If you haven’t started thinking about an app, now is the time. Any church, established or seed, is among the digital era. An app will keep the younger generation interested and involved while continuing to serve the elder generation, here are the six reasons your church needs an app. 1. Stay connected to your congregants. Following the path of cassettes, CD's will become a thing of the past. The future is digital streaming and downloads. Most people have now become accustomed to streaming content on their devices. If you want your members to hear your sermons easily, an app is the perfect platform to make them available to the world. 2. Gather essential insights. Digital media gives you something physical media never could, insight. You know what sermons people are listening to, when they’re listening, and how they’re listening. This gives you valuable information about your following and can help you proactively prepare sermons, instead of reactively. 3. Speak to your congregation through in-app messaging. Many people feel almost naked without their smartphone. Having direct access to a person’s smartphone is tantamount to having direct access to that person! Being able to notify your members of events, new sermons, ways to donate, and more through push notifications is the most direct method to keep in touch with members outside the church walls. Sending rich content inbox messaging to data sets of app users deepens the connection between the church and members. 4. Manage your content. Storing digital media is a lot more complex than just placing CD’s in a closet. Securely storing your media and making it available for streaming and downloading involves complicated programming, infrastructure and redundancy. With the behind the scenes tackled by engineers, the result is an easy to use interface for uploading and hosting content. Pricing should always be straight forward and promise no hidden or overage fees. 5. Control the content you share – securely. Digital content has one glaring drawback: it has serious security issues. While you want to make your message available to as many people as possible, you also want to avoid unauthorized distribution of your content. Make sure your provider uses digital locker technology to secure your media. This is the same technology used by major media companies to securely distribute their content to millions of customers. 6. Move into the Digital Era with streamed & downloadable content. Physical to Digital technology will shift your church’s content from a physical library to a digital one. Every CD you create can include a code that can be redeemed for a digital version. The digital version can be listened to in your app, on the web, or downloaded. This allows you to continue to sell CD’s while also connecting people to the digital future. Physical to digital is a patented technology by Catch Media, creators of the Sermons Anywhere® app and platform. It brings CDs and DVDs to the next level, provides a unique user experience and upgrade path for the future. It’s time to inquire about an app for your church, as your personal content concierge we are here to help navigate.
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