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Archive for April 2007
Updating Your Furniture
“The problem is not how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean ...
Internet Poll Results
Last week we asked you how your church uses the Internet. Now that all of our e-ballots are in, we have the formal results for you. Only 31% of you feel ...
Origins, Mosaic Leadership Experience
I realize it’s a little late to the game on this, but for anyone in the southern California area (or those with private planes), on May 1-3 in Pasadena, Calif., ...
How To Achieve 277% Growth
OK, so the title isn’t fully accurate. But it is how one church did it. Eastpoint Community Church in Middletown, Del. had an incredibly simple, strategic and successful marketing campaign, ...
Write a Church Tagline
We have a success story of sorts over in the discussion area of the Church Marketing Lab. User dorothea_holcomb posted a tagline her church was considering and she didn’t think ...
It Came From The Lab!
We’ve had a great week over at the Lab. Our members have been incredibly busy with tons of new material. Here’s a little bit of what’s been going on. Four Corners ...
Andy Crouch on Culture
Andy Crouch of The Christian Vision Project was recently interviewed on the Catalyst podcast. He made some interesting points which I’ll summarize for our loyal CMS readers. Essentially, Andy presents ...
Where’s the Church’s Ask a Ninja?
Online entertainment has been taking the world by storm. Homestar Runner. Ask a Ninja. lonelygirl15. ZeFrank. For the most part these were projects started by small groups of people with ...
WikiChurch
There’s been a little experiment going on over at the Swerve blog. They advertised a project to improve Wikipedia’s article on church planting. This was of particular interest to me. I’ve ...
Billboarding For God Results
This past week, we asked you to vote on which billboard method you thought was most effective. The big winner this week was that billboards are for truckers. 30% ...
Help Wanted: Good Editors
I couldn’t help but give everyone a good solid example of how little mistakes become big ones. The Dallas News Religion Blog reported on a press release blunder for a ...
Authenticity Wins Again
Values like transparency, authenticity and connectedness date back to some of our earliest entries when we started Church Marketing Sucks three years ago. When I’m given the opportunity to speak ...
T-Shirts Ain’t Cheap
Last week in the Church Marketing Lab, you suggested ideas for how to plan a creative meeting. Some of your feedback included nuggets like: Use rotating members to keep your meetings ...
It Came From The Lab!
I know you’ve been wondering, “What’s going on over in the Church Marketing Lab this week?” Luckily, I have the answer to that question for you. Check out some of ...
Church “Mascots” for Children’s Ministry?
Recently I was part of a team of people that used a store mascot to do some local marketing. OK, I was the guy dressed up as a giant A&W ...
