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Church Marketing Directory: Web Design, Research Help and Photography

It’s been over a month since we officially launched the Church Marketing Directory. In that time, we’ve seen over 300 links to various organizations focused on helping the church communicate ...

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Leveraging Small Groups for Church Marketing

You don’t need me to tell you we live in a world inundated with marketing. You can’t go to remote China without seeing stickers for Coke or Pepsi peppered around ...

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To Cash or Not Poll Results

As a commenter aptly noted, this week’s question might not have been totally bulletproof. But hey, we’re in this for the fun, not the science. We wanted to know if ...

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Reworking Church Marketing

There’s a book that recently created a ripple in both the business world and the church world. You may have heard of it… it’s called Rework, by Jason Fried ...

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5 Tools Church Designers Need: Boundaries

This is part five in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. “Hey, I ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Life and Design After Easter

We haven’t updated you on the Church Marketing Lab lately, but don’t worry, things have still been going strong. The Easter rush came and went, and churches are settling into ...

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Missions Giving vs. Building Fund

My wife and I visited a church we had never been to over Easter weekend. Overall it was a very welcoming community with diversity in the pews and on the ...

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Easter Retention Poll Results

Easter has come and gone. Some of you are still wiped out from your 17 services this weekend. Others are feeling renewed from a great time of peace and relaxation. ...

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5 Tools Church Designers Need: Communication

This is part four in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. It seems ...

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Stuff Christian Marketers Like: An Interview With Jon Acuff

Recently, we had the chance to chat with Jonathan Acuff about his life and church marketing. You might have heard of a little book he’s got called, you guessed it, ...

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Media Firestorm Poll Results

Recently, Ed Young found himself squarely in the crosshairs of the local media. Whether their aim was investigative reporting or something more malicious is a matter of opinion, but either ...

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5 Tools Church Designers Need: Determination

This is part three in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. Your research ...

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Inside CFCC: Q&A with the Executive Director

Last week we shared the annual report of our nonprofit parent, the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). This week you can go even deeper into the inner workings of CFCC ...

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Recycling Church Web Sites

Park Community Church in Chicago launched a new web site in October of 2009. But what to do with the old site? It’s not a question that’s asked very often, ...

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Easter Ideas Poll Results

We’re just around the corner from the annual celebration of the first Sunday after the first Friday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. Humans have come up ...

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