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Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:
When Churches Get It Right
by Margaret Pittman, Guest Blogger Occasionally churches get it right–they do something so significant that it makes you stand back in awe and amazement. And as a critic of the ...
Best and Worst Logo Redesigns
Judging from the comments and questions we get in the Church Marketing Lab it seems like logos have to be one of the hardest challenges for church marketers. But have ...
Marketing Without Trying
Seth Godin offers us a simple and succinct lesson in marketing: Even when you don’t try, you’re telling a story. That’s why church marketing often sucks. We don’t want to admit we’re ...
Interviews with Bloggers
Apparently press coverage comes in spurts. Last week we were in How magazine, this week Church Marketing Sucks is featured in a series of blogger interviews from Issue Dynamics. You ...
CMS in How Magazine
If you’re flipping through the December 2007 issue of How magazine you might see something familiar–this site. There’s a screenshot of Church Marketing Sucks on page 104 in an article ...
Church Marketing Lessons from a Women’s Homemaking Course
So Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is offering college-level coursework in homemaking–sewing, cooking, parenting. It’s part of a humanities degree with a concentration in homemaking, and it’s only for women. While jaws ...
What if Church was Fast, Fun & Friendly?
Brenton Balvin recently went to work for Target and noted that Target strives to be a ‘fast, fun and friendly place to work and shop’ and maybe churches need to ...
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Wired editor Chris Anderson champions the concept of the long tail in The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More–basically the digital age has ushered ...
I-35W Bridge Collapse: A Church Marketing Perspective
You’ve surely heard by now, that the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed yesterday, killing at least four, injuring 79 and at least eight more are still ...
Grow Your Church By Asking People to Leave
Craig Groeschel at LifeChurch.tv has an interesting series of blog posts on getting people to leave your church. It seems completely counter-intuitive, but it makes sense. If people aren’t moving ...
Buzz Film Fest
The Buzz Conference wrapped up in Washington, D.C., a few weeks back and the results of their film festival are now online. You can watch the four top church films ...
Oops: Mistakes in Church Leadership
Craig Groeschel is sharing four mistakes he’s made at LifeChurch.tv. I think it’s always helpful when people share their mistakes so you can learn from them and hopefully not make ...
Turning Churches into Homeless Shelters
I stumbled on this satirical and presumably fictional piece last month. The fact that it quotes big-name mega-church pastors in the Twin Cities gives it an eerie feeling of authenticity. ...
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Marketing guru Seth Godin offers a little book (seriously, it’s only 76 pages) that tells you when to quit. The Dip is all about quitting what doesn’t work and sticking ...
Where’s the Church on Facebook?
If you’re plugged into the social networking site Facebook at all you’ve probably heard about the recent launch of their developer’s platform. For the uninformed, basically third party companies can ...
