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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.
What Kind of Car is Your Church?
So often we like to think of church as a great big family reunion. People come together regardless of class, race, income, education or geography. But if you take a ...
The Church & Money: Plasma TV or Feed the Poor?
It’s an age old debate—where to spend the church’s money. Is our money better suited going to the poor or to a new website? The AIDS crisis or a coffee ...
Lens of the Day
Yesterday our Church Marketing Sucks lens on Squidoo was picked as the Lens of the Day. Not too shabby. If you’re checking us out for the first time, welcome aboard. ...
Authentic Not Slick
Mike Sares, pastor and founder of Scum of the Earth church in Denver–a church full of mohawks, piercings and the kind of alternative crowd not usually sighted in church–nicely summed ...
No Shame in Church Marketing
Yet another article on mega-churches, this one covering their Easter plans from the April 14 Everett, Wash. Daily Herald (yeah, we’re a little behind). But it also has some comments ...
Buzz Back 2: Vicarious Boogaloo
Yesterday concluded the Buzz Conference in Washington, D.C. The day’s events included a morning bloggers’s breakfast, a session on sermon branding from event organizer Mark Batterson, our very own Brad ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #6
It’s Friday and time for a look at the Church Marketing Lab. Mosey on over there and help church marketing not suck (see our guidelines for instructions). Church Camp – poster ...
Church Advertising Sucks Advertisement
This ad for Corner Church in Minneapolis appeared in a recent issue of The City Pages, an alternative newsweekly in the Twin Cities. A church ad proclaiming that church advertising ...
Church Friendly Web 2.0
Part 7 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Much of our discussion of web 2.0 sites has focused on mainstream sites intended for a mainstream ...
Is Jesus the Next Killer App?
You know what they say: follow the money. And there’s lots of it coming from churches trying to match audio/video wits with MTV, concerts and TV. So the big guys ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #5
It’s been a busy month at the Church Marketing Lab. We’ve got over 200 images added from over 150 members. Rather than just talking about it, we’re actually helping improve ...
Technology Forum at the Foursquare Convention
If you haven’t seen our own Brad Abare blogging much around here lately, this is why–in addition to speaking at next week’s Buzz Conference, Brad will also be at a ...
4 Questions About Church Web Sites
I was having a conversation with a fellow church webmaster the other day, and he was discussing placing private church materials (budgets, etc.) on a “roped off” section of a ...
How Your Church Can Ditch Expensive Software
Part 6 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church One of the best things about the whole web 2.0 revolution is how it all works. Asynchronous ...
