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.

Exploring Our Truth and Integrity

 1 hr 30 min

Start: 17:00 on 21 March 2023

Finish: 18:30 on 21 March 2023

(careful, it's UK time)

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Event by Quakers in Britain

Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook

This workshop introduces what truth and integrity mean in the context of our Quaker testimonies and exploring how we can use truth and integrity in our witness and worship. 

How do we demonstrate truth and integrity in our lives? How do we root our political action in truth and integrity?

This webinar is organised by Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee. It forms part of the theme preparation for Yearly Meeting 2023. You can attend this session without having booked to attend Yearly Meeting 2023.

Register for this event: https://www.quaker.org.uk/.../exploring-our-truth-and...

Register for Yearly Meeting: www.quaker.org.uk/ym 

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Quaker History

 Date:  Wednesday, February 22

Time: 5:30 PM MST/6:30 PM CST

Online:  (Zoom invitation below)

 

Are you interested in Quaker history? Especially lesser-known aspects, like Quakers in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast? Join us on Wednesday, February 22, for a program presented by Max L. Carter, a recently retired professor of Quaker Studies at Guilford College, for a journey through 350 years of Quaker settlement in and contributions to the Southeast. Focusing on Virginia and North Carolina, the presentation will examine the “whys and hows” of the first Friends in the early British Colonies, the challenges they faced, their response to war and slavery, the near-extinction of Quaker community in the region, how it was revived, and what it looks like today in all its variegated forms.  

 

Presenter Bio:

 

Max L. Carter retired in 2015 as the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. Raised in a Hoosier farming community settled by Quakers who came from Virginia and North Carolina in the 19th-century anti-slavery migrations, he went on to a 45-year career in Quaker education in Palestine, Indiana, Philadelphia, and Greensboro, North Carolina. A recorded Friends minister, he is a member of New Garden Friends Meeting in Greensboro, where he continues to live with his wife Jane. Along with his interest in Quaker history and spirituality, Max leads annual service-learning groups with his wife to Palestine and Israel. Among his publications are "College Spirit," "Tales from the New Garden Friends Graveyard," "Palestine and Israel: A Personal Encounter," and numerous articles and encyclopedia entries.

 

Host: Willard E. White, PhD.  Should you have questions regarding this program or the link, please contact Willard at 708.710.5725 or by email: white@martsandlundy.com.  

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89574800604?pwd=SmxNNHRvRDVtYm1RUXUrRXVQVVNCQT09

 

Meeting ID: 895 7480 0604

Passcode: 007880

 

Meeting for Business

 

Outsiders to Quakers would figure that meeting for Business is all about the money. That would be who gives, where it goes, where to go from here. In our case I can cover that in about two minutes, and do, on demand, whenever anyone wants. It's pretty simple and we don't have a meetinghouse or cemetery to maintain.

The suggestion was made last week that we have a meeting for business. That would mean we worship together with the purpose of deciding things as a meeting: we might decide, for example, to have a minute about Ukraine, or about Turkey, or about the latest mass shooting. While it's true that any one of us can make a statement about these things by ourselves, a statement by a group of people made in harmony always carries more weight. And in fact, anything that a group of people decide to do together, in harmony, is more likely to get done than if each of us ourselves tackle it.

That to me is the justification for meeting for business. We aren't a meeting until we have one, but, to me, that's the least of our concerns. We've been a worship group for three years, and that's perfectly ok. If it's time to move up in the world of Quaker meetings, it's time. The next step might be to ask a Yearly Meeting to take us in, and if we're led to do that, we will.

Ukraine

Copied from Kate Bregman's post, on the Facebook site, Quaker Prayer Group, Mar. 18, but I believe it's still accurate. 

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I believe this is the newest link for Holding Ukraine & Russia.

Here is the Zoom link for the Meeting for Worship:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4165005614?pwd=NUtieEtqbDBYbjBrcGdMMzBKQ3drQT09

Meeting ID: 416 500 5614
Passcode: 182805

and the full schedule of the start time in different countries:

07:00am Honolulu
09:00am Pacific
12:00pm Eastern US
05:00pm London
06:00pm Paris
07:00pm Kyiv
08:00pm Moscow

With thanks to Julie Harlow (a member of Davis Friends Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting) for organising this initiative.

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Quaker pamphlets

I am working on updating the Quaker pamphlets. Called "Beginner's Guide to Quakerism," they were really Maurine's idea, and now that she's passed along I can do them with her spirit in mind.

There are several problems, and one is that the postage is complicated. I think I will do a test run and send ten, and simply ask what happens when I send more, or farther, etc. I can't seem to glean a clear idea of postage from the USPS pages, that will tell me, for example, what a package of ten or twenty might cost, sent to the coast.

We have a new and hearty printer that might be able to handle color covers. If so, I will try. I don't really believe it will raise the price that much. With typical Quaker stinginess, I hesitate to put color in there, but it's kind of understated, and doesn't really upset the austere graying image of the meeting house on the cover.

I will keep you posted! Also I will get some of these pamphlets posted. The first step is to make some, and send them!