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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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Seth Godin on Church Marketing
January 25, 2008

Seth Godin on Church Marketing

Scott Magdalein had the opportunity to ask blog marketing god Seth Godin three questions. Two of them were about church marketing. Although the questions and answers are somewhat basic and ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Banners, Logos and More
January 25, 2008

Church Marketing Lab: Banners, Logos and More

It’s time for your once-weekly dose of Church Marketing Lab. Here’s a little snippet of what’s been going on, but make sure to get over there and check out the ...

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Your Church, the Wifi Sharer
January 23, 2008

Your Church, the Wifi Sharer

The geek world has been abuzz lately regarding Ars Technica’s look at the ethics of stealing wifi. At Church Marketing Sucks, we don’t make too much of an effort to ...

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Awaken 2008
January 23, 2008

Awaken 2008

The Mosaic Alliance is hosting the Awaken 2008 conference this April 1-3 in Pasadena, Calif. They invited a handful of people to do some guest blogging leading up to the ...

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(Not) Celebrating MLK Day
January 22, 2008

(Not) Celebrating MLK Day

This is an open question to local churches everywhere, specifically predominantly-white congregations: Where were the MLK Day celebrations? Firsthand, I heard of none*. A news search led me to the celebration ...

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Jesus Billboard is an Eyesore
January 21, 2008

Jesus Billboard is an Eyesore

This is fun: A Minnesota newspaper does a story about the city cracking down on “eyesores” and the accompanying front-page photo features a billboard for a local church with “Jesus” ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Waffle Thermals to Revolutions
January 18, 2008

Church Marketing Lab: Waffle Thermals to Revolutions

The Church Marketing Lab has been bustling with activity as people get ready for everything from Valentine’s Day to Easter. Here’s a taste of what we’ve seen this week: Here’s a ...

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Overnight Web Site Challenge
January 17, 2008

Overnight Web Site Challenge

A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours. Public ...

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007
January 16, 2008

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007

We can’t all be super techies. Not everyone has an intimate understanding of every new technology trend or can keep pace with all the Twittering, Digging or StumbleUponing. But never ...

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Mission, Vision, People
January 15, 2008

Mission, Vision, People

I blogged an entry recently on Personality‘s site about knowing the mission, doing the vision and treating people really well. It’s an approach I learned a few years ago from Jared ...

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Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them
January 14, 2008

Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them

We see from the Blogging Pastor Poll Results that were posted back in November that 72% of pastors aren’t blogging successfully. I can’t imagine that the percentage has changed over ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Financial Freedom to New T-Shirts
January 11, 2008

Church Marketing Lab: Financial Freedom to New T-Shirts

We thought you might be interested to know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab over the past week and a half, so here’s a little taste for ...

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Church Marketing in the UK
January 11, 2008

Church Marketing in the UK

I came across Drew McCarty in the Church Marketing Lab, and he was looking for some advice for a church plant (Drew’s note: new web site coming soon) that was ...

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A Reader’s Resolution
January 10, 2008

A Reader’s Resolution

Happy New Year friends! I am writing to share my 2008 resolution… I pray that 2008 brings with it the day that we no longer debate the need for church ...

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Pray for Competition
January 9, 2008

Pray for Competition

As we pursue the unique calling that God has for each one of us individually and collectively, both as ministers and as ministries, we are foolish if we care not ...

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