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Marketing Jesus: CMS in CT
The January 2009 issue of Christianity Today features a cover story on church marketing, “Jesus is Not a Brand” by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson (author of Brand Jesus: Christianity in a Consumerist ...
Q Conference Discount
Just a quick reminder about the upcoming Q Conference: Who: Thinkers and doers.What: The non-hipster Q Conference.When: April 27-29, 2009Where: Austin, TexasWhy: Check out the knowledge dropped at previous events.Discount? Save ...
Bickering Issues Poll Results
Last week we asked how disagreements are handled between the lead pastor and other communicators. This can be a sticky point (and churches aren’t the only organizations who experience this), ...
2nd Squidoo Charity Drive: Vote for CFCC
Back in October Squidoo did an $80,000 charity drive. They were giving away $2 per vote to nonprofit organizations, and we spread the word and raked in $800 to help ...
Q Conference Meetup & Discount
The Q conference is coming to Austin, Texas. And we’ve got your discount. The event is April 27-29, 2009 and you can save $150 over the current rate–if you register ...
Protesting the Church
A couple weeks ago more than 1,000 people marched in front of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church to protest his support of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that banned gay ...
Tony Morgan Thinks Churches Should Stop Marketing
Tony Morgan, chief strategic officer at NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.C., co-author of the Simply Strategic Series, former pastor at Granger Community Church and author of the soon-to-be-released Killing Cockroaches ...
The Power of Story: Compassion Bloggers
Last February we talked about the Compassion International blogger trip to Uganda. This week they’re doing it again, taking eight bloggers and a photographer to the Dominican Republic to see ...
What Churches Can Learn from Election Marketing
Nearly two years of election mania comes to a climax today. Get out and vote and celebrate the end of election year marketing (or start prepping for 2012). This has ...
Church Metrics
Those digerati geniuses at LifeChurch.tv have created a free, web-based application to track church statistics, ChurchMetrics. It’s a pretty simple tool that only tracks four core areas: attendance, giving, salvations ...
The Mystery Worshipper Phenomenon
Mystery shoppers for churches seem to be the latest rage. There was the recent Wall Street Journal article, we mentioned it last week, the Tennessean covered it Sunday and Anne ...
Free Catalyst Ticket
Today we’ve been pitching jobs, talking about church on the cheap and now we’re giving away a free ticket. Sense a theme? Here’s the deal: The kind folks at AspireOne ...
Vote for CFCC & We Get $2 Per Vote
Squidoo is doing an $80,000 charity drive. For every vote for a nonprofit they’ll give that organization $2 (up to $40,000 total). And you can vote for the Center for ...
Church and Politics Don’t Mix
In a little more than a month we’ll be having a presidential election in the United States. It’s a big deal and I encourage everyone eligible to vote. But I ...
Be Your Own Church
This week Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv is talking about his journey to “find his voice” as a leader: “Many leaders lack originality. One reason is that they’re learning from other great ...
