As other check-in solutions surfaced, ours seemed to maintain a preferential position in the marketplace.  I believe that the preference was built not strictly on the capability I described yesterday, many solutions began providing much of the same, but also the intangibles such as:Ease of use - Rick did an ...

How important is collecting attendance?  Do we really need to understand the individuals who were here or can we just count heads?  Is it possible to collect anything besides a head count during the main worship service?  What do we do with the data afterwards?  After all, if there is no plan for the results then why spend the ...

Last night I received a call from the field from one of our Delivery Managers. For Fellowship Technologies, a Delivery Manager is a consultant who works with a church partner (customer) to assist them with their implementation of Fellowship One. The purpose of the call was that the Delivery Manager wanted me to know that the church partner could ...

Sometimes we come across a church that puts a halt to a software selection process because they come to the realization that they may not need a new church management software solution. Why? Because they find out that they are underutilizing what they currently have. Of course, many times they are encouraged to not look for another solution by ...

The idea of a pipeline/funnel is a fairly well understood concept.  It is simply a metaphor to describe stages that something (people, product, or a process definition) is in; for example a sales pipeline might look something like this When you are talking about people in a pipeline, you expect to have fallout (not everyone makes it from ...

I was visiting with a customer recently and we were talking about their church’s philosophy on getting people involved in the church.  During the conversation it became clear to both of us that, although their church offered many opportunities to get involved, there was not a real push from church leadership to encourage any ...