Are we reaching new people?
Or is it just a Sunday when everybody ’shows up’?”
The greatest marketing tool that the church has, it peer 2 peer.
Yet, only 2% of attenders people invite someone to church in a given year.
That means 98% of attenders never invite anyone to hear the greatest story of humanity. – Thom Rainer – The Unchurched Next Door

Is it because they don’t care others?
No, I genuinely believe they do, they just don’t know how to invite.
So, as a church, we looked at how we could help our attenders to invite others.
What can we do as a church to help them invite their family and friends?
82% of the unchurched are at least somewhat likely to attend church if invited.

Our theme for Easter this year is “Rescue.”
We’ve created “Medic Kits”.
Cute right.
Two weeks before Easter our families will receive these “Medic Kits,” which are an envelope that will include items to promote Easter, and to provide offline tools for them to invite their family and friends.

Front

Back

6 x9 Folded Envelopes (VistaPrint)
Invite Cards (GotPrint)
3 Pack Crayon Boxes Bulk (Ebay)
Bulk Lifesavers (Ebay)

I was able to purchase all of these thru Bing with cashback.

//This was a post I did for Planning Easter//

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Steering Through Chaos – Blog Tour

Evan Courtney — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:36:29 +0000

One of the benefits of having an active blog is the opportunity to take part in book blog tours.
A blog tour is where an author or publisher gets a bunch of people to read their books and the post about them all in the same day/week.
Post about them on social networks, blogs, amazon reviews, ect.

I’m excited about this current book “Steering Through Chaos” By Scott Wilson.

Pick yourself up a copy.
Amazon $14.24
Kindle $9.99

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Video and Lighting Equipment for Sale

Evan Courtney — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:03:54 +0000

Couple of items I’ve got for sale on craigslist and ebay right now.

Used Eiki LC-SVGA870 700 Lumen Projector – $100
Craigslist listing
Ebay Listing

New Chauvet Stage Designer 50 – $150
Craigslist Listing
Ebay Listing

New 100′ HDMI Male to Male Cable – $175 (I’ve got 3 of these)
Craigslist Listing
Ebay Listing

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Steve Jobs on Youth Ministry

Evan Courtney — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:44:03 +0000

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Expand Your Facebook News Feed

Evan Courtney — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:54:56 +0000

Every notice why you keep seeing the same people over and over in your News Feed.
I’ve got over a 1000 friends, and it seems like all I see are the same people 100 in my feed.

By default Facebook sets your News Feed to only show 250 friends, you have to manually change it to see more.
Here’s how.

From the home page click “Most Recent.”

Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Edit Options.”

The “News Feed” setting window will pop up, showing who you’ve blocked, and in the lower left by default you’ll see “250.” You can change this to whatever value you want. 5000 is maximum, same as number of friends you can have. Then click “Save,” and you will notice your “News Feed” being more populated.

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Living Like A Champion

Evan Courtney — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:43:09 +0000

Artwork for our new series at The Fields.

More designs.

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Acoustic Rock for Haiti Photos

Evan Courtney — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:57:10 +0000

Several artists from the Mattoon area provided music for a couple hours at Common Grounds.
We raised $1019.69 for Convoy of Hope which is roughly 5098 meals for those in Haiti.

Photos were taken by Perfect Picture Jo

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