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The lowly ketchup bottle has a couple of important lessons for marketers.

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Old fashioned wood and graphite pencils were once how we all wrote, but hit their popularity peak decades ago. They are high maintenance - as soon as you start using a sharpened pencil, its point begins to dull and the thickness of the…

What's better than a chocolate chip cookie? A chocolate chip cookie in a package optimized with neuromarketing. Consumer companies don't often talk about their neuromarketing efforts, perhaps because of the vaguely scary sound of it all.…

I'm not a big yogurt fan. "Live cultures" would be unacceptable (or even scary) in most foods, but are highly prized in yogurt. Nevertheless, we can all learn something from a neuromarketing study focused on the gooey dairy product.

Review: The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind by A. K. Pradeep The world of neuromarketing seems to be shrouded in mystery. There are no university studies that conclusively demonstrate that one can improve…

It looks like Australian politicians have taken up reading neuromarketing books. In the ever-escalating war between regulators and tobacco firms, the most aggressive step yet has been proposed Down Under: un-branding cigarette…

Book Review: Shopper Marketing - How to Increase Purchase Decisions at the Point of Sale, Edited by Markus Stahlberg and Ville Maila From a neuromarketing standpoint, the point of sale is a potent place to make a branding impression.…

I've been chronicling the nascent neuromarketing industry since 2006, and I don't think I've seen a story to date which captured social media attention to the degree that the recent Campbell Soup neuromarketing story did. The original…

Soup is a product you probably don't lust for. Sure, a hot bowl of soup is nice after a chilly job of shoveling snow out of the driveway, but rarely is it more than an afterthought, or a quick prelude to a more interesting main course.…