Case of the Misfired Message

Cathy Goodwin
4 min readMar 16, 2021

Copywriting that backfires

Have you ever written copy that was taken wrong or misunderstood by your readers? You might be kicking yourself but you’re actually in good company. You can learn from marketing misfires made by big companies, sometimes with negative PR effects.

Example 1: “The Sad Grandpa”

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Cathy Goodwin

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