By Pancharatna das
Hare Krishna,
The annual December book distribution marathon is approaching and devotees throughout the movement are thinking about how to increase their outreach efforts.
One way is to connect your efforts to Chantnow.com , an online follow-up and cultivation system centered around teaching about the maha-mantra.
A few years ago, we formally launched Chantnow.com and began our marketing efforts. Now, every day we receive over 120 new visitors and enroll 3-4 new students for our chanting workshop. So far we have over 1600 students from 74 countries.
Today, we invite you to consider how this website can be used in your own outreach activities. Our hope is that this can become a valuable tool for your cultivation of new people and we can become partners in supporting your efforts.
We have a team of devotees producing a regular stream of relevant and relatable content suited to people new to chanting. And we have full-time devotees dedicated to personal communications with all of the people who sign up for our courses.
We request you to adopt our website as a part of your outreach. You can be assured that anyone that you direct to the site will be cultivated with sensitivity. And we will direct people from your area to programs you conduct that are suited for their needs.
Read on to know more or just write us at hello@chantnow.com so we can chat in person.
Through Chantnow.com we are now offering three courses. The first is our free introductory 7 day chanting workshop. This course is designed to give people the basics and get them started with chanting. You can see the video lessons for the workshop here: https://youtu.be/IpkhgfPKBe4
The next course is called Mantra Meditation – Wisdom and Practice. This self-paced course takes the student from the essential elements of “not the body” philosophy to the point of the principle of Krishna as the supreme person and bhakti yoga as the means to revive our eternal relationship with Him.
You can see the contents and description of the course here:
The next course is called Mantra Meditation – Wisdom and Practice. This self-paced course takes the student from the essential elements of “not the body” philosophy to the point of the principle of Krishna as the supreme person and bhakti yoga as the means to revive our eternal relationship with Him.
You can see the contents and description of the course here: https://youtu.be/IpkhgfPKBe4
And, for those students who are ready to adopt a regular chanting practice, we have our third course – Your Chanting Sadhana. This two week course has just been launched and will be offered every 1 to 2 months depending on the enrollment. You can read more about it here:
These last two courses are donation based and the minimum donation is just $1 to make them accessible to everyone.
In addition to our courses we send out regular emails to students and subscribers with fresh articles, links to attractive kirtans and invitations to online events. We are working on putting together a daily inspiration series as well for those who would like to get it.
And we are maintaining an active presence on Facebook and Instagram that you can check out here:
https://www.facebook.com/chantnowpage
https://www.instagram.com/chant_now/
Please like and share these pages.
Here are some ways that you could make use of our website:
1) You could give us information about events and programs that could be of interest to our students in your area. We can then publicize these through our email system
2) You could put a link to Chantnow.com on your own websites. We can provide a banner graphic for this and track anyone who comes through this link.
3) You could make a list of people you are currently cultivating that could benefit from the courses on Chantnow.com and invite them to check it out. You could say something like “we have recently partnered with the team at Chantnow.com to connect you with online courses that can help you in your exploration of chanting.” We can help you with an email template for this.
4) You could print our bookmark and/or flyer and distribute it. You could also print Chantnow.com business cards. Or you could include Chantnow.com on your existing cards and flyers. You can see the designs here – https://www.chantnow.com/promotion/
5) You could directly follow-up with anyone who signs up for the courses and who lives in your area. We would give you your own @chantnow.com email ID for this purpose and give you access to our online Hubspot CRM system where you can track and view the activities of your contacts.
6) You could promote our Instagram and Facebook pages, sharing our content with your followers and inviting them to follow us.
7) You could also contribute content to be published on our website or social media pages.
8) You could become one of our online student guides yourself and cultivate students through our system.
These are a few ways we can think of and you can probably think of more.
One of our main ideas in putting this site together was that it would be used by devotees in their outreach to Western audiences, providing resources it would be difficult for them to put together on their own, like the courses we created.
So, we’re hoping you will find it useful.
Please check out the site and, especially, take a look at the courses. Once you have seen and explored the site, we’re hoping you’ll be enthused to use it. Please let us know so that we can support your efforts in every way possible.
Your servants,
Pancharatna das & the Chantnow.com Team
hello@chantnow.com
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