What We Offer

Church Marketing Sucks

Launched in 2004, the Church Marketing Sucks blog has been our primary service to churches. The site features news and updates on church marketing, helpful ideas and resources, commentary and philosophy, and a growing community of people interested in seeing the church matter.

Church Marketing Sucks has been mentioned in Advertising Age, Relevant, Leadership Journal, The Door, PR Week, Ministries Today and more. The site draws over 100,000 monthly visits from over 30,000 unique visitors who have contributed more than 2,000 comments on more than 500 entries.

And if you're furling your brow at the word 'sucks,' you're not alone. We understand your concern and have made an alternate url available: ChurchMarketingStinks.com. We hope you'll check out our rationale for why we use the word 'sucks.'

Church Marketing Lab

Feedback can make all the difference. Which is why we started a group to share and critique church marketing materials. This group is hosted on the photo-sharing site Flickr and enables people to share their work, offer their feedback and improve church communications. It's the power of the people, working for the church.

Go to the Church Marketing Lab >>

Job & Freelance Lab

Looking for church marketing or communications work? Need to fill a church communication position? Look no further. The folks who brought you Church Marketing Sucks and the Church Marketing Lab are now connecting the church with creative professionals. Post a full-time job in the Job Lab or a part-time freelance project in the Freelance Lab.

Local Labs

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Events Lab

You're not alone. Sometimes it can feel that way, but there are people in churches all over the place going through the same struggles you are. That can be one of the biggest bonuses to events—meeting and interacting with others in the same boat as you.

We've put together a public calendar listing all sorts of church communications and marketing related events, powered by Google Calendar, called the Events Lab. Find an event near you and check it out. It's a chance to grow, stretch yourself and learn something new.

Go to the Events Lab >>

Communications Report

In the summer of 2005 we surveyed over 500 churches across the United States and published our findings in this free 8-page PDF report (488 KB, 8 pages). It includes juicy bits like:

• 76% of churches aren't documenting or tracking the results of their marketing.
• 63% of churches said marketing and promoting their church was important or extremely important.
• 80% of churches spend less than $10,000 on marketing and promotions each year.
• 59% of churches were dissatisfied or ambivalent about their web sites.

Speaking Engagements

Upcoming conferences where our own Brad Abare will be speaking at include:

• Echo Church Media Conference, August 14-16, 2008 in Dallas, Texas.
• Internet Ministry Conference, October 20-23, 2008 in Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Ohio Ministries Convocation, January 26-27, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio.

We have church marketing professionals available to share their expertise with your audience.

More...

We're idea guys and we always have something up our sleeve. We're currently working on or dreaming about a half-dozen specific ventures to help churches matter. We're only lacking the time and resources to bring those dreams to life. Stay tuned.