Archive for May, 2010
Your Church Competes With…
Let’s be honest, we live in an entertainment culture. We have become conditioned to crave entertainment. Sunday Morning Competition On Sunday morning, your church is in a competition. You are competing with the entertainment channels that are clamoring for the attention of people living in your community. television movies sports recreation video games So what [...]
Everything A Christian Does, Is Marketing Jesus
Yesterday, I wrote a post titled Everything A Church Does is Marketing. Steve Fogg commented on that post with the proposition that: “everything Christians also do and say outside of Sunday is marketing the church too.” He wrote a blog post about that: Church Marketing Everything. I agree completely, Steve – your list makes sense [...]
Everything A Church Does Is Marketing
Sadly, there are still many churches where mixing the words “church” and “marketing” in the same sentence causes conflict. I think this is because many people equate marketing with advertising. Advertising is merely one function of marketing. Sometimes this struggle lies with people perceiving that “the church” should not be using the methodologies of the [...]
The Cost Of Doing It Yourself
Have you ever tried to do something that you are not really gifted, talented, or trained to do? We all have. We think…I can do it – and save money in the process! Yet, what usually happens is that we get frustrated, irritated, agitated, and in the end, the job takes us five times as [...]
Social Media Revolution Reality Check for Churches
The Erik Qualman at Socialnomics has done a refresh to the video Social Media Revolution (inset below). This is a catch little video that give us all some very interesting recent stats regarding the impact of social media in our culture. I think it is impertive for churches to be aware of these trends and [...]
The Church Design Clash
More churches are starting to realize that design matters. They are beginning to invest in logos, creating more solid branding, and building web sites that are designed professionally. More churches are starting to get “it”. The majority still have a long way to go on the pathway of design, but there are steps of forward [...]
