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June 27, 2006

Events Lab Simplified

The Events Lab just got simpler.

Thanks to Google releasing some added functionality to their calendar, we can now post the Events Lab calendar on our site and you can check out the Events Lab without a Google login.

So if you're looking for upcoming church marketing and communications related events, check out the Events Lab.

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June 26, 2006

Church Marketing Sucks Intern

Our flagship blog, Church Marketing Sucks, needs some day to day operational help. We're looking for an intern to step in and keep things going. We're looking for someone familiar with Church Marketing Sucks who can invest some consistent time. It could be a student looking for college credit or just someone who believes in what we're doing and wants to help out.

Job description:

• Comment/Trackback moderation (approving/deleting comments and trackbacks as necessary, responding to comments as needed).
  
• Answer e-mail.
  
• Weekly polls (develop poll questions & answers, enter them into the web-based system, post the poll results each week with analysis).
  
• Edit/proof/post contributor blog entries.
  
• Write weekly Church Marketing Lab round up posts.
  
• Write random blog entries (2-5 per week).
  
• Being located in either St. Paul, Minn. or Los Angeles a plus, but not required.

Hours Involved: 5-10 per week.

Apply online

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Events Lab Coordinator

Update: Position filled.

We've just launched the new Events Lab and we're looking for someone to champion this new venture.

Job description: Run the Events Lab—everything from adding new events, to answering e-mails and requests about the lab.

Hours Involved: 1-3 hours per week typically, sometimes less.

Apply online

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We Need Graphic Designers: PDF Template

We want to start creating PDFs to cover topics in a little more depth than we can in a blog entry on Church Marketing Sucks. The idea is to create short PDF booklets that can tackle a specific subject.

We're looking for a designer to help us create a standard template we can use for all of these booklets.

Guidelines:

• Front page must have the ability to match a consistent look, but be able to swap out some sort of unique identifying graphic. Examples would include the tech books with the same design but different pictures on the cover. We want the consistency of a series, but enough customization that each cover can be somewhat unique.
  
• CFCC name, logo and tagline on the cover.
  
• A consistent page layout with CFCC name, logo and tagline on each page, as well as page number, name of the book, and room for sidebars and pullquotes.
  
• A copyright page at the end that includes room for an author bio, a blurb about CFCC, permission/copyright info, etc.
  
• Very basic PDF design—no Acrobat only buttons.
  
• Designed for easy horizontal printing on 8.5x11 paper and viewing on standard screen sizes.

Hours Involved: 5-10

Apply online When we follow up we may ask for samples of your work (links to online projects would be ideal).

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We Need Techies

We're looking for some people with technical know-how to step in and help us help the church matter.

Current needs: Project Basis--pool of willing techies to help build new initiatives, add functionality to existing sites, etc. We need help with everything from adding the occasional form to building a whole new site.

Hours Involved: Depends on the project.

Apply online

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June 19, 2006

CFCC in the Detroit Free Press

On Friday another article on church marketing appeared, this time in the Detroit Free Press. The Center for Church Communication and Church Marketing Sucks both get a mention:

The trend is so prevalent that the Center for Church Communication, a Los Angeles nonprofit of about 30 marketing professionals, created a Web site, www.churchmarketingsucks.com, to help churches market effectively.

"We've got the greatest story ever told, but no one's listening," said founder and president Brad Abare, who runs the Personality ad agency in Los Angeles. But "We think the church has a communications problem. In general, the church has been resistant to the idea of church marketing."

Though I'm not sure who the "30 marketing professionals" are. While we do have a number of volunteers who help out (and always welcome more), we don't have any kind of membership list.

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June 12, 2006

Introducing the Events Lab

Events are a great way to learn, interact and just get away from it all. You can learn more about your field of expertise and discover new ideas, you can interact with people and discover that you're not the only one trying to do what you do, and you can change the scenery and have a chance to recharge your batteries.

So we've started the Events Lab, a public calendar listing all sorts of church marketing and communications related events. This week alone there are four events from Miami to Phoenix to Philadelphia to Chicago.

It's powered by Google Calendar, so you can subscribe via RSS or iCal and keep track of the events yourself. We've also probably missed a few events, so if you know of one that should be included, let us know.

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June 10, 2006

Foursquare Convention 2006

The Foursquare Convention finished up in Washington, D.C., last week and our very own Brad Abare had a chance to participate in the technology forum, "Harnessing Technology for Ministry." Brad covered a number of points, including:

• Be who you are, not who you're not.
  
• Eliminate confusion.
  
• Pay attention to how your message is being translated.
  
• The audience is always right.
  
• Design matters.

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June 5, 2006

Free Gas and a Mention of CMS

Church Executive Magazine is covering a marketing campaign from Crossing Community Church in Chandler, Ariz. where they're giving away free gas to entice visitors. Lead Pastor Mike Harper and Creative Arts Pastor Jeff Poole mention a few places where they find resources and ideas, including our own Church Marketing Sucks (which just so happens to have covered a church giving away gas in September 2005).

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