Archive for the ‘Bad Marketing’ Category



Straight Shooters

June 5th, 2007 | Bad Marketing, Marketers, New Marketing | Matt | No Comments

Hi everyone, Greetings from Zell Am See at the base of the Alps in Austria. Here’s a small observation from my travels in Europe so far… Using the Euro here, I’ve found that almost all the prices are whole numbers. It makes life a lot easier. Always having to deal with 1.99 or 34.99 is [...]



unMarketing

May 20th, 2007 | Advertising, Bad Marketing, Marketers, New Marketing | Matt | 1 Comment

Many times people see “New Marketing” and think “New Ways To Pry Into People’s Lives”. This is very wrong. Advances in technology and techniques are great, except when they lead to more noise. With all the ways a marketer can now interact with customers/people/markets, the focus should be on accountability and transparency, not trickery. You [...]