IHUBApp Faith with Karolyn Hart

Speaker: Karolyn Hart, President IHUBApp

Karolyn Hart: Hello, my name is Karolyn Hart, and I am the founder and President of InspireHUB, the company that has created IHUBapp. I'm so pleased to tell you that today we are bringing our product into the US market for churches. A little bit about me, years ago, when I left for college, it was to go to Bible College and I was seeking God's will for my life. Now, the very first thing that we all know is that one should be careful about praying and asking God to use you however he sees fit. And so it was that although I was in Bible College, I ended up being recruited and working for some of the world's largest financial services firms, and that led me into a career in IT technology and doing large scale implementations, something that I could have never, ever envisioned for myself. Now, the the thing about that is, if I'm being really transparent here, during that season, I remember wondering why on earth was God putting me here. This isn't where I wanted to be. I used to make a joke when people would even ask, what do you mean you went to Bible College and now you're in technology? I would say, well, I guess I put the 'IT' in fai-IT-h. Now, all these years later, God has taken me on an incredible journey, and it has been a journey of faith every step of the way. We built a product really that helped serve churches. Not only did I go to Bible College, but I was inspired because my father is a minister. And then while at Bible College, I ended up marrying a minister's son who I met there. And so to say that the ministry is a part of the DNA of our family would be an understatement. I know firsthand what it means to really want to do good and to do all the things that you desire in your heart for your church, and not having the resources. And so as we were building this platform, it was really with both my father-in-law and my father in mind that I wanted to create a platform that would really help them. Fulfill the mission on their heart, the great commission, the best, the best mission we could all have. And so what you will find with iHUBapp and our technology, is that it has really been designed to provide you a peace of mind. It allows you to have a place where it can not only be your website, if you already have one, no worries, you can use our technology for many different reasons, including volunteer communities and engagement and helping bring in a safe place for all your members to meet. One of the things that our clients, and we do have churches in Canada who are using us, tell us they really appreciate about our platform is how much time it is saving them. The way it works is you create a post inside the platform and it will automatically send out notifications to your members and it will automatically build a personal newsletter based on the different channels that your members subscribe to. So if you have that youth mom, she can subscribe to youth if she sings in the choir, she can subscribe to the choir, and she can also subscribe to a daily devotional. And each week, our system will automatically curate a newsletter for her based on the things that are important to her. Now, we are offering a great deal on all of this. There is a cost to building technology, hosting it, maintaining it, making sure it's safe, stay safe. But I am so pleased that we are providing such a great discount. Usually, the cost of the, the system that we've created is about $200 a month, USD, and we are providing 75% off to churches who sign up and are looking to do this. In addition to that, we are also offering some free consultation and design all to help you in your ministry. I am so excited to bring this to you, and I am hoping that you will really have a lot of engagement from your members and that this is truly, if this is something that you have been saying, hey, we need to be able to be more efficient, we need to be wise stewards, we need to figure out a way to engage beyond Sunday, then I hope that this helps you do that.

Karolyn Hart: Three words to describe IHUBapp. It is definitely a time saver. We created this entire platform with that in mind. If you think about all the disparate technologies, even with everything going on with AI right now, there's still a need for the fundamentals of bringing together everything that someone who needs to communicate with their audience needs, whether that's a website, newsletters, hosting, And the list goes on. And with IHUBapp, it definitely saves time because it's all in one place. And the time that people spent on crafting newsletters, even with AI, even with the ability for AI to write all these things, what it doesn't do is make sure that you know for certain that it is really hitting exact. what your subscribers want. And with our platform, the way it works is that subscribers can join the different channels that you've set up, and then as content goes in there, it automatically assembles newsletters based on their interest and delivers that to them, and also sends out push notifications. And all you've done is have to upload this great content. So it's definitely a time saver. I would also say it's a great optimizer. So one of the things that I love about the platform is that it's not only a website, it's a website that works and it goes to work for you by also giving you an app. It is very powerful. So when people come to the URL, it automatically invites them to install an app if they're on their mobile device and install desktop notifications on their their desktop, and it brings all of that together in a really seamless way. And I also think that at the end of the day, the third word is it's a game changer. It looks at the world and says we can do something far better to help engage with our audiences. And so we have a number of tools that are automatically inside of the IHUBapp. My personal, some of the ones that I love besides the newsletters is also the ability to have that direct messaging between people to sell tickets to events at a fraction of the cost of all the other ticket providers that are in the marketplace. I think that is a really compelling one. We have great modules that you can add on to your pages or your posts, for things like asking for volunteers or getting people to sign up for something that's really important. And so I think when it comes to IHUBapp I would say time saver optimizer, game changer.

Karolyn Hart: You know, there's just a lot of great products coming into the market these days and a lot of them embedded with AI, but I think one of the fundamentals of what we are bringing into the market is really a solid foundation that makes sure that you can engage with your audience in a way that makes sense for them. And with all the AI content that you can now generate and you can bring in, it really still is about how do you engage with your audience? Can your audience come to your website and find it alive and not just static? Is there ways for them to like and comment and have conversations in an actual infinite feed flow that is yours. And it's not just a website, it's a website that works. It brings together a website and it automatically supercharges it and offers apps, and offers notifications. All of that is automatically built and it's done in a secure and compliant way. And when it comes to all of the different technologies out there. For me, I'm not just the creator of IHUBapp, I'm also a client and I use it for myself and my personal speaking engagements and also for some of the books that I write. And it is really something that I haven't been able to find anywhere else in the marketplace.