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Some Common Name Spelling Mistakes

It’s rumored that Starbucks misspells your name on purpose. For this brand, that can be a great marketing strategy. People love to point out flaws and mistakes, so create mistakes to get noticed. With social media all the buzz and people sharing everything they eat, drink and do online, Starbucks’ misspelling strategy works to get free advertising. (Remembered this is rumored – we are not claiming it’s an purposely planned strategy.) Fortunately, for Starbucks, whether this misspelling names is a planned marketing strategy or not, it works for them. Unfortunately, for most of our customers, misspelling names usually would have the opposite effect. Instead of being comical, it would be unprofessional and would ruin the reliability of their business.  Here some names of people that are commonly misspelled: 

These above names are common spellings we see often, but what if you come across a name that sounds common, but has an uncommon spelling like, Vyolette, Soosin or Tiphanie. I would feel safe betting that most of you would spell them wrong! Not only are people’s name misspelled, the names of brands are often misspelling. Here are some common misspellings of Vehicle Brands:

Misspelling a person’s name or their brand can affect the relationship you have with your client and can be costly. This is one reason why we created an integration with you website contact form and your shopVOX account. After you set up this integration, when a lead fills out your contact form, the contact information is sent over to your shopVOX account. Therefore, no spelling mistakes – at least on your part! Watch this video to learn more!  Contact Form to Sales Lead Integration from TechVOX Inc on Vimeo .