What Hijacks Your Decisions? 

Are People Rationale?

Do we make decisions consciously based on facts, reason, and logic? Or, do we make decisions unconsciously based on emotions, feelings, and intuition?

While you are thinking about these substantial questions, let's turn the clock back to 1985...

Have your eyes ever played tricks on you?

If you said “no,” then you’re not being honest.

Alternatively, your mind is deceiving you.

It’s nothing personal and nothing intentional.

We would have written this article sooner, but we were binge-watching...

We’re not alone. On an average day, Netflix’s 117.58 million subscribers watch 140 million hours of content. That’s a ton of TV.  Learning this, we were curious as to why this happens and if we can apply learnings to the creation of marketing communication.

The Curse of Knowledge may seem like the title to the next Avengers movie, but it isn't (as far as we know). Instead, it's an essential behavioral science learning highly relevant to the development of marketing communication.

It's no secret it gets cold in Minneapolis. But, what does standing in line for ice cream have to do with better communication? Lots, it turns out.

Whether creating digital ads, in-store signage, or packaging, behavior science-based design principles (or, we like to call it designing for the shopper mindset) can improve your creative effectiveness.

Your brand message can help drive sales. How do you test its effectiveness so you KNOW it works?

It's your selling moment...don't blow it.