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6 Neuromarketing Stimuli That Speak to the Old Brain

Many modern psychology researchers have suggested that the human brain has three (figurative) parts:

  1. The new brain – thinks (rational data)
  2. The middle brain – feels (emotions and gut feeling)
  3. The old brain – decides (takes input from both and pulls the trigger)

Until fairly recently, many fields of study (notably economics) believed that our decisions were largely rational. However, neuromarketing as a field has suggested that the old brain, the old primitive “fight or flight” part, makes most of our decisions.

So how do we influence the old brain for greater growth?

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SaaS Lead Nurturing

When you’re trying to boost revenue and the number of paying users for a SaaS, your website and signup page are only one piece of the puzzle. Optimizers tend to forget that the entire funnel requires optimization.

Focusing on your signup page will help you increase trial signups upfront. But the major questions are:

  1. Are paid signups significantly going to go up?
  2. Would increasing free trials result in churn increasing?

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False Bottom

UX mistakes often go undetected because they are quiet. They aren’t a broken image or a misspelled word or a form that isn’t sending. No, UX mistakes are foundational.

To visitors, UX mistakes are loud, whether they consciously detect them or not. In fact, IBM is credited for the saying, “Ease of use may be invisible, but its absence sure isn’t.” [Tweet It!]

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Transactional Emails

A while back, Seth Godin published a list of things that “every good marketer knows”. Among that list was: “Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.” His conclusion was that there is a very big difference between knowing and doing.

Good marketers continue to send unsolicited junk. [Tweet It!]

Transactional emails are the key every good marketer is talking about, but that few are doing something about.

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