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Archive for the ‘Think Ahead’ Category
A Letter to Pastors: Is Communication PR or DNA?
Is your church communication PR or DNA? An open letter to pastors about two ways of handling communications and the startling differences.
What You Resist Persists
I've spent too much of my short life criticizing what I don't like. It doesn't work. Tell me what you're for, not against.
Expert Series: What Are You Doing For Easter?
Easter is only nine weeks away. Is your church ready? We’re launching a new series where we ask some church marketing experts for their input and our first question is ...
Planning Christmas with Shawn Wood
We talk with Shawn Wood about planning Christmas. It's not too late and there are plenty of good ideas out there.
Repurposing Content for Maximum Impact
Many churches struggle to produce quality content week-after-week, and what they do produce often falls into the ether, never to be heard from again. But Brandon Cox suggests a better ...
The Power of Anticipation
A happy vacation has more to do with planning, preparation and anticipation than it does the actual vacation. What does that mean for church marketing?
An Imaginary Church for the Greater Good
Andrew Pautler, a senior graphic design major at the University of Notre Dame, e-mailed us to let us know about a little project he’s been working on: I believe that if ...
Leveraging Small Groups for Church Marketing
You don’t need me to tell you we live in a world inundated with marketing. You can’t go to remote China without seeing stickers for Coke or Pepsi peppered around ...
Church Marketing Plan
The United Methodist Church has put together an online tutorial to help churches create a marketing plan. It’s a seriously-involved, 5-step effort that includes homework with PDF downloads, action steps ...
Vision Correction
On August 30, 2009, 79-year-old Jud McKinney was driving a white pickup truck along a rural road in Winterset, Iowa. Riding a bike on the same road was 54-year-old Mark ...
The Future of Church
Today I stumbled across a Collide magazine article from last month that pondered the future of the church in 2034. It’s a lengthy piece that imagines what church may be ...
Religions are Changing
CNN reports on a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life about the way people change their faith. These changes can be within a single religion ...
2009′s Marketing Trends that Matter to Your Church
The always-insightful Kem Meyer recently discussed nine marketing trends for 2009 (originally at Adverblog). She framed them in the context of churches and how these nine issues create a perfect ...
Marketing to the Last Generation
You’ve probably been to some church event with “next” in the title. Whether it’s “the leadership filter for what’s next in the church” or “the mega super definitive conference for ...
