Some of you just aren't cut out for advertising internationally, so please just stop.
Here's an example of some blatently obvious mistakes I've seen in the past few months on landing pages. It didn't use to be this bad, what's with all the retards lately? At least 1/4 of the landing pages I see now have some stupid mistake in them, and in none of these examples were a geo ip script used, I checked. It was actually specifically made for Australia.
Gee, really? You're targetting Australians, moron. Not only do they know where Sydney is, but a lot of them probably live there, and it's not considered "exotic" here. On a similar note:
That's a completely normal name to Australians. Just like Miliwaukee is completely normal to you guys.
Just because Australia used to be a British colony (which I'll remind you so were 13 of your states) doesn't mean we use their currency. Seriously, 10 seconds on XE.com will show you we use dollars. Australian dollars, not US dollars either.
A 10 second Google search would have told you that there are no Taco Bells in Australia. Another 10 seconds would have given you some alternatives, like Oporto.
And finally, the moron that had a landing page going: "AUSTRALIANS! GET YOUR TEETH WHITENED NOW!" with a giant picture of the New Zealand flag next to it.
Seriously. I don't always advertise in Australia, and this is research that I, and anyone that calls themselves a marketer SHOULD BE DOING. I hate to think of how much money is being left on the table by you morons that don't check basic shit like that before launching a campaign. Then I realize it's probably not much, if you're that bad a marketer because you won't have the funds to keep the campaigns going for a while.
I was going to post this is the newbie section, but then realized the real morons don't know it exists and thought some of the other people here who do actual research before launching a campaign might get a laugh out of some of these...
