Your new post is loading...
Humans will remember something longer if it made them feel rather than think. They gravitate towards provocative images -- think food, sex and danger. They’re drawn toward images of faces. The color yellow puts them on edge.
Understanding how the human brain works is fascinating, but it’s also good business.
Marketing campaigns rooted in neurology are more likely to get and hold attention. And in the attention economy we are living in, where consumers have access to more emails and tweets than they could ever manage to read and digest fully, being able to get and hold attention is what separates the wheat from the chaff. That’s what gets consumers to spend.
If you are looking to get more of your marketing efforts seen, then have a look at this infographic, embedded below, generated by Nashville, Tenn.-based Emma, an email-marketing software provider. The infographic highlights 12 biological trigger mechanisms that make the human brain light up....
Via Jeff Domansky
Very very interesting. Extremely helpful in trying to understand our consumers as well as ourselves.
A serious marketer, or blogger/author/etc., must take into account what will generate the best desired results. By not taking into account the thought process of your audience, you are making a potentially fatal error.