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Our Don’t Suck List Sucks
We’ve come to the conclusion that our ‘Don’t Suck’ list actually sucks. The goal was to list companies, organizations and resources that could help your church not suck. In reality ...
CMS T-shirt Poll Results
Last week we took a bit of a different approach with our weekly poll and asked if anyone would buy a Church Marketing Sucks T-shirt. We haven’t actually made T-shirts ...
Useful Church Web Sites Poll Results
Last week we asked about the usefulness of church web sites. The results didn’t change much from earlier in the week when we had matching responses on either extreme: 12% ...
Performance-Based Salaries for Pastors
I seem to be on a Mark Oestreicher roll this week (actually, I’ve just been catching up on my RSS feeds), but I stumbled across another great entry: Worst Church ...
Lingerie, Dodgeball and Golf Bring People to Church
More and more churches are turning to creative programming to attract people, trying to offer something outside the Sunday morning worship experience to interest visitors. The Washington Post covers a ...
Nuns with Guns
I just about died when I saw this flier. It comes from The Refuse, a Colorado Springs church that submitted their web site for this week’s peer review, and it ...
The Refuse Web Site
Check out the web site of The Refuse, a Colorado Springs church for “the left out and right brained.” Share your feedback in this week’s peer review, and consider submitting ...
Church Growth Fallout
Mark Oestreicher from Youth Specialties has an interesting post using a Raymond Chandler quote to talk about the state of the church: From thirty feet away she looked like a lot ...
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen revealed his Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2005 earlier this week, and church web sites could learn a thing or two. For the most part ...
Free Gas Church in New York Times
Earlier this month we talked about a church giving away free gas to visitors, and last week that church, Clearview Community Church in Sioux City, Iowa, was mentioned in The ...
The Smiling Pastor
An entry over at Tony McCollum’s Churchwerx talks about the power of a smile. McCollum uses the example of General Dwight D. Eisenhower: During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower, supreme ...
How Many Church Visitors Poll Results
Last week’s poll asked how many first-time visitors come to your church each week. 42% of churches have 1-5 visitors each week. 30% have more than 10 each week. But ...
Port Adelaide Uniting Church Web Site
This week we continue our international peer review theme with a look at a church web site from Port Adelaide, Australia. Share your constructive feedback in the comments. Samples: Screenshot: (portadelaide.unitingchurch.org.au)…
Christians Aren’t the Only Immitators
We’re not the only ones. Today I opened my Time magazine and saw this “Islam Inside” T-shirt. It reminded me of an entry I wrote a while back lamenting the ...
Tony Morgan and Church Marketing Resources
This weekend is the fourth annual Innovative Church Conference at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. In 2002 Granger started WiredChurches.com, a resources and training arm of the church that ...
