Archive for October 2005

demographicsresearch Article
October 20, 2005

Church Marketing Quotes

Check out the Austin American-Statesman for yours truly. Brad and I were quoted in an article about church marketing, though we definitely didn’t have the best quotes. Mac Richard of Lake ...

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graphic-design Article
October 20, 2005

Faith-Based Design Submissions

GIA Publications is considering the possible publication of a book on faith-based graphic design. The submission guidelines say that “communications media from any organized worship tradition or denomination are eligible.” ...

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peer-review Article
October 18, 2005

Messy Lives Promotion for My Praize Youth Group

Take a look at this flier design for a youth group program called My Praize promoting their theme, “messy lives.” Please share your feedback and consider submitting your church’s work ...

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demographicsresearch Article
October 18, 2005

Jakob Nielsen Familiar with Church Marketing?

I thought it was rather interesting in Jakob Nielsen’s Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes (check out our take) that he gave an example from the world of church marketing. Under his ...

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web-sites Article
October 18, 2005

Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes

Recently we looked at the Top 10 Web Design Mistakes from Jakob Nielsen, and now he presents the Top 10 Blog Design Mistakes. You can certainly take what Nielsen says ...

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news-updates Article
October 17, 2005

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 ...

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poll-results Article
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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brand-identity Article
October 14, 2005

Gay-Friendly Churches

Driving into work yesterday, I was listening to NPR. In the Market Place segment, they were doing a story on the loyalty factor that gays and lesbians have toward brands. ...

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events Article
October 10, 2005

Catalyst 2005

I spent the last few days in Atlanta at the sixth annual Catalyst conference, the self-proclaimed event for next generation leaders. For those unfamiliar, Catalyst is the younger, hipper brand ...

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poll-results Article
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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church-business Article
October 8, 2005

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 ...

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examples Article
October 8, 2005

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 ...

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graphic-design Article
October 6, 2005

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 ...

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peer-review Article
October 6, 2005

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 ...

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philosophy Article
October 5, 2005

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 ...

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