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Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:
Beautiful Basics
Everybody’s been talking about the amazing new iPhone this past week. As you can imagine, it holds a few lessons for the church. But first comes 37signals’ prediction for the iPhone, ...
Church Tie in Poll
Last week we asked about the controversial issue of churches partnering with outside organizations. Brad started it with his post about church partnerships and then followed up with the example ...
Top 5 Must-Read Blogs for Fundraisers
It seems we’re one of the top five must-read blogs for fundraisers. Jeff Brooks, author of the Donor Power Blog and creative director at the ad agency Merkle/Domain, offered up ...
Church Staff Free Agents
Ooh, ooh, did you hear the news? Forget about that Beckham guy, Tony Morgan, former pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. and one of the Simply Strategic guys ...
Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators
In my haste to dump some links on you yesterday I forgot one: Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators. It’s a web exclusive from Outreach magazine written by, oh ...
Post-Holiday Linkfest
My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time ...
Newspaper Advertising Poll
Last week we asked about newspaper advertising. It was a shorter poll, thanks to some holiday delays. But the outlook for church advertising in newspapers isn’t that promising. 45% ...
New Year Poll
Last week we asked about your church marketing hopes and dreams for 2007. The perennial favorite, a web site that doesn’t make people cringe, took the top spot with 34%. ...
Happy Christmas Poll
We know you wanted an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200 shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time for Christmas, ...
Top 10 Most Commented Entries of 2006
It’s the end of the year and time for lists galore. So we present the top 10 most commented entries of 2006. Of course we’re ignoring the old Peer Review ...
CMS T-shirt Poll
Last week we asked about our Church Marketing Sucks T-shirt sale. We managed to sell over 100 shirts and for everyone who ordered one, they should be well on their ...
Rappin’ Pastors, Renamin’ Churches, Sharin’ Graphics
Rapping Pastors – When we did our Christmas marketing poll we forgot all about full-on rap videos. I bet that would have beaten out extra services. Who wants extra church ...
Christmas Marketing Poll
Last week we asked about Christmas marketing. The most popular approach is extra services or special programs for Christmas, with 27% of respondents. Then it’s a practical dead-heat between advertising, ...
Advertise on CMS
You may have noticed the big new graphic on the right. That’s right, we’re now accepting advertising on Church Marketing Sucks and the Center for Church Communication. It’s part of ...
First Baptist Church Becomes CenterPoint Church
Over at the Out of Ur blog Gordon MacDonald writes about the recent name change his 180-year-old church went through. It took two votes to change the name and an ...
