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Archive for November 2005
Communicating Through Desktop Wallpapers
I love cheap and easy ideas. They don’t cost much time or money, and while the benefits may not be enormous, it only takes a small return to make a ...
Web Standards Junkies Rejoice
If you dream of a world where every web site uses CSS and tables are relegated to the Smithsonian, then Godbit.com is for you. If you’re scratching your head, it’s ...
Puns in Marketing Poll
Last week’s poll asked about the place of puns in church marketing, a topic raised a few months back. The majority (58%) seem to like puns, with the caveat that they’re ...
E-mail Newsletters vs. Bulletins
Tony Morgan of Granger Community Church has some insights about using e-mail newsletters vs. weekly bulletins and even ponders the potential death of church bulletins. I don’t think we’ll see church ...
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):…
Church E-mail Poll Results
Last week we asked how often your church sends e-mail updates, and the majority (38%) send weekly e-mails. But a lot of churches aren’t taking advantage of e-mail: 28% don’t ...
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 ...
How’d You Hear About CMS?
Last week we asked how you heard about Church Marketing Sucks, and the results are pretty interesting. The vast majority found us online, 70% coming from search engines, other web ...
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 ...
