The quest for an effective lie detector has continued for centuries, if not millennia. Unfortunately, current polygraph technology doesn't work much better than throwing an accused witch in a river to see if she sinks. For the last few years, there has been quite a bit of interest in using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) as an…

We've been writing about "tightwads" and "spendthrifts" lately (see Tightwads, Spendthrifts, and Everyone Else and Five Keys to Selling to Tightwads), and…

One out of four potential customers for your product may not buy it, even if the purchase makes economic sense or is otherwise a good decision. A couple of…

Infopresse, the Paris and Montreal-based publisher and conference organizer, is holding their Recherche marketing : M?thodes alternatives (Market Research:…

Marketers love to segment their potential customers, and now there's a new way to do it: spendthrifts, tightwads, and everyone else. Research at Carnegie…

A few weeks ago, WIRED published an interesting story on the massive amount of testing that has gone into producing Halo 3. The biggest part of this has been…

Earlier this month, Brandweek’s Jim Edwards put together a nice survey of the various ways companies are trying to get into consumers’ minds. He spends little…

The company cited by Brand Sense author Martin Lindstrom for doing the best job of sensory branding is Singapore Airlines. Now, Korean Air seems to be…

Logic tells us that a bigger problem should get more attention. One person suffering from a disease is certainly bad, but a thousand afflicted individuals…

I've written about this topic before, but the fact that food images are powerful marketing tools deserves mention again. In the same Oxford study (see Addictive…