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Church Web Site Poll Results
Last week’s poll asked if your church had a web site, and 79% of churches did have a web site. Though that sounds like good news, 43% of people said ...
Saturday Service Mailer
This week’s peer review is more of a case study, since it already went out and we know the results, but it’s still valuable to review the strategy and design ...
New Guest Blogger Jennifer Laycock
Say hello to Jennifer Laycock, the newest guest blogger for Church Marketing Sucks. Jennifer is a search engine expert who consults for companies on search engine markteing. She’ll be sharing ...
Free $25 Google AdWords Credit
With all the recent talk about search engine marketing, Derek at Woodland Baptist Church in Bradenton, Fla. pointed out that you can get a $25 credit for Google AdWords if ...
The Church Marketing Sucks E-mail Newsletter
You may have noticed the e-mail newsletter sign-up in our lefthand sidebar, which is a new feature that came with our recent redesign. We offer a few different lists for ...
Ministry as Marketing
One complaint we often hear about marketing is that churches should just do something instead. Actions speak louder than words. If we get out in the community and do what ...
Keyword Advertising Results
Last week’s survey asked about search engine marketing and the results are interesting. Of our 83 responses (which is a new low—so was it a busy week or a boring ...
Integrating Visitors into Your Church
There’s been plenty of discussion on our Reasons to Use Direct Mail post. One of the comments hinted at some research about visitors and I followed up with the commenter, ...
Missions Sunday Bulletin
It’s Missions Sunday at Westgate Chapel, or at least it was a few weeks ago. For this week’s peer review we take a look at their bulletin. You can always ...
Australia’s “Jesus: All About Life” Campaign
A new $250,000 marketing campaign is trying to promote Jesus to Australians. The “Jesus: All About Life” campaign has raised money from various churches and ministries and will run TV, ...
The Incredible Shrinking Megachurch
NPR covers the satellite efforts of megachurches, that have them shrinking back to smaller sizes. “It’s our desire to be a local neighborhood church again,” says Jim Tomberlin, the regional pastor ...
The $88 Billion Church
The 350,000 churches, synagogues and mosques in the U.S. raked in an estimated $88.3 billion last year. That’s a lot of money. That makes religion a bigger business than say, ...
Protesting Church Expansion
And I thought growing churches conflicting with their neighbors would be an isolated deal. Maybe not. On Sunday neighbors were protesting the 4,000-member St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, Calif. ...
Reasons to Use Direct Mail
The church marketing company FaithSpan has a newly redesigned web site and is offering a new section of How-To PDFs. One of the best is 9 Reasons to use Direct ...
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