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Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:
Church Marketing Plan
The United Methodist Church has put together an online tutorial to help churches create a marketing plan. It’s a seriously-involved, 5-step effort that includes homework with PDF downloads, action steps ...
Deadly Viper & Racism in Marketing
Nothing says controversy like an Internet fight over racism in marketing and design. If you weren’t familiar with last week’s blow-by-blow, Asian author and professor Soong-Chan Rah called out racism ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
$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 ...
We’re on Facebook
We’ve recently been diving into the world of social media and content as status updates with our foray into Twitter. Now we’ve joined the Facebook bandwagon as well, utilizing much ...
America’s Giving Challenge
The Case Foundation just kicked off a month long fund raising effort with America’s Giving Challenge. They’re giving away $150,000 in prize money to charities that can mobilize the most ...
Leadership Lessons from the Nines
About a month ago the Leadership Network hosted the Nines web conference on Sept. 9, 2009. It was a day-long event of over 70 leaders sharing lessons via nine minute ...
Thanks to Clover, faithHighway, Integrity Music and Wix
We need to give a big shout out of thanks to our current CFCC Ad Network members: Clover provides affordable web sites for churches. faithHighway helps churches reach their communities with web ...
MinistryCOM 2009 Recap
Two weeks ago the MinistryCOM conference came together outside Chicago, kicking off the Fall church communication event schedule (seriously–have you checked out the fall line up?). Our own Brad Abare ...
Church Coaches & Reviewing the Pay-for-a-Mentor Model
Have you noticed what could be the latest trend in the church world? Coaching. Seems like all the big names have been drafted, including Kem Meyer, Tony Morgan, Greg Surratt ...
Helping People Find a Church: 25 Fair Warnings for Visitors
Scott McClellan over at Collide magazine talks about the coolest thing he’s seen on a church web site. What is it? A feature that helps visitors find a church by ...
