Christian Advertising Agency

We are excited about NRB 2010!  Looking forward to connecting with colleagues, old friends, and colleagues who are old friends!  We are meeting with a number of Christian broadcast networks, Christian ministries and non-profits, and Christian agencies who want to discuss our SMS marketing software.  If you are attending and interested, call us, we would love to visit!

The ability to communicate through the delivery of bulk SMS services to listeners, viewers, donors, and organization supporters is rapidly becoming a critical component of effective communications platforms.   For example, one of our clients, the Family Research Council has been using text messaging to mobilize their supporters to take urgent action in the healthcare debate.  Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, just used the Edge Mobile platform during a live speaking engagement. While he was speaking, he invited the audience to text in if they would like more information about Family Research Council.  The audience responded well, the system captured the cell phone number of the person who texted in, and FRC delivered back a message about Family Research Council and a URL link in the text message for more information.  Family Research Council now has the ability to remain in communication with the folks who responded during the speaking engagement. 

About the Edge Media Mobile platform: Edge Mobile is SMS marketing software that increases interactivity and communication for our clients.  For more information on mobile marketing, go to http://www.edgemedia.biz/index-3.html

About Edge Media:  Edge Media is a leading Christian interactive advertising agency that uses cutting edge technology to deliver exceptional results for our clients.

We are looking forward to our time at NRB to meet new friends and visit with long time friends.  We are exciting about the launch of ChurchLink Communications, which will be a tremendous blessing to ministries, Christian broadcast, and churches around the world.  We will be discussing our SMS marketing software, our optimized blogging systems, and of course our leading interactive agency strategies including web design, search engine optimization, media research, media buying, and much more that integrated together have helped our clients meet and exceed their goals.  If you are going to NRB and want to schedule some time to visit, send me an e-mail!

Vickie Isaac
President/Owner
ChurchLink Communications, a division of Edge Media

About ChurchLink Communications & Edge Media: We are a leading Christian advertising agency specializing in interactive strategies and cutting edge technologies.

We are pleased to announce a new division of Edge Media - ChurchLink Communications!  ChurchLink Communications will offer all of the services that Edge Media offers, and make them available to churches, ministries, and Christian broadcast organizations. 

As a Christian advertising agency, we are pleased to bring a full array of marketing services to the Church, and ChurchLink Communications will quickly become a Christian interactive marketing leader.  It is our strong belief that the numerous services and technological solutions we offer will be of tremendous value to the Church, and it is our desire to help the Church maximize every communication opportunity.

With over three decades of marketing experience in the Christian marketplace, we believe our cutting edge technologies will make a dramatic difference for the clients we serve.  On the mobile advertising front, we are already serving Christian organizations like the Family Research Council and Cornerstone Festival who are utilizing our bulk SMS services.   We are excited to support these wonderful ministries with technology that increases their abiity to communicate!

For a free month's trial of ChurchLink Mobile, visit our landing page at: web.mac.com/edge.media/iWeb/ChurchLink%20Mobile/ChurchLink.html

For more about SMS marketing software, bulk SMS services, or Edge Media, a leading interactive agency, go to: www.edgemedia.biz

Edge Media is a Christian advertising agency located in Phoenix, AZ offering full service marketing solutions for local and national clients.

Edge Media, a leading interactive agency located in Phoenix, AZ is pleased to announce the addition of ChurchLink Communications, a full service division of Edge Media, designed to help ministries and churches move forward to utilize all of the benefits of emerging technologies.

As a Christian interactive agency, we are confident that our clients will benefit from three decades of experience meeting the needs of Christian broadcast companies, ministries, parachurch, and church organizations. 

Product offerings for ChurchLink will include:

ChurchLink Mobile:   Subscription based, online SMS marketing software system with wonderful applications for non-profits, churches and ministries using text messaging including fundraising, action alerts, prayer alerts, devotionals, security, connecting groups within churches and ministries, text to screen, etc.  We can also connect text to Twitter!

ChurchLink Apps: We can develop apps for I-Phones & Blackberrys for non-profits, ministries, churches, political candidates, etc.

ChurchLink Mobile Web:  We can develop mobile websites  (example: ESPN tripled website traffic when they added their .mobi site!)

ChurchLink Social Media: We create social media sites and then connect them so that content automatically flows across all sites - this helps busy people communicate!

ChurchLink Blog Systems: We use blog optimization software based on keyword research, so when a blog is written, it is keyword optimized (for example 10 keywords), the system parses the blog into 10 blogs instead of one, publishes to the internet, and then pings the search engines.  This system takes up internet real estate very rapidly, and is a great tool for search engine optimization.  We can integrate this into your website and autoflow content from your social media sites as well.

ChurchLink also offers e-mail marketing, e-fundraising, pay-per-click advertising management, & search engine optimization, graphic & web design, market research & strategy, media planning and buying.

Our ChurchLink Communications site is currently under construction, so please visit the Edge Media website to gain a full understanding of the expertise of our marketing and advertising consultants, as well as the experience our Christian agency is ready to put to work for you!
www.edgemedia.biz

"ChurchLink is a wonderful source of encouragement, connection, and communication for our congregation. The system instantly transmits urgent prayer requests, allowing us to immediately pray for one another.  I also use it to send out a Scripture, word of encouragement, or prayer daily.  It is an essential communication tool for every church in today's technological age."

  ChurchLink is mobile marketing software that sends and receives text messages instantly, and has numerous applications for the church, including prayer, security, events, devotionals, intergroup communiciation, and much more.  Edge Media is waiving set up fees and offering one month's free subscription to churches to help them get started implementingthis great communication tool.  E-mail Edge Media today to take advantage of this offer! info@edgemedia.biz

Americans now use text messaging more often than phone calling, and text messages get better response than e-mail communications. As a Christian interactive advertising agency, Edge Media has long believed that the Church should take advantage of emerging technology to increase communication within the Church as well as an outreach tool.  Edge Media's advertising and marketing consultants have years of experience working with churches and ministries in Phoenix, AZ, nationally, and internationally on many levels, not just their SMS marketing software that delivers bulk SMS services.  Call or e-mail today to find out more! 

94% of Americans have text enabled cell phones, 80% have their phones with them at all times, texting volume now exceeds call volume, and text messages are responded to within five minutes!  

ChurchLink Mobile, the SMS marketing software Edge Media, a Christian advertising agency, has designed to increase communication in the Church, has numerous applications.  Using the bulk SMS services application, churches and ministries can deliver thousands of messages instantly to cell phones.  This is a great tool for prayer requests, action alerts, reminders, devotionals, and more!  At our church, we use it an instant prayer chain - one member sends in a prayer request and the system immediately delivers it to all other members of the prayer chain.  Our pastor sends out weekly messages of encouragement. 

The ChurchLink Mobile SMS marketing software is accessed online similar to online banking.  Each church or ministry logs in to their own account to send out messages, plus the system can be operated by cell phone.  It is affordable, easy to use, and a wonderful tool to increase communication within the Church.   

Edge Media is pleased to introduce ChurchLink Mobile, the text messaging software that allows churches to instantly connect with their congregations via text message.  Our bulk SMS software provides the opportunity for churches to create prayer alerts - members can instantly send and receive prayer requests. Pastors can send daily devotionals, Scripture, and messages of encouragement via text message.  Ministries within churches can communicate with their group, including for example youth pastors to their students, ministry leaders regarding upcoming events, etc.

Text messaging via SMS marketing software is highly effective, as people have their phones with them 80% of the time, with a 94% read rate, and text messages are typically read within five minutes of receipt.

As a Christian advertising agency, Edge Media is committed to empowering the Church to integrate technologies that increase effective communication.  ChurchLink Mobile is one of numerous tools that we offer to increase effective communications, and our advertising and marketing consultants work closely with our clients to enhance their message. 

The Family Research Council is hosting their Values Voter Summit this weekend, and CSPAN will be covering the event live on Saturday.  The viewers will be invited to text in to be added to a text communications database to receive action alerts and information updates from the Family Research Council on issues that pertain to family values, conservative values, and applicable government legislation.   This is a great use of text messaging, as the SMS marketing software will store the mobile numbers as viewers opt in to receive information.  Text messaging is a powerful tool when coupled with another communications channel, and especially television and radio because it provides the broadcaster an opportunity to then communicate again and on a much more personal level, delivering information that the person has asked to receive!

As a Christian advertising agency, we are pleased to provide the SMS marketing software for the Family Research Council and encourage you to tune in to their summit and text in response to their offer to keep you updated on important information that impacts you, your family, and your future!

Edge Media, a full service Christian advertising agency located in Phoenix, AZ, is pleased to announce the launch of ChurchLink, a valuable technology tool to help churches communicate with their congregations.   ChurchLink will allow churches to instantly connect their congregations using SMS marketing software to send text messages for urgent prayer, daily Scripture or devotionals, event reminders, and so much more!


We are offering churches a complimentary one month subscription, including waiving the set up fees to allow churches to become familiar with how ChurchLink can benefit their congregations and how easy the SMS marketing software is to use.  For more info and a complimentary subscription, e-mail us today at:
info@edgemedia.biz or visit http://web.mac.com/edge.media/iWeb/Site4/ChurchLink.html.

Why should churches use text messaging?  In the second quarter of 2009, texting volume exceeded calling volume for the first time in the United States, and the primary user demos are ages 18-54. The average text message is read within 5 minutes of receipt, and on the average has a 70% response rate compared to a 30% response rate from an e-mail marketing message.  The SMS marketing software can be activated by the administrator's cell phone, or from a computer.  Church members can join text messaging groups to receive the information they want - prayer alerts, messages from the pastor, messages from a particular ministry they are involved even, and ChurchLink can even be used to alert of emergency situations.

Steve Isaac, Senior Pastor at Reunion Church in Phoenix, AZ, had this to say about ChurchLink:
"ChurchLink is a wonderful source of encouragement, connection, and communication for our congregation.  The system instantly transmits urgent prayer requests, allowing us to immediately pray for one another.  I also use it to send out a daily Scripture, prayer, and devotionals.  It is an essential communication tool for every church in today's technological age."

According to the National Council of Nonprofits, overall charitable donations have decreased dramatically in 2009, while demands for critical services non-profits provide have increased proportionally  (National Council of Nonprofits, 2009).  Nonprofits around country are examining what programs to cut, and racking their brains to figure out what fundraising strategies might help.

There are no magic cures, but there are certainly fundraising strategies that can help increase revenues for nonprofits.   This is exactly where the strength of an interactive web agency can help.  We are committed to making every dollar work harder and smarter. We believe that an integrated approach is strongest, and thus create an strategy that utilizes several media channels to move the potential donor from response to a message in one medium into an ongoing relationship with our clients to involve them in the work and mission of the organization.   We utilize e-fundraising strategies that deliver an average ROI of at least times the return on our clients' investment.  As an interactive web agency, we have integrated optimized blogging strategies to increase search results and drive more traffic to our clients' websites.  We also use our SMS marketing software to deliver an opportunity for an immediate response  to an appeal to give on radio or television.  We then move the respondent through the process from a text response to a website landing page for additional data capture and then a strategic communications campaign begins to develop the relationship with the potential donor.  We work closely with the organization's advertising and marketing consultants if they have them in house, or we can create the entire campaign from start to finish, delivering results, accountability, and detailed reporting at the end of the campaign 

Edge Media is a Christian agency, and we serve Christian ministries, churches, and Christian media.  As a Christian marketing company, we have partnered with Christian ministries and non-profit organizations to help them continue to provide the invaluable services needed to help people both in the U.S. and internationally. We also serve non-profits without religious affiliations and bring our commitment to integrity into whatever business relationship we enter into. 

I am pleased to report that we are getting wonderful results for our clients using optimized blogging.  Within three weeks time, we have gained a top 10 Google listing, as well as 9 other listings for keyword optimized blogs, most of them starting out being ranked on pages 2 and 3 of Google.  Fast results!

Optimized blogging is a relatively new strategy that advertising and marketing consultants need to be navigating towards because of the results the system delivers.  Our advertising and marketing consultants visit with the client to make sure we understand the terms that are most important to the client.  We then conduct extensive keyword research to determine the competitiveness of the terms.  We choose our keywords using a variety of filtering factors, and finally choose the winners. 

After keyword research is completed, the graphic design, coding, installing, etc. are all done, and then the blog is ready to go live.  The blog writer then starts blogging, and is careful to insert the keywords that were chosen based on research into the copy.  Once the blog reaches the acceptable keyword density, the system gives the writer the green light to post.  The ecstatic author then presses the green submit button and magic!  The system parses the ONE blog into many, according to keywords, and then pings the search engines to recognize the content.   It is beautiful...

The Edge Media blog is an example of the optimized blogging system, because we believe that as advertising and marketing consultants, we have to practice what we preach!  Many Phoenix marketing companies are discovering and implementing social media, and I believe the next integration should be optimized blogging.   Honestly, as far as I can tell, right now we are one of the few advertising agencies in Phoenix AZ, as well as in the non-profit and Christian marketing company arenas to use such an extensive process!  Our promise to our clients is that as a Christian interactive agency, we will handle our client's campaigns with integrity, and will do a great job getting important messages maximum exposure, starting with the optimized blog and then flowing across social media. 

Edge Media is pleased to announce that the Family Research Council has chosen our mobile platform, Edge Mobile, to deliver their "Minutemen Alerts" via text message.  As a Christian advertising agency, we recognize the critical importance of the work the Family Research Council is doing and we are privileged to support their work.

Our mobile platform is one of the many marketing mediums we offer to our clients.  Edge Media is a full service Christian agency delivering top notch service and cutting edge strategies to our clients.   We are committed to thorough research, integrated strategies, strong results, and accountabily as we serve our clients.

It is our firm commitment to integrity that gives us close to a 100% renewal rate from year to year with our clients.  Christian advertising agency is more than a label, it is a commitment to live out our values in the day to day service to our clients and their missions. 

We would love to visit regarding the needs of your business or ministry.  Please click on the offer for a free thirty minute consultation.  I look forward to visiting with you soon!

Best,

Vickie Isaac
President/Owner
Edge Media