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Interactivity has been the name of the game for websites for the last few years, and user-generated content (UGC) has been a mainstay of building content and boosting engagement. Indeed, "content marketing" is the latest web marketing…

Roger Dooley's book Brainfluence is being translated to Russian and published by a Moscow-based publisher.

OK, there's not really a buy button in the brain waiting to be discovered. But the U.S. government is, in fact, launching a major project to create a detailed map of the human brain. Much like the earlier and highly successful Human Genome…

The menu designer for an Austin restaurant, Roll On Sushi Diner, must be a Neuromarketing or Brainfluence reader. A while back, I identified sushi-style pricing as being the worst possible approach because each tiny bite is a separate pain…

The Neuromarketing World Forum is fast approaching. It will be in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 6-8, 2013, and features a lineup that reads like Who's Who in Neuromarketing: Leon Zurawicki, Gemma Calvert, Carl Marci, Christophe Morin, and many…

2013 is off to a busy start - I've got a growing list of speaking engagements in the U.S., Europe, and South America. I'm looking forward to meeting many Neuromarketing and/or Brainfluence readers in person! If you are able to attend one…

As is increasingly common, Audi has posted its 2013 Super Bowl "Prom" commercial for public viewing before it airs during the big game. The plot is simple enough, as you'll see:

Book Review: Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing by Douglas Van Praet "The fact of the matter is anyone can do neuromarketing without ever scanning a single brain." This statement from Douglas Van…

Here's a compilation of five excerpts and links to recent posts at Brainy Marketing, my Forbes.com blog. Persuading with pictures, manipulating voter minds, surprising effects from thinking in a foreign language, and more.

We know that flattery, a form of social reward, is a powerful tool. In Flattery Will Get You Somewhere, we saw that complimenting an individual made them feel more positively about the person bestowing the favorable comments, even when they…