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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.
Church Marketing Lab: African Shirts, Absolute Truth and More
In the Church Marketing Lab we saw another week chock full of Christmas designs and all-around design goodness. Here’s just a little of what we saw. Make sure to head ...
Marketing Waste: Measuring Success
This is part 2 of a 4 part series on using your marketing budget effectively. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of Tim’s money-saving advice. We ...
Stop Wasting Money On Marketing
This is part 1 of a 4 part series on using your marketing budget effectively. Whoa, hey now! I thought this blog was all about marketing. What’s with the title? Notice I ...
Church Marketing Lab: Videos and Billboards, But No Christmas
If you head over to the Church Marketing Lab, you’ll notice things are getting a lot more red and green. But I still resisted the urge to do a Christmas-y ...
Lessons In Not Sucking Wrap-Up
I just finished up the series on “Lessons In Not Sucking.” In case you missed it, here is a handy little linked index of each of the topics: Communication: Online Communication: In ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Working With Firms & Freelancers
This is part eight in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss working with freelancers and firms. Having both owned my own creative firm in the past ...
5 Church Marketing Mistakes
Tony Morgan just posted 5 marketing mistakes that churches make. Here’s his list: Promoting your church instead of generating a response. Making a promise you can’t keep. Trying to be all things to ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Working With Volunteers
This is part seven in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss working with volunteers. Love ’em or hate ’em, volunteers are here to stay. And here’s ...
Church Website Survey Results
Version 1.0 of The Art of Mission’s Church Website Survey was recently released. The results of the survey are available for free, and a second version is in the works ...
Church Marketing Lab: New Sites, Sports Centers and More
It’s the most wonderful time of year! The weather is getting colder, Wal-Mart has Christmas candles and Christmas music is starting in on the radio. All that to say, I’m ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Know Your Audience
This is part six in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss the idea of knowing your audience. It’s basic Communication 101, and I’m embarrassed to admit ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Building an Ideation Team
This is part five in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss building ideation teams. I love working with teams that are passionate about the subject at ...
Handvertising?
What on earth is handvertising? Just what you think–it’s advertising on the back of someone’s hand, available from Handvertising USA. They wanted me to blog about this new form of ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Cheap Marketing Ideas for Church Planters
This is part four in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss cheap marketing ideas for church planters. Having been a church planter myself, I understand the ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Common Communication Mistakes
This is part three in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss common communication mistakes. Here are some choice mistakes I believe get in the way of ...
