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Deception is not Responsible Marketing

By on June 11, 2008 in deceptive marketing, hall of shame, message responsible

Liberty Names of America regularly sends us expiration notices for our domain name renewals. Problem is, they aren’t our domain registrar. Their notices are formatted like invoices in a ploy to get us to transfer our domains to them. Click on the image below to take a closer look: +Click to enlarge Of course, when [...]

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Marketing that makes you call for help

By on February 7, 2008 in hall of shame

My wife sent me an email the other day. It read: Help! We got another solicitation like before…it says to call 1-800-980-xxxx. We need to get off that list. They called over 6 times. I tried the number and you guessed it, I got the “We’re sorry. The number you have called is unavailable from [...]

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Blog spam. Welcome to the Responsible Marketing Hall of Shame.

By on January 16, 2008 in hall of shame

Spam of any kind sucks. It especially sucks when you respond to it accidentally. That almost happened to me recently when a pesky blog spammer commented on a posting with this: Very interesting thoughts regarding Ad Age Trends for 2008: My take. But would you like to submit comments and backlinks on millions of blogs [...]

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