by Michael Buckingham
There are SO many things we can learn from the presidential campaigns of both of these gentlemen. There hasn’t been an election with anything close to this in terms of lessons in marketing. Let me just give you a couple…
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Tags: consistency, expectations, identity, learn, message, personality
by Michael Buckingham
A house divided will not stand.
– Abraham Lincoln
I’m already hearing the rumbling. Many within the church are not happy with the results of the election. I’ve heard things like:
“God has taken his hand off of the US”
“McCain was God’s choice…
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Tags: election, obama, politics
by Michael Buckingham
I remember the biggest question in Halloween was always “where’s the good stuff?” We’d hit the different neighborhoods, scoping them out until we had a pretty good idea who was giving out the big candy bars. Now there’s something better….the…
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Tags: fun, halloween, trick or treat
by Michael Buckingham
I was giving some critique in the church marketing lab and through the process decided to just pull the images together for the person and make it available for him to use. Well…why not give those to you as well.
Nothing spectacular…
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Tags: free, prayer, voting
by Michael Buckingham
Well, I’ll be honest, I didn’t think I was going to like Twitter…but I gotta say, I’m a believer. Now, I’m not in Terry Storch’s camp…it’s not going to replace my blog but it certainly supplements it.
So after a few months…
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Tags: @holycowcreative, follow, twit, twitter
by Michael Buckingham
Something to think about the next time you:
- play art director when you should be finishing your sermon
- ask for the logo to be bigger
- make every project hot…and then sit on them for a week
- give valuable feedback like “we want it to…
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Tags: design, feedback, team
by Michael Buckingham
Below is a great video showing the type of outreach and compassion the church should be doing. Too often we think there must be an altar call or invitation to salvation after every outreach event we do. Don’t hear me…
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Tags: kindness, outreach
by Michael Buckingham
I’ll be headed to Grand Rapids tomorrow to speak on Wednesday at the Internet Ministry Conference. I’m tag teaming with Brad Abare and really looking forward to being in the ring with him. We’re doing two sessions: Don’t Suck Online…
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Tags: conference, grand rapids, internet
by Michael Buckingham
Ok, so I was going to write a post about Seth Godin’s new book Tribes as it relates to the church and the “tribes” within the church. While you can take many things from Seth’s various books and apply them…
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Tags: books, community, seth godin, tribes
by Michael Buckingham
Ahhh, the science of branding and marketing…and they think we just make this stuff up!
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Tags: branding, definition, marketing