Peter Bowden of UUPlanet sent me a link to Church Marketing Sucks, a blog that is devoted to creating good church marketing. Some good material on this blog. For example, I liked this recent entry:

January 5, 2007
New Year Poll
(Filed under: Poll Results)

Last week we asked about your church marketing hopes and dreams for 2007. The perennial favorite, a web site that doesn’t make people cringe, took the top spot with 34%. Next came the novel concept of planning with 25%, followed by braqnd consistency at 21%. More of the same and as few typos as possible tied for 8%, and only 4% are planning a church name change in 2007. [Link.]

(You have to think that typo is in there just for laughs.)

The top three hopes and dreams are probably a good starting place for many churches, although I’d say planning should be in first place.