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Archive for May 2006
What Kind of Car is Your Church?
So often we like to think of church as a great big family reunion. People come together regardless of class, race, income, education or geography. But if you take a ...
The Church & Money: Plasma TV or Feed the Poor?
It’s an age old debate—where to spend the church’s money. Is our money better suited going to the poor or to a new website? The AIDS crisis or a coffee ...
Lens of the Day
Yesterday our Church Marketing Sucks lens on Squidoo was picked as the Lens of the Day. Not too shabby. If you’re checking us out for the first time, welcome aboard. ...
Authentic Not Slick
Mike Sares, pastor and founder of Scum of the Earth church in Denver–a church full of mohawks, piercings and the kind of alternative crowd not usually sighted in church–nicely summed ...
Conferencing Poll
Last week we gave a selection of church conferences to see how many people are going. And the big winners? Something else and no conferences this year tied with 30%. ...
No Shame in Church Marketing
Yet another article on mega-churches, this one covering their Easter plans from the April 14 Everett, Wash. Daily Herald (yeah, we’re a little behind). But it also has some comments ...
Buzz Back 2: Vicarious Boogaloo
Yesterday concluded the Buzz Conference in Washington, D.C. The day’s events included a morning bloggers’s breakfast, a session on sermon branding from event organizer Mark Batterson, our very own Brad ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #6
It’s Friday and time for a look at the Church Marketing Lab. Mosey on over there and help church marketing not suck (see our guidelines for instructions). Church Camp – poster ...
Church Advertising Sucks Advertisement
This ad for Corner Church in Minneapolis appeared in a recent issue of The City Pages, an alternative newsweekly in the Twin Cities. A church ad proclaiming that church advertising ...
Church Friendly Web 2.0
Part 7 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Much of our discussion of web 2.0 sites has focused on mainstream sites intended for a mainstream ...
Is Jesus the Next Killer App?
You know what they say: follow the money. And there’s lots of it coming from churches trying to match audio/video wits with MTV, concerts and TV. So the big guys ...
Web 2.0 Poll Results
Last time around we asked about web 2.0 and what it means for your church. The results were fairly positive with 34% excited about the possibilities and 29% unsure ...
