Catholic Parish Event Marketing and Communication Checklist

Your Catholic church has an event or program coming up and you want to make sure that everybody in your parish knows about it. In order to help you cover all of your marketing bases, we at LPi created a checklist to use whenever you are planning the marketing for one of your parish’s events.

1. Create a landing page on your website with all of the event’s extra information that your other advertising avenues can point to via link or QR code. This landing page should also include registration information or forms.
2. Create a flyer/bulletin insert — tips on how to take your flyer game higher are here and here!
3. Create a poster — this could be the same as your flyer/bulletin insert, just printed larger.
4. Create an email invite.
5. Create a mailer for snail-mail — there is an easy way to do this through the USPS here.
6. Create social media posts about it — don’t forget to use the stories feature on Instagram and Facebook. We have a blog that can help you get started with the stories tool here.
7. Send out a text reminder to interested parishioners
8. Announce it from the pulpit.
9. Create a banner or lawn signs for the front of your parish property. Even better — if you have a sign company advertising in your parish’s bulletin, use them!

Details are so important! You don’t want to overload flyers and other advertisements with TOO many details, though so just make sure the following items are included on your advertisements and that more specific details are all found on your landing page/website. Always include your event’s:

• Name or title of the event
• Location
• Time
• How to register
• Contact information
• Who specifically is invited
• If there is any accessibility information for those with varying needs — for example — Will there be a sign language interpreter? Will the event have childcare available? Consider what other resources people may need.
  

Other things to consider:

• Might there be a QR code that you could include that points to a landing page or something that has more detailed information about the event? We have a guide to using QR codes here.

Want a little jump-start on your event flyers? Our WeCreate library of content and resources has flyer templates for all sorts of church events that have been designed by o ur LPi graphic design team for you to customize for your own parish events. Every month we add even more templates alongside other graphics for you to use. If you don’t already have access, learn more about WeCreate here.

Updated on 03-24-2024