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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 in a Pool Advertising
For this week’s peer review we go across the pond to Life Church in the UK. Samples: Poster: Flier (front): Flier (back):…
CMS @ YS: Check Out Our Booth
Church Marketing Sucks is at the Youth Specialties National Youth Worker Convention in Nashville this weekend. Stop by the booth if you’re there. Not that we’ll be there—or anybody for ...
Do It Yourself Church Marketing
Ah. You gotta love this cartoon from CartoonChurch.com. Right on the money. If you haven’t been to Cartoon Church (we’ve plugged it before) you should check it out. They’ve got great ...
Priest Idol: Church as Reality TV
A dying church in a small British town. A young American priest. A mission to revitalize a congregation of less than ten. It doesn’t exactly sound like the basis for ...
Riverbluff Church Web Site Review
This week’s peer review tackles another web site. Share your feedback and suggestions in the comments. Samples: Screenshot: (riverbluff.org)…
Church Business Applied to the Airline Industry
Perry Noble, pastor of New Spring Church in Anderson, S.C. has an interesting blog entry imagining what would happen if church business practices were applied to the airline industry. It’s ...
National Outreach Convention 2005
I just returned from the National Outreach Convention in San Diego. As this was just the third annual convention for Outreach, the future of this conference has lots of potential. Overview: There ...
My Lame Marriage Campaign
For this peer review we take a look at the “My Lame Marriage” marketing campaign put on earlier this fall in Austin, Texas. Samples: Billboard: Invite card (front): Invite card (back): Mobile billboard:…
Blogging Church Interviews CMS
If you check out this week’s Blogging Church Podcast you can hear the voice of Church Marketing Sucks. Terry Storch interviewed Brad Abare and I as we talked blogs and ...
More on Mega-Churches
Ah, yet another article on mega-churches, this time from Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine (that’s where I live!). The Twin Cities are actually a breeding ground for mega-churches. According to the article ...
Church Web Sites Linking to Pastor’s Blogs
More from Mark Oestreicher, this time around the Church Bureaucracy Award of the Month. I know Mark doesn’t actually produce these items (like Worst Church Idea of the Month) on ...
Upstream Logo Review
In this peer review we’re examining some potential logos for a community church plant in Australia. Samples: Logo 1: Logo 2: Logo 3: Logo 4:…
Worship House Media
Check out a new resource for creative churches: Worship House Media. It’s basically an iTunes for worship media products. You can purchase all kinds of resources, including software, video, motion graphics, ...
Is Your Church a Safe Church?
The DesMoines Register covered church security this weekend, a topic that usually doesn’t get a lot of attention. Some of those church safety precautions include: Training and screening church leaders and ...
Faith-Based Marketing Summit
We’re a bit late to the game on this one, but the first annual Faith-Based Marketing Summit meets in Dallas on Friday. It’s not specifically about church marketing, but faith-based ...
