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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.
CMS T-Shirts FAQs
When we announced the new CMS T-shirts late last week, the e-mails started coming in about questions you never really know people have until they ask. So below are the ...
Purpose Driven, Branding, Telegrams and Rejected Ads
ABC dumps Assemblies of God ad – It’s a rehashing of the rejected UCC commercials, but getting much less coverage. Churches using online promotion – “We’re talking about the evolution of ...
More Pastors on MySpace
Churches using the latest technological tool (gasp!) gets more attention with a feature from San Antonio on pastors using MySpace. The piece includes some good examples of pastors making use ...
CMS T-Shirts Now Available in Small
We’ve responded to your demands and added small sizes to the Church Marketing Sucks store. Now you can support CMS, look ridiculously good and not drown in your T-shirt. Remember that ...
Church Loses Domain to a Porn Site
Here’s some bad news for your marketing efforts: You lost your domain and a porn site snatched it up. Too bad you just handed out fliers at the local Apple ...
The T-shirts Have Arrived
Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts are now available. We’ve been hinting, dreaming and hoping, and now we finally have some Church Marketing Sucks swag. Visit the new Church Marketing Sucks Store and ...
Using Whipped Cream and Gay Marriage to Start Conversations
With membership declining as much as 20% in the last decade, the United Church of Canada needs to try something drastic. So they’ve launched a $9.3 million ad campaign. The ...
Operation Christmas Child Bans Christmas to Spread the Message
It’s collection week for Operation Christmas Child, the high profile project of Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse, and while shoeboxes are being packed for kids across the world, they’re also ...
YouTube, Multi-Site and Pews
Building Rockin’ Church Web Sites – Church Communications Pro Cory Miller just keeps the series coming. Projection Blues – Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters shares some simple tips for improving ...
Ted Haggard and Church Marketing
It seems painfully ironic to me that the same week I posted about Christians taking each other down, we have a high profile example of Christians taking themselves down in ...
The Money-Back Guaranteed Tithe
Here’s something different. LifeChurch.tv, the church with locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and online is offering a three-month tithing challenge. Give for three months. If God doesn’t deliver on his ...
Snakes in the Pew
Too often the work of communicating the message of the church is ruined because of the people in the church. Dr. Ergun Caner shared the message “Snakes in the Pew” ...
Church People are Weird
That’s what Gary Lamb, pastor of Ridge Stone Church in Canton, Ga. says in the post that made him famous. He originally posted it last year and it resulted in ...
Tips for Writing an Effective Press Release
Just the Facts, Ma’am Don’t rack your brain trying to craft some clever lead. Just get to the facts. That’s all the reporter wants anyway. If you’ve gotten ...
Church Marketing Lab Lighting Round
Great things are happening in the lab. We are approaching 900 user submitted images and have more than 500 members working to help church marketing not suck. Take a ...
