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Archive for March 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The UCC Ejector Pew Commercial
The United Church of Christ, known for their headline grabbing commercial that was rejected by the networks, is back with a new ejector pew commercial. This time around a traditional ...
Want to Write For Us?
Join our team and become a guest blogger. We’re looking for people who can contribute to the conversation, beyond comments to the actual entries we comment about. We’ve made it ...
Monster Truck Poll
Last month we posted about a monster truck church ad and last week we asked for your thoughts on it. 75% appreciated the ad, with 22% noting the potential to ...
Church Members Beat Burglar
You don’t mess with the Church of the Nazarene in West Palm Beach, Fla. Church members were fed up after a string of burglaries, so they hid out in the ...
Why We Do This
I always love those reminders from God that help me get perspective on why in the world I’m busy about his business in the first place. Today’s reminder came from ...
More Church Cartoons
Church Cartoons is another site that offers comics for church newsletters and publications. Some may question the place of church humor in a church publication, but if it makes me laugh ...
More Tips for Starting a Church Blog
Fortune offers a list of corporate blogging do’s and don’ts that are worth checking out for any church exploring the possibility of a blog: Know thyself Know thy audience Engage your audience Stay current Cover ...
Starting a Church Style Guide
If you have any sort of background with words you understand the importance of a style guide. Is it Gospel or gospel? Are pronouns referring to God capitalized? Is it ...
Ad Mission
Speaking of things that happened back in February, we missed a story about a collective of Wisconsin churches that pooled their resources and bought local Super Bowl ads. It’s part ...
