Kevin D. Hendricks

When Kevin isn't busy as the editor of Church Marketing Sucks, he runs his own writing and editing company, Monkey Outta Nowhere. Kevin has been blogging since 1998, runs the hyperlocal site West St. Paul Reader, and has published several books, including 137 Books in One Year: How to Fall in Love With Reading, The Stephanies and all of our church communication books.

Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:

resources Article
April 4, 2006

More Downloadable Church Resources

LifeChurch.tv isn’t the only church giving away their sermon series resources–The Vine, the young adult service of Southeast Christian church in Louisville, Ky., has also made their sermon series resources ...

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technology Article

What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church

Web 2.0 is the latest rage. It’s on the cover of Newsweek and everyone is speculating if it’s the revenge of the dot com boom. This is the beginning of ...

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resources Article

LifeChurch.tv Downloadable Resources

LifeChurch.tv, a multi-location church with sites in Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona, is making their sermon series resources available to other churches for free. You can download video, layered graphics files ...

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promotion Article
April 3, 2006

No One Reads Your Church Brochure

Marketing guru Seth Godin recently talked about brochures and said the one thing no marketer wants to hear: Nobody reads brochures. I didn’t say it wasn’t important. I just said it ...

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poll-results Article

Public Relations Poll

Last week’s poll asked about church press releases and offers some interesting numbers. Half of churches haven’t even tried press releases, but 31% have tried them and scored some free ...

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peer-review Article
March 31, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #1

Yesterday we announced the new Church Marketing Lab, a place where you can help churches improve their communications. So let’s do it. Here’s a round up of church marketing samples ...

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church-business Article

Is Leadership Spiritual?

Christianity Today has an interesting debate between North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley and the author of Good to Great, Jim Collins. Well, it’s not so much a debate. Both ...

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news-updates Article
March 30, 2006

The Church Marketing Lab

It’s time for better church marketing. Want to help? Step into the lab and help churches improve their marketing and communications by taking part in our new Flickr group, the Church ...

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public-relations Article
March 29, 2006

Church Publicity that Doesn’t Work

This week’s poll is asking about press releases, and while we’ve recently covered how to do press releases, we haven’t talked about how not to do press releases. Jamey Tucker ...

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mass-media Article
March 28, 2006

The UCC Ejector Pew Commercial

The United Church of Christ, known for their headline grabbing commercial that was rejected by the networks, is back with a new ejector pew commercial. This time around a traditional ...

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news-updates Article

Want to Write For Us?

Join our team and become a guest blogger. We’re looking for people who can contribute to the conversation, beyond comments to the actual entries we comment about. We’ve made it ...

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poll-results Article
March 27, 2006

Monster Truck Poll

Last month we posted about a monster truck church ad and last week we asked for your thoughts on it. 75% appreciated the ad, with 22% noting the potential to ...

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off-the-wall Article
March 25, 2006

Church Members Beat Burglar

You don’t mess with the Church of the Nazarene in West Palm Beach, Fla. Church members were fed up after a string of burglaries, so they hid out in the ...

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graphic-design Article
March 22, 2006

More Church Cartoons

Church Cartoons is another site that offers comics for church newsletters and publications. Some may question the place of church humor in a church publication, but if it makes me laugh ...

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technology Article

More Tips for Starting a Church Blog

Fortune offers a list of corporate blogging do’s and don’ts that are worth checking out for any church exploring the possibility of a blog: Know thyself Know thy audience Engage your audience Stay current Cover ...

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