Why do your customers prefer certain websites over others? Can you improve your digital marketing results by appealing to their brains?
A firm believer in the power of neuromarketing and marketing psychology, I’ve always believed that digital marketing is more about psychology than technology.
Improving conversions is the Holy Grail of every digital marketer.
A website, Facebook Page or email which fails to turn a prospect into a customer is practically worthless.
Copywriting is one of the most important skills a marketer should learn.
While a picture may paint a thousand words, it is the arrangement of text on a piece of content which triggers customer action. And hopefully lead to the sale.
Hit the “buy button” in your consumer’s brain. That’s the goal of every consumer marketer – dead or alive.
However, it isn’t easy to know what goes on inside the brains of your target audiences. Until now…
Spellbound and mesmerised, the audience stared mouth agape as David Copperfield entered a coffin like box.
His lovely assistant grabbed a couple of mean looking swords. One by one, she pierced them into the box.
Imagine that you are a smoker. You pick up a pack of cigarettes.
On the front of the pack are gory images – a hemorrhaged brain, blackened lungs, deformed baby, ugly cancerous growth – coupled with stern admonitions like “SMOKING KILLS”.
How would you react to these gruesome warnings?
Wish to improve how you persuade your audiences to buy from you? Begin by diving deep into her brain.
Thanks to a podcast by Derek Halpern of Social Triggers blog, we can gain a fascinating glimpse into the world of neuroscience and its impact on marketing.
Courtesy of Inner Altitude
Last night, I decided to catch a much talked about TED talk by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor and boy was I blown away! In the video, the celebrity neuro-anatomist described her experiences when she suffered a stroke on her left brain and painted a beautiful and vivid picture of that somewhat transcendental encounter. From that incident, she was able to isolate the functions of both brains via a first person perspective, showing how the two cerebral hemispheres (connected by a bunch of tissue called the corpus callosum) interact and work with each other.
Here’s the video for your viewing pleasure:
In the hyper-competitive world of marketing and sales, it isn’t sufficient just to push out an ad or a sales letter and hope and pray for a response.
Consumers and corporate buyers are increasingly spoilt for choice. Selling based on price alone is no longer sustainable in the long haul.
