Good Grain Creative 2023

First a brief history…

In Late 2019, I began to explore the opportunity to serve churches after seeing a clear need for communications services as well as an enticing challenge to create an agency focused on serving churches even down to dynamic pricing schemes.

Little did I know that in February of 2020, when we launched for churches, that in March of 2020, we would be needed more than ever as the Covid-19 pandemic swallowed the world whole in a wave of hysteria and terror. We began helping churches in a crisis. We were sent feet first with 5 churches into communicating the Gospel in a crisis.

In 2021, as the pandemic continued, we expanded our subscription model to include weekly, quarterly and yearly pricing, with quarterly and yearly plans incentivized through discounted rates.

In 2022, we added graphic design, and began exploring ways for churches to get high quality, content assets the Good Grain Creative way, through a standardized pricing structure, that promoted affordability and equipping the local church, while leaving the professional bits to us, an agency for Churches.

Today, in 2023, we are excited to announce 5 incredible new offerings that we believe are going to revolutionize the way we produce content that communicate the Gospel.

The first is a Media Production Subscription

The Media Production Subscription includes Unlimited Graphic Design, Unlimited Photo Editing, and Unlimited Video Editing (licensed music included).

This means that churches can hire a professional content creator focused on their brand and get all of the perks of a professional Graphic Design Studio, and Post Production Content Editing House.

What does this mean for the bottom line of ministry?

It means you don't have to pay someone hourly for a simple graphic, pay Good Grain Creative a simple recurring subscription and get as many graphics as you want.

Have photos that need a little work? Don't pay the photographer to edit them, take the raw files, send them to us for editing, and we'll send them back to you all edited and ready to go, we'll even get them organized for you!

Have a sermon recording that needs to go through its paces before you upload it to YouTube and send the audio off to your podcast? Perhaps you've shot a video that needs a professional colorist some music and professional titles. Video Editing from Good Grain Creative allows you save 33% on video production costs, just send us your footage, a few notes about your vision for the video and we'll give you back something you can show on Sunday.

As always, Good Grain Creative Subscriptions are fully customizable, just need graphics, photo editing, or video editing? You can opt into 1, 2 or all of them. Want to pay less? Get 15% off when you sign up for a yearly subscription, need smaller payments? Quarterly, Monthly and Weekly Payments are available on Media Plans as well.

How much do our new media plans cost? $100 per week, per module, with the discounts a yearly plan offers the total cost comes out to $12,000 that's 10% the cost of hiring each of those positions full time.

If you have a Good Grain Marketing Plan at $8000 ‌and a Media Plan at $12,000 your church is paying $20,000 per year, that's 1/3 the cost of hiring in America for a full time communications director.

Yet, what if you know you need all of what Good Grain Creative has to offer?

Our second major announcement is our new Media & Marketing Plan, and it's 25% more affordable, making your cost for communications drop from 1/3 the cost of hiring to 1/4 the cost of hiring. Plans start at $375 per week, or on a yearly plan go to $15,000 per year.

Media & Marketing for $15,000 per year, 1/4 the cost of hiring, agency quality communications.

Now, I know what you're thinking. I still can't begin to afford this, our church is tiny, our finances aren't good, (insert typical church problem here).

Well we've thought of that, but we've done all we can do to accommodate for short term communications, yet what would happen if we started thinking longer term?

Introducing, Multi-year contracts.

Multi-year contracts are 2-5 year Media Marketing Plans. Full Service plans, that allow us to come alongside ministries for the long haul.

A great example is a church plant, they need a ministry partner that can stick with them and take some work off of their plate. A Five Year Contract would see a church planter through their establishment phase while enjoying the benefits of a full communications team. And the best part? Multi-year contracts are half the cost. Roughly $8000 per year for full service. We figure that if you're investing in our ministry long term we want to invest in your ministry long term as well. Additionally, If we don't have to worry as much about our sales cycle, you shouldn't have to worry about the price.

It's a win win.

Now I know what you're thinking...

I still can't afford this.

That's why I'm so excited to announce Good Grain's fourth big release for 2023.

Projects & Meetings

Need A Basic Website? - **$154.99**

Need an Advanced Website? - **$2600**

Need A Graphic? - **$99** - with 3 revisions

Need A Batch of Photos Edited? - **$199**

Need A Video Edited? - **$299**

Need Some Guidance on your next marketing Campaign? -$50

Need Your Next Marketing Campaign? - $399

We're pricing for churches, we know that sometimes help is on an as needed basis, so we want to be an option you want when you want the help you need.

These will be available starting today.

Finally, we have one more major announcement.

Since 2020, we've learned a lot, so much in fact we could write a book on how to communicate with your congregation and your surrounding area, the strategies we use and the benchmarks we employ in how to measure success.

So Good Grain is developing something dynamic that can remain up to date, full of old ideas and new ideas, a resource that we believe can inform and equip the church, and I call it the Almanac.

The Almanac is a membership offered by Good Grain Creative, it is a guide for how to cultivate an audience online, and how to create, syndicate, and share content through your website, making it a place that furthers the Gospel online

Now, how much will a membership like this cost? Paid Monthly? $11.99

Paid Yearly? ($59.99) 1.15 per week.

After Inflation $1.15 dollar is a widow's mite so, that's all we're going to ask for.

This is how strongly we believe in equipping the church digitally.

Can't pay $20,000? What about $15,000? What about $7,500 per year? No? What About $59.99 per year?

Do you have any more excuses to not build out your church's digital communications? No.

Do you have everything you need to build out your church's communications? Yes.

The best part? Almanac is going to Launch in July, when fall launches and the Christmas seasons are getting locked in. When it launches, anyone who signs up for a yearly membership, anytime in the first year of it being live, will get their first year of membership for free. On us.

All of our insights from the last 3 years, all of our strategies, all of our tactics, and benchmarks. They're all going to be there, ready for you to glean from. Free insights, for a year, because Jesus.

So let's review what we've unveiled here today:

Media Plans - Equipping churches to have Agency Quality production at a fraction of the cost.

Media + Marketing Plans - for the churches that need it all for 25% less.

Multi-Year Media-Marketing Plans - Strategic Investment for even less longer term.

Projects: Contract Good Grain Creative when you need us, without a subscription.

Almanac: Everything we've ever learned, and ever will learn, readily available for your church, for as little as $1.15 per week.

These didn't happen over night, this comes from sitting at the table with Pastors hearing your concerns and heart for ministry, balancing that with a business model and a set of values that the Lord gave me 4 years ago.

Are there still gaps to be filled? Absolutely and my ambition is to grow Good Grain to the point where we can eventually fill them. Yet, for now, 2023 represents Good Grain's biggest leap forward.

We are providing more services, more payment options, more savings and more resources than ever before and we believe that these new offerings are just the beginning of what God might want to do through Good Grain Creative.