Church Marketing Sucks

Church Marketing Lab: Message Series, Winter Retreats & More

As Christmas approaches, the Church Marketing Lab is heating up. One of the busiest times of the year means lots of mailers, web sites and more as churches plan for ...

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Familiar Story

The Covent Garden district in London traces its roots back to Roman times. For most of its history, Covent Garden has been a cultural center including shopping, dining and the ...

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Church Logos: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

COLLIDE magazine covers church logos and has a boat-load of good advice. We already mentioned it on Twitter, but it seemed worth the extra attention. Some of the advice is ...

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Consuming CMS Poll Results

Last week we asked how you most frequently enjoy receiving Church Marketing Sucks content. We have a number of different delivery systems, and we were curious to see which ones ...

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Vision Correction

On August 30, 2009, 79-year-old Jud McKinney was driving a white pickup truck along a rural road in Winterset, Iowa. Riding a bike on the same road was 54-year-old Mark ...

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Cultivate & Story: Church Communication in Chicagoland

As the autumnal march of church conferences continues, this was a big week with Cultivate and Story in the Chicago area. Both conferences had different approaches–Cultivate was no frills, community-based ...

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Church Apps Poll Results

We recently wrote on churches developing iPhone applications. The article spawned some great discussion, and we wanted to know what the Church Marketing Sucks community thought–too techno-centric? A great idea? ...

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The Branding Process: Start to Finish

Designer Von Glitschka recently shared his experience doing a branding/identity project for Northwest Church in Shoreline, Wash. He shares the many iterations the design went through as well as some ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Story Books, Retreat Promos & More

When folks in the Church Marketing Lab haven’t been chatting about the Christmas hall of fame, Twittering tools for churches and effective versus original, they’ve been helping one another through ...

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Wambulance Poll Results

Crying babies in church services can be a downright pain in the backside. Partly because they’re crying, loudly, in church. But even more so due to the inevitable mental gymnastics ...

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Deadly Viper Character Assassins

Editor’s Note: Due to an on-going controversy over culturally insensitive themes in the book’s design, the publisher of this book, Zondervan, has issued an apology and pulled the book from ...

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Tell a Story That’s True

I keep coming across videos being passed around by Christians that are essentially video versions of debunked e-mail forwards. There’s the more professional “Does God Exist?” video featuring a childhood ...

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Your Church: Is There an App for That?

You might have heard the old news that Mars Hill in Seattle has developed an iPhone application. As has The Reaction, a movement in Denver. And a couple weeks ago, ...

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Donald Miller’s Million Miles

I think Donald Miller has finally written a book to compete with the attention from his last hit, Blue Like Jazz. I realize he has written other books since, but ...

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$5 Million Bridge to Somewhere: Tie it to the Purpose

Church building campaigns can be hard for congregations to swallow. But how about building a $5 million bridge to ease parking congestion for a church? That’s what North Point Community ...

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