marketing ideas

If there's one thing I'd use a business meeting for, it would be to open up the floor to marketing ideas. I have been somewhat lax and in-my-own-path with marketing, believing that the world is like me, focused on facebook as the center of the universe. It's not, and just because I'm on there, doesn't mean many people are seeing us.

I have CQ on there every week (look for new pop art tonight), and I occasionally put it on Twitter with a #quaker hashtag. That's clearly not enough. So here are some ideas.

instagram - this is where the young people are. I have two of my own accounts, one for me as an author, but I very rarely use either one. It wouldn't hurt to use one of them at least once and put a #quaker hashtag on it. Do I know how? I'll have to remind myself.

Using the brochure (pamphlet) to attract traffic. It's well known that the pamphlet is not as slick and professional as I want it to be, and is not even itself being advertised properly. This has been on my to-do list for a while and I have no one to blame but myself for not getting it going. Things have been busy here!

TikTok - no. Facebook Quaker sites - why not? Illinois Yearly Meeting? Might as well get started somewhere. In fact I may even attend IYM this year and if that doesn't stir up some curiosity, well, what I'm saying is, just hoping we could get some long-time Quakers to visit us every once in a while. I know a bunch of people at IYM. I could start with them.

I have a book of plays on the burner too. If I could finish that, I'd be in business...

The Power of Modern Spirituality

Steven recommended this book at meeting and I thought I'd take the liberty of putting it on here.

In fact, he highly recommended it, so take that as you will.

As an author, I'm interested in book marketing - through blogs, through blurbs, pictures, covers, that kind of thing, so I'm interested in this one just because it has a good presentation. I'm not sure if I'll get to it soon as I have a huge pile on my desk of things to do.

But I'll tell you this, in a world where people are leaving the churches by the droves (and at the same time, not saying that they have renounced God, or don't believe), there is no question that we need something to hold onto. It's not that I'm pushing Quakerism above all others, though for sure, this is a Quaker blog. It's more that the world is changing quickly beneath our feet and we need whatever we can get to help us understand it.

Give it a try and tell me what you think.