March 2012

Good news for ebook readers, at least in the U.S. After spending some time at almost $15, the Kindle version of Brainfluence  has dropped to its introductory price of $9.99. I don't control this and I get no notice of these changes, so…

Are you placing your brand in a "bad neighborhood?" The other day, I was contacted by a BBC reporter, Daniel Nasaw, working on a story about highway naming. At first I thought he had contacted the wrong person, but it turned out there…

Book Review: What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki Google+ seemed to get off to a running start, but more recently has been termed a "ghost town" by some pundits. Experience with the service suggests less than robust…

Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Scientists love to divide human thinking into two parts: right brain vs. left brain, rational vs. emotional, conscious vs. subconscious, and no doubt many others. Daniel Kahneman,…

If you were at my SXSW panel, How Brain Science Turns Browsers into Buyers, you already saw the latest proof that sexy imagery can boost sales. Ion Interactive, a firm specializing in online conversion, ran a test for online game-maker…

If you were one of the many folks at SXSW who weren't able to get into the room to view Sunday's SXSW panel, How Brain Science Turns Browsers into Buyers, or if you weren't at SXSW at all, here's a recap. (If you were turned away at the…

There's more evidence that playing video games can improve your brain in ways that go beyond an ability to get higher scores in those games:

Gaming companies know a lot about how to light up your brain - to be successful, a game has to be engaging from the start and addictive enough to keep the player coming back. Some video game makers have employed neuromarketing technology…

Long before the Mad Men era, advertising experts knew that certain words get the attention of readers and spur them to action. One word has made just about every top ten list, and new research from Kantar Media shows this word remains as…

The debate among copywriters about verbs vs. adjectives rages on. While the general consensus is that verbs make better sales copy and adjectives serve mainly to slow down the reader, there's also research that shows properly used…