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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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Episcopal Church Online Visitor’s Center
April 6, 2006

Episcopal Church Online Visitor’s Center

The Episcopal Church has an online visitor’s center that serves as a first step for anyone considering checking out an Episcopal church. It’s another way denominations can help drive people ...

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How Your Church Can Use MySpace
April 6, 2006

How Your Church Can Use MySpace

Part 3 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Let’s just open that can of worms called MySpace. If you haven’t heard about MySpace, you’ve surely ...

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Support Church Marketing Sucks
April 5, 2006

Support Church Marketing Sucks

Ever since we started we’ve been trying to help the church communicate the gospel. It’s no easy task. We need your help. There are three big ways you can help us ...

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How Your Church Can Use Flickr
April 5, 2006

How Your Church Can Use Flickr

Part 2 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Let’s start with the photo-sharing site Flickr. It’s the media darling that began as an online game ...

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More Downloadable Church Resources
April 4, 2006

More Downloadable Church Resources

LifeChurch.tv isn’t the only church giving away their sermon series resources–The Vine, the young adult service of Southeast Christian church in Louisville, Ky., has also made their sermon series resources ...

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What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church
April 4, 2006

What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church

Web 2.0 is the latest rage. It’s on the cover of Newsweek and everyone is speculating if it’s the revenge of the dot com boom. This is the beginning of ...

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LifeChurch.tv Downloadable Resources
April 4, 2006

LifeChurch.tv Downloadable Resources

LifeChurch.tv, a multi-location church with sites in Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona, is making their sermon series resources available to other churches for free. You can download video, layered graphics files ...

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No One Reads Your Church Brochure
April 3, 2006

No One Reads Your Church Brochure

Marketing guru Seth Godin recently talked about brochures and said the one thing no marketer wants to hear: Nobody reads brochures. I didn’t say it wasn’t important. I just said it ...

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Church Advertising is a Waste of Time
April 3, 2006

Church Advertising is a Waste of Time

Here’s a confession: I’m not a fan of big churches, and by “big churches” I mean weekly attendance over 20. I think that churches should meet in homes and that ...

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Church Marketing Lab Round Up #1
March 31, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #1

Yesterday we announced the new Church Marketing Lab, a place where you can help churches improve their communications. So let’s do it. Here’s a round up of church marketing samples ...

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Is Leadership Spiritual?
March 31, 2006

Is Leadership Spiritual?

Christianity Today has an interesting debate between North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley and the author of Good to Great, Jim Collins. Well, it’s not so much a debate. Both ...

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The Church Marketing Lab
March 30, 2006

The Church Marketing Lab

It’s time for better church marketing. Want to help? Step into the lab and help churches improve their marketing and communications by taking part in our new Flickr group, the Church ...

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Writing for Busy People
March 30, 2006

Writing for Busy People

After reading the Church Marketing Sucks guidelines for guest blogging, I came across this post from lead Firefox engineer, Ben Goodger. Ben writes: “It’s great when people make contributions ...

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Churches that Don’t Grow
March 29, 2006

Churches that Don’t Grow

Great post by Mark Wilson at Revitalize Your Church: Percentage of McDonald’s franchises that did not sell a hamburger last year: 0% Percentage of Ace Hardware stores that did not sell a ...

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Church Publicity that Doesn’t Work
March 29, 2006

Church Publicity that Doesn’t Work

This week’s poll is asking about press releases, and while we’ve recently covered how to do press releases, we haven’t talked about how not to do press releases. Jamey Tucker ...

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