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in my opinion, making it easy for people to invite their friends* (invest & invite) should always be a priority for churches, but even more when it coincides with an "external marketing" initiative (i.e. mailers, billboards, road signs, etc...) or a big sunday (i.e. easter)
here are some ways to make it easy for attenders to invite their friends (i think these work whether you are marketing or not).
i am not an advertising expert, but i think i've figured out a few things so far...
FACT: i have never drank a coke because i saw a coke ad. BUT it did make it easier to try one the first time it was offered.
i think marketing for churches is most effective when approached as a partnership with your regular attenders. you are creating brand awareness in the community, which in turn makes inviting their friends much easier.
marketing alone will show some fruit of new attenders, but even the most irresistible environment is missing the stickiness a personal invitation carries. in my opinion, a church that equips its attenders to "invest & invite" in addition to marketing will see the highest return.
i don't do stuff like this often but this was funny...
i googled my name followed by the word 'needs 'in quotations (i.e. "ryan needs")
here was my 1st ten, directly quoted, and i added a few more for kicks...
Ryan Needs...
and other notables

as the title reads i just wanted to quickly remind you to turn your clocks forward tonight.. here are a couple action steps
1) if you forgot to tell your volunteers fire up the phone tree, constant contact, email, text messages, planning center, courier pigeon, or your preferred method of communication and make sure to remind them...
2) thank your volunteers for getting up even earlier to make sunday happen! my wife has ordered 2 cookie cakes (that look like clocks set to 9 & 11) for her waumba volunteers at buckhead church tomorrow.
there are 2 kinds of people who come to your church: those who ask for directions and those who won't.
go make it easy to find the bathroom in your environment.


if you are like me and did a ton of contract work this past year, you probably feel like you are getting a different w2 everyday right now. let me encourage you to not put off dealing with them until april... it's not fun.
josh bayne had a great post here talking about taxes and linking to a website that is designed for musicians, but can be beneficial in theory for others also!
We believe that we're on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that's not changing. We're constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
And frankly, we don't settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we're wrong and the courage to change. And I think, regardless of who is in what job, those values are so embedded in this company that Apple (your organization) will do extremely well.Tim Cook
COO, Apple Inc.
when was the last time you cast vision with that much passion? last time i checked what the church is here to do is far more important then a new MacBook Pro.
what if you canned the talk you have for staff meeting on monday and just adapted this...
