We’ve just launched our Marketplace here on Catholic Outpost. This is cool because in the near future Catholics will be able to get all of the Catholic products they need all in one place here on Catholic Outpost. How so? What is this Catholic Outpost Marketplace that you speak of?
Well, I’ll tell you.
Picture Amazon.com for Catholics. Right now we are looking and calling on all of the great Catholic online stores, big or small, to apply to be a seller in our Marketplace. It’s extremely easy for them to do this. We only require that they are Catholic businesses who are faithful to the Catholic Church.
Even better, it’s totally FREE for these companies to sign up and place their products in the Marketplace! Catholic Outpost only takes a small commission (way cheaper than anywhere else online - and we mean that!) to cover our costs. We make the sale, they drop-ship straight to the customer, we pay the seller what they made on the deal.
What does this mean for Catholic customers?
It means that you’ll be able to shop for all things Catholic all in one place.
It will also mean that you can compare prices across similar products and multiple Catholic sellers
to ensure that you are getting the best deal possible.
And also very importantly, you can rest assured that when you buy in the Catholic Outpost Marketplace you are supporting Catholic businesses that are faithful to the Catholic Church. The truth is, that when we buy something Catholic from many stores online, we are often buying and supporting companies that also sell anti-catholic material. The Catholic Outpost Marketplace helps to solve this problem.
We’ve just launched the Catholic Outpost ADFAITH Network. This is an advertising network that brings together faithful, Catholic advertisers and faithful, Catholic website publishers. Basically, it’s a Google Adwords and Adsense style program for Catholics.
If you have a Catholic website that is faithful to the magisterium of the Catholic Church then you are eligible to become an ADFAITH Publisher! It’s totally free for you to sign up and place Catholic ads on your website. Then you earn money when your visitors click on your ADFAITH ads. It’s a great way to earn money to support your Catholic website, business, organization or whatever! And you are also helping to build a culture of Truth on the internet because we will only serve you ads from Catholic advertisers that are in line with the teachings of the Church.
And, if you need to reach Catholics through advertising online for your ministry, organization, business, or anything Catholic then you should sign up to be an ADFAITH Advertiser. We give you one interface to upload your ads and start ad campaigns that will appear on numerous popular Catholic websites as well as CatholicOutpost.com. You’ll be able to reach tens of thousands of Catholics while advertising in the ADFAITH Network. And you can be sure that all of your ads will be showing and supporting faithful, Catholic websites that support the teachings of the Church.
The best news is that right now we’re offering some outstanding deals and bonus credits if you fund your advertising account today! You can put in as little as $20 just to try out the network (and we’ll give you $5 extra free). Put in $100 dollars and we’ll give you an additional $100 credit free! So sign up today and take advantage of these great deals while they last and get into the latest and greatest thing in Catholic online advertising!
Now Catholic Outpost makes it easier for you to keep track of what all of your groups are doing. Your Group Activity Feed can be found on your Home page in the My Outpost section after you log in. It contains, in one convenient list, all of the things any of your groups have been doing on Catholic Outpost and provides a link to jump directly to them.
This is just one of the new features on the new Catholic Outpost website that makes it easier for Catholics to communicate and better share resources with the groups they care about. And we are still adding new features all the time. If you haven’t visited www.CatholicOutpost.com in awhile - check it out today and see what you’ve been missing.
First of all, yes, bloggers and podcasters can and should create Catholic Outpost “groups” just to promote their Catholic content. In fact, creating a group on Catholic Outpost is the ideal way to reach more Catholics, share information, and interact with your audience. Anyone that wants to bring Catholics together for a particular reason, interest, or activity should create a group on Catholic Outpost and use it as a tool to grow and better communicate with each other.
And now, Catholic Outpost has made it even easier for groups that have their own RSS feed. Whether you are a blogger, podcaster, or even a Catholic news website you can now share your RSS feed and all of its content with Catholics more easily.
Simply attach your RSS feed to your group (this can be done when creating or editing your group profile) and designate what kind of feed it is. Catholic Outpost will automatically submit all of your RSS feed content into The WIRE database for you. Then the community will be able to search and find your links to your site, comment on them, and rate them all on Catholic Outpost. And of course it all links back to your blog, podcast, or news website.
It’s basically free promotion for your website. So if you are a blogger, podcaster, or Catholic news website, now it is just plain crazy not to set up a group on Catholic Outpost. We hope you’ll all take advantage of this new great feature!
What is Catholic Outpost? Just watch our new 90 second video and find out. It can be found featured on the main page of the website before you log in.
Do you know anyone else in the Catholic community? Then you know somebody who could use Catholic Outpost. Please send them the web link to our front page: www.CatholicOutpost.com. Ask them to take 90 seconds to watch the video. Then ask them to forward and share it with every Catholic that they know. If we all do this we can reach an enormous amount of Catholics to tell them about this great new Catholic website.
The Catholic Outpost quote database has changed - and for the better! Now our database of great Catholic quotes can be found in the “Explore” section of the website. They have their own subheading just for quotes.
Once there, not only can you still search and find all of these great Catholic quotes from the greatest of Catholic saints, theologians, and more, but you can now rate and comment on all of them too.
Didn’t find a favorite quote you were looking for? Now any member of Catholic Outpost can submit quotes to our database (along with news, blogs, podcasts, and library resources too) so they can be shared with everyone.
The Catholic Outpost database is growing to be one of the best catholic quote databases on the internet. Please help us to continue that trend. Find your favorite quotes. Rate them. Comment on them. Submit new quotes and share them with us. Thank you for your support!
Introducing Catholic Outpost content sharing: Now Catholics can submit all of their favorite news, web resources, blogs, podcasts, quotes, audio, and video in one place on the internet. Just check out the ‘Explore’ tab on Catholic Outpost.
Have something on the internet to share with other Catholics? Submit it to Catholic Outpost. There others can find it, rate it, and talk about it. The result is a place where the best of the best of the catholic web can be found and shared with others. Check it out today and help us start building the database with your favorite catholic stuff!
We’ve just added a new feature to let members add and share video on Catholic Outpost! Any group can now submit their own videos to be viewed on their group page where members can discuss and rate them. These videos are also shared with the rest of the Catholic Outpost community through the “Explore” section of the website.
At this time, only YouTube video links can be submitted and shared. Future plans involve accepting links from other video sharing websites as well as direct video uploads.
Now you can get all of your daily readings from the Catholic Outpost website. Each reading is broken up neatly for each day. It even allows you to skip around to future or past dates.
The best part is that not only can you read them easily on Catholic Outpost without ever leaving the site, but you can also get them emailed to you daily or simply subscribe to them by RSS!
Links to the daily readings are sent along with your “My Outpost Snapshot” email which can be sent to you daily, weekly, or not at all. Just check your “account” page under your “My Outpost” tab to adjust your settings.
And for all of you web 2.0 savvy catholics, just subscribe to the RSS feed and get your daily readings conveniently that way. Click here for Catholic Outpost RSS Feeds.
Now groups can create their own polls on Catholic Outpost. Use them to get feedback from your members on any subject you desire - whether it’s just for fun or all business.
It gives the group administrator the ability to create any question and all of the answers, and then allows them to make it private or public. So you can offer a question to anyone and everyone, or restrict it to just your private group membership.
