sensory marketing

Sensory marketing is possible for intangible products, services, and ideas. Here are examples from Friction by Roger Dooley.

An upscale hotel in Amsterdam sells a hamburger for about $20. That probably isn't much out of line with similar meals at big-city hotels, but this establishment uses an interesting technique to make its prices seem a bit more…

My "picks" went on vacation over the holidays, and then got off to a slow start in the new year. So, this edition is a big catch-up on my own content from here, Forbes, and my podcasts at RogerDooley.com, along with a few tasty morsels from…

We think of print as primarily a visual medium and a challenge to use for sensory marketing. You generally can't smell it, taste it, or hear it. But touch can come into play in many kinds of print media. Hence, you sometimes see the use…

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While we think of metaphors as mainly word-based, visual metaphors can be a potent selling tool. They can both engage the brain like text metaphors and stimulate the viewer's senses in a way that words alone may not.

Beans have a well-deserved reputation for being a multi-sensory product. Remember the "musical fruit" ditty? But it's no joking matter for Heinz, who teamed up with food artists Bompas & Parr to create a unique promotion for its Beanz…

It shouldn't surprise Neuromarketing readers that choice of words is important when writing headlines, taglines, or copy, but brain scans show how specific words can have the same meaning but activate different areas of the brain. Emory…

Here's an interesting little video that highlights what supermarkets and other retailers are doing to engage all the senses of their shoppers:

There's hardly a shortage of places to buy hamburgers in the US, but the restaurant chain Five Guys has opened 300 stores in the last five years, and has contracts for many more. Locally, I'd been hearing about the fantastic hamburgers…