Your Brain on Video Games (Infographic)

Gaming companies know a lot about how to light up your brain - to be successful, a game has to be engaging from the start and addictive enough to keep the player coming back. Some video game makers have employed neuromarketing technology…

Harvard Lesson: Verbs Beat Adjectives

The debate among copywriters about verbs vs. adjectives rages on. While the general consensus is that verbs make better sales copy and adjectives serve mainly to slow down the reader, there's also research that shows properly used…

Get Your Face Read!

Back in November, I mentioned that Affectiva, a firm in our neuromarketing companies list, was working on doing facial expression analysis using the webcams connected to most computers. Now, if you want to see how this works, you can…

A Brainy Focus on Conversion

When I speak at a conference, I often zoom in and out with just enough spare time to allow for potential flight delays and other mishaps. I assumed I'd do this when Tim Ash invited me to speak on using brain-based techniques to boost…

Forget Evil, Don’t Be Creepy!

Three Ways to Avoid Creepiness Marketers are being offered unprecedented new capabilities to target consumers by interests and behavior. There's growing evidence, though, that consumers are finding these personalized pitches…

Put Your Customer on the Product

Lately, I've highlighted the various ways companies (and even colleges) are putting their customers in their ads by using social personalization or other means. In Australia, Coke took the idea one step farther, and put customer names…