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Archive for March 2007
How Do You Do Plan a Sermon Series?
A lot of helpful and interesting discussion happens in the Church Marketing Lab–it’s not all fancy designs and comments. We’d like to start highlighting some of those discussions and allow ...
It Came From the Lab!
While we wrap up another successful week over at the Church Marketing Lab, we wanted to plug everyone here at Church Marketing Sucks into what’s been going on. Recently, we ...
Buzz Reminder, April 3 Deadline
Just a reminder that the April 3 deadline to take advantage of the $70 discount for the second annual Buzz Conference is a few days away. Mark and team are ...
Remarkable
I was watching a talk delivered by Seth Godin at Google, and he said something that was profoundly self evident. “[Remarkable] doesn’t mean beautiful or ideal or perfect. It only means ...
The Problem with Potlucks
The potluck dinner is a staple in many churches, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. A longtime friend of mine (we bonded over Petra) has been blogging about food and ...
Beg, Borrow and Steal
Last week, we asked what your church’s philosophy is on borrowing materials. 252 of you weighed in, and after a week at the polls … 37% of you took the high ...
Church Marketing Lab LIVE!
Just received some exciting news from the folks at MinistryCOM, I will be hosting the first ever Church Marketing Lab LIVE! at the conference in Nashville, Tenn. Sept. 13-14. It’s ...
Puns, Revisited
Reuters is bring worldwide attention to the crucial issue of church puns. Initially, I thought this was becoming a pundemic (I know. It’s not even funny anymore). Now, churches seem ...
RSS For Your Church
So today, I was thinking to myself, “Self, those guys over at the Barna Group have some pretty neat statistics, why don’t you subscribe to their RSS feed?” Problem. I searched. And ...
Squidoo Likes Us!
Squidoo thinks we deserve to be on its user-ranked Lens of the Year list. For the moment the Church Marketing Sucks lens is sitting at #16, between Tea Junkie and ...
100 Ways To Kill A Concept
Michael Iva writes an interesting PDF on the death of an idea. I don’t think it will change your life dramatically, but I do think it’s worth a quick read. ...
Demographically Speaking Results
Last week, we asked how your church responds to the issue of ministering to an increasingly diverse society. Where I come from, this means offering something more than NASCAR parties, ...
Where We’re Missing
I was reading my good friends (I’ve never met them, but it sounds better, and I like them) over at Church Relevance, and they posted some interesting statistics from the ...
Growing, Buzzing Churches: Save $70
I’m not quite sure when I first drank of it, but the Mark Batterson Kool-Aid is still having an affect on me. I met Mark in the flesh at last ...
The Anti-Welcoming Church
No matter how welcoming churches think they are, they usually aren’t. Why does it have to be so hard to find and connect with a church? I don’t know, but ...
