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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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Church Conferencing Poll Results
October 24, 2007

Church Conferencing Poll Results

MinistryCOM, Innovate, Buzz, Catalyst, Internet Ministry, Promise Keepers, denominational conferences, Leadership Summit, Passion, Willow Creek Arts, Origins, Saddleback Worship, Unleash, Exponential Church Planting, Church Technology, National Youth Pastors, National New ...

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Does Marketing the Church Suck?
October 23, 2007

Does Marketing the Church Suck?

Throw down the gloves. Hide the women and children. Have an ambulance in the vicinity. Christianity Today is looking for a fight. All right, only kidding. But they recently posted ...

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Lend A Helping Hand
October 22, 2007

Lend A Helping Hand

Looking through our Church Marketing Lab, a couple discussion caught my eye. I thought that our CMS readers could certainly add value to these discussion. For starters, user tap57 is ...

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A Visitor’s Perspective: Looking Back
October 22, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: Looking Back

Many of you were with us through our entire series on Church From a Visitor’s Perspective. Others of you haven’t checked it out yet. For those of you who missed ...

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Link Love From The Week
October 19, 2007

Link Love From The Week

So I’ve been accumulating some links over the week, and I thought I would go ahead and give you the gift of sharing them. If you’re looking to use up ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Logos, Videos and an Homage to Colbert
October 19, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Logos, Videos and an Homage to Colbert

Yesterday we celebrated 1,000 posts on Church Marketing Sucks. But our Church Marketing Lab is nearing 3,000 posts. Here’s some of the action going on in our photo pool this ...

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Church Marketing Sucks Turns 1,000!
October 18, 2007

Church Marketing Sucks Turns 1,000!

It might seem like just a few months ago that CMS turned three. Well, now, we’re turning a thousand. That’s right, you’re officially reading our 1,000th post. We thought of ...

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Your Church Marketing Transformation
October 18, 2007

Your Church Marketing Transformation

This week we celebrate our 1000th post, and we wanted to stick to what we’re most passionate about–your church marketing. We get tons of e-mails and questions asking about the ...

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Job and Freelance Lab Roundup
October 17, 2007

Job and Freelance Lab Roundup

If you read us often, you’ll know that we love our Job Lab and Freelance Lab. Now as more and more success stories come in, and more and more openings ...

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Sexy Church
October 16, 2007

Sexy Church

CNN is giving some church marketing love in their video top stories. It seems as if a church sent out 50,000 mailers entitled “Red Hot Sex” to their community. The ...

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Catalyst: The Feelings
October 15, 2007

Catalyst: The Feelings

Here it is, the good, bad and ugly about the Catalyst conference itself. I think churches can take plenty away from this in how the conference was executed. Most of ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Cubes, Tickets and More
October 12, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Cubes, Tickets and More

I’m just going to be honest. Our Church Marketing Lab is awesome. I didn’t do a lab roundup last week because I was at the Catalyst Conference. I come back ...

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A Visitor’s Perspective: The Strangers Among Us
October 12, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: The Strangers Among Us

This is part 9 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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Moving Church Outside
October 11, 2007

Moving Church Outside

Well, we’ve discussed whether church buildings suck before. We’ve talked about whether you put a little money or a lot of money into a building. Here’s a new one: Don’t ...

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Catalyst: The Facts
October 9, 2007

Catalyst: The Facts

This year’s Catalyst conference was the biggest ever. Over 11,000 church leaders gathered to hear from the likes of Rick Warren, Francis Chan, Andy Stanley and more. I didn’t think ...

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