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Marketing Don'ts

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Marketing Don'ts provides real life examples of marketing blunders that will hopefully save you, your company or your product from the same fate.

Because it is easier to learn from other people's mistakes.

Added on: Dec 11th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Lynne Viccaro O'Leary
Listed in: Marketing Public Relations
Tags: Marketing media email social media direct mail publi relations

Recent Posts

Pfizer to Pay $2.3B Pfine

Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 15:18

The days of extravagant wining and dining your prospective clients may be a thing of the past. Today, Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer, Inc. with $2.3 billion in fines for engaging what they called "illegal marketing."This entailed inviting doctors to ...
Tidewater Marketing Scandal Washes up in NY

Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 08:46 in Fraud, tidewater marketing

Back in February, I write about our friends at Tidewater Marketing, a Florida marketing company accused of deceptive promotion practices by offering free gas, then never delivering. Apparently, this company has gotten the attention of NY Attorney Gen...
Marketing Lessons From The Weinermobile

Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 08:37 in Marketing

I just love the title of this article. Many of us have seen the pictures of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile that crashed into a home in Wisconsin. This prompted Rob Strasberg to share five marketing strategies that he has learned from this incident:1. Y...
Is The Twitter Craze Dying A Slow Painful Death?

Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 07:40 in twitter

Interesting post by Jonathan Richman raises some questions regarding the long-term life expectancy of Twitter. While Twitter has shown incredible growth over the past year (1,448 percent according to PCmag.com), the pace is slowing (as it would be im...
5 Marketing Don'ts for Email Lists

Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 08:41 in email marketing, email communication

I am on pop culture overload and need to get back to the basics as far as Marketing Don'ts are concerned. Every marketer worth their salt has incorporated email marketing into their plans. Some do it very well -- others need a refresher. The rules ke...
Don't Let the Facts Get in the Way

Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 13:51

It has been a perfect storm of insane events all converging over the past few weeks. While the death of Michael Jackson seems to be getting plenty of press, none of it is particularly good. As the world is slowly getting over the shock of it, numerou...