Comments on: Lessons In Not Sucking: Cheap Marketing Ideas for Church Planters

By: John Sasson

John Sasson — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:56:13 +0000

Great article. It’s just about a year ago we completed construction of a 100 foot tall church cross cell tower. The project, with some small amount of public relations effort, earned newspaper and television stories around the world, from the Times of London to the NY Post and even a late night monologue joke. We christened it after our Christmas Eve service.
Importantly it all began with some out of the box thinking. Since then , I’ve heard from churches all over the country, and I’ve even added that to the marketing tools I offer churches to promote themselves.

By: Rachel Goldstein

Rachel Goldstein — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:40:06 +0000

I really love the list of marketing ideas that you put together. I just wrote an article with 120 self promotional ideas…I thought that your users might find it useful – http://allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2007/11/28/120-self-promotion-ideas-for-graphic-designers-freelancers-free-or-almost-free/
Thanks again for the great article.
Rachel

By: Anjuan

Anjuan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:45:09 +0000

I think that teaching your congregation to take part in marketing is key. My church did something called FRANgelism campaigns every quarter or so where we encouraged members to invite Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, and Neighbors. A lot of church members don’t realize the power of their own word of mouth activities. I think that combining this with hand written invitations would be very powerful.

By: Aaron Marshall

Aaron Marshall — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:04:03 +0000

I recently helped a friend begin to make YouTube videos to his prospective supporters.
Not general videos… Videos that speak directly to the supporters!
We have had a great response so far. Hope this helps!
Here is a post I did a few weeks back about How To Raise Support with YouTube

By: Janie Mehaffey

Janie Mehaffey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:07:48 +0000

Brad … you were an answer to prayer this morning.
I was staring at our MASSIVE list of marketing ideas trying to narrow it down to the most realistic, resource-effective and compelling. (The Pursuit launches in Miami in January.)
Paralyzed, I decided to avoid the project by checking out my Bloglines for the day . . . and there you were.
# 1 was freeing and #2 was brilliant. I already have our launch team working on a list of peeps to start receiving hand-written notes to our preview services.
Thx for using your big brain powers for good.