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“We had pukers in the church this week.”
What does that have to do with email marketing?
Well, it’s DAY 7 of The Marketing Trad’s 2023 Advent Calendar, and that line sums up my weekend.
One of the ushers said that to me Sunday morning when I showed up to Mass without my wife and kids.
My youngest son came down with a little something the night before, and my wife, being the faithful and loving woman she is, was busy comforting the boy instead of sleeping.
There was crying and a certain mess that happened in the kid’s bed …
Let’s just say … she had a rough night, and the next morning I changed things up a bit so she could have more time to get things together.
Long story short, I went to Mass by myself so I could take care of a few things at the parish.
The usher noticed my brood was missing and asked where they were.
“One of my sons came down with something last night,” I told him.
“Oh, there’s something going around,” he said. “We had a few pukers in the church this week, and they were all kids.”
It reminded me of that meme-ish saying: “If you’re church ain’t cryin’, it’s dyin’.”
This was sort of like that, only with a different kind of bodily fluid.
My wife brought our healthy children to a later Mass.
It’s important to us, as a couple, to make sure we meet our Sunday obligation, to pass the Faith on to our children.
Our faith is the most important thing to us, our most important priority, which brings me back to email marketing.
Your business isn’t just about your bottom line …
It’s about how you serve the Lord, and yes …
Even when it comes to the emails you’re trying to make your sales with.
That means being honest with your sales pitches.
It means not plagiarizing other people’s marketing.
It means writing respectable content that you won’t have to hang your head in shame over at the Final Judgment.
As we prepare during Advent to celebrate the birth of Jesus, we’re also preparing our hearts, joyfully, for His Second Coming.
Our faith doesn’t just come to an end when we drive out of the parking lot after Mass on Sundays …
As Catholics, we know it extends to every aspect of our lives.
That’s why I bring a Traditional perspective to my own marketing and consulting, to help inspire Catholic entrepreneurs and professionals to grow their faith while they’re trying to grow their sales.
If you want to talk about it, send me an email at [email protected]. There’s still a 24% discount available when you book your consultation for January 2024, but only if you get on the list this week.
As of Saturday, that deal is gonzo.
Stay holy my friend and God bless.
Vic
The Marketing Trad
P.S. Here’s a quote from “Immortale Dei” an Encyclical Letter from Pope Leo XIII on The Christian Constitution of States:
“And yet a hackneyed reproach of old date is levelled against her, that the Church is opposed to the rightful aims of the civil government, and is wholly unable to afford help in spreading that welfare and progress which justly and naturally are sought after by every well-regulated State. From the very beginning Christians were harassed by slanderous accusations of this nature, and on that account were held up to hatred and execration, for being (so they were called) enemies of the Empire. The Christian religion was moreover commonly charged with being the cause of the calamities that so frequently befell the State, whereas, in very truth, just punishment was being awarded to guilty nations by an avenging God. This odious calumny, with most valid reason, nerved the genius and sharpened the pen of St. Augustine, who, notably in his treatise, The City of God, set forth in so bright a light the worth of Christian wisdom in its relation to the public wealth that he seems not merely to have pleaded the cause of the Christians of his day, but to have refuted for all future times impeachments so grossly contrary to truth. The wicked proneness, however, to levy like charges and accusations has not been lulled to rest. Many, indeed, are they who have tried to work out a plan of civil society based on doctrines other than those approved by the Catholic Church. Nay, in these latter days a novel conception of law has begun here and there to gain increase and influence, the outcome, as it is maintained, of an age arrived at full stature, and the result of progressive liberty. But, though endeavours of various kinds have been ventured on, it is clear that no better mode has been devised for the building up and ruling the State than that which is the necessary growth of the teachings of the Gospel. We deem it, therefore, of the highest moment, and a strict duty of Our apostolic office, to contrast with the lessons taught by Christ the novel theories now advanced touching the State. By this means We cherish hope that the bright shining of the truth may scatter the mists of error and doubt, so that one and all may see clearly the imperious law of life which they are bound to follow and obey.”