Archive for July 2009

poll-results Article
July 14, 2009

Growing Church Poll Results

It’s a point of curiosity for us to know about our readers’ churches. It helps us get a better picture of what to cover and how to cover it. So ...

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web-sites Article
July 13, 2009

Web Usability and Donations

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently wrote an article entitled Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities. In it, he discusses the virtues of creating a usable online ...

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peer-review Article
July 10, 2009

Church Marketing Lab: Heroes, Asian heroes and Female Sexuality

Think your design or idea is too out-there or unusual to execute or to post in the Church Marketing Lab? Well, this is one of those updates that will let ...

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events Article
July 9, 2009

2009 HOW Design Conference Wrap-Up Report

I’m a week late posting this, as I really struggled how to put the HOW Design Conference in words. It was really quite incredible to simply be invited to speak ...

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poll-results Article
July 8, 2009

Guns in Church Poll Results

One church recently asked members to bring their guns to church. A whole heap of you weighed in with your comments, but we wanted to give you some cut-and-dry options ...

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demographicsresearch Article
July 7, 2009

Why People Pick a Church

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: Over at Church Relevance Kent Shaffer answered a question about why people pick a church. He shares the results of three different studies, but ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
July 6, 2009

Come and Care

I spent 90 minutes last week with a pastor from the northeast who was visiting Los Angeles for a few days. He moved to the United States from Ghana 20 ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
July 3, 2009

Christians Are Crazy Protestors

Phil Cooke and Think Christian have recently covered a marketing stunt by Electronic Arts surrounding the release of a new game, Dante’s Infrerno. Here’s a bit of what happened: The game ...

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demographicsresearch Article
July 2, 2009

Scalejacking and Performance Metrics

Jeff Goins recently posted at Wrecked for the Ordinary entitled Marketers, Quit Hijacking Our Communities. In it, he makes some great points regarding marketers’ obsession with numbers and metrics. I’ll give ...

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the-christian-walk Article
July 1, 2009

The Power of a Testimony

It doesn't matter what you claim about your product, but it does matter that some of the people who have used your product share their experience.

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