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Marketing Waste: Measuring Success
This is part 2 of a 4 part series on using your marketing budget effectively. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of Tim’s money-saving advice. We ...
Stop Wasting Money On Marketing
This is part 1 of a 4 part series on using your marketing budget effectively. Whoa, hey now! I thought this blog was all about marketing. What’s with the title? Notice I ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Working With Firms & Freelancers
This is part eight in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss working with freelancers and firms. Having both owned my own creative firm in the past ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Working With Volunteers
This is part seven in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss working with volunteers. Love ’em or hate ’em, volunteers are here to stay. And here’s ...
Franchising Church
We’re living in modern times. Everything is outsourced, and everything is franchised. Why should church be any different? Todd Rhoades at Monday Morning Insight discusses this model of church planting ...
Oops: Mistakes in Church Leadership
Craig Groeschel is sharing four mistakes he’s made at LifeChurch.tv. I think it’s always helpful when people share their mistakes so you can learn from them and hopefully not make ...
Mad Church Disease Awareness
The good thing about Church Marketing Sucks is that we’re people. People have friends. Thus, we have friends. Anne Jackson comes out of this simple logic. She’s written for us ...
9 Ways to Use Google Apps in your Church Marketing
In the computer world, there’s three things I’m crazy for. Macs, Quicksilver, and Google. (No, it’s not just search.) Macs aren’t so much church marketing related (except, of course, that ...
Visitors, Beer and Sex–Oh My!
Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we ...
Church Staff Free Agents
Ooh, ooh, did you hear the news? Forget about that Beckham guy, Tony Morgan, former pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. and one of the Simply Strategic guys ...
The Money-Back Guaranteed Tithe
Here’s something different. LifeChurch.tv, the church with locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and online is offering a three-month tithing challenge. Give for three months. If God doesn’t deliver on his ...
Lessons from a Chuch Plant
Looks like we’re not the only ones celebrating two years. Ridge Stone Church in Canton, Ga. just celebrated its two-year anniversary and Pastor Gary Lamb shared his 21 Lessons from ...
Money and the Church
Money is always a touchy issue, especially for churches. There can easily be issues, whether actual or perceived. And while actual abuses cause enormous problems, I’d guess it’s the perceived ...
The Ins and Outs of Sponsorship for Churches
I was browsing the web site for T.D. Jakes’ 2006 MegaFest Conference and noticed something quite interesting: Coca-Cola, Pine-Sol and Clorox have signed on as sponsors of the larger than ...
Pastors Overworked; Numbers Underchecked
Everybody and their brother is linking to a post by Mark Driscoll about how pastors are overworked. Amen. We’ve said this before and it’s definitely true. Driscoll offers some good ...
