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Some hear “SEO” and adrenaline starts pumping, veins pulse and palms sweat in excitement as you dream of rising to Google’s top result. More of you probably hear “SEO” and ...
Nobody Cares About Your Web Site
Media Salt has a great article, whose title I shamelessly stole here, focusing on what your church can look like on the web. Their basic idea? If you’re still struggling to ...
Be Generous, Creatively
For many, a down economy is a frightful time. Luckily, as we’ve noted before, God is not taking part in the recession. This is a prime opportunity for churches to ...
Homeless Marriage, Church Marketing and Simplicity
Somewhere along the way down this road of the church in America, we picked up some buzzwords. Then, those buzzwords picked up some baggage. Things started one way, but they ...
Where Do I Begin?
From a recent post in the lab: Hello all… I am new to this board, although I have been frequenting Church Marketing Sucks for quite some time. We have been in ...
Updates From the Events Lab
We wanted to give you a reminder that Michael Buckingham, of CFCC and Holy Cow fame, will be speaking again this year at the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. ...
1,500 and Going Poll Results
As we passed 1,500 posts on Church Marketing Sucks, we thought it was a great time to ask you, the reader, what you wanted to see more of in the ...
Heath Brothers on Going Viral
Their monthly column in Fast Company is always a great read, and this month is no exception when the Made to Stick brothers Dan Heath and Chip Heath give us ...
Taking Church Beyond Sunday
So that Compassion blogging indie rocker Shaun Groves has a sarcastic little blog post about how church leaders in the developing world don’t get it. They’re doing goofy things like ...
Church Marketing Lab: Summer Fun and More
This week in the Church Marketing Lab, we hit 8,000 pieces submitted. It’s come a long way since this announcement. One thing that still hasn’t gotten old is to see ...
What’s the Story?
It’s been a week of exciting news in the world of church communications events. First on the list, the Center for Church Communication is excited to announce a new conference, ...
Church Copycats
Recently, I came across Godwitter.com via the xpirimental blog. My palms became sweaty, my heart sped up, my stomach twisted and my mind went back to the service formerly known ...
Tweet Tweet Poll Results
Recently, my mother asked me, “Do you twit?” I’ll give you a little context for why this matters. I’ve never even heard her use the term “Facebook,” although once, after ...
Advertising Age Explores Church Marketing
The fundamental principles of church marketing have been explored here exhaustively. But it’s always good to keep getting back to the basics and exploring the building blocks of church marketing. ...
The Failure of Church Marketing
In a recent article published on wrecked.org, Jonathan Foster takes some shorts at church marketing. The article is entitled The Failure of Church Marketing, and he goes through a fairly ...
Church Marketing Lab: Three Posters and a Billboard
The Church Marketing Lab has been booming lately. We’ve been discussing how long people keep old files around, how to target a specific audience, how to promote without bulletin inserts ...
Churches Should Learn to Shut Up Too
The Harvard Business Blog recently published an article entitled When to Keep Your Mouth Shut, taking a look at the high cost of over-communicating. They give some examples: continuing to ...