Portable Sermons 1.0

Portable Sermons reaches version 1.0 ! After being in BETA for a year, we have now officially launched our FULL FLEDGED version of the Portable Sermons podcasting service.

BIG THANK YOU

We owe a BIG THANK YOU to our existing customers and BETA testers for seeing us through over a year of testing! In this last year we have had 400 sermons uploaded to our site and we have served up a total of 21000 downloads! The storage and bandwidth totals are nothing to sneeze at either.

Same Day Posts Popular

One EXTREMELY interesting stat according to our numbers, the sooner you post the sermon, the more downloads you will have. 25% of our downloads happen the first 24 hours on the very Sunday the message was preached! The message here is POST ASAP! Fortunately, our service was designed for easy posting by a volunteer.

There is no other podcasting service out there that is built from the ground up for churches. We stand alone, but we aren't standing still.

New Features In 1.0

  1. pop out listening box for listening to any sermon right on your website
  2. automatic Scripture links with selectable Bible version
  3. download links on every sermon
  4. “Send-to-Friend” links on every sermon that sends email from our site
  5. a more compact list view
  6. custom yearly, monthly and most recent sermon views
  7. customizable styling in the list view -an improved administration screen
  8. automatic password retrieval

Spoilers

We have even bigger plans for Portable Sermons, too! In our next point release, we are adding the ability to attach PDF sermon notes (or whatever you want to distribute) right in your iTunes subscriptions and on your Listen page or sermon list view. We also have a few surprises planned -- for those, you will have to wait. Here are a few more tidbits to tease you with:

Feature Sneak Peek

  1. Podcast subscriptions via e-mail
  2. Search, both within a single church and the entire Portable Sermons archive
  3. Order episodes on CDs (for those of you who don't want to mess with all the trouble of doing it yourself... your church gets paid for every order!)

Yes, Free iPods!

Don't forget, we are still giving away iPods to our first 10 customers that prepay for a year. And if you sign up 10 pre-paid accounts... we will buy you a brand new iPod Touch! We are really pushing word of mouth, and even have a referral program in the works that will pay cash for referrals on pre-paid accounts!

As always, we would love to have your feedback. We track every little bug and feature request, so submit early and often!

God Bless,
Brook Drumm
Portable Sermons

Posted by: Brook Drumm at 1/24/2008 12:20 PM