Archive for the ‘Failed e-mails’ Category

Almost An Insult

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 by The Director

If I were an e-mail marketer, I would almost be insulted:

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Of course, it’s hard to be insulted by an e-mail marketing communication rife with typos and a Web site rife with errors.

I realize I single out BizJournals.com a lot, but geez, the quality of its e-mails and its Web site are atrocious and worthy of scorn.

Nor Proofreaders, Apparently

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 by The Director

The working wold is no place for wimps, spellcheckers

Oh, We Did?

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 by The Director

This is Web 2.0 at its finest:

The Royal We

Oh, we have, have we?

Somehow, I suspect if you had encountered the error, I would not have encountered the error. Or at least I would hope so.

It’s Web 2.0, though, because we encountered the error together, and I am invited to freely contribute to the community by submitting a bug report.

That’s No Way To Mail Merge, Son

Monday, July 9th, 2007 by The Director

It must be difficult running weekly e-mails and all, but someone should probably review the friendlies to make sure that your variable names aren’t coming through instead of, oh, I don’t know, values:

That was my name, until I had it legally changed to QA