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5 Tools Poll Results
Recently, Paul Armstrong wrapped up a thoughtful series for graphic designers in service of churches: 5 Tools Every Church Designer Needs. It’s a six-part repertoire of high-level skills every designer ...
Job and Freelance Labs: The Latest Opportunities
If you use the Center for Church Communication’s Job Lab and Freelance Lab as your indicator of our nation’s economy, then you’re in pretty high spirits lately. We’ve seen a ...
Who Is Your Competition?
At some point in the life of almost anyone attending or running churches, a strange thing happens. We become confused. We forget the unique business that we’re in, and we ...
What Kind Poll Results
We’re going to talk about advertising. Six years into the journey that is Church Marketing Sucks, we’ll still have people who have tuned out after that introductory sentence. Jon Acuff ...
An Imaginary Church for the Greater Good
Andrew Pautler, a senior graphic design major at the University of Notre Dame, e-mailed us to let us know about a little project he’s been working on: I believe that if ...
Thinking About What Others Will Think
From AZCentral.com: Surprise [The city, not the imperative] Police Chief Dan Hughes says he never meant to offend anyone when he appeared in a church video. Hughes, an elder in a non-denominational ...
Tech Wishes Poll Results
Gizmos, gadgets, and technological marvels abound today. From touchable pads to particle smashers, we’re living in an age of marvels. Your church likely has some sort of magical projector system, ...
An Application for Everyone
We’ve covered mobile church web sites and iPhone applications before, but recently we’ve chatted with a couple of developers whose companies are going the extra mile on this front. It’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
