Marketing Psychology

An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world.

Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if you watch a light bulb illuminate? How did installing blue lights along a Japanese railway line halt rising crime and suicide rates? Can decorating your walls with the right artwork make you more honest? The human brain is fantastically complex, having engineered space travel and liberated nuclear energy, so it's no wonder that we resist the idea that we're deeply influenced by our surroundings.

When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving a problem or achieving a goal, sometimes the best ideas are passed over. Worse, a problematic suggestion with far less likelihood of success may be selected instead. Why would a group dismiss an option that would be more effective? Leadership and communications expert John Daly has a straightforward answer: It wasn't sold to them as well. If the best idea is yours, how can you increase the chances that it gains the support of the group? In Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others, Daly explains in full detail how to transform ideas into practice.

Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up or that housing prices never fall. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that.

If you want to learn how to trade stocks like Warren Buffet to make consistent long-term profit, then keep reading. Do you finally want to quit your boring nine to five job and make a living out of the most exciting stock market disciplines? Day trading can be as easy as trading candy on the playground...if you know what you’re doing. It is one of the hottest and most rewarding business models if you know how to handle the ups and downs. Many people aren’t able to make day trading their career because they are missing one underestimated but key aspect.

A proto-meme is beginning to ‘go critical’. If you’re looking at this book you might even be a part of that meme. Somewhere the advertising business kinda lost the plot, we’re not sure exactly sure where. So many incompetents, who can’t know we are incompetent because the skills we need to produce the right answers are exactly the skills we lack in order to know what a right answer is. What happens now? Who knows? But let’s tackle it head-on with punk rock, cheap philosophy and evolutionary psychology and take a hair-raising ride to the Dunning-Kruger peak of advertising…

Most of your attempts to persuade are doomed to fail because the brains of your audience automatically reject messages that disrupt their attention. This book makes the complex science of persuasion simple. Learn to develop better marketing and sales messages based on a scientific model; NeuroMap™. Regardless of your level of expertise in marketing, neuromarketing, neuroscience or psychology: The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime will make your personal and business lives more successful.

We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the history and character of the global enterprises that create and cater to our bad habits.

Options Trading for Beginners is a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing options trading. It explains the basics of options trading, discussing topics such as the types of options and how to use them, when to take profits or cut losses, and how to minimize risk. This book also includes a range of helpful tools and strategies, making it an ideal resource for those new to the world of options trading.

Unlock the secrets of advanced stock trading in this comprehensive guide that focuses on risk management, strategic position sizing, and emotional discipline. Learn how to analyze financial statements, assess company leadership, and use macroeconomic indicators to refine your trading strategies. This ebook is designed for traders looking to elevate their skills, protect their portfolio, and trade confidently in volatile markets.

Leading marketing practitioner and thought leader Joe Federer draws on evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroanatomy, and psychology, as well as more than a decade of hands-on experience, to explain why people act so differently in various online spaces and what they are seeking from participating in each one.

Access Denied for Reasons of National Security details how Mark and Cathy survived to globally release pertinent facts on mind control and healing from it. This testament to the strength of the human spirit and power of love details the otherwise suppressed healing methods Mark taught Cathy to reclaim control over her own mind and life. Now, people all over the world are applying this healing information to themselves, and are reportedly healing from varying levels of trauma, abuse, PTSD, torture, and control.

From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it. Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history. A new world order is emerging: We might have lost faith in institutions and leaders, but millions of people rent their homes to total strangers, exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. This is the age of "distributed trust", a paradigm shift driven by innovative technologies that are rewriting the rules....

Are you ready to take control of your financial future—one trade at a time? Day Trading Simplified is the ultimate beginner’s guide for young, ambitious readers ready to break into the fast-paced world of day trading. Whether you're a student, hustler, gamer, or curious investor, this book gives you a clear, actionable blueprint to start trading smart—and avoid the traps that wipe out most newbies. You’ll discover: ✅ What day trading really is—and how it works in real time ✅ The tools, platforms, and setups you need to get started ✅ Proven strategies for spotting high-...

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea.

Imagine words that don’t just speak but pull you in, their cadence like a heartbeat you can’t ignore, their meaning unfurling like a whispered secret meant only for you. Sentences that don’t merely inform but awaken, igniting something deep within—a spark, a truth, a feeling you didn’t even realize was waiting. Stories that slip past the barriers of thought, weaving themselves into the quiet corners of your mind, where they take root and grow stronger with every breath, every memory, every heartbeat. It doesn’t just tell a story—it becomes a part of you. Inside Hypnotic ...

Story isn't just one way to persuade. It's the way. It's built into the architecture of the brain, and has been since early humans gathered around the camp fire, trying to figure out how to outsmart the lion next door. In Story or Die, story coach Lisa Cron sets out to decode the power of story, first by examining how the brain processes information, translates it into narrative, and then guards it as if your life depends on it.

Are you ready to break free from the 9-to-5 grind and take control of your financial future? Quit Your Job and Trade Penny Stocks for a Living is a step-by-step guide to becoming a full-time trader. This book covers everything you need to know—from mastering trading strategies and managing risk to scaling up your income and creating a sustainable trading career. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced trader looking to go full-time, this guide will equip you with the tools to succeed in the fast-paced world of penny stock trading. #PennyStocks #DayTrading #StockMarket #...

From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy. Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars.

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence - knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more - drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?