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When the brain decodes a puzzle, even a simple one, there's a little reward. Marketers have sometimes used this to good effect - see Puzzles Boost Brand Recognition and Marketing to the Infovore. Watch this commercial from Schick for its…

The neuromarketing industry hardly seems mature enough to talk about consolidation, but California-based NeuroFocus, who claims to be the largest company offering brainwave-based marketing research, has concluded an agreement to purchase…

What do you get when you wire up a shopper with an EEG cap and eye-tracking gear? An "inside" view of how that shopper reacts to visual stimuli while shopping. Interestingly, all of those "Buy One, Get One Free!" and "SALE!" signs in…

The Today Show did a nice segment with Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology. Lindstrom reveals several tricky things that retailers do to get you to buy more, even in a depressed economy. No brain scans here, just clever retailing informed…

Selling salty chips to guys isn't all that difficult. As the classic Lay's commercial noted, "You can't eat just one!" Give a guy a chip, and before you know it the bag is gone. For women, though, salty foods are the snack of choice just…

Wonder what your brain looks like while watching commercials? Or, more to the point, what the electrical activity in your brain looks like? The folks at Sands Research have helped Neuromarketing readers by making available videos from five…

Most of us have gotten over our short-lived obsession with the 2009 Super Bowl ads, but at neuromarketing firm Sands Research technologists have been slaving away analyzing all 72 of those commercials. Sands measures viewers' EEG…

Seth Godin has a nice post on ethical marketing that is equally applicable to neuromarketing. Godin makes the point that marketing can be used for evil purposes, such as persuading people to use products that are bad for them, but that…

Some of my more popular posts over time have been those dealing with selling to two different customer groups: spendthrifts, who spend money freely, and tightwads, who don't part with their money easily. (See Five Keys to Selling to…

Could a simple smiley face on your power bill change your consumption? Utilities in various states, tired of unsuccessful attempts to encourage energy-saving strategies by their customers, are resorting to an approach based on sound…