{"id":232,"date":"2008-09-12T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/09\/12\/really-bad-marketing\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:57:04","slug":"really-bad-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/really-bad-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Bad Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to put out a newsletter, (The Smartenizer) so I&#8217;m looking at various services and sending some of them questions.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of the few times I&#8217;ve clicked on the ads that appear next to Gmail messages.<\/p>\n<p>One was for RDH Marketing.\u00c2\u00a0 The link showed me a generic 404 page.\u00c2\u00a0 (Not even a custom 404?\u00c2\u00a0 Even I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/404.html\">one<\/a>.) So I deleted the long string of code after the domain name to go to their home page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rdhmarketing.com\/\">Here<\/a> it is.\u00c2\u00a0 No description of who they are, what they offer, or why I should give them my name and e-mail.\u00c2\u00a0 The privacy policy displays an ugly page.\u00c2\u00a0 The other links simply return to a demand for my personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Great marketing guys.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea what you offer, and I never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to put out a newsletter, (The Smartenizer) so I&#8217;m looking at various services and sending some of them questions.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of the few times I&#8217;ve clicked on the ads that appear next to Gmail messages. One was for RDH Marketing.\u00c2\u00a0 The link showed me a generic 404 page.\u00c2\u00a0 (Not even a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}