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Messy Lives Promotion for My Praize Youth Group
Take a look at this flier design for a youth group program called My Praize promoting their theme, “messy lives.” Please share your feedback and consider submitting your church’s work ...
Jakob Nielsen Familiar with Church Marketing?
I thought it was rather interesting in Jakob Nielsen’s Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes (check out our take) that he gave an example from the world of church marketing. Under his ...
Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes
Recently we looked at the Top 10 Web Design Mistakes from Jakob Nielsen, and now he presents the Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes. You can certainly take what Nielsen says ...
Our Don’t Suck List Sucks
We’ve come to the conclusion that our ‘Don’t Suck’ list actually sucks. The goal was to list companies, organizations and resources that could help your church not suck. In reality ...
CMS T-shirt Poll Results
Last week we took a bit of a different approach with our weekly poll and asked if anyone would buy a Church Marketing Sucks T-shirt. We haven’t actually made T-shirts ...
Gay-Friendly Churches
Driving into work yesterday, I was listening to NPR. In the Market Place segment, they were doing a story on the loyalty factor that gays and lesbians have toward brands. ...
Catalyst 2005
I spent the last few days in Atlanta at the sixth annual Catalyst conference, the self-proclaimed event for next generation leaders. For those unfamiliar, Catalyst is the younger, hipper brand ...
Useful Church Web Sites Poll Results
Last week we asked about the usefulness of church web sites. The results didn’t change much from earlier in the week when we had matching responses on either extreme: 12% ...
Performance-Based Salaries for Pastors
I seem to be on a Mark Oestreicher roll this week (actually, I’ve just been catching up on my RSS feeds), but I stumbled across another great entry: Worst Church ...
Lingerie, Dodgeball and Golf Bring People to Church
More and more churches are turning to creative programming to attract people, trying to offer something outside the Sunday morning worship experience to interest visitors. The Washington Post covers a ...
Nuns with Guns
I just about died when I saw this flier. It comes from The Refuse, a Colorado Springs church that submitted their web site for this week’s peer review, and it ...
The Refuse Web Site
Check out the web site of The Refuse, a Colorado Springs church for “the left out and right brained.” Share your feedback in this week’s peer review, and consider submitting ...
Church Growth Fallout
Mark Oestreicher from Youth Specialties has an interesting post using a Raymond Chandler quote to talk about the state of the church: From thirty feet away she looked like a lot ...
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen revealed his Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2005 earlier this week, and church web sites could learn a thing or two. For the most part ...
Free Gas Church in New York Times
Earlier this month we talked about a church giving away free gas to visitors, and last week that church, Clearview Community Church in Sioux City, Iowa, was mentioned in The ...
The Smiling Pastor
An entry over at Tony McCollum’s Churchwerx talks about the power of a smile. McCollum uses the example of General Dwight D. Eisenhower: During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower, supreme ...
How Many Church Visitors Poll Results
Last week’s poll asked how many first-time visitors come to your church each week. 42% of churches have 1-5 visitors each week. 30% have more than 10 each week. But ...