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Catalyst West Tweetup
The Catalyst West event is happening later this week in Orange County, Calif., and more than a few church marketing folks will be there. Worship leader and social media addict ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Teamwork
This is part six in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. You have ...
Church Marketing Directory: Web Design, Research Help and Photography
It’s been over a month since we officially launched the Church Marketing Directory. In that time, we’ve seen over 300 links to various organizations focused on helping the church communicate ...
Leveraging Small Groups for Church Marketing
You don’t need me to tell you we live in a world inundated with marketing. You can’t go to remote China without seeing stickers for Coke or Pepsi peppered around ...
To Cash or Not Poll Results
As a commenter aptly noted, this week’s question might not have been totally bulletproof. But hey, we’re in this for the fun, not the science. We wanted to know if ...
Reworking Church Marketing
There’s a book that recently created a ripple in both the business world and the church world. You may have heard of it… it’s called Rework, by Jason Fried ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Boundaries
This is part five in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. “Hey, I ...
Church Marketing Lab: Life and Design After Easter
We haven’t updated you on the Church Marketing Lab lately, but don’t worry, things have still been going strong. The Easter rush came and went, and churches are settling into ...
Missions Giving vs. Building Fund
My wife and I visited a church we had never been to over Easter weekend. Overall it was a very welcoming community with diversity in the pews and on the ...
Easter Retention Poll Results
Easter has come and gone. Some of you are still wiped out from your 17 services this weekend. Others are feeling renewed from a great time of peace and relaxation. ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Communication
This is part four in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. It seems ...
Stuff Christian Marketers Like: An Interview With Jon Acuff
Recently, we had the chance to chat with Jonathan Acuff about his life and church marketing. You might have heard of a little book he’s got called, you guessed it, ...
Media Firestorm Poll Results
Recently, Ed Young found himself squarely in the crosshairs of the local media. Whether their aim was investigative reporting or something more malicious is a matter of opinion, but either ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Determination
This is part three in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. Your research ...
Inside CFCC: Q&A with the Executive Director
Last week we shared the annual report of our nonprofit parent, the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). This week you can go even deeper into the inner workings of CFCC ...
Recycling Church Web Sites
Park Community Church in Chicago launched a new web site in October of 2009. But what to do with the old site? It’s not a question that’s asked very often, ...
Easter Ideas Poll Results
We’re just around the corner from the annual celebration of the first Sunday after the first Friday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. Humans have come up ...