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Archive for January 2009
CMS Voted Best Ministry Blog: Thanks
We don’t do what we do for recognition… but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel great to get it every now and then. So… I was thrilled, no amazed, no ...
NFL Allows Church Super Bowl Parties
After banning church Super Bowl parties in the past, the NFL has relented and is allowing churches to show the big game, provided they don’t charge for the event or ...
Church Marketing Lab: Worship logos to 80-Year-Old Mailers
We’re always overwhelmed to find that some members in the Church Marketing Lab don’t even know what Church Marketing Sucks is. And vice versa. Surely some of you stumble upon ...
Friendly Reminder: Check Your Carbon Monoxide Detector
At a church in Atlanta, a dozen people had to be taken to the hospital recently due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Now surely, no one meant for this to happen. But ...
Dealing With Your Church’s Bad Drivers
We’ve talked before about rep’in your church with pride. But sometimes, the people in your church didn’t even do anything that bad. Other people are just too doggone picky. Take this ...
Church Burnout Poll Results
Recently, we talked with Anne Jackson about her new book Mad Church Disease. She was involved directly in church communications when she found herself in the hospital dealing with stress-related ...
Recession-Proof Your Church
New layoffs are announced each week and the unemployment numbers keep rising. Talk of recession-proofing your life is becoming more and more common, and with shrinking giving the church is ...
Catalyst West Coast Discount
Lots of folks have lamented the east coast bias in major church conferences. Innovate is in Indiana, MinistryCOM is usually somewhere in the Midwest, Catalyst is in Atlanta, and the ...
Church Marketing Lab on Twitter
Yesterday we talked about Twitter, and I’m sure tons of you out there are already using the service. I know the four of us at Church Marketing Sucks are. But ...
It’s Twitter Time for Your Church
Anthony Coppedge recently released a $5 e-book entitled The Reason Your Church Must Twitter. It covers everything from what in the world a Twitter is to how your church can ...
Churches and Copyright
Admittedly, churches struggle with copyright concerns. We had the church-NFL debacle awhile back, and a search for “copyright” yields a small book worth of information. We contacted a few people to ...
Mobile Site Poll Results
More and more churches have been going mobile with their web sites. It seems that even kitchen spatulas have built-in wifi now, and just about everyone is browsing the web ...
Getting To the Point
There are two things I’m very fond of when it comes to good communication: 1. That the communicator has a point, and2. That the communicator makes that point in a timely ...
Reflecting on Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the great lessons of the radical we celebrate today, Martin Luther King Jr., is that change requires action: “One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom ...
Church Marketing Lab: Thanks to our Moderators
These days, the Church Marketing Lab is still gaining momentum. We’re at over 7,000 pieces of work, and the community is thriving like never before. One of the big reasons ...
