The first quarter is shaping up as a busy time for neuromarketing speaking gigs - I've booked a few more than usual to publicize my new book, Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing. For those who…

In years of running a direct marketing firm that included a small call center, my objective was to eliminate, or at least minimize, waiting time for phone customers. We knew (from those times when we didn't have enough staff in place)…

Last week at Pubcon, I had the honor of sharing a "mini-keynote" session with landing page guru Tim Ash of SiteTuners. Tim mentioned an interesting heat map simulation tool from his company, AttentionWizard.

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…

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…

The idea that there is a "buy button" in the brain which clever marketers can push has been bandied about for years. While I remain skeptical that any marketing technique could work that magically, Intel is working on a new kind of buy…

Book Review: Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? I couldn't pass up Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? by Susan Weinschenk, inasmuch as it combines several of my interests - neuroscience and marketing, specifically Web…