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Chocolate Works
Remember the Church of England’s plan to give away free trade chocolate? It worked. 900 people came back to church. 9 out of 10 people who returned said they’d keep coming. Sometimes ...
Custom Brew Brings in the Young Adults
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. offers its own custom brewed beer, Winged Lion Lager, for its weekly pub lunches—and the twenty- and thirty-somethings are coming out in droves. Yeah, ...
Competing with the NFL
When it comes to competing with the mass media, the church tends to lose. On Christmas Eve this year the Minnesota Vikings will face the Green Bay Packers in a ...
Moral Superiority on Beckham Nativity
You’ve probably heard the stories about a London wax museum with a nativity scene featuring soccer star David Beckham as Joseph and his wife “Posh Spice” Victoria as the Virgin ...
Non-Traditional Church Ad
Brian Baute blogs about a non-traditional church ad for Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro, N.C. that appeared in a local progressive paper. He quotes the text of the ...
The Church Christmas Card
Ben Bell designed this Christmas card for his church, St. Stephen’s Church in Islington, London. Every year the church sends out a card to households, shops and offices in their ...
Visiting a Mega-Church
One of the Twin Cities’ alternative weeklies went to church last week, offering an article exploring the mega-church after an election supposedly decided by moral values. The author visited Wooddale ...
Interview With PRWeek.com
Keith O’Brien covers faith-based public relations in an article on PRWeek.com, which includes some good comments from Mark DeMoss, the big PR man in the Christian market. The article also ...
Church Ad Rejected by Networks
Inflammatory headlines are reporting that the major TV networks have rejected a homosexual church commercial. And those headlines are blowing it way out of proportion. The 30-second commercial promotes the ...
The Pastor Can’t Do it Alone
Marketing guru Seth Godin (author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside) has released a previous book in a free PDF format for a limited time only: The Bootstrapper’s Bible. The ...
Lessons from U2
Anyone who reads my personal blog or has had contact with me in the past month probably knows that I’ve been obsessing about the release of How to Dismantle an ...
Spread the Word in the Real World
Church Marketing Sucks has always been a conversation and we encourage you to spread that conversation far and wide. To prompt that in the real world, we’ve got stacks and ...
Church Sucks Flyer
We got an e-mail the other day about a fun church marketing story. Ryan Haack is involved in planting a new church in Madison, Wisc., the Journey, which will open ...
Guest Blogger Andy Havens Joins the Conversation
We’d like to welcome marketing guru Andy Havens to the Church Marketing Sucks conversation. Andy will be joining us as guest blogger, sharing his thoughts and insights culled from 15 ...
Moving Furniture
“On Religion” columnist Terry Mattingly covers a baptizing bus tour put on by the Southern Baptists in an attempt to rack up one million baptisms between June 2005 and June ...
