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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm
In The Comeback Effect, we are asked to think about the connections we make with guests through their experiences. What exactly is hospitality? How do we practice it intentionally? And why is this so important for church growth?
December 17, 2019
Time to Dream It All up Again
We’re taking a break to go away and dream it all up again. But the archives are here and we've got other helpful initiatives.
Thank you. Keep telling the greatest story ever told.
Saddleback’s Big Ask
You might have heard that Rick Warren made headlines last week with his end-of-year financial ask: They needed $900,000. They got $2.4 million. Some lauded their commitment to stay within ...
Losing Your Message but Gaining Publicity
Just before Christmas, a church in New Zealand launched a new billboard that received extensive coverage from news outlets and blogs around the world. The church was aiming to leverage the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...
Cash for Clicks: Yule Log 4 A Cause
The good folks at The Chapel in Chicago have come up with an interesting idea to spread the word and the warmth this year. It’s called Yule Log 4 A ...
Called to Consistency & Living in Brokenness
From the beginning one of the communications issues we’ve continually harped on is that some of the very worst marketing for churches is Christians themselves. So often we’re a poor ...
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 ...
Free Advice: Don’t Offend Those You Hope to Reach
Recently, a church in the San Diego area hosted an event, and then came under some heat. You can read the full story on San Diego’s 10news.com, but here is ...
Do You Need a Web Site?
I’m speaking next week to a group of college pastors, and I’m struggling. The first session is about church, communication and creativity … no problems there. The second session is ...
Church Marketing Lab: Invitations and Series
In case you’re keeping score, we’re just a hair shy of 10,000 uploads to the photo pool in the Church Marketing Lab. And nearly 4,000 members, to boot! That’s great ...
Church Size and Spiritual Belief
Church size matters. Well, not really, but it can have an interesting affect on the spiritual beliefs of a congregation. Despite the persistent perception that mega-churches somehow water down the ...
The Smithsonian and Social Media Strategy
What do this, this and this all have in common? Someone thought they were a great idea, and they thought wrong. And sure, we can laud their creators for being ...
Churches Being Thankful
Sure, our name is Church Marketing Sucks, but above all, we like to see churches getting it right. Thanksgiving is a time when churches tend to stay out of hot-button ...
