Category: YMX

Less than a week away until I head down to Atlanta for the National Youth Workers Convention. Among the myriad of things I’m excited about (having a booth for YMX, seeing dozens of friends, fantastic time of worship and renewal, a road trip with Todd, making new friends) I am also pumped about an opportunity…

Yesterday the display arrived for YMX.This is the backdrop for our booth at the NYWC in Atlanta. This thing is sweet, it’s 8 feet tall and 9 feet wide and (so far) looks good. The only problem is that I ordered it from a printer in California and the shipment arrived from Beijing, China. You’ve…

Yesterday I posted about all that I liked about the new website, gospel.com. Well, the love is obviously two-way as YMX was very well-featured on the debut day of Gospel.com. We appeared as a "featured ministry" on the main page and here on the ministries page.

Gospel.com launches later this afternoon. It’s so new that I can’t even find a logo for it indexed on Google yet. But this afternoon Brian Tol and his team are promising that one of the coolest Christian websites on the planet will launch. OK, so it’s not Google Let’s get that clear. It’s not one…

One thing I love about having Patti as a business partner is her willingness to run with crazy ideas. So, over the last few weeks we’ve kicked around ideas. When news of Facebook’s new ad utility broke, we jumped on it. We searched out a few dozen terms that we thought could be useful sites…

This is shameless self-promotion. But I was looking through our subscription list for the YMX newsletter and I realized something: There are no local subscribers to the weekly newsletter! That means that none of the folks in my local network gets the newsletter. It means none of my Light Force small group leaders get the…

I’m into dorky stats… so this will only be interesting to me. Here’s an interesting trend about Mac vs. PC users at Youth Ministry Exchange. (PC is the larger number) Jan-May 2007: (90% vs. 10%) June-August 2007: (85.5% vs. 14.5%) September-today: (84.5% vs. 15.5%) So, Mac is gaining on PC among YMX users, the growth…

As I made mention of the other day, Youth Ministry Exchange is raising it’s rate. Part of the rate change is that we offered existing members a small window where they could get 3 years of our service at a great price. A little side benefit of this has been an amazing side discussion that…

Last night Patti and I revealed our secret plan to destroy the planet by raising the subscription rates at Youth Ministry Exchange from $5 per year to $12 per year. The vast majority of our users will be fine with the increase… after all, $1/month is pretty cheap for something a typical user will use…