Neuromarketing

After noticing a sharp uptick in Japan-based subscribers to Neuromarketing, I did a little online sleuthing and found that the long-awaited Japanese version of Brainfluence is now being listed by Amazon.jp and other booksellers. The…

Researchers at Finland's Aalto University have produced a set of images showing where in their bodies people experience different emotions. Their news release states, For example, anxiety may be experienced as pain in the chest,…

Here's my last summary post for 2013, and for Neuromarketing readers it may be the most useful of all... My Brainy Marketing column at Forbes.com has a strange characteristic - the viewership of each article varies tremendously. My top post…

It's time for our annual roundup of the top 12 posts here at Neuromarketing. The main criteria for selection is the amount of reader sharing and overall views. I find that the discerning readers here are great at identifying the most useful…

I had quite a few posts at my Brainy Marketing blog at Forbes.com get shared extensively this year - here are 2013's "biggest hits:" Starbucks: Loyalty Program Misfire Starbucks is great at marketing, but they did find a way to really…

There is now a Traditional Chinese translation of Brainfluence! An alert reader spotted it on Books.com.tw. It's always fun to see the creative title translations that foreign publishers create - rather than doing a literal translation,…

Customer experience can be sabotaged by coding decisions. These often can't be seen by looking at the web page or app. One has to observe real users going through the entire process to find these CX booby-traps.

One of the bigger marketing challenges these days is convincing people to pay for web content, particularly news content. The Web is awash in free news, analysis, and commentary, and a good deal of that free content is of good quality.…

Every neuromarketing technique has one main purpose: get beneath consumers' conscious reactions and see what they think subconsciously. While some neuromarketers employ high tech equipment like fMRI machines, a Canadian group says a simple…

Many, if not most, content sites today show how many social media shares each page or article has earned. This is a classic use of social proof, i.e., building credibility and earning additional shares by showing that others are doing it…