Marketing

Stick With Your Strengths

Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We hear it over and over again, stick with your strengths and delegate everything else. The simplicity of this message makes a lot of sense when we hear someone else say it or [...]

Green or Not?

Ok, let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of Relevant Magazine. I have been a subscriber since the second issue of the magazine came out. This magazine is full of thought provoking, real world, spiritually stretching stuff.
Today I got an email from Relevant with this advertisement:

I’m sorry, what!? [...]

Dissapointment

One of the great joys in life is ordering a Nooma and then getting it in the mail.  It shows up in that eye catching “nooma blue” box, then you open it, to find it neatly packed with three cool “nooma blue” gum balls inside!  Well, I got the latest Nooma vid in the mail [...]

Signs, signs, everywhere signs…

So what “signs” is you church putting out for the public to see and get an idea of what your church is about? Shawn, snapped this picture of a sign in a church parking lot on a recent trip:

Our “signs” may not be as obvious but we better be aware that we may have [...]

The question

Check this out, then substitute your church’s name in place of The Cheesecake Factory.

Marketing The Message

This from marketing guru Seth Godin:
I don’t know French. I can’t play the piano. I have no clue how to catch a bony spinefish. This is the first kind of don’t know. Stuff you don’t know because you haven’t been taught it yet. Books are awfully good at solving this problem, so are good teachers.
The [...]

Creativity of Love

Just how much effort has the church put into creatively communicating God’s love to the world around us? Probably not nearly as much as this guy put into this wonderful “project!”

(Thanks to Scott for pointing this out)

Getting it Right

There are many times to use anecdotal evidence to support a point we are trying to make but when that evidence come at the expense of another individual or person, and we have not done all of our research I really believe that the use of that evidence is unethical.
Seth has a post up about [...]

Meeting Today

Had a great meeting today in a really cool place, check out the pics below. Believe it or not this is a supermarket! Wegmans, is a great chain of stores around these parts and they really know how to set up a great atmosphere in their Market Cafe, they have a seating area upstairs, [...]