Friday, April 27, 2012

Urban Outfitters apologizes for web outage, with kittens!

Urban Outfitters ran an online sale this week which they promoted with an email blast (see below).


During the sale, their website crashed. And to their credit, the company sent another email out apologizing for the outage, and adding free shipping. If I had tried to order something that day and was unable to, this email would have made me feel better:


This is evidence that you can turn a negative into a positive with some humility and a sense of humor. A deal-sweetener doesn't hurt either.

Thanks to the Listrak Email Marketing blog, which posted on this (and from which I got the screenshots).

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