Church Marketing Sucks

Pastor Kyle Lake Electrocuted During Baptism Service

The news is spreading pretty quickly, both in the blog world and in the news, but in case you haven’t heard pastor and author Kyle Lake was electrocuted while performing ...

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Anglican Newspaper Banned

Maybe I have an anti-establishment streak, but when an upstart conservative paper is banned by the church, I have to laugh. The Anglican Journal is the official newspaper of the ...

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Realigning vs. Redesigning

Speaking of improving web sites, we were sent a link today about the difference between redesigning a site and realigning it. The main point is that massive redesigns where you ...

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Getting Feedback on Church Marketing

We’ve been offering our peer review since July as a way to help churches help each other. In that time we’ve done 14 reviews and have hopefully offered good feedback ...

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Theology on Tap

More than a few times we’ve heard about outreach efforts involving strong drink, and they make me both wince and smile. I wince because I grew up in a church ...

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Youth Group Hip Hop Flier

This week we take a look at another youth group flier. Offer your feedback and help other church creative folks improve their work. Samples: Flier:…

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Less is More: Before and After at Granger Community Church

Earlier this month Kem Meyer, a guest blogger here at Church Marketing Sucks and the Communications Director at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind., shared some design lessons on her ...

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Denominational Church Marketing

Two recent newspaper articles in the Des Moines Register and the Washington Times (though the Times doesn’t seem to be loading) talk about the marketing efforts of church denominations. The ...

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Starbucks and Rick Warren

USA Today has a great article about the recent Rick Warren Starbucks cup story, in addition to several other mainstream companies that incorporate some sort of God-factor into their marketing ...

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Verdict on the Fallon Church Ads

Last month we talked about some interesting church ads coming out of the UK, and one of those ads was created by the international agency Fallon. Last week we asked ...

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Seacoast Church Web Site

This time around we take a look at the web site of the South Carolina multi-site church, Seacoast. Give your suggestions and don’t forget to consider submitting your church’s marketing ...

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A Story of Two Churches

Let’s take a look at two churches that landed in newspaper stories recently. The first is the 6,000-member CedarCreek Church in Perrysburg, Ohio. The second is the 75-member Bethanie French ...

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Church Marketing Quotes

Check out the Austin American-Statesman for yours truly. Brad and I were quoted in an article about church marketing, though we definitely didn’t have the best quotes. Mac Richard of Lake ...

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Faith-Based Design Submissions

GIA Publications is considering the possible publication of a book on faith-based graphic design. The submission guidelines say that “communications media from any organized worship tradition or denomination are eligible.” ...

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Messy Lives Promotion for My Praize Youth Group

Take a look at this flier design for a youth group program called My Praize promoting their theme, “messy lives.” Please share your feedback and consider submitting your church’s work ...

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