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Tag Archive | "Bad Business"

Helio Promotes Sexual Harassment

Friday, September 14, 2007

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Something about this promo strikes me as a bit wrong. Here are the steps as I see it. Select Scenario: Work Select Gender: Male Select Lecherous Double-Entendre:I’ve got this huge doc, and I could really use your help getting it to fit inside the margins. Send To Co-Worker via handy SMS form. Sounds like a great idea. Nothing could possibly [...]

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Poor Form Design

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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I found a link to this Purina pet food offer via DealLocker this morning, and being a pet owner myself (and one always looking for pet food coupons), I decided to go from clicker to customer for Purina. Well, at least I tried to. After filling out this relatively lengthy lead generation form, I went to [...]

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The Slow And Imminent Death Of The Free IPod

Monday, August 27, 2007

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If you are just Joe Internet user, you probably are most familiar with the “Get A Free Ipod” sites via annoying banners, spam, and other internet noise. But if you are in the online marketing space, you know them more as the shaky beams that have oddly supported an entire industry for the past several [...]

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B2C Email Communications

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

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At Quibblo, we have routine discussions as to what the right level of email volume and frequency is when it comes to communicating with our users. We really try our best to limit automated, newsletter, and other communications to our users to times where we really have something of value to offer them or [...]

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