The short answer is that the commercial is bad, really bad, horrendous. If you have not seen the commercial, I have posted a YouTube video of the commercial below.

You have to wonder what Fiat's marketing objective was with this commercial. What were they trying to tell the viewer? Honestly, I'm not really sure and that's the first thing that is wrong with the commercial. My best guess is that they want to show that their little car is zippy, fun to drive, and attractive. The problem is everything else happening in the commercial really distracts the viewer from that core message. I'm left wondering why everyone is chasing the car and why a motorcycle is jumping over a bus. Is it because they love JLO or because they love the car?

Secondly, does Fiat really expect us to believe that Jennifer Lopez drives one of their cars? We can easily believe that Justin Bieber uses Proactiv or that Joan Rivers wears her line of jewelry. Those endorsements are believable. Maybe we could believe that JLO rides around in an Escalade, BMW or Jaguar, but not a Fiat.

The worst thing about the commercial comes at the end when she all the sudden busts out some horrible dance move. From a marketing perspective, how does this help convey Fiat's message (whatever that message is)?

Fiat should leave the celebrity endorsement commercials to Chrysler who did an awesome job with their Eminiem ad (see below):

I encountered a situation with our web host today which was a great lesson for how not to do customer service. Here's what happened... I woke up this morning to discover that our all of our websites down. I checked a few things on our end and realized that it was not an issue of ours, but with our web host. I entered a "911" priority customer service ticket letting them know what the issue was and expecting them to quickly look into it.

Our web host also has a server status page on their website where they can update their customers of any service issues. I took a look at it and did not see any current issues listed. I was aware that they were migrating everyone older servers to newer servers, but it was supposed to have been done three days prior and the websites were only supposed to be down for 5 minutes in the middle of the night.

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After several hours, the issue finally got resolved and our websites were back up. Apparently, they did the server migration days after they were supposed to and ran into an issue which caused everyone's website to go down. I understand that these things happen from time to time in the IT world, but what was handled really badly was their customer service. Here are the mistakes that they made...

1. They did not update the server status on their website. This left customers wondering if the problem was with the web host or something on their own end.

2. When the going got tough, they stopped responding to customer service support tickets, emails, text messages or phone calls. They needed to at least let their customers know what was going on. They could have simply said that there was a problem with the server migration and they are looking into it.

3. They should have also updated their Facebook page and Twitter account with the current situation. People often look to these sources for up-to-date information.

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