by Kevin Banet | Oct 19, 2017 | Come & See Program
We’re restructuring our Come & See Program strategy Our job here at Vocation Promotion is to get good candidates to your discernment retreats. But it seems that lately there have been some snags in our approach. Our Come & See program began in 2013, and we...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 19, 2017 | Ad programs, Candidates
Here’s how a vocation ad campaign brings in candidates. The below graphic shows a Facebook ad that we put up for the Society of Our Mother of Peace since we began running the ads less than two days ago. You can see the likes, comments and shares at the bottom of...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 13, 2017 | Facebook, Using video, Videos
Before you joined a religious community years ago, you no doubt made a friend there first. That friend was either a community member or the vocation director. Now that you’re a vocation director, you need to make contact with lots of candidates so that some will...
by Kevin Banet | Sep 28, 2017 | Case study, Come & See Program, Facebook
Various media channels are needed to reach the vocation candidate We had an aha moment recently. We found that one of our vocation candidates signed up for a retreat, but not as a result of our mainstay media channel – our newsletters about religious life. For years...
by Kevin Banet | Sep 9, 2017 | Attracting vocations
I remember being shocked when seeing for the first time the tunic worn by St. Francis of Assisi, in Italy. It was a patchwork of rags – something that you would see only on a homeless man in the streets of a big city. We all know that religious take vows of poverty,...