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Avoid the Corner of Death!
What's the worst place to put your logo, and where do advertisers most often put their logo in print ads, TV spots, and direct mail pieces? The answer is the same: the lower right corner, an area dubbed the "Corner of Death" by facial…
Pubcon Discount & Neuromarketing Debut
Pubcon 2010, (Las Vegas, November 8-11, 2010), the biggest web publishing and web marketing conference, will for the first time feature neuromarketing as a topic. I'll be doing a solo presentation with a special emphasis on neuro web…
When Fancy Fonts Work
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…
Convince with Simple Fonts
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.…
Websites That Suck Increase Stress
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…
Neuromarketing Foes Use Subliminal Text?
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…
Go Viral, the Neuro Way
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…
A New Look for Neuromarketing
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…
Your Brain on Thousands of Products
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…
Collecting Visitor Info: Reward vs. Reciprocity
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…