Have you ever had poor service? It stinks. Sometimes I understand why customer service people don’t do a great job, but then other times I just have to scratch my head and wonder what their deal is.
Karin, a friend of mine has had her troubles also. Hopefully she was dealing with the […]

Kevin over at Church Marketing Sucks has been finding all sorts of great marketing ideas for bringing people to church. Today he posted about churches that have given away chocolate and another that brews it’s own beer. Kind of a new spin on the traditional covered dish lunches after the 11:00 service!
I wonder […]

Yesterday I was in Seattle with my wife. We went to the Pike Market (I think that’s what it was called). Anyway, it’s the place where they throw the fish when someone orders one. Pretty fun atmosphere.
But what I noticed was that there were at least 3 of those shops in this […]

Dilbert Comic Strip from Dec 20, 2004

You probably know that I am on a temporary ministry assignment (read: mission trip) in Vancouver, Canada. We have wrapped it up and are in process of moving back to Orlando.
Over on my personal blog, I’ve created a retrospective of our time here. On my home site, I’ve created a page that gives […]

This is a postcard/flyer that went out to every mailbox, shop, and office in the parish of a London church to advertise their Christmas services. On the back is the list of their service times.
“The idea…was to put some humanity into the Christmas story again, move from the nativity just being mythical fantasy to […]

Could a wiki be a great way to keep your team collaborating and updated well? Could a wiki be used as an effective ministry tool? I think the answer is yes, though I haven’t played with wikis at all.
Here’s an article called Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring that might stir […]

I touched on the topic of word of mouth marketing a while back about how one measure of an effective website is when others are evangelists for your site. They are called “customer evangelists” and the concept is that other people like what you offer so much that they tell others about it.
Obviously we […]

I am in transition from my temporary ministry assignment in Vancouver back to Orlando. My last day here was yesterday and I’m taking some much needed vacation and traveling back home over the rest of the month. I’ll probably post off and on, but not as frequently until the new year.
In […]

An internet demographics report came out today stating:
Young people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth in the U.S. But in the last four years, most new growth in Web adoption came from people aged 55 and up
The following chart shows the full adult age breakdown:To me it’s not that amazing that almost half […]