Archive for the ‘Poll Results’ Category

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November 28, 2005

Puns in Marketing Poll

Last week’s poll asked about the place of puns in church marketing, a topic raised a few months back. The majority (58%) seem to like puns, with the caveat that they’re ...

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November 22, 2005

Church E-mail Poll Results

Last week we asked how often your church sends e-mail updates, and the majority (38%) send weekly e-mails. But a lot of churches aren’t taking advantage of e-mail: 28% don’t ...

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November 14, 2005

How’d You Hear About CMS?

Last week we asked how you heard about Church Marketing Sucks, and the results are pretty interesting. The vast majority found us online, 70% coming from search engines, other web ...

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November 7, 2005

Church Communications Conference Poll

Last week we asked if you’d attend a church communications conference and the results are in: 44% said ‘sign me up.’ Another 4% have already been to a church communications ...

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October 31, 2005

Who Does the Work Poll Results

Last week we asked who does the marketing work in your church and in 63% of churches it’s the staff. Not a big shock there, but what’s interesting is ...

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October 24, 2005

Verdict on the Fallon Church Ads

Last month we talked about some interesting church ads coming out of the UK, and one of those ads was created by the international agency Fallon. Last week we asked ...

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October 17, 2005

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 ...

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October 10, 2005

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% ...

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October 3, 2005

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 ...

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September 26, 2005

What’s Working in Church Results

You want visitors to come to church? Invite your friends. Overwhelmingly, word of mouh invites were the most effective marketing method for bringing new people to church with 65%. That’s ...

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September 19, 2005

Church Branding Poll Results

In last week’s poll we asked if churches had a recognizable brand. 66% didn’t have one, though 27% are working on it. I guess I should expect churches to be ...

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September 12, 2005

Poll Results: How Cool is Your Church Web Site?

Last week’s poll asked how cool your church web site is. The results can only confirm the common perception that the church just isn’t very cool. 22% were proud enough ...

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September 12, 2005

Poll Results: How Big Is Your Church?

A couple weeks ago we asked what size church you attend. 42% say the attend a “medium” size church, 32% attend a “mini” church and 19% attend a “mega” church. ...

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August 29, 2005

Poll Results Suck

The results are in for last week’s poll asking if ‘sucks’ is a swear word. 57% said “@#*%, no!” which means if a simple majority decided morality we’d be good ...

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August 22, 2005

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 ...

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