Our New Digital Magazines and Newsletters

By Steve Strang

This week I'm taking a break from editorializing about problems facing the church or our culture to bring you up-to-date on some of the exciting digital products Strang Communications is providing that I think you'll enjoy. I hope you'll sign up for some of our e-magazines and e-newsletters and also share them with your friends to help us proclaim the gospel digitally.

Before I tell you about them, I want to point out that I’m including below one of the four digital greeting cards we recently sent out to family, friends and customers. My staff put them together. The one below is from our Administration/Accounting/Office Services department. Click on it to see the personal greeting I gave. It's my way to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.

The Strang Report is one of 10 e-newsletters that we publish periodically. Some are biweekly, some weekly and some monthly. This week we changed the newsletter we've called “Streams of Revival” to “Prophetic Insight from Charisma” and published in it a challenging word from Chuck Pierce about what he believes the Lord is saying prophetically to our nation at this very pivotal time in history. Click here to read.

Through the years, Charisma magazine has established itself as a trusted source of news. Several years ago we started sending out news electronically on a periodic basis under the name “Charisma News Service.” Most recently we’ve sent out news updates that appear on our Web site under the name “Charisma News Bulletin.” We’ve also included revival-related news stories in what was formerly titled “Streams of Revival.” We’re now calling our digital news publication “Charisma News Online.” It is currently e-mailed to 50,000 subscribers, and we’d like to double the circulation by getting as many people to sign up as possible. I sent out the first edition to the entire Strang Report list with a brief explanation, so you have probably seen it by now. I hope you enjoyed reading it and will want to sign up. If you would like to read it again, click here.

Ministry Today magazine, under the leadership of editor Marcus Yoars, is now digital. Our first issue was the November/December issue, and the response from both advertisers and readers was fantastic. We sent it out to compiled lists of 100,000 people, and the open rate has far exceeded industry standards and our wildest expectations. Click here to see the digital version. You can read it on your computer screen by turning pages just as you do with a print magazine. There is no cost to receive it regularly; you merely have to subscribe.

Next month Charisma magazine will also be offered digitally. It is not available yet, but you can click here to sign up for it.

Each time we send out an e-newsletter, we provide a way for you to sign up, but I’m using this opportunity to call to your attention all the newsletters that we produce:

Power Up. This is one of our largest e-newsletters. Each week it contains a devotional message with a spiritual insight I know you’ll appreciate and is an off-shoot of SpiritLed Woman magazine. To read the most current edition, click here.

New Man eMagazine. Several months ago we made the decision to no longer publish New Man in print, but you can click here to receive the eMagazine every week with the same kind of great articles we had in the print version. Subscriptions to the digital version have nearly doubled since we started producing it. If you’re a man or there’s a man in your life, you may want to subscribe to this.

If you’re Spanish-speaking you ought to get our Boletín de Vida Cristiana with exciting news and views of what’s happening in the Christian Hispanic community. This e-newsletter is so popular that the digital subscription list actually is larger than that of the print magazine, Vida Cristiana.

Please notice the advertisement for gift subscriptions to Charisma magazine for Christmas. Charisma is a great Christmas present to give to those you love. Every year more than 10 percent of our subscription list is made up of gifts from readers like you who want to share with family and friends the teaching articles, prophetic insight and news analysis. Also, by subscribing to Charisma, you become part of the Charisma family and a part of what the Holy Spirit is doing in the world today.

As always, we invite you to leave your comments. Perhaps you can share what you think about our digital version or give us ideas on how we can grow our lists. My vision is to grow all our digital lists to 1 million. One of the most effective ways to do this is to get “viral marketing” going by encouraging people to send our e-newsletters to their neighbors, friends, family and co-workers.

Next week I’m going to share a very special Christmas message, and the week after I will share with you a list of the people that I respect most in 2008.

Steve Strang

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