Wear and tear
Managing a website is not a part-time job.
Managing a website is not a part-time job; it is a focused job.
Just like someone in charge of the sponsorship program, accounts/admin, the kitchen, or a feeding program, making a website work is a 20-hour-a-week job.
Given time, that number can come down.
Like any job, as you become skilled, you can do more with less time.
While a website has no moving parts and would seem static and permanent, it will eventually crumble into disarray if it is not updated.
It is as if inactivity on a website is like wear and tear on an engine.
Your engine’s oil is updating your website.
This need to be focused on a website is hard in YWAM, as any job where you sit in a chair is perceived as easy, or not real work.
This is especially true when you sit in a chair, and no one sees you.
Anyone who has done this kind of work can tell you that you seek God’s favor, not man’s.
What someone says about your work with no hands-on knowledge is of very little authority, even when they are a leader.
Many of our leaders have done a very good job of getting the base to the position it is currently in. This is a different generation overcoming different needs and issues, using different generational tools.
I have found YWAM to be about ten years behind in the use of technology. However, many leaders have been very good with a narrow band of technology, e.g., Facebook, Emails, or Google Ads.
Now, we need a broadband attempt at using technology and doing it securely and competently.
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From noise to signal
Facebook is chum.
You throw fish bits into the sea, and the fish come biting.
There is a lot of activity, but you don’t have any fish in your boat.
You also need a fishing line or a net to catch the fish you have just attracted with your chum. This is your website.
You need Facebook to create noise on the internet, but you also need a website to capture the attention of those who are attracted to this noise.
In this idea, noise is good.
Think of it as having a sound system in a park before we do open-air evangelism with an outreach team.
Let’s do the same on the Internet.
Use Facebook to direct people to your website so you can capture them.
However, Facebook only reaches a certain market. In the Philippines, that is a big reach, but in the West, not so. Young people in the West do not use Facebook.
If you want to attract international students, you need to work with other platforms—Instagram, TikTok, even ones you do not like.
One-on-One Online
We provide one on one training, best done if you have a website with us. Make sure you have Teamviewer Installed.
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These times represent from 2 PM till 5 PM Hawaii Time, and you can book up to an hour before.