{"id":133,"date":"2009-12-22T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharefaithblog.wpengine.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-03-24T23:57:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:57:14","slug":"how-to-start-an-e-mail-list-for-your-youth-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharefaith.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/how-to-start-an-e-mail-list-for-your-youth-group\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start an E-mail List for Your Youth Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithclipart.com\/category\/church-email.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CkhULgujOks\/S0NYycnce_I\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/N56SZiXZhKE\/s320\/Email.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423275999982550002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Young people thrive on communication&#8211;constant, immediate, instantaneous, interactive communication. To effectively keep contact with your youth group, it&#8217;s important to use a form of communication that is up-to-date, attractive, and effective. One of the best and easiest ways to make great e-mails with sharp graphics and a readable layout is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithclipart.com\/category\/church-email.html\">Sharefaith&#8217;s church e-mail solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to get started, and once you do, you will be surprised at the results. Youths appreciate receiving information via e-mail, and you&#8217;ll be glad at the way that it engages them in youth group life. So, the question is&#8211;how do you get their e-mail addresses to begin with? It&#8217;s not too hard. Here are some suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just ask. A Sunday School sign-up sheet or clipboard will do the trick for most. Just ask the teens to put down their name with an e-mail address. Or, you can hand them an e-mail request card.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook. If you&#8217;re friends with the teens on Facebook, you should be able to to access their e-mail addresses easily. Besides, Facebook is a great way of keeping up with what&#8217;s going on in their lives.<\/li>\n<li>Form a website or Facebook group as a means of networking and collecting e-mail addresses and contact information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you build an e-mail address database, you can them in a spreadsheet and upload them to your <a href=\"http:\/\/sharefaith.constantcontact.com\/index.jsp\">Sharefaith\/Constant Contact email service<\/a>. Sharefaith makes it easy to send out top-notch e-mails. With all the pictures, headers, footers, and features you could want, excellent e-mails are just a few steps away. Find out how to start a <a href=\"http:\/\/lettersandarts.constantcontact.com\/industry\/religious.jsp?pn=sharefaith&amp;cc=emailarticle\">free two-month trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people thrive on communication&#8211;constant, immediate, instantaneous, interactive communication. To effectively keep contact with your youth group, it&#8217;s important to use a form of communication that is up-to-date, attractive, and effective. One of the best and easiest ways to make great e-mails with sharp graphics and a readable layout is to use Sharefaith&#8217;s church e-mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1040],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church-email-marketing-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Start an E-mail List for Your Youth Group - Sharefaith Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sharefaithblog.wpengine.com\/2009\/12\/how-to-start-an-e-mail-list-for-your-youth-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Start an E-mail List for Your Youth Group - Sharefaith Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Young people thrive on communication&#8211;constant, immediate, instantaneous, interactive communication. 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