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Archive for the ‘First Impressions & Beyond’ Category
Church Signs: Tips for Your Primary Exterior Sign
The sign out front creates a powerful first impression for your church. So what's on your sign?
A Former Insider’s Honest Thoughts on Church
Former pastor and church insider Shaun King recently shared a list of 10 honest thoughts as a church outsider.
The Forgotten Few Minutes Before Church
What happens when a visitor sits down in your worship space in those few minutes before your service starts? Are you creating an experience that fits your values and brings ...
Matt Knisely on Feeling
"As artists, communicators, marketers, and storytellers don't try to make people feel good. Just make them feel."
Top 5 Elements for a Church Site
All church websites need to clearly address these five basic questions: Who, what, when, where and how. Easy, huh?
Heath Mullikin on New People
"Lots of people pray for God to send new people to their church. Few accept the folks God actually sends."
What Churches Can Learn From Politics: The Proudness Factor
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the first debate and surged in the polls. What your church can learn from campaign shifts and motivating people.
What I Learned as a Sunday Sinner
Visitors to church have it hard, but that's something we too quickly forget when we've been going to the same church forever. Take a visit to a different church and ...
First Impressions Are Virtual
First impressions are no longer physical, but virtual. Your church website should answer questions and make it easier for someone to try out your church.
Lessons for the Church from the 2012 Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics offer plenty of lessons for churches. Here are three: Tell a story, be a good sport, you're not in control. Plus, bacon!
Church Communication Hero: Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor was a British missionary to China in the late 19th century who found a way to connect: the kimono. Find your kimono.
Making Visitors Feel Welcome (But Not Too Welcome)
The dread-locked author, hippy and Jesus lover Anne Lamott gives churches advice about how to welcome visitors.
How to Use E-mail to Bring Back New Visitors
Visitors may spend a single Sunday at your church. The impression they get is how they'll decide to come back or not... unless you find a way to give them ...
Holy Flash Mob
More than 2,000 people bursting into choreographed dance grabs 700,000 views on YouTube. And a church did it.
Lessons from Political Marketing
Tuesday is election day in the United States. Go vote. And then learn a thing or two about how not to communicate from the current glut of political marketing.
