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• Individualism vs. Collectivism
• Long Term vs. Short Term
• Indulgent vs. Restrained
• Uncertainty Accept vs. Avoid
• Masculine vs Feminine traits
CULTURE
Organization & Culture: Software of the Mind
Professor Hofstede
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Attracted to People
https://www.flickr.com/photos/denniswong/3309276218
• Beautiful people / Babies
• Individuals vs. Groups
• Eyes specifically
• Use emotion
- strip away all the tactics and strategies
- core of why marketing exists…
- Think conceptually…
… What is our goal as marketers?
[call on people]
Human Behavior! Our job is to get trigger action in other people to behave a certain wayWhether that be....
Visiting our businesses and making purchases
- Visit website
- Click CTA
- Download content
- Follow on social
- RSS Subscription
- Newsletter sign up
Why do we, as humans, do the things we do?
- Why do we choose one brand over another?
- WHY do we buy certain products?
---> How can we as marketer’s influence those behaviors?
Well over the next 35 minutes, these, and other questions we’ll be exploring.
So join me my friends as we talk about; “Brain Based Conversions”.
Biology Lesson
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** QUIZ **
- sets us apart from most of the other animals.
NO Capacity for Language
Who caught the problem that
[ask the crowd]
- Behavior = NO Language
- Stats = doesn’t drive behavior
- Collecting information / Data
- Develop our products
- Tailor our marketing
- Make informed decisionsIS SKEWED!
- Not the root cause.
- Simply Rationalization
- We all have gut feelings. Facts... but doesn’t feel right.
= Conflict
What are we suppose to do as marketers?
- More marketing related studies going on in the neuroscience and psychology fields. - Shedding a great deal of light on this topic
- Share Concepts = work on- offline, products, in-store, etc.
5 MINUTES
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Not how to build, but key considerations
Everyone’s brain is different = Obvious
- Biology = gender and age change thought
Use info = adapt marketing
Evolutional = raising offspring.
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- Emotional & Empathy = Mirror Neurons = Not sparked by rational
- More accute to tone and nonverbals than men
- Flip Tasks & use both left and right
- Oxytocin = Socially Driven = Community acts
Evolution = quickly learn, invent and create hunting tools.
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- Studies show beautiful women cause men to skew shorter timing and become impulsive.
- Studies show bottleneck in language processing = keep wording simple
- NOT bad Memory - Distractions overwhelm
- Less negative, and bounce back from negative quicker.
- [amygdala = fear, happiness, anger] better to positive statements, not neg.
- They don’t sweat about the small stuff
- They don’t like quick snippets or quick facts. Spend the time educating.
Not directly tied with brain’s
Dutch - 1991 - Hofstede
VERY IMPORTANT and can be applied to:
- Copywriting / Images / Video
- Marketing strategy
- Branding
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11 Minutes
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Testimonials
Case Studies
Awards
High profile clients
Speaking / Writing
Partner with Authorities
Study done - 2 restaurants - long line / no line - social proof
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Number of customers
Community Favorite
User Photos/Videos
Reviews / Ratings
Social Media Community
Who’s ever had this happen- Friend’s birthday and no gift. Your birthday = gift. And you feed bad?
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Content Offers
Sharing other’s content
Random acts of kindness
Content offers
Use a countdown
Invite Only Groups
guilt.com
Traveling... hear american accent
Trust, core values and are influenced
- Images / Video on site
- Testimonials
- Team members
Reticular Activation System or RAS
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- 2 Billion bits = 1 second.
- Sanity = RAS = Decides what data to pass through to your brain.
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2 Take aways....
The First principle = Fight ....
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Ask audience
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** ATTENTION! *** Wasn’t hard enough -> how many use phone while TV?
77% use multiple de
Reticular Activation System pulls in our attention based on 4 main categories.
Sub-Saharan Desert = Predator
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Show, don’t tell = Video important info
JS Animation / Hover
Slide ups
Lightly Animated CTA [not 1990’s]
Evolved looking for ways to improve our survival.
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- The word “NEW” pulls our attention. Find ways to develop this into your marketing [auto industry]
- Contrast = colors, sizes, sounds, etc. Boost novelty
- Novelty has an expiration date... after time we become bored with it. Must continue to reinvent. [idea behind new car models]
- Don’t overload - users can become fatigued and discard them all.
- styles tab = edit form styling = no designers
How to crack a coconut
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Puzzles
Mysteries
Interpretation
Not too hard
Reticular Activation System or RAS
--- Second principle = Don’t distract / Overwhelm
- Simple: colors, text, images
- Make your website a place for brains to focus in a chaotic world
- Clear of Clutter and lots of text.
- Important for older brains
...... many of the modern design standards represent this.
Simple call to actions
Simple Landing Pages - Free from distractions
- Removed menu,
NeuroMarketing tactics to consider when selecting your creative. Your Videos and photos
HUGE! Speaks directly to the subconcious [because doesn’t like words/language]
Video = Focus on Reaction
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-- Why? You didn’t fall. Sitting here = Pain
-- Where did you feel this?
1991 - Mirror Neurons.
-- Same parts of your brain fire
-- Have b/c learn faster [building fire, etc]
Why Fake laughing.
- Show Consumption
- Text activate = Use [verbs & action]
- Life after use - let them see how great life is after use
[car dealer video: 87 sec - 143 sec]
FACES
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TEST - What do you look at first
- Use on website
- Call to actions
- Landing Pages
You can even use others to direct our attention.
- 50-60% of communication is nonverbal. We pick up these ques!
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what principles do you see KissMetrics implementing?
- Simple
- 1-1 Conversion ratio
- Faces
- We’re not neuroscientists
- We don’t have equipment
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- How do we do this in our process?
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** HORRIBLE STOCK ART ***
- Brain = complex
- Still learning
- Scientifically Proven concepts
- Tailoring to the brain may take creativity
- BIG impact & drive behavior