The Peter Bowden Show

The Peter Bowden Show

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The Peter Bowden Show episodes

  • Budget Deficits? Communication Tips for Congregation

     Are you vision-casting or manifesting a congregational death spiral? I’ve been reviewing congregational fundraising communications. Many communicators are so caught up in their challenges, the congregation’s vision has been lost. In this session, how gloom and doom communication can undermine your fundraising capacity especially with newomers and how you might approach it instead.

    29 min
  • Hacks to Optimize Worship for Online Attention Spans

    Join Peter Bowden for a strategy briefing with Q&A on ways congregations can optimize live-streamed worship services and posted worship recordings for online audiences. This episode features some vision content.  You may watch this content on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/live/OgW2IVav5W0

    28 min
  • Weekly Worship Video Engagement Strategy

    Peter Bowden shares how to use weekly video messages to engage your community and inspire participation in congregation life. This session focused on using video messages to engage people with weekly worship themes, though the strategy may be applied across aspects of congregational life. 

    30 min
  • Welcoming First Time Visitors Online with Video

    Join Peter Bowden for a strategy session with Q&A on using VIDEO to help first-time visitors connect with your congregation. We’ll talk specifically about first-time visitor landing pages. When people visit your congregation onsite, you welcome them with human beings. Video lets us do the same online on-demand 24/7.  Session duration: 30 minutes with Q&A.

    27 min
  • "Meet the Minister" videos and the digital path to membership

    Learn how "meet the minister" videos on congregational websites support the visitor research process and membership development.

    Have you ever heard someone say they chose to visit the congregation after meeting the minister somewhere? This happens all the time.

    After getting to know the minister at a wedding, funeral, protest, or elsewhere in the community, people feel comfortable visiting. Today, we can help people get to know the minister on-demand on your website, on social media, and if you choose, advertising. 

    This is part of building a digital path into the life and heart of your congregation. 

    27 min
  • Rev. Mike O’Sullivan and Peter Bowden: A conversation on ministry, media, and video strategy
    Join me, Peter Bowden, for a conversation on ministry, media, and video strategy with the Rev. Mike O'Sullivan of the Unitarian Church of Cork, Ireland. We connected early in the pandemic and have been watching each other's content online, but this is the first time we've spoken face-to-face. Time to talk strategy, insights from the pandemic, the practice of video making as ministry leaders, and more!      Watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s897qpa2vAU 
    50 min
  • The BIG Mistake Small Congregations Make That Keeps Visitors Away

    Does your congregation have very few or no visitors? Talking with leadership teams in small congregations, I'm finding some are waiting for visitors to come BEFORE they establish or re-start their process for welcoming and connecting with visitors and COMMUNICATING what that visitor experience will be like. Don't wait for visitors to start. That's a huge mistake!

    Set a plan -- lock it down with your leadership! -- and communicate it on your website, social media, and emails so the next person to consider visiting feels comfortable doing so. This episode includes a simple process you may use onsite and online to connect with visitors.

    Learn more about Video Message Academy for Congregations
    http://www.videomessageacademy.com

    15 min
  • Congregations versus the algorithm!

    Driven by TikTok's success, social media platforms are changing how they decide what content people see online. Instead of relying on an individual's stated preferences and social connections, they're shifting to feeding people content based on what they are already watching and engaging with. In this episode, I explain this huge shift, the implications, and strategy recommendations.

    Learn more about Video Message Academy for Congregations
    http://www.videomessageacademy.com

    Get Peter's updates for congregations
    https://www.peterbowden.live/congregations-subscribe

    15 min
  • Time for an Announcement Makeover
    In this episode, how to write announcements that get results, including a worksheet download you may share with other leaders in your congregation.
      Get the worksheet at https://www.peterbowden.live/announcementmakeover   The average congregation is an announcement making machine!  However, many are not getting results.  There's a reason for this.  

    Today, people are bombarded by information online. THEIR need to rapidly identify which content is relevant to THEM changes how WE need to write announcements.  I’ll tell you how!  

    Connect via Social Media https://www.peterbowden.live/social
    26 min
  • Three Easy Ways to Grow Your Congregation

    Do you want to help your congregation grow?  In this episode,  I share the key to growing congregations today and three easy ways to help connect newcomers, build community, and grow your congregation's membership. 

    Connect via Social Media
    https://www.peterbowden.live/social

    28 min

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We live in a world increasingly shaped by technology. I help leaders and their communities promote connection and meaning while adpating to digital life. I work communities across industries and…