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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.
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Church Marketing Lab: Group Branding, Newsletters & More
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a standard Church Marketing Lab update, so we thought we would let you in on a little bit of what’s been going on in ...
More Identity Struggles
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the Echo conference in Dallas, Texas, with a few hundred church media artists. I presented a spoken version of my “Bastards ...
Internet Ministry Conference – Register Soon!
Ever get frustrated that you’re only metafriends with us at Church Marketing Sucks? The Internet Ministry Conference is the perfect place to fix that. If you hadn’t heard, Brad Abare ...
Pooling Talents to Multiply Talents
Many of you are familiar with the parable of the talents. Essentially God entrusts us with things, and we diligently care for and use those things. Maybe it’s a knack ...
Atheists Marketing Billboard
We’ve talked about billboards a lot. No, really. A lot. But here’s a little something different. Coming to you courtesy of DJ Chuang’s Twitter, here’s sort of the opposite of a ...
Name a Church Contest
Here’s a new and innovative way of going about naming your church — ask your whole country to help. And give them a Wii if they’re right. [Insert name here] church ...
Praying for Rain on Obama & Saying No to Money
Here we have two case studies in why Church Marketing Sucks still sucks: Church Rejects Donation from Lottery WinnerThe title pretty much says it all. $600,000 could do a heck of ...
Church Marketing Lab: Capturing Great Ideas
We take a break from our typical Church Marketing Lab updates to show you a different way you can use the Flickr group. Usually, folks post their designs, and other ...
Merlin Mann Calls Out Branding
Productivity guru Merlin Mann has this to say about branding, via Twitter: If you’re really worried about your “branding,” try to stop thinking about life as a press release and ...
Be Your Own Church
This week Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv is talking about his journey to “find his voice” as a leader: “Many leaders lack originality. One reason is that they’re learning from other great ...
Death to the Church Bulletin
"June 22 was a sad day at Park Community Church, we lost a dearly beloved friend ... our weekly program."
Bridge to Bikers, the Homeless and Prison Alumni
I was in Fort Wayne, Ind., this past weekend for a site survey and setup trip for an upcoming Foursquare simulcast later this fall. It’s always a treat for me ...
Alltop and the Church
For those of you who haven’t used Alltop, now there’s a reason to check it out—they’ve added a church section. Alltop is an categorically organized aggregate of the greatest information sources ...
Jesus for President
Superstition Springs Community Church gets the prize here. They were the first link we received of a church to tying a marketing campaign to the presidential campaign, and thus the ...
Design Site NOTCOT.org on Church Marketing Sucks
The design inspiration site NOTCOT.org recently featured Church Marketing Sucks. NOTCOT.org is basically a collection of eye-candy for “your visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements.” We’re glad we can ...
