Church Marketing Sucks

Supporting Pastors Is Good For Marketing

Recently stats have been floating around the Internet that point to the difficulty of being a pastor, including numbers like the following: “80% of pastors say that ministry has negatively affected ...

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A Cool Jesus Sucks

Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What, hits the nail on the head in this interview with the Wittenburg Door. Trying to make Jesus ...

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Designing Web Sites For Teens

Not all teens are techno-geniuses, according to the latest study from usability guru Jakob Nielsen. Youth workers designing sites for teens should pay attention to the results: Design – While teens ...

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10 Easter Outreach Ideas

Rev magazine offers 10 Easter Outreach Ideas. I especially like their introduction which hints at the idea that many churches will be doing Easter outreaches and we don’t need to ...

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Now 17% Less Judgmental

A few months back we had a post about a church T-shirt that included the statement “We suck.” Chris Mikesell (aka Rhinoguy) of Blachly, Ore. commented that a better slogan ...

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Pastor as Manager

Managing a team can be one of the many roles forced on a pastor that they’re sometimes not prepared to handle. Business management isn’t always a skill taught in seminary. ...

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Billy Graham Preaches to the Choir

I’ve been seeing Billy Graham’s face on some of the web sites I regularly visit: ChristianityToday.com and Crosswalk.com. Both are Christian sites and both are carrying ads for a Billy ...

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Web Sites Hook Young Families

An article in Church Executive Magazine is a good reminder of the value of web sites, especially in hooking tech-friendly young families. The author takes his time getting to the ...

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Are Unsolicited Church E-mails Considered Spam?

Several sites have discussed the question of whether or not church e-mail is considered spam. The short answer is no. The Federal CAN SPAM Act went into effect January 1, ...

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Youth Group Computer Lab

The youth group at Simi Valley Presbyterian Church has opened a public computer lab to help students with their homework (read the article in the Ventura County Star, registration required). ...

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Different… ahem… Strokes

Murray Qualitative Research (MQR), a marketing research and consulting service, has just released the results of a study that show how women and men respond differently, in terms of romance, ...

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Easter Outreach

Breakthrough Media offers a few resources and tools for evangelizing this Easter: Why Easter Outreach No Longer Works 18 Factors That Can Really Impact Easter The Most Overlooked Church Growth Factor…

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Homeless Man, Here’s A Home

Danny Westneat of The Seattle Times wrote an article earlier this week about “tent city,” a traveling collection of up to 30 homeless men who plant themselves in church parking ...

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Web Pages That Suck

Web Pages That Suck presents the Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004. It includes some great pointers, including the reminder that your web site exists to meet people’s needs–not yours. ...

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Missions=Marketing

“The church exists for mission, and … a church that is only inward looking is not truly the church.” -Samuel Escobar, The New Global Mission (via CT)…

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