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Death of a Podcast?
Tony Morgan, over at his blog, discussed the end of Yahoo! podcasts a while back. The service shut down, and it begs the question: Is podcast listenership in decline? He ...
Lessons In Not Sucking, Communication In Print
This is part two in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss communication in print. This is all in the context of marketing so it’s important to ...
Best and Worst Logo Redesigns
Judging from the comments and questions we get in the Church Marketing Lab it seems like logos have to be one of the hardest challenges for church marketers. But have ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Communication Online
This is part one in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss communication online. 1. Lower the draw bridgeWhether it be your web site, blog, My Space or ...
Marketing Without Trying
Seth Godin offers us a simple and succinct lesson in marketing: Even when you don’t try, you’re telling a story. That’s why church marketing often sucks. We don’t want to admit we’re ...
Marketing: What They Said
A couple good lists have been floating around, and we thought we’d point you in their direction. First, Monday Morning Insight references a Willow magazine list of 15 innovations the church ...
Hire Your Staff Poll Results
Last week we gave you the opportunity to restructure your church marketing efforts with an unlimited budget. The first place you said you would hire is … A teaching pastor. It ...
Lessons In Not Sucking
This week begins a little series I’m doing that I’ve titled “Lessons In Not Sucking.” Much of the content has culminated and been cultivated over the years here at Church ...
Interviews with Bloggers
Apparently press coverage comes in spurts. Last week we were in How magazine, this week Church Marketing Sucks is featured in a series of blogger interviews from Issue Dynamics. You ...
CMS in How Magazine
If you’re flipping through the December 2007 issue of How magazine you might see something familiar–this site. There’s a screenshot of Church Marketing Sucks on page 104 in an article ...
Church Marketing Lab: Compassion, Revivals and More
As we near the 3,000 submissions mark in our Church Marketing Lab (it will probably come this week), we wanted to let you know what’s been going on lately. Here’s ...
Willow Creek’s 30-Year Apology
Christianity Today‘s blog, Out of Ur, posted last week about Willow Creek’s big apology as it relates to how Willow has been wrong in their approach to church for the ...
You Said It: July, August, September, October Comment Roundup
I love comments. I don’t know how you guys feel about them, but they’re generally more insightful than whatever we wrote in the first place. To those of you who ...
Church Conferencing Poll Results
MinistryCOM, Innovate, Buzz, Catalyst, Internet Ministry, Promise Keepers, denominational conferences, Leadership Summit, Passion, Willow Creek Arts, Origins, Saddleback Worship, Unleash, Exponential Church Planting, Church Technology, National Youth Pastors, National New ...
Does Marketing the Church Suck?
Throw down the gloves. Hide the women and children. Have an ambulance in the vicinity. Christianity Today is looking for a fight. All right, only kidding. But they recently posted ...
Lend A Helping Hand
Looking through our Church Marketing Lab, a couple discussion caught my eye. I thought that our CMS readers could certainly add value to these discussion. For starters, user tap57 is ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Looking Back
Many of you were with us through our entire series on Church From a Visitor’s Perspective. Others of you haven’t checked it out yet. For those of you who missed ...