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Who has not ever been afraid?. It is a natural feeling in us. In part has helped us survive as a species. Being afraid of what we believe can be dangerous, has made our natural curiosity about the unknown we put on too much risk.
Fear is a feeling as human as love or tenderness. But with a very different effect on our body. Who has not blindfolded when suddenly suspected gonna be bad in the horror film, really doing it out of sight of ...
And we love to love, we like to feel that love us, we feel good when we are comfortable, but fear ... Fear is the opposite. Paralyzes us, makes us alert, tells us that something can go wrong, but not always right. So, whenever you feel no fear what comes next is going to hurt us. Sometimes it is caused by uncertainty and ignorance.
Precisely the latter is the most frequently appears in the sale. In most cases there is a terrifying fear that still leaves us physically. But it is a feeling that we stop making the purchase process due to uncertainty.
Often it is fear of not knowing if the product really meets our needs and will hopefully have the utility. So to "return" the product is an effective sales tool. Makes this fear disappears.
But this is not always possible. Sometimes the characteristics or the cost of the product itself, make infeasible to eliminate this fear with the return. Normally you can not return a car, even who have not passed a fortnight or preserve the "proof of purchase". However, precisely these cases, the fear if we succeed or not to buy, is the protagonist in the final decision.
The sale can be decanted, perfectly provider side to eliminate or alleviate that fear in your prospect.
When it comes to these products "no return", it is essential to find out what the client's fears. To report how our product or service can help meet the needs of our target and thus mitigate that fear.
On many occasions we have discussed how neuromarketing can help create feelings and sensations detected. Fear is a feeling more. Apply neuromarketing in the sales process, can help you find what paralyzes the purchase in the minds of our target. So, knowing what really afraid. With this information we can create a shopping experience to help you deduce that you are not buying something unknown and therefore sensitive to provoke fear. But something known, that generates peace and satisfaction knowing that will meet your needs.
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Wednesday, November 7
Wednesday, June 20
Communicate effectively thanks to Neuromarketing
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Both the tools and the methodology used neuromarketing has many applications. Study the effectiveness of commercials, the websites, or merchandising, are some of the already discussed in this blog. You can also apply, perfectamete, the shopping experience or even the communication skills of people.
Oratory and the ability to present ideas in public is something that worries the man in a while. Greeks and Romans studied and taught this art. After them, many media experts have studied how to effectively communicate messages with the word and nonverbal language.
Neuromarketing also has tools to help in these competitions. The same techniques we use to analyze and test the effect produced by a particular image viewer, we can apply them to the audience of a speaker, even the speaker himself.
Thus, we know if this is producing the desired effect, ie, its message is not only being heard but that is thrilling the listener, so much that makes living in your mind is telling the story.
Applying these techniques on the speaker and see the effects they produce in the present, we can train more effectively the first to get exciting the second.
There are numerous methods to train this ability and numerous authors over the years, have been studied. Today, neuromarketing that provides tools for more effective training.
Thanks to these techniques, we can check if a message is bringing joy, sadness, rejection, is reminding or build a mental picture of what is being told. We can also consider whether he, with his non-verbal is expressing what they say their words.
Thus, by comparing the measurements of these tools on the speaker and the audience, we can work on those skills that are not being as effective as we should.
The oral presentation, today, remains an essential tool for communicating marketing. They do daily business, marketing managers, sales managers and anyone in front of an audience, more or less numerous, have to praise the advantages of the solution presented. The neuromarketing offers coaches and trainers in this field tools that will make their work more effective.
Both the tools and the methodology used neuromarketing has many applications. Study the effectiveness of commercials, the websites, or merchandising, are some of the already discussed in this blog. You can also apply, perfectamete, the shopping experience or even the communication skills of people.
Oratory and the ability to present ideas in public is something that worries the man in a while. Greeks and Romans studied and taught this art. After them, many media experts have studied how to effectively communicate messages with the word and nonverbal language.
Neuromarketing also has tools to help in these competitions. The same techniques we use to analyze and test the effect produced by a particular image viewer, we can apply them to the audience of a speaker, even the speaker himself.
Thus, we know if this is producing the desired effect, ie, its message is not only being heard but that is thrilling the listener, so much that makes living in your mind is telling the story.
Applying these techniques on the speaker and see the effects they produce in the present, we can train more effectively the first to get exciting the second.
There are numerous methods to train this ability and numerous authors over the years, have been studied. Today, neuromarketing that provides tools for more effective training.
Thanks to these techniques, we can check if a message is bringing joy, sadness, rejection, is reminding or build a mental picture of what is being told. We can also consider whether he, with his non-verbal is expressing what they say their words.
Thus, by comparing the measurements of these tools on the speaker and the audience, we can work on those skills that are not being as effective as we should.
The oral presentation, today, remains an essential tool for communicating marketing. They do daily business, marketing managers, sales managers and anyone in front of an audience, more or less numerous, have to praise the advantages of the solution presented. The neuromarketing offers coaches and trainers in this field tools that will make their work more effective.
Wednesday, May 9
Shopping experience: key to selling and loyalty
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Merchandising is the part of marketing that will optimize the placement of the articles in the shopping areas to facilitate and encourage the act of purchase.
The cash and carry type surfaces, the placement of items is critical to business success. Neuromarketing aims to measure the reaction of buyers in various commercial distributions to deduce, so what is the best.
In this case EEG is often used in combination with eye-tracking. The second tracks the eye movement, while the first measure which areas are activated in the brain of the potential buyer.
So with the union of these two techniques, we know what happens at the buyer's mind when looking at a particular location.
Of course, everyone is different. Make a study of this type with a single individual implies that the findings may not apply to an entire market. So choose a representative sample of the target remains key in such studies.
It is also important, get the person who participated in the test to behave naturally. That is, their behavior does not influence the knowledge that is participating in a test. This is one of the biggest challenges currently for neuromarketing. Changes are needed to improve both the systems used as in the protocols.
However, despite the difficulties discussed above, we are now able to offer studies whose findings are closer to reality than those obtained without the use of neuromarketing, thanks to a combination of techniques that I mentioned above.
But only not the location of items affect sales. Also the environment. Currently there is a trend of neuromarketing study with the combination of product placement, lighting and music retail space at the point of sale.
The current marketing attempts to reach the customer through every way possible. Thanks to these studies, conclusions are obtained as follows:
- Lighting plays a key role. So the same product, in the same location, has become more attractive if the light incident on the area where it is located. Not directly about the product. Playing with lighting can get that cold areas cease to be and become hot.
- Music influences act of purchasing. So there are musical styles that help sell products. Maintaining placement and lighting and changing the music, we see how we tend to buy certain products as we are hearing.
Placement is important, yes, but not the only thing that must be taken into account to ensure that the client live shopping experience. To this we must combine music, lighting and corporate values. Also flavors.
In next post will deal with more depth how to combine these elements, including other flavorings, to get buyers to live a unique shopping experience.
Is it possible to differentiate exactly selling the same products than the competition?. Of course it can. If we can get our customers a unique experience with the purchase, they will come to us attracted to it. The shopping experience is even more important than the product itself. The same product can be sold elsewhere, but what the buyer lives in our facilities is unique and characteristic of ours, for better or for worse.
Designing a proper shopping experience to our target and succeed still selling as well as others, are two roads that run parallel.
Merchandising is the part of marketing that will optimize the placement of the articles in the shopping areas to facilitate and encourage the act of purchase.
The cash and carry type surfaces, the placement of items is critical to business success. Neuromarketing aims to measure the reaction of buyers in various commercial distributions to deduce, so what is the best.
In this case EEG is often used in combination with eye-tracking. The second tracks the eye movement, while the first measure which areas are activated in the brain of the potential buyer.
So with the union of these two techniques, we know what happens at the buyer's mind when looking at a particular location.
Of course, everyone is different. Make a study of this type with a single individual implies that the findings may not apply to an entire market. So choose a representative sample of the target remains key in such studies.
It is also important, get the person who participated in the test to behave naturally. That is, their behavior does not influence the knowledge that is participating in a test. This is one of the biggest challenges currently for neuromarketing. Changes are needed to improve both the systems used as in the protocols.
However, despite the difficulties discussed above, we are now able to offer studies whose findings are closer to reality than those obtained without the use of neuromarketing, thanks to a combination of techniques that I mentioned above.
But only not the location of items affect sales. Also the environment. Currently there is a trend of neuromarketing study with the combination of product placement, lighting and music retail space at the point of sale.
The current marketing attempts to reach the customer through every way possible. Thanks to these studies, conclusions are obtained as follows:
- Lighting plays a key role. So the same product, in the same location, has become more attractive if the light incident on the area where it is located. Not directly about the product. Playing with lighting can get that cold areas cease to be and become hot.
- Music influences act of purchasing. So there are musical styles that help sell products. Maintaining placement and lighting and changing the music, we see how we tend to buy certain products as we are hearing.
Placement is important, yes, but not the only thing that must be taken into account to ensure that the client live shopping experience. To this we must combine music, lighting and corporate values. Also flavors.
In next post will deal with more depth how to combine these elements, including other flavorings, to get buyers to live a unique shopping experience.
Is it possible to differentiate exactly selling the same products than the competition?. Of course it can. If we can get our customers a unique experience with the purchase, they will come to us attracted to it. The shopping experience is even more important than the product itself. The same product can be sold elsewhere, but what the buyer lives in our facilities is unique and characteristic of ours, for better or for worse.
Designing a proper shopping experience to our target and succeed still selling as well as others, are two roads that run parallel.
Wednesday, February 15
Here smells brand
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Of the five senses that humans have no doubt smell is the most quickly can evoke feelings and emotions.
We could say that for a long time man "has depended on her nose" for survival. Through it we detect spoiled food, the smell we recognize our mother in the first months of life, a pleasant smell of food whets our appetite, ... We categorically declare that the smell was not only a key sense, we might even say it was one of the senses responsible for our survival as a species.
When we smell the odor particles suspended in air they dissolve in the nasal mucosa. Just after the mucosa are the olfactory receptor neurons are able to detect thousands of different odors. These cells transmit odors to the olfactory bulb that communicates directly with our primitive brain, stimulating feelings and memory, and the area of thinking (neocortex). This dual connection described makes the smell in the sense that it is powerful, giving it a high capacity to evoke memories and relive experiences with the mere perception of a particular odor.
In a market like the current one that seeks to reach the customer and make them live a shopping experience when they purchase and consume our products, the role of smell is critical.
Known is the positive effect on sales of a supermarket to have the bakery at the entrance, so the smell of fresh bread fills the surrounding area and invites passersby to enter. But how to convert an odor in a tool for SMEs?.
First, just like we do with the colors or logo, we must define our odotipo and incorporate it into our corporate image. We, by tradition, calling corporate image, but once built the smell the term falls short, I like to use (and intend to): corporate experience. Advanced corporate image or corporate experience should be consistent. Imagine going to a restaurant for a publicity that has been in print with a logo that conveys energy innovation, modernity and originality when it comes to local site is a neglected and very traditional food, are you sure you probably think it was here ?. The pamphlet conveyed an image that is not consistent with the business. The smell, as a corporate experience that is, it must evoke feelings and emotions in line with the business and with other corporate identifiers. So the first step is to locate an odor to complete what they evoke the colors, logo, uniforms, decorations and other elements of corporate experience. In a future article will discuss specific aromas and what they evoke.
Once selected, the smell will determine the way we will be at our installations, and why not, in our salesmen. If there are air fresheners market with the characteristics of our chosen scent, just have to get hold of one and put it in our facilities. It is important to do both in the part that is facing the public and which not. There is no better way to live the corporate customer experience to share with you which we live. To do and live what we live.
If we can't locate any dresser go to any company that specializes in corporate aromas. For an affordable manufactured and provided us each time we need our dresser. You can also try their luck produced a smell with essences and aromatherapy evaporators available in any store. But remember, the smell is very powerful for good or ill. If in doubt always better to have a specialist in the area is less expensive to pay for the cheap and we get the opposite effect.
Transforming corporate image through corporate experience to incorporate elements like the smell or the music to evolve our company and make companies adapted to changing times, bringing them closer to the customer making them to be reminded every time they hear our music or smell our corporate flavor. Neuromarketing evolves marketing to adapt our companies to consumers in the new century.
Of the five senses that humans have no doubt smell is the most quickly can evoke feelings and emotions.
We could say that for a long time man "has depended on her nose" for survival. Through it we detect spoiled food, the smell we recognize our mother in the first months of life, a pleasant smell of food whets our appetite, ... We categorically declare that the smell was not only a key sense, we might even say it was one of the senses responsible for our survival as a species.
When we smell the odor particles suspended in air they dissolve in the nasal mucosa. Just after the mucosa are the olfactory receptor neurons are able to detect thousands of different odors. These cells transmit odors to the olfactory bulb that communicates directly with our primitive brain, stimulating feelings and memory, and the area of thinking (neocortex). This dual connection described makes the smell in the sense that it is powerful, giving it a high capacity to evoke memories and relive experiences with the mere perception of a particular odor.
In a market like the current one that seeks to reach the customer and make them live a shopping experience when they purchase and consume our products, the role of smell is critical.
Known is the positive effect on sales of a supermarket to have the bakery at the entrance, so the smell of fresh bread fills the surrounding area and invites passersby to enter. But how to convert an odor in a tool for SMEs?.
First, just like we do with the colors or logo, we must define our odotipo and incorporate it into our corporate image. We, by tradition, calling corporate image, but once built the smell the term falls short, I like to use (and intend to): corporate experience. Advanced corporate image or corporate experience should be consistent. Imagine going to a restaurant for a publicity that has been in print with a logo that conveys energy innovation, modernity and originality when it comes to local site is a neglected and very traditional food, are you sure you probably think it was here ?. The pamphlet conveyed an image that is not consistent with the business. The smell, as a corporate experience that is, it must evoke feelings and emotions in line with the business and with other corporate identifiers. So the first step is to locate an odor to complete what they evoke the colors, logo, uniforms, decorations and other elements of corporate experience. In a future article will discuss specific aromas and what they evoke.
Once selected, the smell will determine the way we will be at our installations, and why not, in our salesmen. If there are air fresheners market with the characteristics of our chosen scent, just have to get hold of one and put it in our facilities. It is important to do both in the part that is facing the public and which not. There is no better way to live the corporate customer experience to share with you which we live. To do and live what we live.
If we can't locate any dresser go to any company that specializes in corporate aromas. For an affordable manufactured and provided us each time we need our dresser. You can also try their luck produced a smell with essences and aromatherapy evaporators available in any store. But remember, the smell is very powerful for good or ill. If in doubt always better to have a specialist in the area is less expensive to pay for the cheap and we get the opposite effect.
Transforming corporate image through corporate experience to incorporate elements like the smell or the music to evolve our company and make companies adapted to changing times, bringing them closer to the customer making them to be reminded every time they hear our music or smell our corporate flavor. Neuromarketing evolves marketing to adapt our companies to consumers in the new century.
Wednesday, February 1
sell head
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Given the acceptance that had the post "To sell better," in which he explained how to use neuromarketing to be better salesmen, and I have been receiving questions about it in different ways in recent weeks, these days I will dig a little more on this topic. Specifically, by popular demand, I'll talk about why it is necessary to know the potential customer before making the visit, in subsequent articles delve into other aspects.
In 1992, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallesse, University of Parma, discovered mirror neurons. They are responsible for empathy and a revolution in neuroscience and neuromarketing.
Mirror neurons are activated when we perform an action and when we see someone do an action. That is, if we see that a person is happy to drive a particular car that our mirror neurons do empathize with the person of the spot, feeling the same way and helping to associate in our minds the idea that driving this car will make us feel good.
The "usefulness" of mirror neurons in the world of advertising is evident in the example above, but why talk about mirror neurons in an article focusing on one aspect of the commercial visit?. I began by saying that: "To sell better," noted the need to find out everything possible about the person we are going to visit. Knowing as much about who he is, his nature, tastes, hobbies, sports he practices, his favorite team, can be a powerful marketing tool if we use for the client to empathize with us.
Many times our offer is similar in products and services to our competitors. Empathy with the customer may be the final weight to tilt the balance of the sale to us. If our offer contains a much higher price or service clearly worse than the competition is difficult to sell through empathy (although not impossible), but it is normal that our offer is in product quality, price and service very similar that of our competitors, which, in this way, we can tip the sale in our favor. Of course, for this to happen we need to know very well, before whom we are going to sit and of course this person is the decision maker to buy. If the person who decides on purchases is not easily accessible, so if we empathize with his assistant or person responsible for coordinating your schedule maybe we can make an appointment. Besides a good source to find out interesting hobbies and tastes of the head.
Previous work on sale is key and even more important than the visit itself, for all we know the person you're going to see us help the commercial visit much more effective and achieve our goal using less time.
Empathy is the most positive support for sale. We need to know hobbies, likes and all that full of happiness to our interlocutor. All this information we will use the visit (or visits) for the sale a success for us.
From now sell head, .... But with the client's head, turning their mirror neurons positively towards us and the product we represent.
Given the acceptance that had the post "To sell better," in which he explained how to use neuromarketing to be better salesmen, and I have been receiving questions about it in different ways in recent weeks, these days I will dig a little more on this topic. Specifically, by popular demand, I'll talk about why it is necessary to know the potential customer before making the visit, in subsequent articles delve into other aspects.
In 1992, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallesse, University of Parma, discovered mirror neurons. They are responsible for empathy and a revolution in neuroscience and neuromarketing.
Mirror neurons are activated when we perform an action and when we see someone do an action. That is, if we see that a person is happy to drive a particular car that our mirror neurons do empathize with the person of the spot, feeling the same way and helping to associate in our minds the idea that driving this car will make us feel good.
The "usefulness" of mirror neurons in the world of advertising is evident in the example above, but why talk about mirror neurons in an article focusing on one aspect of the commercial visit?. I began by saying that: "To sell better," noted the need to find out everything possible about the person we are going to visit. Knowing as much about who he is, his nature, tastes, hobbies, sports he practices, his favorite team, can be a powerful marketing tool if we use for the client to empathize with us.
Many times our offer is similar in products and services to our competitors. Empathy with the customer may be the final weight to tilt the balance of the sale to us. If our offer contains a much higher price or service clearly worse than the competition is difficult to sell through empathy (although not impossible), but it is normal that our offer is in product quality, price and service very similar that of our competitors, which, in this way, we can tip the sale in our favor. Of course, for this to happen we need to know very well, before whom we are going to sit and of course this person is the decision maker to buy. If the person who decides on purchases is not easily accessible, so if we empathize with his assistant or person responsible for coordinating your schedule maybe we can make an appointment. Besides a good source to find out interesting hobbies and tastes of the head.
Previous work on sale is key and even more important than the visit itself, for all we know the person you're going to see us help the commercial visit much more effective and achieve our goal using less time.
Empathy is the most positive support for sale. We need to know hobbies, likes and all that full of happiness to our interlocutor. All this information we will use the visit (or visits) for the sale a success for us.
From now sell head, .... But with the client's head, turning their mirror neurons positively towards us and the product we represent.
Wednesday, December 21
Envolving marketing
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Those who call us marketers have been working for years to find out what the consumer wants. An important part of our work has consisted and consists in finding out what does our target. To adapt, then, our product and get closer to the ideal of our consumers. We used even invented techniques of all kinds, the most colorful panels, surveys, evaluations, sample markets, ....
Finally, after many years, we managed to find out what's wrong with all methods, indeed, all have the same flaw: much of the evidence of consumers say the opposite of what they think. Consumers in the panels act differently in the real world. The solution to correct the error is to know what goes on inside the mind of the consumer. What reactions produce our products in their minds that will lead to feelings that cause the purchase and determine the degree of satisfaction with it and, therefore, the possibility of repeating the desired loyalty.
We need to know what happens in the minds of our consumers when they buy our products to meet your real needs. This is the purpose of neuromarketing, neuroeconomics part of that necessarily needs to go hand in hand with advances in neuroscience.
It is already world famous Montague's experiment with Coca-Cola and Pepsi a few years ago. They will put consumers samples of both drinks to participants without showing the mark and asked to indicate which one they liked best. Most said they liked Pepsi. While consuming their minds were activated in a prefrontal cortex area associated with sensory pleasure. They got to drink a second sample, this time indicating the brand of soft drinks each the same people and asked them again to identify what they liked best. Surprisingly changed their minds and said they liked the Coca-Cola. While consuming areas of the hippocampus were activated associated with the emotions and affections. What happened?, Coca-Cola in them evoked associations with past experiences and emotions that led to say that Coca-Cola preferred when they really liked the Pepsi.
Understanding the human mind and its operation will help us understand why having the best product or service the best leaders are not in sales. It is easy, as in many companies, blame this to the sales force, when really, in many cases, the commercial department is solely responsible for this to occur, the real culprit is an ill-conceived strategy for not having had into account the feelings of our product brand should evoke in consumers.
Those who call us marketers have been working for years to find out what the consumer wants. An important part of our work has consisted and consists in finding out what does our target. To adapt, then, our product and get closer to the ideal of our consumers. We used even invented techniques of all kinds, the most colorful panels, surveys, evaluations, sample markets, ....
Finally, after many years, we managed to find out what's wrong with all methods, indeed, all have the same flaw: much of the evidence of consumers say the opposite of what they think. Consumers in the panels act differently in the real world. The solution to correct the error is to know what goes on inside the mind of the consumer. What reactions produce our products in their minds that will lead to feelings that cause the purchase and determine the degree of satisfaction with it and, therefore, the possibility of repeating the desired loyalty.
We need to know what happens in the minds of our consumers when they buy our products to meet your real needs. This is the purpose of neuromarketing, neuroeconomics part of that necessarily needs to go hand in hand with advances in neuroscience.
It is already world famous Montague's experiment with Coca-Cola and Pepsi a few years ago. They will put consumers samples of both drinks to participants without showing the mark and asked to indicate which one they liked best. Most said they liked Pepsi. While consuming their minds were activated in a prefrontal cortex area associated with sensory pleasure. They got to drink a second sample, this time indicating the brand of soft drinks each the same people and asked them again to identify what they liked best. Surprisingly changed their minds and said they liked the Coca-Cola. While consuming areas of the hippocampus were activated associated with the emotions and affections. What happened?, Coca-Cola in them evoked associations with past experiences and emotions that led to say that Coca-Cola preferred when they really liked the Pepsi.
Understanding the human mind and its operation will help us understand why having the best product or service the best leaders are not in sales. It is easy, as in many companies, blame this to the sales force, when really, in many cases, the commercial department is solely responsible for this to occur, the real culprit is an ill-conceived strategy for not having had into account the feelings of our product brand should evoke in consumers.
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