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Design Site NOTCOT.org on Church Marketing Sucks
The design inspiration site NOTCOT.org recently featured Church Marketing Sucks. NOTCOT.org is basically a collection of eye-candy for “your visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements.” We’re glad we can ...
Top Tweeting Church Leaders
Today the Catalyst blog shares a list of Top Tweeters & Church Leaders. So if you’re on Twitter and want to see what church leaders are saying, check out the ...
Feliz Cumpleanos Poll Results
Church Marketing Sucks launched four years ago last week, and so last week’s poll asked how long you’ve been along for the ride. Out front are the 46% who’ve been around ...
Church Marketing Sucks Turns 4
Four years ago today the first post appeared on Church Marketing Sucks. It’s been a wild ride trying to frustrate, educate and motivate churches to communicate the greatest story ever ...
How the Catholic Church Markets World Youth Day
Sometimes it’s fun to see what others say about church marketing. Here’s a blog entry talking about how the Catholic church is marketing World Youth Day 2008. The initial thought ...
Barack Obama & John McCain’s Lessons for Church Web Sites
While you can’t endorse a presidential candidate as a church, you are allowed to learn from them. And there’s plenty to learn from the communications practices of candidates. Let’s start ...
3 Ways to Sink Your E-mail Newsletter
That’s it. I tried to let it roll off my back, but no more. I’m sick of stupid mistakes in e-mail newsletters. If you want your e-mail newsletter to be ...
Say it Succinctly
Yesterday at the WWDC 2008 Keynote address Steve Jobs unveiled a beefed up iPhone and a new suite of mobile applications. It seems like half the world was salivating for ...
Twitter at Church
We’ve talked a lot about Twitter lately and some of you are probably wondering what Twitter might look like inside the church. Well, here’s a real live example of using ...
Put Your Faith to Work: Slice Carrots
The Episcopal Church recently launched an advertising campaign emphasizing community outreach. The “Put Your Faith to Work” campaign includes print ads and videos and emphasizes slicing carrots. They go on ...
What Would Jesus Twitter?
We’ve been talking up Twitter–the 140-character message/mini-blog application that’s sweeping the early adopters–a lot in the past few weeks (Oh, and if you’re looking for church marketing Twitter friends, about ...
Share the Gospel in 140 Characters or Less
When you talk about marketing it’s easy to focus on design. But writing matters. A lot. Here’s a chance to sharpen your writing skills. Brian Baute has thrown down the ...
Minnesota Church Files Restraining Order Against Autistic Boy
Have you seen this news story? The Church of St. Joseph, a Catholic church in Bertha, Minn., has filed a restraining order against 13-year-old Adam Race, a severely autistic boy, ...
Little Tweaks, Big Gains
Tiny adjustments can make a big difference. Sometimes if you just slow down a little bit, you’ll see big gains: American Airlines is saving $4 million by having their planes taxi ...
Small Churches Should Embrace Cheap Technology
Last week’s poll/quiz revealed the encouraging stat that 62% of churches have a web site, up from 57% in 2005 and 34% in 2000. The results come from a recent ...
