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Overnight Web Site Challenge
A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours. Public ...
Shopping for God: The Book
Over the Christmas break I took a couple of days and read James B. Twitchell’s latest book, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart To In Your ...
Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007
We can’t all be super techies. Not everyone has an intimate understanding of every new technology trend or can keep pace with all the Twittering, Digging or StumbleUponing. But never ...
Presidential Marketing Poll Results
If you’ve kept up with the presidential race at all, you’ve been bombarded with tricky ploys, clever slogans, crazy ads and a thousand other marketing moves. So we wanted to ...
Mission, Vision, People
I blogged an entry recently on Personality‘s site about knowing the mission, doing the vision and treating people really well. It’s an approach I learned a few years ago from Jared ...
Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them
We see from the Blogging Pastor Poll Results that were posted back in November that 72% of pastors aren’t blogging successfully. I can’t imagine that the percentage has changed over ...
Church Marketing Lab: Financial Freedom to New T-Shirts
We thought you might be interested to know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab over the past week and a half, so here’s a little taste for ...
Church Marketing in the UK
I came across Drew McCarty in the Church Marketing Lab, and he was looking for some advice for a church plant (Drew’s note: new web site coming soon) that was ...
A Reader’s Resolution
Happy New Year friends! I am writing to share my 2008 resolution… I pray that 2008 brings with it the day that we no longer debate the need for church ...
Pray for Competition
As we pursue the unique calling that God has for each one of us individually and collectively, both as ministers and as ministries, we are foolish if we care not ...
Doing Design Poll Results
Last week, we wanted to know how your church goes about doing its design. Full time? Part time? No time? Here’s how you broke it down: 34% of you can’t afford ...
You Get What You Preach For
When you preach salvation, people come to know Jesus.When you preach about loving Jesus, people become better lovers of Jesus.When you preach prosperity, people want to be prosperous.When you preach ...
Church Marketing New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s resolutions never work. Let’s face it, you’ll probably be too busy to get organized. And somehow chocolate will be the downfall of your diet. So maybe you could ...
Underpromise and Overdeliver
Seth Godin, one of our favorite marketing gurus, had some good advice recently. Underpromise and overdeliver. This is a little different but particularly pertinent for the church. We can’t overpromise. We ...
Christmas is Broken
Now that the Christmas season is over (unless you celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, in which case keep on rockin’!) I think it’s fair to say that Christmas is ...
2008 Goals Poll Results
Last week, getting ready for the New Year, we wanted to know your church marketing goals for 2008. Here’s what you had to say … The largest portion of you, 27%, ...
Church Marketing Lab in the New Year
Why not start your New Year right and help church marketing to no longer suck? Head to the Church Marketing Lab and add to the conversation. Here’s what we’ve seen ...