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By: Christie

Christie — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:34:12 +0000

Great tip! I also loathe those “squeeze pages”, especially when you are already on the mailing list!

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By: WAHM Biz Builder

WAHM Biz Builder — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:54:12 +0000

@ Mark That’s awful! I hope the knitting was worth her losing her job over it!

@ Courtney So true! I think that comes back to ‘What goes around comes around!’

@ Alex I’ve been in jobs like that! Ugh!!!

@ Bec Gross!

@ Kirrily Do you find you notice the mispellings and then get distracted from the rest of the page? Probably not an actual business practice, but for heaven’s sake people, use your spellchecker and get someone to proof read it! *scans page and comments for spelling errors*

@ Peter Are you trying to tell me something? LOLOL!

By: Peter Rubel

Peter Rubel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:37:21 +0000

It may be too obvious, but I believe no one yet has mentioned over-promising and under-delivering (as opposed to the other way around), especially when it comes to work at home businesses. Thank you for your approach in this article. Its creative and helpful. Peter Rubel’s last blog post..Twitter: Wave of the Future for Business

By: Kirrily

Kirrily — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:12 +0000

Another one! Not sure it’s business practice exactly, but incorrect spelling is a bad look – especially in banner ads. A whole page of text with one typo is one thing, but a banner ad with 5 words and a spelling error should never happen.

By: Bec

Bec — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:00:41 +0000

Around Christmas time I went up to our local to get some photos printed (I keep going to write “developed” even though it was digital). First I went to Big W but it was packed so I went to a camera shop. Once I’d uploaded my photos, I went to the counter to pay NOT ONLY did the guy behind the counter ignore me for a few seconds so he could continue a conversation with a friend, he interrupted the transaction to keep talking.

When I came back to pick up my photos he was EATING behind the counter – now he wasn’t the only person in the store, there were at least three other staff members so why he couldn’t eat on his lunch break is beyond me. He even had the hide to shovel another spoonful in before dusting his hands off on his pants and coming over to me.

Bec’s last blog post..The harness of doom

By: Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:34:46 +0000

Another one is encouraging staff to work in a half-assed manner by never praising and only punishing - and by giving the few good workers a hard time about taking time off because "productivity falls too much" when they do. Great way to encourage everyone to give great service! (um, no.) Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome’s last blog post..The Theory of Suckiness

By: Kirrily

Kirrily — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:21:43 +0000

I have heard a few people talking recently about buying things online and receiving extras in with their order. Often, those extras have turned them off ever buying from that shop again. Mostly it was completely unrelated to what they had purchased – things like advertising/information for extremist religions or causes such as animal welfare etc.

Everybody has ideas that are close to their heart, but it was clear that pushing those ideas on customers who didn’t ask for them in any way tended to offend many of them.

Others were annoyed by extras like stickers or button badges being sent when they ordered a bag or tshirt. Some people love that kind of freebie though, so it’s hard to know what to do!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:08:32 +0000

These are great tips…and I also wanted to add complaining about customers/clients on Twitter and other social networking sites. I can’t believe how often I see this and cringe. Bad business!!

Courtney’s last blog post..Effective Article Marketing – Part One

By: Mark Smith

Mark Smith — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:29:10 +0000

I have to share – once I had a trade show in Orlando and was unable to make the show myself. The woman I had hired as my salesperson at the time went along with the office manager to run the booth.

I found out after the show that my salesperson had spent the time when she was unmonitored in the booth…

ready?…

… KNITTING.

Needless to say, she wasn’t with my company much longer!

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