by Kevin Banet | Mar 22, 2018 | Candidates, discernment
What “makes a connection” for your candidate? Why does a candidate choose your religious community? What are the human reasons behind a person being drawn to your community? It’s because they find a real connection with your community, using both...
by Kevin Banet | Nov 11, 2017 | Candidates, Using video
How can you reach many vocation candidates in a short amount of time? How about using a vocation video of one of your novices? The video that I talk about below is a recent one of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. They have a video of a few minutes...
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 | Aug 17, 2017 | Candidates, News in general
Ever had the unfortunate experience of a Come & See discernment retreat gone sour because of one person’s bad behavior? Maybe the person bad-mouthed your community among the other retreatants. Or he was just was an unbalanced person. Or maybe they just...
by Kevin Banet | Jun 24, 2017 | Candidates, Case study, Come & See Program
Do you want new vocations? We all do. So you get dozens, or hundreds of names from a service such as Vocation Match, or Vocations Placement, and start making phone calls. Or send brochures. Ugh! This is time consuming. And you know that most of them won’t really...
by Editor | Mar 24, 2017 | Attracting vocations, Candidates
Good religious vocation candidates can be found with social media, using the right targeting. Here, Kevin Banet describes two Catholic candidates who were recruited through Facebook and Instagram ads. One is a young man from California interested in the priesthood,...