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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm

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?

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Monitoring Your Church Online
May 5, 2009

Monitoring Your Church Online

Remember a long, long time ago, when you were first thinking about church marketing? You had that argument with someone about whether stats mattered and whether churches should even keep ...

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Twittering the Sermon
May 4, 2009

Twittering the Sermon

The micro-blogging service Twitter has been soaring in popularity lately, and now the intersections between church and Twitter will get even more attention with this Time magazine article, Twittering in ...

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Technology X for Your Church
May 4, 2009

Technology X for Your Church

Media Salt recently answered the question, “When can we start using [insert Internet technology here] for our church?“ Perhaps it’s Twitter. Perhaps it’s Facebook. Maybe it’s a sharper site or and ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Let’s Discuss
May 1, 2009

Church Marketing Lab: Let’s Discuss

So normally in the Church Marketing Lab, we have some wonderful pieces posted and some incredible feedback that helps folks improve their skills. We thought we would take a break ...

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Churches Moving from Success to Significance
April 30, 2009

Churches Moving from Success to Significance

We’ve talked about Jim Collins’ Good to Great before, but a Leadership Journal article (admittedly from 2003, but relevant for today) explores churches that are moving from great to good. The ...

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Religions are Changing
April 29, 2009

Religions are Changing

CNN reports on a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life about the way people change their faith. These changes can be within a single religion ...

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Church Saves $268,000 By Going Green
April 28, 2009

Church Saves $268,000 By Going Green

The First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., which has about 6,000 in attendance on Sunday mornings, implemented an energy savings plan in the last year and managed to save $268,000. ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Posters, Newspaper Ads and More
April 24, 2009

Church Marketing Lab: Posters, Newspaper Ads and More

It’s been another great week in the Church Marketing Lab. It’s so great to see conversations start and grow there in a way they couldn’t on Church Marketing Sucks alone. ...

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The Soloist
April 24, 2009

The Soloist

Thanks to the kindness of a well connected friend, I attended an advance screening of The Soloist, releasing in theaters across the country today. The movie stars Jamie Foxx and ...

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Is Your Church Cooking Guinea Pigs?
April 23, 2009

Is Your Church Cooking Guinea Pigs?

You read the post title and thought I had a real home run metaphor for you, a lá Killing Cockroaches or Chasing Lions. Well, consider yourself disappointed. You might not ...

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Marketing the Church or Your Church?
April 22, 2009

Marketing the Church or Your Church?

Marketing guru Seth Godin has an interesting post (as usual) about whether you should be marketing for your category in general or for your specific product over the competition: Confusion sets ...

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The Gated Community Church
April 21, 2009

The Gated Community Church

Rick Warren’s Saddleback megachurch opened a new campus in time for Easter–in a gated community where you can only get in if you’re a resident or escorted by a resident. ...

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3 Tips for Getting Better Freelance Design (A Parable)
April 20, 2009

3 Tips for Getting Better Freelance Design (A Parable)

I walked into my local coffee shop, excited to be meeting with a prospective client who had contacted me only days before. I introduced myself to Jill (not her real ...

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Church Marketing Lab: New Taglines, Logos and more
April 17, 2009

Church Marketing Lab: New Taglines, Logos and more

This week in the Church Marketing Lab, we’ve seen some incredible designs and discussions. Don’t miss out on all the great action. If you have a mind and you’ve ever ...

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This Isn’t What I Ordered
April 16, 2009

This Isn’t What I Ordered

I love a menu with lots of pictures, I’m much more apt to order what looks good than what sounds good. I’m a visual guy, that’s just how I’m ...

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