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Joshua Cody's Posts:
Church Communications Strategy Coaching Network
Communications Director Kem Meyer is launching a new coaching network this fall for those involved in church communication. That could be a pastor, a creative or anyone else involved in ...
This Old Site Poll Results
Our church web site used to be the sort of thing you mumbled. And you only mumbled after you unsuccessfully tried to “accidentally” give a wrong address at least twice. ...
Updates from the Job and Freelance Lab
You don’t need me to let you know about any economic troubles. And as many folks haven’t been hiring, things have been a bit more quiet around the Job Lab ...
Keeping Preaching Pure
John Piper is someone I respect to an extraordinary degree. We might not agree on everything, but on those matters, if you want to be safe, you should defer to ...
Growing Church Poll Results
It’s a point of curiosity for us to know about our readers’ churches. It helps us get a better picture of what to cover and how to cover it. So ...
Web Usability and Donations
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently wrote an article entitled Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities. In it, he discusses the virtues of creating a usable online ...
Church Marketing Lab: Heroes, Asian heroes and Female Sexuality
Think your design or idea is too out-there or unusual to execute or to post in the Church Marketing Lab? Well, this is one of those updates that will let ...
Guns in Church Poll Results
One church recently asked members to bring their guns to church. A whole heap of you weighed in with your comments, but we wanted to give you some cut-and-dry options ...
Christians Are Crazy Protestors
Phil Cooke and Think Christian have recently covered a marketing stunt by Electronic Arts surrounding the release of a new game, Dante’s Infrerno. Here’s a bit of what happened: The game ...
Scalejacking and Performance Metrics
Jeff Goins recently posted at Wrecked for the Ordinary entitled Marketers, Quit Hijacking Our Communities. In it, he makes some great points regarding marketers’ obsession with numbers and metrics. I’ll give ...
Denominational Campaign Poll Results
Recently, Kevin covered the trend of denominations running ad campaigns focusing on branding individuals as members of specific denominations. For example, “I am a Southern Baptist.” Or, “We are Episcopalians.” ...
Church Marketing Lab: Bulletins, Web Sites and More
When the folks in the Church Marketing Lab haven’t been getting together or helping Michael get ready for his presentation at the HOW Design Conference, they’ve been working hard and ...
Megachurches Are Hip, Young and Selfish
It’s not marketing news per se, but the Associated Press reported last week on a study looking at the differences in contemporary megachurches and their smaller Protestant counterparts (minichurches?). Anyone ...
Cussing Pastors Poll Results
Ed Young’s rant about cussing pastors got you guys all fired up. So we figured it was only appropriate to try and get our finger on the pulse of the ...
A Church You Can Call Home
This idea has been tossed around from time-to-time, just here on Church Marketing Sucks, so I’m sure it’s made the rounds outside of our little world. But churches doing good ...
