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Worst Practices (10)
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Worst Practices | writing

I am not your colleague

May 20th, 2009|1 min read

Worst Practices | Press Release Content | Public Relations | writing | copywriting | Marketing | Research and Analysis

Top Gobbledygook phrases and how to avoid them

April 8th, 2009|1 min read

Search Engine Marketing | Worst Practices | writing | Brand Journalism

SEO and your crap filled site

March 9th, 2009|1 min read

Worst Practices | Marketing

Thoughts on the marketing Ps

February 25th, 2009|1 min read

Viral Marketing | Worst Practices

smashLAB shows what to do when another company hijacks your name

January 24th, 2009|0 min read

Worst Practices | Press Release Content | Public Relations | Case Studies | writing | Media Relations

When lawyers get in the way of PR

January 6th, 2009|3 min read

Twitter | Worst Practices | Public Relations

Attention Twitter: You should be communicating better during what some are calling a crisis

January 4th, 2009|1 min read

Search Engine Marketing | Worst Practices | Advertising

Yellow Pages anyone?

December 17th, 2008|1 min read

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Worst Practices | writing | copywriting

World-class, cutting-edge gobbledygook

December 12th, 2008|1 min read

Worst Practices | Marketing | Business to Business

Attention DMA: time to rethink your online marketing

December 10th, 2008|2 min read

Twitter | Worst Practices | Marketing

Twitter and personal branding: The BIG mistake I see people make every single day

October 22nd, 2008|3 min read

Social Media | Worst Practices | Public Relations | Media Relations | Research and Analysis | Corporate blogging

Gartner fails miserably in product test, immediate action required

October 16th, 2008|2 min read

Worst Practices | Buyer Persona | Public Relations | Business to Business | Corporate blogging

Top 5 corporate blogging mistakes and how to avoid them

September 30th, 2008|3 min read

Social Media | Worst Practices | Public Relations | Case Studies | Media Relations

Learning from the 3M Post-It Note debacle: Social media ethics defined

September 24th, 2008|2 min read

Worst Practices | Press Release Content | Public Relations | writing | Marketing

Weasel words, gobbledygook, jargon, buzzwords, babble, blather, and baloney

September 16th, 2008|3 min read

Viral Marketing | Worst Practices | Case Studies | YouTube | Advertising | Brand Journalism

Don't ruin your great YouTube video with too-slick Madison Avenue packaging

September 14th, 2008|1 min read

Worst Practices | Case Studies

Anna from IKEA is intellectually challenged (but she has a sense of humor)

August 20th, 2008|2 min read

Social Media | Worst Practices | New Rules of Marketing and PR | Facebook | Research and Analysis | YouTube | Corporate blogging

Facebook and YouTube blocked by paranoid corporations at their own peril

June 19th, 2008|3 min read

Search Engine Marketing | Worst Practices | copywriting | Corporate blogging

Search Engine Optimizing a crap-filled site just makes it a little less crappy

June 15th, 2008|1 min read

Worst Practices | Public Relations | Brand Journalism | Corporate blogging

Does Harvard Business School know what a blog is?

May 16th, 2008|2 min read