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How to Market to Online Shoppers Based on Personality Types

How to Market to Online Shoppers Based on Personality Types | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Shoppers have always had different personalities. They are motivated to buy for all kinds of reasons, and their shopping strategies can be radically different.


In order to stay competitive in an increasingly challenging online ecosystem, marketers need to understand exactly what drives the behavior of the shoppers who frequent their online stores. Here are eight types of shoppers based on personality types and how marketers can provide the best online experiences to reach them...

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Eight shopper personas to help you market more effectively online. Good reading for marketers 8/10

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Content Marketing Vampires: What’s Sucking the Life Out of Your Content?

Content Marketing Vampires: What’s Sucking the Life Out of Your Content? | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Not only are you hectically hurrying to close out the year on a good note, you’re also pressured to produce your budgeted marketing plan for the year to come. It can often feel like the month itself is draining your very life force… but maybe it’s not just the month. Maybe, you have something stalking you from the shadows… Maybe something is steering you down dark paths you’d normally avoid… Maybe… you have a vampire in your midst, and nowhere would it be more apparent, than in your content.

Your content, you see, is a reflection of the lifeblood of your organization. It carries all the qualities, characteristics, and attributes that make your organization unique and valuable to your target audience. Certain dark forces, however, can eat away and this energy in your content. These marketing vampires can manifest themselves in multiple forms, so to swiftly slay these evil spirits, here are 5 of the most common vampire varieties along with their most effective weaknesses.
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Scary, what content marketing challenges we face.

Liza Viana's curator insight, October 20, 2014 11:15 PM

A spooky narrative that speaks to the importance of content - and how to get our of the scary rut of just not feeling you've got your content as together as it should be. 

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12 Facts About the Human Brain That Will Make Your Marketing More Successful

12 Facts About the Human Brain That Will Make Your Marketing More Successful | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Humans will remember something longer if it made them feel rather than think. They gravitate towards provocative images -- think food, sex and danger. They’re drawn toward images of faces. The color yellow puts them on edge.


Understanding how the human brain works is fascinating, but it’s also good business.


Marketing campaigns rooted in neurology are more likely to get and hold attention. And in the attention economy we are living in, where consumers have access to more emails and tweets than they could ever manage to read and digest fully, being able to get and hold attention is what separates the wheat from the chaff. That’s what gets consumers to spend.  


If you are looking to get more of your marketing efforts seen, then have a look at this infographic, embedded below, generated by Nashville, Tenn.-based Emma, an email-marketing software provider. The infographic highlights 12 biological trigger mechanisms that make the human brain light up....

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Don't make them think, make them feel! That's why understanding how the brain works can make your marketing much more effective.

Melanie Leszcynski's curator insight, November 4, 2014 10:51 AM

Very very interesting. Extremely helpful in trying to understand our  consumers as well as ourselves. 

Marshall Gass's comment, November 4, 2014 3:26 PM
The article so relates to how Poets perceive images and are able to project these images into words that leave lasting impressions. Great write.
AffiliateMarketHelp's curator insight, November 4, 2014 10:51 PM

A serious marketer, or blogger/author/etc., must take into account what will generate the best desired results.  By not taking into account the thought process of your audience, you are making a potentially fatal error.