The Best Way To Have Your Pitch Ignored
April 18th, 2011… is to have a typo in your subject line. Even worse is if you’re sending a media alert and the word you’ve misspelled is “media.”
Takeaway for marketers: If you’re pitching something to me, a typo in the pitch — particularly in the subject line — guarantees you an instant visit to the deleted folder of my email program. I’m sure I’m not alone in this thinking.