How bad are the RFL Marketing Team

[mozzauk]

How bad do you need to be in the marketing team to make this school boy error on an email about the 1st Round Games.... 

 

Any  one notice the obvious mistake!!!! in an email to everyone signed up... the mind boggles!!!

[barnyia]

April? 

[welshmagpie]

It’s pretty bad, I agree. I’m generally a bit fed up the lack of professionalism when it comes to certain clubs’ social media as well.

One of the clubs featured in that email today tweeted about their fixture but tagged somebody completely random instead of @challengecup and have also spelled two of their players’ names incorrectly in their squad list. 

[mozzauk]

Yep for this weekends games

 

[Spidey]

Anybody let them know about their mistake?

[mozzauk]

I have tweeted and emailed them

[Jack Russell]

3 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Anybody let them know about their mistake?

Check your emails, its already been sent to everyone.

[Spidey]

Just now, Jack Russell said:

Check your emails, its already been sent to everyone.

Ah so you’ve let them know and a correction has landed?

[mozzauk]

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3 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Ah so you’ve let them know and a correction has landed?

 

They haven't corrected it, and a bit late now..... I got the email at 1613 today, 

[Spidey]

1 minute ago, mozzauk said:

They haven't corrected it, and a bit late now..... I got the email at 1613 today, 

For the effort you’ve made to complain about it you could have let them know at least

Yes it’s a cock up. Yes it shouldn’t happen. But hey let’s complain!!

[mozzauk]

1 minute ago, Spidey said:

For the effort you’ve made to complain about it you could have let them know at least

Yes it’s a cock up. Yes it shouldn’t happen. But hey let’s complain!!

I let them know as soon I saw the errors in the email, not a lot more I can do mail delivered at 16.13 i read it at 1700 when i finished work that's when I sent them an email... (as i said earlier in the thread)!

[Jack Russell]

10 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Ah so you’ve let them know and a correction has landed?

No I haven't. The point is, if I did inform them, it would be too late, the emails have already been sent, and its embarrassing.

[Josef K]

I did warn the RFL not to have Inverdale & Stuart Barnes on the marketing team but alas they wouldn’t listen. 

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, Spidey said:

For the effort you’ve made to complain about it you could have let them know at least

Yes it’s a cock up. Yes it shouldn’t happen. But hey let’s complain!!

Actually. Yes, let’s.

This is beyond basic.

[bobbruce]

There’s a RFL marketing team?. Like a whole team of people?.

[DavidM]

They don’t know what day it is ... sorry , month 

[thebrewxi]

Compare to the NRL. A different league. 

[OriginalMrC]

Think this is a bit unfair, mistakes do happen occasionally, and it's not the end of the world. Even corporations with huge multi million pound marketing budgets make mistakes. I think the RFL marketing team do a pretty great job overall on what I imagine to be a very small budget.

[The 4 of Us]

If you look up RFL Marketing Team in the Oxford English Dictionary it’s cited as an example of an Oxymoron.

[gingerjon]

11 hours ago, OriginalMrC said:

Think this is a bit unfair, mistakes do happen occasionally, and it's not the end of the world. Even corporations with huge multi million pound marketing budgets make mistakes. I think the RFL marketing team do a pretty great job overall on what I imagine to be a very small budget.

I'm not really criticising individuals because, yes, we all know that there aren't enough of them and they are working with hands tied behind their back. But ... when I see mistakes from larger corporations they are normally quickly corrected and/or not part of a pattern of errors. Or, more pertinently, brands that keep getting things wrong or who look unprofessional, I don't buy from.

We're on a messageboard for rugby league so we'll overlook it. It's drip drip drip failing to anyone who is a more casual fan on the list.

[John Drake]

The opening post of this thread was edited after it had been posted, to insert a missing word.

Just an illustration that we all make mistakes and could do better.

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

The opening post of this thread was edited after it had been posted, to insert a missing word.

Just an illustration that we all make mistakes and could do better.

How much was the OP paid and what's their sales target?

[Hela Wigmen]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

The opening post of this thread was edited after it had been posted, to insert a missing word.

Just an illustration that we all make mistakes and could do better.

Rugby League summed up. 

[unapologetic pedant]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

The opening post of this thread was edited after it had been posted, to insert a missing word.

Just an illustration that we all make mistakes and could do better.

Would we prefer everyone to just shrug? - "It`s only Rugby League, it doesn`t matter".