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Subject: Re: Online Shop

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Dennis S. Vogel

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Date Posted: 19:27:15 01/03/02 Thu
In reply to: April Jennings 's message, "Online Shop" on 22:54:25 01/02/02 Wed

Hi April,

Thank you for joining us.

Many churches have web sites.
Some clergy members are open to letting vendors promote religious products. If you offer them a donation for each sale you get through them, for example, 1 cent per dollar when your web site logs show a buyer found your site by clicking a link in their site.

You can promote that on your site - "I'll donate 1 cent of each dollar from your purchases to the church whose site you used to find my site."

Your site may be directly mentioned to church members as a way to get them to contribute more money, besides passing around the offering plate/basket.

It may sound almost blasphemous, but some people feel like church is mostly about giving money. ("Gees, they're asking for money AGAIN!!!")

By buying products from you, they'll contribute money and get something tangible. (Religion tends to be intangible.)

You should have a solid headline that loads immediately when your site is accessed.

How about -
"Hold A Bit Of Heaven In Your Hand While You Pray"

Followed by -
"Sometimes it's easier to offer a sacrifice of praise when you're holding and looking at a beautiful devotional item."

"Some people find it easier to focus on devotions when they have something beautiful to look at and hold. Have you tried it for yourself?"

NOTE -- An experience tends to be more fulfilling when we involve more than one of our senses.

So, what you offer are products that are visually and kinethestically (feeling) appealing.

If you add a link (through an affiliate program, so you get a commission) for somebody who sells devotional music (maybe even Gregorian Chants), you'd help people add an auditory stimulus.

Incense (possibly through another affiliate link) would add an olfactory stimulus.

So, people can use four of their senses to make their devotional time more stimulating.

I don't know if you'd be able to add a gustatory (taste) element without getting to the realm of communion.

Dennis S. Vogel
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