Attractive friends make you more popular online
Having attractive friends on social networks can make you more appealing to other people. If you want to extend your social influence only choose attractive friends.
Psychology
Talk to Google to get better search results
Talking while searching can improve your results. Research shows that talking to yourself improves search activity.
You must laser target your website visitors
Neurological research suggests web design needs to be even more laser-focused on the precise needs of visitors. They decide in advance what to look at.
Scarce products sell more in economic troubles
Scarce items are attractive. Restricting the numbers of items available leads to increased sales. This is even more vital in recessions.
Buying from social networks could make you sad
Buying from social networks could make you sad. Consumerism leads to lower levels of happiness and less socialising.
How to engage your website visitors
Engaging with your website visitors is vital in these days of short attention spans. And interactivity is key to that engagement.
Want to make money online? Think about the future, not the past
Thinking about the future will help you make money online than worrying about the past. Future thinking is associated with success.
Selling products on social media is tougher than selling experiences
Social networks attract extroverts more than introverts. Research shows extroverts prefer to buy experiences rather than products.
Email stops you sleeping
Checking emails late at night can affect your sleep patterns, say experts. Avoid sleep disruption with an effective email strategy.
Smelly study shows how to create a website
Web designers need to create the right online environment for getting visitors to do what they want them to do. A smelly train study shows what needs to be done.
How to get boys to read more – buy a Kindle..!
The Amazon Kindle encourages boys to read more and also provides a means of reading material anonymously.
Online trial software is often unfair
Trial software is often provided in full, then degrades to a “lite” version if no payment is made. But consumers perceive this as unfair.
You want your customers to lie to you – really?
When customers lie to you they are more positive about the eventual outcome. So should you actively recruit customers who lie?
Print this page if you want to remember it
We appear to remember less when we read it on screen if the context is not set properly. When we read things in print we tend to be able to remember them more easily.
Do you suffer from website flu?
The way you present information on a website influences what people think. You need more bullet points.