Unsolicited Chicken is the New Cold Calling

Here are this week's weirdest marketing and design stories to inspire you what not to do.

A Salesforce. rep just delivered Chick-Fil-A to my office (/r/salesforce): Someone delivered $500 of chicken to a Redditor's office. The catch: whoever did it forgot the Chick-Fil-A sauce – and their business card. Whoops. Free lunch is a great way to build rapport, but only if your potential client knows you did it.

The Worst Marketing Fails 🤣🤣 #shorts #marketing #fail: This is your competition. It's completely automatically generated, and a human probably didn't watch it before going live. (Otherwise, the bot would have pronounced "Dove" like the bird instead of "dōve" like how one gets in the water.) It's also got a serious issue with logic. The first few marketing fails seem to be genuine fails, like the "Krispy Kreme Klub" having an unfortunate acronym. But the last one sucks and shows why we can't trust robots to do our work for us:

"Bud Light hired a trans woman to promote their brand which sparked backlash and boycotts."

...Okay, a marketing "fail" implies something humorous usually due to hubris or an obvious oversight. But the Dylan Mulvaney boycott isn't a marketing fail, it's a victim of the culture war. TV millionaires and tiny bigots told their viewers to get mad, and they did because the "facts not feelings" crowd somehow can't think for themselves. That's not a fail because it's not something that could have been predicted by a reasonable person.

And that's the scary part. Selective outrage can strike at any time and doesn't make sense. It's like the Terminator:

There's not really anything that can be done to stop the outrage machine once it starts. It won't affect most of us, but what if it does?

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