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Mystery Worshipper Poll Results
We’ve covered mystery worshippers here before. Twice. Some people loved it, others hated it. So we wanted to get your opinion on the idea of asking a stranger how to ...
How Would You Spend $5,000?
Over in the Church Marketing Lab, one church has a problem that lots of you would love to have. How would you spend $5,000 on marketing? Here’s how some folks have ...
Christmas With the Churches Advertising Network
How would you tell someone about Christmas in thirty seconds or less? The Churches Advertising Network in England looked to solve exactly that problem. They asked people to make their own ...
Church Marketing Lab: Christmas Around the Corner
Christmas comes in a mere three weeks, and you know what that means–living Christmas trees, hand bell choirs and old men in Christmas sweaters! It also means that a lot ...
CFCC Thanks Poll Results
For a little bit of Thanksgiving fun, we thought we would see what offering of the Center for Church Communication you’re the most thankful for. Here’s what you had to ...
The Fine Line
Next month Zondervan is releasing The Fine Line by Kary Oberbrunner. This 30-something budding author tackles the subject of Christ and culture in way that is not unfamiliar, yet definitely ...
Church Marketing Sucks at HOW, Save the Date
Many of you out there in the design world recognize the name HOW Design. For those of you that don’t know the name, they focus on design, creativity and business, ...
Protesting the Church
A couple weeks ago more than 1,000 people marched in front of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church to protest his support of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that banned gay ...
Dear Collide, Thank You
Collide Magazine was kind enough to include us in the category of “Best Ministry Blog” for 2008 in their Reader’s Choice Awards. We’re flattered to be listed alongside folks like ...
Texting to Keep Members
Target Marketing Magazine recently published a case study called Retaining the Flock. They take a look at the way one church is making their church more sticky–text messaging. Their pastor ...
Church ‘Walls’ with Graffiti
I received an e-mail the other day from someone—I’ll call him Dave—who is struggling with the idea of using social media sites like Facebook for their church community. He was ...
Church Marketing Lab Poll Results
85% of you know how fond we are of the Church Marketing Lab. (And another 15% of you are either first-time visitors or a little inattentive.) But we wanted to ...
Getting Generous With Your Offering
Waterfront Church has a unique model of marketing themselves as a generous church. They are giving away 100% of what they receive in their offerings to local charities. …members do ...
Church Marketing Around the Web
Here are some of the stories from the past week that have caught our eye but not quite made it all the way to becoming posts, just in case you ...
Marketing to the Last Generation
You’ve probably been to some church event with “next” in the title. Whether it’s “the leadership filter for what’s next in the church” or “the mega super definitive conference for ...
Why Do You Do What You Do?
I see too many people in ministry, whether it’s a pastor, media director or office assistant who would have a difficult time telling you why they do what they do. ...
Trojan Horses, Purple Cows and Broken Windows: An Ode to Mark Batterson
“The greatest message deserves the greatest marketing.” That’s a quote that Mark Batterson repeats again and again, and he lives by it. But that’s not all he has to say about ...