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Sermon Formats Poll Results

There’s lots of different ways to make your sermons available. In a few years, you’ll probably just be able to stream them live to a chip in your members’ head ...

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Church Marketing: Belgian Style

We had a lot of fun interviewing Drew from England a few weeks ago and hearing what he had to say about church marketing in the UK. So much fun, ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Easter Countdown

There’s only one month and two days until Easter. Are all your graphics ready? If not, head to the Church Marketing Lab, get some inspiration and submit your designs. The ...

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Association vs. Action

Over the last couple of years I was a part of the planning team for a Foursquare sponsored event in Anaheim, Calif., this past December. It was a gathering of ...

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The 30-Day Sex Challenge

Here’s an interesting tidbit about a church campaign to promote, well, sexuality and um, effective sexual habits. (And their current series, of course.) Here’s the skinny: Married couples: Have sex daily ...

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Valentine’s Day Poll Results

Cupid has come and gone, chocolate is now on sale and star-crossed lovers are no longer smelling the roses. Last week, we asked how many of you would be celebrating ...

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Lessons from 15 Compassion International Bloggers

Last week the child sponsorship organization Compassion International took 15 Christian bloggers to Uganda to see what child sponsorship looks like firsthand. Among those bloggers are musician Shaun Groves, BooMama ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Logos and Provocative Posters

We’ve had a great round of our typically beautiful and provocative designs in the Church Marketing Lab this week, and we’re here to show you a little bit of that, ...

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One Word Marketing

Recently, our own Brad Abare raised the question, “What word do you own?” on the Personality™ blog. He discusses a recent Advertising Age article (subscription required) exploring the importance of your ...

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Obama Disses Church Marketing

All right, so it wasn’t that bad, and it’s probably a statement most of you would agree with, but here’s a quote from a Barack Obama speech (video or text), ...

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Wifi Sharing Poll Results

So we’ve talked about your church, the wifi sharer, and last week, we wanted to put stats to our speculation. Here’s what you told us about your own church’s wifi ...

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Microsites, Through the Launch Lens

You’ve probably heard of it, seen it or even participated in it. Many churches launch microsites these days to go with new ventures. Some folks have never even considered a ...

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How to Write Scannable Copy for the Web

I feel like I talk about how to write for the web all the time (and even wrote a long how-to back in August), but we could always use a ...

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Jesus’ Ministry Marketing

If you have a free minute, you might want to check out what Kent Shaffer has to say over at Church Relevance. He’s currently on part three of a four ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Drawing Board to Final Product

In the Church Marketing Lab, it makes us proud to see a project go from concept to completion. We get to watch the entire process and even have the chance ...

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