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Church E-mail Poll Results
Last week we asked how often your church sends e-mail updates, and the majority (38%) send weekly e-mails. But a lot of churches aren’t taking advantage of e-mail: 28% don’t ...
CMS @ YS: Check Out Our Booth
Church Marketing Sucks is at the Youth Specialties National Youth Worker Convention in Nashville this weekend. Stop by the booth if you’re there. Not that we’ll be there—or anybody for ...
Do It Yourself Church Marketing
Ah. You gotta love this cartoon from CartoonChurch.com. Right on the money. If you haven’t been to Cartoon Church (we’ve plugged it before) you should check it out. They’ve got great ...
Priest Idol: Church as Reality TV
A dying church in a small British town. A young American priest. A mission to revitalize a congregation of less than ten. It doesn’t exactly sound like the basis for ...
Riverbluff Church Web Site Review
This week’s peer review tackles another web site. Share your feedback and suggestions in the comments. Samples: Screenshot: (riverbluff.org)…
Church Business Applied to the Airline Industry
Perry Noble, pastor of New Spring Church in Anderson, S.C. has an interesting blog entry imagining what would happen if church business practices were applied to the airline industry. It’s ...
How’d You Hear About CMS?
Last week we asked how you heard about Church Marketing Sucks, and the results are pretty interesting. The vast majority found us online, 70% coming from search engines, other web ...
National Outreach Convention 2005
I just returned from the National Outreach Convention in San Diego. As this was just the third annual convention for Outreach, the future of this conference has lots of potential. Overview: There ...
My Lame Marriage Campaign
For this peer review we take a look at the “My Lame Marriage” marketing campaign put on earlier this fall in Austin, Texas. Samples: Billboard: Invite card (front): Invite card (back): Mobile billboard:…
Blogging Church Interviews CMS
If you check out this week’s Blogging Church Podcast you can hear the voice of Church Marketing Sucks. Terry Storch interviewed Brad Abare and I as we talked blogs and ...
Church Communications Conference Poll
Last week we asked if you’d attend a church communications conference and the results are in: 44% said ‘sign me up.’ Another 4% have already been to a church communications ...
More on Mega-Churches
Ah, yet another article on mega-churches, this time from Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine (that’s where I live!). The Twin Cities are actually a breeding ground for mega-churches. According to the article ...
Church Web Sites Linking to Pastor’s Blogs
More from Mark Oestreicher, this time around the Church Bureaucracy Award of the Month. I know Mark doesn’t actually produce these items (like Worst Church Idea of the Month) on ...
Upstream Logo Review
In this peer review we’re examining some potential logos for a community church plant in Australia. Samples: Logo 1: Logo 2: Logo 3: Logo 4:…
Worship House Media
Check out a new resource for creative churches: Worship House Media. It’s basically an iTunes for worship media products. You can purchase all kinds of resources, including software, video, motion graphics, ...
Is Your Church a Safe Church?
The DesMoines Register covered church security this weekend, a topic that usually doesn’t get a lot of attention. Some of those church safety precautions include: Training and screening church leaders and ...
Faith-Based Marketing Summit
We’re a bit late to the game on this one, but the first annual Faith-Based Marketing Summit meets in Dallas on Friday. It’s not specifically about church marketing, but faith-based ...