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Are you a vocation director often frustrated in finding good candidates? Here’s some good news. It’s about a vocations ad campaign that worked, even though there wasn’t much advance time. We usually recommend at least two to three months’ lead...Ten novices later, mother proved me dead wrong
Recently I told you about a group of Carmelite nuns in New York who were able to find a lot of recruits for their Vocation Day retreat. Today I have another success story – an unexpected one. I had received an email from the mother superior of a contemplative...The “best vocation promoters” are ___________.
I could hardly believe it If you could reach out to one group of persons in your area who could refer vocations for you, whom would it be? Holy priests? Zealous campus ministers? Faithful adorers in chapels? No, according to the experience of the Carmelite Nuns of...Social media marketing: how we followed up with a candidate for a Catholic men’s order
Is your religious community or Catholic organization making the best use of social media? Are you getting the candidates and the people that you want? Pew stealing was OK Just recently I discovered something interesting on one of the vocations quizzes that we...When a vocations newsletter isn’t enough
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...Free Ebook!
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