RE: UKNM: Free Wine

[Sarah Clelland]

I'll be withholding judgement until my 

wine turns up (or fails to show).


I must say though, it really irks me that a 

business goes to the trouble and expense of 

a marketing ploy like this, with a site that

throws up error messages. It's totally unnecessary - 

their developer should have been on the case and 

provided messages saying 'Sorry, we're very busy' 

or words to that effect. OK, so this message might 

not make you feel any better when a bottle of free 

vino is dangling just beyond your reach, but at least 

it shows that they were prepared, with a properly 

developed website.


I'd be very interested to know how much it

cost madaboutwine to do this - is it really that 

cheap? 


And can anyone tell me how you set about projecting 

the take-up of a viral campaign like this? 


Sarah Clelland

www.snowvalley.com

020 7250 1056



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Subject: Re: UKNM: Free Wine



Lo,


Worked absolutely fine - unfortunately it took longer than boo.com did

when we launched to get through the purchase path though.....


That and the irritating errors and obscure error messages being

produced by their e-commerce system which presumably couldn't deal

with stuff being free.



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