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Authenticity Wins Again
Values like transparency, authenticity and connectedness date back to some of our earliest entries when we started Church Marketing Sucks three years ago. When I’m given the opportunity to speak ...
T-Shirts Ain’t Cheap
Last week in the Church Marketing Lab, you suggested ideas for how to plan a creative meeting. Some of your feedback included nuggets like: Use rotating members to keep your meetings ...
It Came From The Lab!
I know you’ve been wondering, “What’s going on over in the Church Marketing Lab this week?” Luckily, I have the answer to that question for you. Check out some of ...
Church “Mascots” for Children’s Ministry?
Recently I was part of a team of people that used a store mascot to do some local marketing. OK, I was the guy dressed up as a giant A&W ...
Passion Poll Results
With five days left until Easter, we have our Passion Week poll hot of the press. Surprisingly, only 3% of your churches place their strongest focus on Good Friday. I ...
Understanding Attack Blogs
There’s a new and unfortunate trend in church disputes that you’ve likely heard of by now: the attack blog. Attack blogs are most commonly established by members within the ...
Palm Sunday, Going Green
I read a great article in the New York Times this morning about churches that have gone green for Palm Sunday by purchasing eco-palms. These palms are slightly more expensive, ...
How Do You Do Plan a Sermon Series?
A lot of helpful and interesting discussion happens in the Church Marketing Lab–it’s not all fancy designs and comments. We’d like to start highlighting some of those discussions and allow ...
It Came From the Lab!
While we wrap up another successful week over at the Church Marketing Lab, we wanted to plug everyone here at Church Marketing Sucks into what’s been going on. Recently, we ...
Buzz Reminder, April 3 Deadline
Just a reminder that the April 3 deadline to take advantage of the $70 discount for the second annual Buzz Conference is a few days away. Mark and team are ...
Remarkable
I was watching a talk delivered by Seth Godin at Google, and he said something that was profoundly self evident. “[Remarkable] doesn’t mean beautiful or ideal or perfect. It only means ...
The Problem with Potlucks
The potluck dinner is a staple in many churches, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. A longtime friend of mine (we bonded over Petra) has been blogging about food and ...
Beg, Borrow and Steal
Last week, we asked what your church’s philosophy is on borrowing materials. 252 of you weighed in, and after a week at the polls … 37% of you took the high ...
Church Marketing Lab LIVE!
Just received some exciting news from the folks at MinistryCOM, I will be hosting the first ever Church Marketing Lab LIVE! at the conference in Nashville, Tenn. Sept. 13-14. It’s ...
Puns, Revisited
Reuters is bring worldwide attention to the crucial issue of church puns. Initially, I thought this was becoming a pundemic (I know. It’s not even funny anymore). Now, churches seem ...
RSS For Your Church
So today, I was thinking to myself, “Self, those guys over at the Barna Group have some pretty neat statistics, why don’t you subscribe to their RSS feed?” Problem. I searched. And ...
Squidoo Likes Us!
Squidoo thinks we deserve to be on its user-ranked Lens of the Year list. For the moment the Church Marketing Sucks lens is sitting at #16, between Tea Junkie and ...