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Job Lab & Freelance Lab Now Open
Churches looking to fill marketing and communications positions or find help with short-term projects have a new place to go. Our non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication, has just ...
You Said It: Comment Roundup
Sometimes here at Church Marketing Sucks, you say something and we think, “Man, why didn’t we say that?” Sometimes it’s a great story of agreement. Sometimes it’s a sharp quip. ...
Meet Joshua Cody, CFCC Intern
You may have noticed the name “Joshua Cody” showing up on a ton of entries lately. Just who is this guy? Glad you asked. He’s our intern and has been ...
Church Marketing Lab LIVE!
Just received some exciting news from the folks at MinistryCOM, I will be hosting the first ever Church Marketing Lab LIVE! at the conference in Nashville, Tenn. Sept. 13-14. It’s ...
Squidoo Likes Us!
Squidoo thinks we deserve to be on its user-ranked Lens of the Year list. For the moment the Church Marketing Sucks lens is sitting at #16, between Tea Junkie and ...
Stopping the Comment Spam
We’ve instituted a new measure to fight comment spam. When you post a comment you’ll be asked to type a word to verify that you’re a real person commenting and ...
National New Church Conference
In April I will be tag-teaming with the one and only Mark Batterson for a pre-conference session at the National New Church Conference in Orlando, Fla. The pre-conference track is ...
NRB’s Reach 2007 Conference
Our very own Brad Abare will be speaking at the NRB’s 2007 Reach Conference next month in Orlando, Fla. The conference is February 17-19 and Brad will be headlining the ...
Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online
Our non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication, was just named one of the Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online. You can read more about it at the CFCC blog. Whoa. We’re ...
Top 5 Must-Read Blogs for Fundraisers
It seems we’re one of the top five must-read blogs for fundraisers. Jeff Brooks, author of the Donor Power Blog and creative director at the ad agency Merkle/Domain, offered up ...
Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators
In my haste to dump some links on you yesterday I forgot one: Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators. It’s a web exclusive from Outreach magazine written by, oh ...
Top 10 Most Commented Entries of 2006
It’s the end of the year and time for lists galore. So we present the top 10 most commented entries of 2006. Of course we’re ignoring the old Peer Review ...
Advertise on CMS
You may have noticed the big new graphic on the right. That’s right, we’re now accepting advertising on Church Marketing Sucks and the Center for Church Communication. It’s part of ...
CMS Store is Closed / Shirts Poll
We hope you got your CMS T-shirts if you wanted them because the Church Marketing Sucks store is now officially closed. Thanks to everyone who ordered a shirt or two ...
Last Day to Order CMS T-Shirts
This is it. Today is your last day to order Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts. After today the store will close and you’ll be out of luck. So scrape your pennies ...
