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Joshua Cody's Posts:
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Church Marketing Moderation
A lot of times, we talk about (obviously) how church marketing sucks. What churches have done wrong, what they could do better, how they could go farther, or where they ...
Church Marketing Lab: Wonder, Family Life, and Kids’ Weekends
This week, we saw the first day of autumn. I checked the Church Marketing Lab for designs of foliage, football, and all fall colors, but I didn’t come up with ...
Announcements Poll Results
Sometimes when you’re at church you hear the words, “Let’s go ahead and bring up our [blank], Mr./Mrs. [blank] for the announcements.” Sometimes, when you’re at church, you hear a ...
Church Marketing Lab: Icons, Route 56 & More
We’re here again to let you know a little bit of what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Here’s a sample of some of the submissions we’ve seen ...
Marketing Focus Poll Results
Last week we asked you where your church concentrates its marketing efforts the most. The most popular place to concentrate efforts was, not surprisingly, Sunday mornings. 24% of your churches ...
The Art of the Critique
Sometimes there’s something that’s just so good in the Church Marketing Lab that it needs to migrate to our front page here. This is one of those occasions. User “wiseacre photo” ...
