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Addo – Online Giving for Churches

27 点作者 roycehaynes超过 11 年前

11 条评论

chad_oliver超过 11 年前
Great work. I&#x27;ll be keeping a close eye on this.<p>I think the tagline &quot;Grow your church community and increase giving&quot; doesn&#x27;t feel quite right. Specifically, &quot;increase giving&quot; sounds a little bit ... greedy, maybe? Every church I&#x27;ve been in recognizes that money is useful and necessary, but there&#x27;s always that fear that people will feel like they <i>have</i> to give in order to be a Good Christian.<p>I&#x27;m not really sure how to improve the tagline, but perhaps you could focus on what money enables. The pain-point isn&#x27;t that churches want more money, it&#x27;s that they want to be able do more, help more, serve more.
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prawn超过 11 年前
Firstly, I&#x27;m not the target market as I have nothing to do with churches. But I think the page probably needs to show more information before the signup. Description, diagram, screenshots, etc. I&#x27;m not even confident that I know what it does - accept donations I guess? Some sort of church CRM? Does it do something that other charity&#x2F;donation sites don&#x27;t do?
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tbrooks超过 11 年前
Interesting to see new entrants to the church market. I built a similar product marketed specifically to churches - <a href="https://simpledonation.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpledonation.com</a><p>Here are some of the things I&#x27;ve learned:<p>Building the technology is the easy part. Stripe&#x2F;Balanced (and all the other payments APIs) have made it easy to do a payment startup.<p>Customer acquisition and sales is the hard part.<p>1) Decisions are made by committee and for normal sized churches (&lt; 500 attendance) the decision maker is not on staff. Therefore repeatable, cost-effective customer acquisition is really, really hard. Only a few channels are available.<p>2) The buyers are generally not business thinkers. I&#x27;ve tested different sales pitches, asking &quot;would you rather have a service grow your top line by 10% OR cut costs by 15%?&quot; Most say &quot;cut costs&quot; which is actually a net loss. Meaning: sales is consultative and educational and you have to sell it to over and over to every person on the committee.<p>3) Churches have a tough time justifying $50&#x2F;mo for a SaaS service. The margins are too thin to make a lot of money in transaction rev. e.g. I processed $30k last month and made ~$300. You need a ton of volume for the math to make sense.<p>There are churches like Newspring (hi Joshua!) that are run differently and understand the values of technology. Most of the 300,000 evangelical churches in the US are not like that.
shanac超过 11 年前
Is this open to non-church religious organizations?<p>I have a friend who is a rabbi of a small but extremely cool, open orthodox synagogue on the Lower East Side (he&#x27;s also a former web developer) He&#x27;s done crowd funding before for the synagogue, since the building is historically important. Due to the fact that the congregation is open to whomever showing up, compared to other orthodox synagogues on the LES, he has an extremely tech literate crowd.<p>It might be a good match if it works for not-churches.
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simon超过 11 年前
I&#x27;m a pastor (and former geek) and I would love to see more info on your landing page before handing out an email address.<p>Not sure if my congregation is ready to go &quot;online giving&quot;, but the organization I belong to may be interested. Is this only suitable for church congregations, or would a church organization (state level) be able to use it?
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eieio超过 11 年前
I&#x27;m not much of a churchgoer these days, but growing up Episcopalian I have nothing but respect for folks for faith.<p>Is it cool if I send this to some of my non-techie friends&#x2F;family? One of your comments says that you haven&#x27;t really shipped yet, so I&#x27;m not sure what your target audience is at this point.<p>edit: for what it&#x27;s worth I also think chad_oliver and blankenship nailed it with their comments&#x2F;suggestions.
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jscheel超过 11 年前
I think is has a lot of potential. Two suggestions:<p>1. Consider adding more information to your landing page. It&#x27;s just a little too sparse at the moment.<p>2. Online giving can be a sticky subject, so I would suggest adding some scripture and exegesis to your landing page that can help people be at ease with it.
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fellowniusmonk超过 11 年前
A buddy of mine has a similar project that launched awhile back. Curious to see how similar this turns out to <a href="https://simpledonation.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpledonation.com&#x2F;</a>
malloreon超过 11 年前
Will this be useful for mosques, synagogues, temples, etc?
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iambateman超过 11 年前
This is cool! I&#x27;ve been thinking about doing something like this for a long time.
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yairharel超过 11 年前
Much addo about nothing?