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What does ART do?

We help your Church use ART's Voice Broadcast Service to send Nurturing and Notification Messages, in Your Voice, to hundreds or thousands of your Congregants’ Phones, in just a few minutes. This method is not only more efficient at delivering your message than direct mail, email or telemarketing but also less expensive and more personal because it’s in your voice.

How to use ART's Voice Broadcast Service in your Church
to Increase Engagement, Retention and Outreach

How to use ART's Voice Broadcast Service in your Church to Increase Engagement, Retention and Outreach

Background

“The most powerful communication tool in the whole world is the Human Voice”.

Voice is the most powerful and effective way to connect and to clearly communicate tone and emotion, and yet it’s often our least used resource. A phone call will nurture and strengthen your relationships in a way emailing and texting cannot.

Today, because of the influence of the smartphone, getting the attention of people is really challenging, and making phone calls to each individual customer, both large and small, can be costly and time-consuming, if not impossible—that is, unless you take advantage of ART's Voice Broadcast Service.

In fact, research has shown that the influence of voice calls is actually increasing due to the rise in smartphone usage, and unlike Facebook, text messaging and email, a Voice Broadcast phone call is the ultimate top of mind attention getter.

It can be easy to miss an email or a text (email open rates average only around 17-25%), but more difficult to miss a phone call or voice mail. And from an emotional standpoint nothing is as welcomed as a phone call.

Best ways to use ART’s Voice Broadcast Service
for your Church

General Reminders

Use Voice Broadcast to remind your congregation members of prayer meetings, special offerings (as for holidays like Christmas and Good Friday). You can also make weekly announcements, as well as retreat sign-ups, congregational meetings, and funeral notices.

Ministry News and Signups

Voice Broadcast can also be used to keep your members informed of news about various ministries. For instance, perhaps your missions department needs a thoughtful personalized message to encourage signups.

Urgent Messages and Alerts

Traffic and parking issues, as well as other urgent issues like scheduling changes, can be communicated quickly and easily to many people through voice broadcast.

Encouragements

Send Voice Broadcasts to encourage member participation in congregation-wide activities like fasting or a devotional series.

Coordinating Events

Use Voice Broadcast to raise awareness and build excitement about future events.

Virtual Prayer Box or Suggestion Box

Encourage members to text in prayer requests and suggestions. They will appreciate feeling they've been immediately heard!

Community Announcements and Support for Local Charities

Sponsor a message on behalf of local non-profits.

Volunteer and Fundraising Opportunities

Letting your members know how close your organization is to reaching its fundraising goals.

Study Group or Youth Group Events

Keep your congregation up to date with news of Study Group/Youth Group events and schedules.

Increase Direct Mail Response

Direct Mail still makes money, but most mailers are thrown in the trash. By sending a voice broadcast ‘lookout’ message ahead of a mailing, you can increase your readership response by as much as 3-5 times. Here’s a sample message…

“Hi this is Pastor Jim at Life Church and I just wanted to let you know to be on the lookout for a bright blue postcard that will be arriving in the mail tomorrow or the next day. Please don’t throw it away as it has important info on our upcoming retreat. So, thanks again and be on the lookout for the postcard”.

Sharing Inspiring Stories About Your Members

A great way to introduce members of your Church who have seen victory after going through times of depression, self-destruction, addictions, struggles, failures, and more.

Invite Members to Church

Send a quick message on Wednesday letting them know the subject and title of next Sunday’s message so they can keep your service in mind as they plan their week.

Send Follow up Messages to Your Guests for 6 weeks

Do not let guests slip through the cracks after they visit your church. Guests need multiple follow-up messages over a six-week time frame to keep your church in focus and to build new relationships.

Send Thank You Messages to Your Volunteers

After an event or even just a Sunday service, send a quick message to your volunteers saying, “Thanks for using your gifts and spending your morning serving at our Church! You are appreciated!” This goes a long way toward helping members feel valued.

Keeping Parents in the Loop

Send a quick message to the parents in your congregation about what topic you are studying in youth group and perhaps suggest a few questions they might talk about with their kids at home.

“I am grateful the Lord led us to use Voice Broadcast Services to call our entire congregation in only a few minutes, and for the outpouring of responses from our church family, via text messages, phone calls, and thank you cards.”
Pastor, Rev. Jesse L. Williams, Sr.
Mount Olive Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN

In just 3 simple steps, you can set up delivery of your messages:

Best times to send Voice Broadcast calls out:
10:00am to 4pm local time.

Using this time frame has ensured that most calls will go to an answering machine. This is desirable for two reasons:

Recycling calls

It’s important to ‘recycle’ all the numbers that didn’t connect the first time due to busy signals, no answers, unknown connection problems, etc. to ensure the greatest connection success.

ART performs this recycling procedure as a part of our concierge service.

Uniqueness of ART’s Concierge platform

What separates ART from other Voice Broadcast service providers?

There are a lot of Voice Broadcast services out there, but most of them are purely technology providers who say “here’s the technology we provide…good luck.” So you’re pretty much on your own.

The difference with ART is that we offer a complete start to finish Revenue & Retention Program which means:

All of this is designed to increase response, engagement and ultimately revenue for very little cost.

How much does it cost?

How soon can I get set up?

Once you sign up for ART's Voice Broadcast Service, confirmation and activation
of your account happens within minutes.

How do I contact ART for more info or to sign up?

Contact Us

If you need assistance, call 888-408-4222 or email [email protected]

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