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When Fancy Fonts Work

15. March 2010

Now that you followed my advice in Convince With Simple Fonts and eliminated complicated fonts from your websites and printed material, I’m going to tell you that there is one situation where fancy, hard to read fonts can actually work better than simple ones. If you are selling a costly product, describing it using a [...]

Convince with Simple Fonts

4. March 2010

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Do you need to convince a customer to complete an application form? Or, for a non-profit, do you need volunteers for a charity event? In both cases, you will be more successful if you describe the task in a simple, easy to read typeface. Research by Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz shows that the way [...]

Websites That Suck Increase Stress

2. March 2010

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We know that slow, balky, and confusing websites aren’t a good thing. Traffic metrics show this, as does conversion data. Google, whom some think of as passively indexing the web, believes quick-loading pages are essential to a good user experience. Google is, in fact, actively trying to speed up websites (and keep their search users [...]

Neuromarketing Foes Use Subliminal Text?

2. February 2010

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Yesterday I wrote about the latest anti-neuromarketing flap in Guard Your Reptilian Brain! While researching that post, I found an interesting spinoff at another site, Progressives, South Bend. I initially couldn’t find the text “neuromarketing” on that page. When I searched the page text, I found what looked like a short horizontal line was highlighted. [...]

Go Viral, the Neuro Way

1. December 2009

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Much of the content on the web is created by users (“user generated content,” or “UGC”), but only a small amount of that is actually interesting enough to generate substantial interest or “go viral.” A new study by OTOInsights, a division of One to One Interactive, looks at user-created videos and flash animation from a [...]

A New Look for Neuromarketing

30. November 2009

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Here at Neuromarketing, we’ve had the same look (shown above) since we launched in 2006. We’ve installed a new look with some additional advanced features, like a dynamic list of our most popular posts, a tag cloud, avatars for authors and commenters, and more. We’ll be tweaking this going forward, and would enjoy hearing from [...]

Your Brain on Thousands of Products

28. September 2009

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Last week, we saw that order of presentation of a small number of products dramatically affects consumer preference. (See Order Effect Affects Orders.) But how do our brains cope when choices number in the hundreds or thousands, and how do websites best match products or services to their visitors? First, a warning – Neuromarketing reader [...]

Collecting Visitor Info: Reward vs. Reciprocity

28. August 2009

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Many of us work with websites that depend on collecting user information – lead generation sites, charity sites, etc. Often, these sites have information useful to those visitors. The knee-jerk reaction is often, “Force them to give up their info before we show them the good stuff.” If there’s a search engine optimization person helping [...]

Free Web Page Heat Maps?

7. March 2008

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The common belief is that neuromarketing is trying to find the mythical “buy button” in the brain. If you are an ecommerce web designer, though, the “buy button” is one thing you want to be sure your visitors can find very easily! One of the more reliable techniques for web designers has been using eye-tracking [...]