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Your Church, the Wifi Sharer
The geek world has been abuzz lately regarding Ars Technica’s look at the ethics of stealing wifi. At Church Marketing Sucks, we don’t make too much of an effort to ...
(Not) Celebrating MLK Day
This is an open question to local churches everywhere, specifically predominantly-white congregations: Where were the MLK Day celebrations? Firsthand, I heard of none*. A news search led me to the celebration ...
Extra! Extra! Poll Results
There’s a thousand ways to distribute news–blogs, mailers, e-mails, Twitter, Bat Symbols, etc. We wanted to know what works for your church and how you distribute your news. Here’s what ...
Church Marketing Lab: Waffle Thermals to Revolutions
The Church Marketing Lab has been bustling with activity as people get ready for everything from Valentine’s Day to Easter. Here’s a taste of what we’ve seen this week: Here’s a ...
Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007
We can’t all be super techies. Not everyone has an intimate understanding of every new technology trend or can keep pace with all the Twittering, Digging or StumbleUponing. But never ...
Presidential Marketing Poll Results
If you’ve kept up with the presidential race at all, you’ve been bombarded with tricky ploys, clever slogans, crazy ads and a thousand other marketing moves. So we wanted to ...
Church Marketing Lab: Financial Freedom to New T-Shirts
We thought you might be interested to know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab over the past week and a half, so here’s a little taste for ...
Church Marketing in the UK
I came across Drew McCarty in the Church Marketing Lab, and he was looking for some advice for a church plant (Drew’s note: new web site coming soon) that was ...
Doing Design Poll Results
Last week, we wanted to know how your church goes about doing its design. Full time? Part time? No time? Here’s how you broke it down: 34% of you can’t afford ...
Church Marketing New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s resolutions never work. Let’s face it, you’ll probably be too busy to get organized. And somehow chocolate will be the downfall of your diet. So maybe you could ...
Underpromise and Overdeliver
Seth Godin, one of our favorite marketing gurus, had some good advice recently. Underpromise and overdeliver. This is a little different but particularly pertinent for the church. We can’t overpromise. We ...
2008 Goals Poll Results
Last week, getting ready for the New Year, we wanted to know your church marketing goals for 2008. Here’s what you had to say … The largest portion of you, 27%, ...
Church Marketing Lab in the New Year
Why not start your New Year right and help church marketing to no longer suck? Head to the Church Marketing Lab and add to the conversation. Here’s what we’ve seen ...
Woohoo! Christmas! Poll Results
Last week, as we got ready for Christmas, we asked you what you wanted from CMS for Christmas. Here’s what you had to say. 37% of you think money will be ...
Church Marketing Lab: A Very Merry Edition
I’ve been restraining myself for quite some time now trying not to get all Christmasy with the Church Marketing Lab updates. But four days before Santa, here it is. This ...
