There’s an adage in marketing that you should surprise and delight your customers. I think this one qualifies as a “surprise” but not so much as a “delight”. NetSpend, a company in Austin, TX, shipped out a prepaid debit card offer to one “Asswipe Williams” in Sacramento, CA. Problem is, the dude is actually named [...]
Entries Tagged as 'all ur bankz'
Credit Card Companies Resort To Name-Calling
December 4th, 2011 · 8 Comments · all ur bankz, breaking news, fail
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$BAC and The Google+ Pages Free For All
November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · all ur bankz, breaking news
Now that the shiny new social network Google+ is open to brand pages, there’s been something of a free-for-all during the time between when a page is built and when it is verified (and by “when”, I mean “if”, as $BAC has a verified page yet this one still stands). Which is, of course, bad [...]
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Banks, They’re So Hot Right Now
September 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · all ur bankz
Alex Schaefer, a California artist, has tapped into some of the frustration with the financial system via a visual statement: a series of paintings of burning banks. His reasoning: Schaefer tells The Los Angeles Times that his painting is a “visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy.” Works for [...]
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Bank Of America Ranks First In Something
September 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · all ur bankz, fail
Taking the award for the most layoffs so far this year, a title previously held by Merck – it’s Bank of America ($BAC)! They’ve confirmed 30,000 layoffs: “As the decisions are implemented, employment levels in the areas under review during Phase I are expected to be reduced by approximately 30,000 jobs over the next few [...]
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Bernanke: Gold Isn’t Money, Gold Is Tradition
July 13th, 2011 · 21 Comments · all ur bankz, bailout, bernanke, breaking news, commodities, fail, markets
Ben Bernanke tells Ron Paul that gold isn’t money, gold is tradition.
