Church Marketing Sucks

Google, Apple and the Church

According to Advertising Age, Google is looking for an ad agency in what would most likely be a multi-million dollar account. Google has never had an ad agency before, relying ...

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The Pastor Can’t Do it Alone

Marketing guru Seth Godin (author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside) has released a previous book in a free PDF format for a limited time only: The Bootstrapper’s Bible. The ...

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Lessons from U2

Anyone who reads my personal blog or has had contact with me in the past month probably knows that I’ve been obsessing about the release of How to Dismantle an ...

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Carry-Out Christianity?

There’s a nice article on the PRWeb Newswire about a trend in casual sit-down restaurants (Chili’s, Outback Steakhouse, TGIFriday’s, etc.) to offer carry-out service that’s a more complete customer experience, ...

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Confusion Costs

Siegel & Gale, a major research, branding and communications firm, recently published a “Perplexity Poll” (PDF) for its clients in the wireless telecommunications industry. In brief, what they found is ...

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Spread the Word in the Real World

Church Marketing Sucks has always been a conversation and we encourage you to spread that conversation far and wide. To prompt that in the real world, we’ve got stacks and ...

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Church Sucks Flyer

We got an e-mail the other day about a fun church marketing story. Ryan Haack is involved in planting a new church in Madison, Wisc., the Journey, which will open ...

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Rev Magazine: A Little Misleading

I found in my stack of clippings a one page ditty in Rev magazine. The column-esque heading at the top left read “culture” and floating in the middle of the ...

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Guest Blogger Andy Havens Joins the Conversation

We’d like to welcome marketing guru Andy Havens to the Church Marketing Sucks conversation. Andy will be joining us as guest blogger, sharing his thoughts and insights culled from 15 ...

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What is Marketing?

Ask most people about marketing and they’ll talk about advertising. Why? Because advertising is the end result of a long marketing process and the only part that is actually observed ...

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Church Membership Cards

I love hanging out with pastors. A week ago today I spent several hours with a local pastor here in southern California who planted a church four years ago in ...

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Moving Furniture

“On Religion” columnist Terry Mattingly covers a baptizing bus tour put on by the Southern Baptists in an attempt to rack up one million baptisms between June 2005 and June ...

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Branding Won’t Save You

Wired recently ran the article “The Decline of Branding”, which has interesting applications considering our recent discussions on church branding. Essentially, the article argues that branding as an insurance policy for ...

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Sucky Approach

Lisa Sampson has an interesting post (with several comments) from October 26 that started as a comment about ChurchMarketingSucks.com and ended with a unique T-shirt approach she found a church ...

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Spreading the Word about Porn

The New York Times covers XXXchurch.com in an article summarizing the anti-pornography ministry. Their marketing tactics include the slogan “the #1 Christian porn site” and a van covered with the ...

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