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Archive for September 2007
Church Marketing Lab: Wonder, Family Life, and Kids’ Weekends
This week, we saw the first day of autumn. I checked the Church Marketing Lab for designs of foliage, football, and all fall colors, but I didn’t come up with ...
Free Catalyst Tickets
I realize it’s last minute, but our friends over at Aspire!One have two tickets to next week’s Catalyst conference that they’re giving away to the CFCC community. You’ll have to ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Verbose Nomenclature
This is part 5 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Announcements Poll Results
Sometimes when you’re at church you hear the words, “Let’s go ahead and bring up our [blank], Mr./Mrs. [blank] for the announcements.” Sometimes, when you’re at church, you hear a ...
Church Marketing Lab: Icons, Route 56 & More
We’re here again to let you know a little bit of what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Here’s a sample of some of the submissions we’ve seen ...
MinistryCOM 2007 Recap
I’m just getting back into the swing of things after a great time at the MinistryCOM conference in Nashville last week. I talk often about setting the bar as communicators, ...
What if Church was Fast, Fun & Friendly?
Brenton Balvin recently went to work for Target and noted that Target strives to be a ‘fast, fun and friendly place to work and shop’ and maybe churches need to ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Watch your Language!
This is part 4 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Marketing Focus Poll Results
Last week we asked you where your church concentrates its marketing efforts the most. The most popular place to concentrate efforts was, not surprisingly, Sunday mornings. 24% of your churches ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: The Welcoming Paradox
This is part 3 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post here to get a better understanding of David’s experience ...
The Art of the Critique
Sometimes there’s something that’s just so good in the Church Marketing Lab that it needs to migrate to our front page here. This is one of those occasions. User “wiseacre photo” ...
Church Marketing Lab: Sorry Church Site, God is Green and More
This week in the Church Marketing Lab, the discussion board was crazy with a couple long threads, and the photo pool saw some great new submissions. Now that we’ve given ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: An Embarrassing Problem
This is part 2 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Franchising Church
We’re living in modern times. Everything is outsourced, and everything is franchised. Why should church be any different? Todd Rhoades at Monday Morning Insight discusses this model of church planting ...
RSS Church Poll Results
Last week, we asked you if your church was using an RSS feed for their web site. We’ve harped on RSS for your church before, and we were hoping that ...
