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Archive for May 2009
Church Marketing Lab: This One’s for the Dads
It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve clued you in on what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab, so we thought we’d give you a special Father’s ...
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Maybe Tribes is the book that all of us involved in church marketing have been looking for, the book that acknowledges that we are trying to do more than just ...
The Church Needs to Get Angry
Eugene Cho asks if Christians just aren’t angry enough about grave injustices like human trafficking. He does so with some language your grandmother wouldn’t approve of (though he does use ...
Search for Church Poll Results
Some hear “SEO” and adrenaline starts pumping, veins pulse and palms sweat in excitement as you dream of rising to Google’s top result. More of you probably hear “SEO” and ...
Nobody Cares About Your Web Site
Media Salt has a great article, whose title I shamelessly stole here, focusing on what your church can look like on the web. Their basic idea? If you’re still struggling to ...
Be Generous, Creatively
For many, a down economy is a frightful time. Luckily, as we’ve noted before, God is not taking part in the recession. This is a prime opportunity for churches to ...
Homeless Marriage, Church Marketing and Simplicity
Somewhere along the way down this road of the church in America, we picked up some buzzwords. Then, those buzzwords picked up some baggage. Things started one way, but they ...
Where Do I Begin?
From a recent post in the lab: Hello all… I am new to this board, although I have been frequenting Church Marketing Sucks for quite some time. We have been in ...
Updates From the Events Lab
We wanted to give you a reminder that Michael Buckingham, of CFCC and Holy Cow fame, will be speaking again this year at the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. ...
1,500 and Going Poll Results
As we passed 1,500 posts on Church Marketing Sucks, we thought it was a great time to ask you, the reader, what you wanted to see more of in the ...
Heath Brothers on Going Viral
Their monthly column in Fast Company is always a great read, and this month is no exception when the Made to Stick brothers Dan Heath and Chip Heath give us ...
Taking Church Beyond Sunday
So that Compassion blogging indie rocker Shaun Groves has a sarcastic little blog post about how church leaders in the developing world don’t get it. They’re doing goofy things like ...
Church Marketing Lab: Summer Fun and More
This week in the Church Marketing Lab, we hit 8,000 pieces submitted. It’s come a long way since this announcement. One thing that still hasn’t gotten old is to see ...
What’s the Story?
It’s been a week of exciting news in the world of church communications events. First on the list, the Center for Church Communication is excited to announce a new conference, ...
Church Copycats
Recently, I came across Godwitter.com via the xpirimental blog. My palms became sweaty, my heart sped up, my stomach twisted and my mind went back to the service formerly known ...
