January 2011

OK, the headline is technically true but not very accurate. Nielsen Holdings, parent of investor in neuromarketing firm NeuroFocus, raised $1.6 billion in an initial public offering on Wednesday. Not only was that 10% more than…

Iowa State University has officially opened their new neuromarketing laboratory in the Gerdin Business Building on their Ames campus. The new lab, led by marketing professor Terry Childers, will use EEG to study consumer…

One of my all-time favorite TV commercials is the classic 1990 United Airlines spot that shows a manager distributing plane tickets to the sales staff so they can visit their customers in person. This was filmed in the days before email…

Book Review: Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Impact Your Business by Kay Yut Chen with Marina Krakovsky Economics can be dry stuff - remember "macro," "micro," and supply/demand curves? Fortunately, Secrets of…

This video interview is sort of an introduction to neuromarketing. It was filmed at Pubcon 2010, where I did a spotlight session focused on neuro web design. More WebProNews Videos WebProNews did a nice job of enhancing the…

Forget the Turing Test! (That test, proposed in 1950, was a measure of machine intelligence that required a machine to interact with a person so effectively that the person could not distinguish it from a human.) But you don't have to…

Does all outdoor advertising have to be two dimensional and boring? Ad agency Colley+McVoy and Caribou Coffee show that's not the case with an ad concept that really puts consumers next to the product. Or, at least the consumers will…

In San Francisco on January 24, 2011 I'll be presenting at the Emerging Media Conference. Co-presenters will be David Evans of Psychster and Jim Marks of Virtual Results. Together we'll be covering how people interact with social media…

Book Review - The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do by Eduardo Porter Looking for more novel pricing strategies for business, I picked up a copy of The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter. Although…

In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, businessman George Bailey shifts from despair to intense motivation when an angel intervenes to show him how much worse off his town would have been without him. Most of us don't have a guardian…