church marketing
by Michael Buckingham
“With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.” Mark 4:33-34
Notice why Jesus…
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Tags: parables
by Michael Buckingham
Church marketing sucks has a new poll asking what church marketing mistakes you make most often. Tow of the answers caught my attention in particular and not just because they are currently the top 2:
Not thinking about marketing, even…
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Tags: church marketing, growth, mistakes
by Michael Buckingham
The Christmas tree is up, lights are lit…how’s your Christmas marketing coming along? In case you haven’t started, and in case you don’t work with us (shame on you) here is a link to some Christmas icons in vector,…
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Tags: christmas, free, graphics, vector
by Michael Buckingham
God gave them a beautiful church.
God protected the church from the Great Fire of London in 1966.
The church was so distinguished that it caught Hollywood’s attention and can now be seen in movies like Shakespeare in Love…
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Tags: church, marketing, money
by Michael Buckingham
There’s a conference center in my neighborhood that has just wrapped up a new logo along with a new name. The price tag: $250,000. No, we did not take this project. We remain dedicated to only work with churches and…
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Tags: budget, logo
by Michael Buckingham
Looks like Brad Abare, of Church Marketing Sucks, and I are on the same brainwave today. He’s written a great post about collaboration and how to have a successful ideation meeting.
Be sure to check it out!
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Tags: brad abare, church marketing sucks, collaboration, ideation
by Michael Buckingham
I love collaboration. I believe the best concepts often need the power of a team. Yesterday I spent the day doing just that with the team at Grand Rapids First. It is such a blessing to work with Pastor Sam…
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Tags: collaboration, Joe Sindorf, meetings, Sam Rijfkogel, team
by Michael Buckingham
My wife and I went to the marriage conference, Happily After All, this weekend. Wonderful time, if for no other reason than to spend a couple of days with my wife focusing on what God is doing in our…
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Tags: audience, church marketing, event, planning
by Michael Buckingham
Seth Godin has a great post about changing the game. For those of us involved in church marketing it is essential that we change things up in order to be effective and heard.
One of the churches we work with…
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Tags: changing church, creativity, marriage, originality
by Michael Buckingham
I was talking with my Dad tonight and we somehow wandered onto the topic of Google vs. Yahoo stock and what made Google so much better than Yahoo. They offer the same suite of products, the serve the…
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Tags: church marketing, originality