Archive for the ‘News & Updates’ Category

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February 25, 2010

Jobs and Freelance Gigs in the New Year

The New Year has brought plenty of jobs and freelance opportunities to the Job Lab and Freelance Lab. If you’re in the market to help the church communicate and make ...

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January 29, 2010

Church Marketing Sucks Redesign

If you’re not keeping up with the Freelance Lab and Job Lab, you might have missed this note. Church Marketing Sucks and our parent organization, the Center for Church Communication, ...

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January 14, 2010

New CFCC Leadership

A few weeks back we hinted at a coming official announcement about the board of directors for the Center for Church Communication (our nonprofit parent). That announcement is here. It’s ...

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January 12, 2010

Why Can’t Christians Be Original?

Encouraging the church not to be a copycat is a popular topic around here. The subject landed a spot in our top 10 posts of 2009 and was your pick ...

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January 4, 2010

The Top 10 Posts of 2009

In our look back at 2009 we’ve covered the most hotly debated posts, the top CFCC news, the best tweets and we’re asking you for the best advice of 2009 ...

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December 31, 2009

Best @cmsucks Tweets of 2009

We started the official Church Marketing Sucks Twitter feed earlier this year and we’ve been having a lot of fun with it. And since ‘best of the year’ lists are ...

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December 30, 2009

Top CFCC News of 2009

We’ve had a good year here at Church Marketing Sucks, along with our nonprofit parent the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). It’s a bit self-indulgent, but as we look back ...

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December 29, 2009

Most Hotly Debated Posts of 2009

With 2009 quickly coming to a close and everyone releasing their end-of-the-year and end-of-the-decade lists we thought we’d play along. So here is the first of several ‘top of 2009’ ...

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December 18, 2009

Get a Job for Christmas

What’s the gift that keeps on giving? That’s right, employment. As you look to start 2010 off right, we’d like to humbly suggest our Job Lab and Freelance Lab for ...

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November 18, 2009

Live Interview with Church Marketing Gurus

Tune in tomorrow, Nov. 19 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT), as Conversant Life does a live interview with Phil Cooke and Brad Abare. They’ll be talking church marketing ...

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October 13, 2009

We’re on Facebook

We’ve recently been diving into the world of social media and content as status updates with our foray into Twitter. Now we’ve joined the Facebook bandwagon as well, utilizing much ...

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October 8, 2009

Values of the CFCC Community

This is a follow up to my post earlier this week about the purpose of the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). Communicating the values and purpose of CFCC are in ...

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October 6, 2009

Purpose of the CFCC Community

As a follow up to my post last week about purpose, values, vision and mission, it seems appropriate to communicate the purpose and values of the Center for Church Communication ...

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October 1, 2009

Thanks to Clover, faithHighway, Integrity Music and Wix

We need to give a big shout out of thanks to our current CFCC Ad Network members: Clover provides affordable web sites for churches. faithHighway helps churches reach their communities with web ...

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September 19, 2009

Follow-Up to the Rick Warren/Spec Work Debate

On Thursday evening we posted an entry trying to address the issue of spec work through the current example of Rick Warren’s book cover design contest. In less than 24 ...

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