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Archive for June 2006
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #13
The Church Marketing Lab on Flickr has grown to over 300 members with more than 400 pieces posted. Wow. Get in there and offer your feedback. Help church marketing to ...
We’re Looking for a Few Good Interns
Well, one intern actually, but we’ll take all the help we can get. In addition, the Center for Church Communication, our non-profit parent, is also looking for graphic design, tech ...
Most Important 9-Word Sentence in Marketing History
How’s that for a teaser? Scott Aughtmon offers this 9-word doozie from elite copywriter Gary Bencivenga and applies it to the church.…
Church Growth Series Wrap Up
I’ve wanted to talk about numbers and church growth for a long time, and this month we finally dove into it with this series. I said at the beginning that ...
Anniversary Poll
Last week we asked how we should celebrate our two-year anniversary, which is coming up in July. With 62% of the vote, it’s pretty much a landslide for CMS T-shirts. ...
Church Growth: God Makes it Grow
This is part nine in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? One of the arguments I hear again and again against the whole idea of church growth ...
Super Church Marketing Lab Round Up
We skipped the round up of Church Marketing Lab entries last week, so this week we’ll offer the super round up! It’s faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap ...
Even Nuns Need Marketing
Lots of folks are coming around to the idea that churches need marketing help, including what is quite possibly the least likely group to use marketing–nuns: “Whether you’re doing branding for ...
Style Guide Poll
Last week we asked if your church had a style guide. Only 26% reported using a style guide, which nearly causes editorial-induced hemorrhaging for this writer (I believe a great ...
Welcome to Church Marketing Sucks
We’ve seen quite an influx in traffic the past week or so as we’ve explored church growth with our series Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? So I thought ...
How to Design a Church Logo
It’s been great to see more and more activity in the Church Marketing Lab. The level of creativity is matched only by the willingness to grow and expand the gifts ...
Quantity is Job 1
This is part eight in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Quantity is Job 1. That’s the title of one of my favorite albums from the now-defunct ...
Why Churches Should Care About Numbers
This is part seven in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Numbers are important because they are a sign of effectiveness (notice I said a sign, not ...
The Purpose-Driven Church
I’ve had The Purpose-Driven Church sitting on my shelf for almost two years. It’s one of those books that you should eventually read for a site like this, but I ...
Numbers are People, Not Evil
This is part six in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? “A church that has no interest at all in increasing its number of converts is, in ...
