Archive for August 2005

evangelism-outreach Article
August 22, 2005

Church Ice Cream Truck

Thanks to the USA Today tip, we heard about New Life Christian Church in Centreville, Va. and their ice cream truck. They spent $10,000 on an ice cream truck and ...

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demographicsresearch Article
August 22, 2005

Hey Look, Church Marketing!

USA Today covered church marketing yesterday with the headline, “God is cool.” The story covers the growing trend of churches doing marketing, including the following techniques: An ice cream truck passing ...

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poll-results Article
August 22, 2005

Church Web Site Poll Results

Last week’s poll asked if your church had a web site, and 79% of churches did have a web site. Though that sounds like good news, 43% of people said ...

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brand-identity Article
August 20, 2005

Attack Ads from the Pulpit?

One of the the basic principles of good marketing is to focus on the power of your own product (i.e. the VW campaigns that focus on the “cool” factor of ...

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peer-review Article
August 19, 2005

Saturday Service Mailer

This week’s peer review is more of a case study, since it already went out and we know the results, but it’s still valuable to review the strategy and design ...

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news-updates Article
August 18, 2005

New Guest Blogger Jennifer Laycock

Say hello to Jennifer Laycock, the newest guest blogger for Church Marketing Sucks. Jennifer is a search engine expert who consults for companies on search engine markteing. She’ll be sharing ...

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brand-identity Article
August 18, 2005

The First Vagabonds Church of God

Back in May, Kevin posted about choosing a church name. There’s been a definite shift over the past several years of churches looking for a new identity. The name of ...

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advertising Article
August 18, 2005

Free $25 Google AdWords Credit

With all the recent talk about search engine marketing, Derek at Woodland Baptist Church in Bradenton, Fla. pointed out that you can get a $25 credit for Google AdWords if ...

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news-updates Article
August 16, 2005

The Church Marketing Sucks E-mail Newsletter

You may have noticed the e-mail newsletter sign-up in our lefthand sidebar, which is a new feature that came with our recent redesign. We offer a few different lists for ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
August 15, 2005

Ministry as Marketing

One complaint we often hear about marketing is that churches should just do something instead. Actions speak louder than words. If we get out in the community and do what ...

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poll-results Article
August 15, 2005

Keyword Advertising Results

Last week’s survey asked about search engine marketing and the results are interesting. Of our 83 responses (which is a new low—so was it a busy week or a boring ...

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demographicsresearch Article
August 12, 2005

Integrating Visitors into Your Church

There’s been plenty of discussion on our Reasons to Use Direct Mail post. One of the comments hinted at some research about visitors and I followed up with the commenter, ...

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peer-review Article
August 11, 2005

Missions Sunday Bulletin

It’s Missions Sunday at Westgate Chapel, or at least it was a few weeks ago. For this week’s peer review we take a look at their bulletin. You can always ...

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mass-media Article
August 11, 2005

Australia’s “Jesus: All About Life” Campaign

A new $250,000 marketing campaign is trying to promote Jesus to Australians. The “Jesus: All About Life” campaign has raised money from various churches and ministries and will run TV, ...

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technology Article
August 11, 2005

Met Storch, Need Words

This past weekend I had the privilege of spending some time with Terry Storch from Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas. If you know of Terry, you know he has just ...

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