Church Marketing Sucks

Church Marketing Sucks Banners

Spread the word about Church Marketing Sucks with our lovely assortment of banners and linking graphics. Get ’em while they last! We’ve got sizes to fit any web page and styles ...

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Wearing Hats in Church

Last week’s poll asked whether or not it’s acceptable to wear hats during a church service, referring to an earlier post about a church upheaval caused by hats. 41% didn’t ...

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Image Ministries Marketing Samples

These are a few random samples from Image Ministries and their various marketing efforts, mainly because I couldn’t pick just one. If you’d like your stuff to get the peer ...

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Churches Using Advertising

The Boston Herald reports on churches using advertising, though the whopping two examples they give doesn’t illustrate the trend very well. They spend most of their time talking about the ...

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Turning Buildings into Churches

We’re not exactly a church building blog, but I think this article about churches converting old buildings instead of building new ones is pretty cool. The main motivation is that ...

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No Return

Yesterday I met with the president and his management team from a Bible college here in Southern California. They had initiated the meeting a month ago to discuss “marketing.” Even ...

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The Neighborhood Church

Growing churches can quickly draw the ire of surrounding neighbors, especially if churches neglect to be good neighbors—something that should be obvious for Christians. Church expansion plans can change the ...

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The Church That I See

Brian Houston started a church in 1983 and one day sat down and imagined the church he’d love to pastor. That church is Hillsong, the largest independent church in Australia: Before ...

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The Growth of Black Churches in the U.K.

A BBC article on black worshippers in the U.K. says that people of African or Caribbean origin make up 2% of the U.K. population, but account for 7% of church ...

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Leadership Journal: Church Marketing Hoovers

If you check out the summer 2005 issue of Leadership Journal you’ll stumble across a little blurb about your favorite vacuum-themed web site. The piece, titled Church Marketing Hoovers, gives ...

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Verdict on the Redesign

About ten days ago we celebrated our one-year anniversary and posted a significant redesign. Thanks to everyone who gave input on the design and wished us a happy birthday. We ...

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The Christian Imitation

Have you ever seen a “got pepsi?” T-shirt? No. Do you know why? Because Pepsi—and any other company and organization worth their salt—is smart enough to come up with something original. They ...

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Mega Churches: Act of God or Marketing?

A recent article looks at mega churches and asks why they’re growing. Is it God, as most of the churches would say, or is it marketing, like the academics say? ...

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Marketing without Marketing

I came across this interview with David A. Anderson, Senior Pastor of Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, Md., in Church Executive magazine in an article focusing on racial unity. This ...

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The Case of the Missing Church Members

Remember Encyclopedia Brown? He was cool. Solving all those complicated cases with quick thinking. Maybe the Southern Baptist Convention should call Encyclopedia. You see, they’re missing 10 million members. Of the ...

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