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For my profession, I own a company that creates automated nurture marketing strategies for businesses that have long or complex sales cycles. These strategies are designed to start and build relationships with prospect customers and then when the time is right leverage those relationships of trust to close product sales.
As a longtime member of the Church I have always dreamed of building a sophisticated automated nurture marketing strategy and execution plan for the Church's missionary program. The plan would include tactics for starting relationships with potential investigators and progressing them through the conversion process to the stage when they are ready to meet with the missionaries.
Currently Mormon.org is essentially saying to potential investigators that unless they are ready to talk with a missionary now, we are not interested in starting a conversation with them. A proper nurture marketing campaign would start far earlier in an investigators decision process. In marketing there is a dating analogy that is often used to explain the disconnect that occurs with this approach. Imagine walking up to a stranger you find attractive and asking them to marry you. What percentage of people would be interested in continuing the conversation, 1 or 2 percent? If you approach the same person but start with something like finding common interests and then asking them on a date, the likelihood of marrying that person goes way up. For most people, meeting with the missionaries or converting to the gospel is not done on impulse and therefore we should not be leading with a sales pitch. We should be offering something a wider audience would value regardless of whether they have an immediate interest in Mormonism and then as the relationship grows start asking them to commit to more meaningful and strictly Mormon experiences.
I realize the Church is a huge machine and that those in charge are probably not looking for this kind of input but if anyone knows how to contact someone high enough up the ladder on the missionary marketing team, it would be fun to have a meeting with them to discuss the ideas I have been floating around in my head for over a decade.
Just as a side note, I'm not looking to sell something, I would love to just provide consulting on a project like this pro bono.
Any connections or thoughts would be appreciated.
As a longtime member of the Church I have always dreamed of building a sophisticated automated nurture marketing strategy and execution plan for the Church's missionary program. The plan would include tactics for starting relationships with potential investigators and progressing them through the conversion process to the stage when they are ready to meet with the missionaries.
Currently Mormon.org is essentially saying to potential investigators that unless they are ready to talk with a missionary now, we are not interested in starting a conversation with them. A proper nurture marketing campaign would start far earlier in an investigators decision process. In marketing there is a dating analogy that is often used to explain the disconnect that occurs with this approach. Imagine walking up to a stranger you find attractive and asking them to marry you. What percentage of people would be interested in continuing the conversation, 1 or 2 percent? If you approach the same person but start with something like finding common interests and then asking them on a date, the likelihood of marrying that person goes way up. For most people, meeting with the missionaries or converting to the gospel is not done on impulse and therefore we should not be leading with a sales pitch. We should be offering something a wider audience would value regardless of whether they have an immediate interest in Mormonism and then as the relationship grows start asking them to commit to more meaningful and strictly Mormon experiences.
I realize the Church is a huge machine and that those in charge are probably not looking for this kind of input but if anyone knows how to contact someone high enough up the ladder on the missionary marketing team, it would be fun to have a meeting with them to discuss the ideas I have been floating around in my head for over a decade.
Just as a side note, I'm not looking to sell something, I would love to just provide consulting on a project like this pro bono.
Any connections or thoughts would be appreciated.