Over a year ago I pointed to a great article about creating an effective logo. Today I found this article from Church Marketing Sucks: How to Design a Church Logo. More great steps:

God First
Computer Off
Describe Your Church
Sketching Time
Now Use the Computer

That reminds me…anyone want to create a logo for eMinistryNotes?

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Waiting For The Green!, originally uploaded by klphoto.

Now why didn’t I think of this earlier? We could brand a racer from NASCAR with the 4 Spiritual Laws!
Alas, the Church of Scientology beat us to […]

MarketingProfs.com has a good article called Beware of Black Hat SEO:
Search engine spammers never prosper. Sooner or later, they get caught. And when they do, it’s almost never pretty.
Consequences can include ranking penalties, removal of the site’s “voting” power (i.e., ability to pass PageRank), incomplete indexation (i.e., a partial site ban), or, worst of all, […]

This could potentially be huge. Inside AdWords reports:
In the coming days, we will be adding click-to-play video ads to the line-up of text, Flash and image ad formats currently supported by the Google content network. At launch, video ads will be available to AdWords advertisers in the US, Canada and Japan - but we […]

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P5191523, originally uploaded by shoden.

What do you think of self-proclaimed Marketing Expert & Author, George Torok’s take on Campus Crusade’s marketing for The Da Vinci Code?
Kudos to the Campus Crusade for Christ on the creative […]

An article on ClickZ notes the coming trend in search - toward mobile phones.
The author quotes other sources quite a bit. Here are some of his excerpts:
“…twice as many cell phones are in use than PCs worldwide. One research organization predicts cell phone use will reach 3.3 billion by 2010, more than a 50 […]

I can’t blame many media outlets for thinking that Campus Crusade is promoting seeing/reading the DaVinci Code. Press is picking up and we’re trying to set that notion straight.
But I can understand the confusion.
Anyway, I found this article explaining some of the offline marketing we’ve been doing for DiscussDaVinci.com (full disclosure: I only work […]

There’s always a new market to get into…and new ways to market what you do.
If you have a building or church (or your own home?!?!), you can put a sign on there for Google Maps to record for you.
The NaturalChurchBlog gives tips on how to do a sign for Google maps.
I wonder if […]

Our good friend, Ralph Wilson, may stop conducting his Internet Marketing Best Practices Briefings after this year. I highly recommend his seminar if you’ve never been. His schedule for 2006 has been posted on his site.

Starbucks Gossip: Pastor uses Starbucks cards to get people into his church