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Church Marketing Lab: Logos, Videos and an Homage to Colbert
Yesterday we celebrated 1,000 posts on Church Marketing Sucks. But our Church Marketing Lab is nearing 3,000 posts. Here’s some of the action going on in our photo pool this ...
Church Marketing Sucks Turns 1,000!
It might seem like just a few months ago that CMS turned three. Well, now, we’re turning a thousand. That’s right, you’re officially reading our 1,000th post. We thought of ...
Your Church Marketing Transformation
This week we celebrate our 1000th post, and we wanted to stick to what we’re most passionate about–your church marketing. We get tons of e-mails and questions asking about the ...
Job and Freelance Lab Roundup
If you read us often, you’ll know that we love our Job Lab and Freelance Lab. Now as more and more success stories come in, and more and more openings ...
Church Franchises Poll Results
We talked a while back about church franchises and it polarized folks a bit. So we decided the best way to go about things was to take it to the ...
Sexy Church
CNN is giving some church marketing love in their video top stories. It seems as if a church sent out 50,000 mailers entitled “Red Hot Sex” to their community. The ...
Catalyst: The Feelings
Here it is, the good, bad and ugly about the Catalyst conference itself. I think churches can take plenty away from this in how the conference was executed. Most of ...
Church Marketing Lab: Cubes, Tickets and More
I’m just going to be honest. Our Church Marketing Lab is awesome. I didn’t do a lab roundup last week because I was at the Catalyst Conference. I come back ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: The Strangers Among Us
This is part 9 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Moving Church Outside
Well, we’ve discussed whether church buildings suck before. We’ve talked about whether you put a little money or a lot of money into a building. Here’s a new one: Don’t ...
Playing Hookie Poll Results
Nothing like a bad poll question to spice up the beginning of the week. Perhaps I should have asked something like “This site is named Church Marketing Sucks. True or ...
Catalyst: The Facts
This year’s Catalyst conference was the biggest ever. Over 11,000 church leaders gathered to hear from the likes of Rick Warren, Francis Chan, Andy Stanley and more. I didn’t think ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: A Visit from the Mystery Worshipper
This is part 8 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Church Marketing Lessons from a Women’s Homemaking Course
So Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is offering college-level coursework in homemaking–sewing, cooking, parenting. It’s part of a humanities degree with a concentration in homemaking, and it’s only for women. While jaws ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: One is the Loneliest Number
This is part 7 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Fall Kickoff Poll Results
Last week, we asked whether or not your church was going to make waves with a fall kickoff service. Youth groups are starting back up, people are coming back from ...
Don’t Be Afraid to Advertise
The Delmarva Daily Times recently discussed church marketing and included our very own Brad Abare. You should check it out. The article discusses religious leaders choosing “new” ways to advertise. And ...