Remove trigger websites

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How to Make Social Proof Work for You

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Social proof is such a strong persuasion trigger you shouldn’t limit these comments to just a page, but have them scattered throughout your web and blog pages. Know what works best for your content marketing strategies, especially when creating a website or blog, introducing yourself, a new product, or special promotion.

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The Scariest Blog: No Personality

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For me it’s a blog or website without any personality. Our mirror neurons get triggered and we put ourselves into the story. But we don’t see that on many websites, do we? In the blogs and websites I review , I still see bios written in the third person … what if you told your story and used the personal pronoun “I?”

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Online Persuasion: Seeing Through the Eyes of Customers

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Or, track their brains as they go online to your website? Use persuasion triggers. Buying decisions come after a positive emotional reaction that triggers one of our primary motivators. What if you could live in their shoes for a day? What makes them click? What makes them take action? Appeal to basic human wants, desires.

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The Homer Simpson Guide to Neuromarketing

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Health warnings on cigarette labels actually trigger smoking behaviors , they don’t deter any smoking at all, quite the contrary. And even though our decisions are filtered through all parts of the brain, including our thinking brain, we are heavily influenced by instincts and unconscious triggers. How do we know?

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How to Choose a Fascinating Photo for Content Marketing Purposes

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It doesn’t trigger any reaction on an emotional level. A while back I wrote about a book called Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation , by Sally Hogshead. Here’s the author’s list of fascinating triggers: Lust. Related posts: 7 Fascinating Content Marketing Triggers.

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Online Persuasion: Seeing Through the Eyes of Your Customers

Writing on the Web

Or, track their brains as they go online to your website? Use persuasion triggers. Buying decisions come after a positive emotional reaction that triggers one of our primary motivators. What if you could live in their shoes for a day? What makes them click? What makes them take action? Appeal to basic human wants, desires.

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7 Ways to Market to the Subconscious Brain: The Homer Simpson Guide to Content Marketing

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Health warnings on cigarette labels actually trigger smoking behaviors , they don’t deter any smoking at all, quite the contrary. And even though our decisions are filtered through all parts of the brain, including our thinking brain, we are heavily influenced by instincts and unconscious triggers. How do we know?