Case study · Full-service marketing

Marketing that fills the pipeline.

Ministry Solutions Group helps churches make finance and facility decisions at critical moments. digifora became its long-term marketing team, and marketing now drives a growing share of the sales pipeline.

Q3 2026
49%
Of pending sales opportunities came from marketing
Up from 35%
In Q2 2026
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Client
Ministry Solutions Group
Church finance and facility consulting
Scope
Full-service marketing and a new website
Email, social, content, digital PR, events, web
Format
Ongoing partnership
Weekly working sessions with MSG leadership
Practice
Strategy and Fractional CMO
Content, social, web and AI search

01 · The client

Trusted with billions in church projects.

Ministry Solutions Group helps churches grow through clear financial stewardship and actionable vision, most often around construction, renovation, multisite expansion and mergers. Many of its clients are among the fastest-growing churches in the United States.

By the early 2020s, MSG had a strong reputation and a strong sales team. What it lacked was marketing that tied it all together.

2012
Founded
250+
Churches served
$1.6B+
In church projects

As reported by Ministry Solutions Group.

02 · The challenge

A strong firm. An inconsistent marketing engine.

Inconsistent output

A previous marketing partner had left MSG without a holistic strategy, and the results showed it.

A sluggish funnel

The sales team was ready to close. Marketing was not giving it enough qualified conversations to work with.

A shift to leader-led voices

Buyers, and AI search, increasingly trust people over brands. MSG's expertise lived in its leaders, and the marketing needed to show it.

03 · The process

Built to last, then built on.

Every piece of work starts from one goal: more qualified leads for MSG's sales team.

  1. 01

    Learn the business

    Sessions with MSG leadership on long-term vision, immediate needs and where marketing stood.

  2. 02

    Set the structure

    Clear points of contact and workflows designed to hold steady, even as people on both teams changed.

  3. 03

    Publish every week

    A weekly article flow built from interviews with MSG's consultants, turned into clear, action-driven guidance for pastors.

  4. 04

    Grow the leader's voice

    Facebook and LinkedIn strategies for the brand, plus a focused effort on Founder Nathan Artt's own LinkedIn presence.

  5. 05

    Earn attention

    Email strategy, digital PR placements, magazine ads and event collateral, including the Large Church Survey.

  6. 06

    Rebuild and optimize

    Customer journey mapping, conversion work, a new overview deck, new case studies and a new website.

04 · The website

A site that speaks to leaders at critical moments.

Bold, dark and direct, with real projects up front. Insights and case studies are structured to rank in search and to be quoted in AI answers.

Young adults worshiping with hands raised in a dim, crowded room
Photography that leads with the people churches serve
A church team in hard hats with shovels at a groundbreaking, an excavator behind them
Real projects, real outcomes

05 · The results

Marketing became a sales channel.

As trust grew between the teams, so did the pipeline. And as AI search reshaped how pastors find answers, MSG's content kept showing up.

49%
Of pending opportunities from marketing, Q3 2026

Up from 35% in Q2

~8,700
Appearances in AI answers

In Q3 2026 alone

+16.9%
Organic search visits

Q3 2026

+71.5%
Visits from email

Q3 2026

Top performer
One article on church renovation costs was cited in AI answers 2,346 times in a single quarter.
Proof that sells
Views of the Crosspointe Church case study rose 720% in Q3 2026.

From digifora's quarterly reporting to Ministry Solutions Group.

Client team

  • Nathan Artt, Founder and Principal

Channels

  • Email and newsletter
  • Facebook and LinkedIn
  • Weekly articles and SEO
  • Digital PR and print ads
  • Events

Deliverables

  • Marketing strategy
  • New website
  • Customer journey map
  • Case studies
  • Overview deck
  • Quarterly reporting

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