Here’s a simple exercise. Go to the mall. Pick up a box of Pringle’s potato chips for me, will ya? But when you get back to your home, you find something strange. The pack doesn’t say Pringle’s. It says Jingles. And someone has misspelled the word ‘chips’ and spelt it as ‘chops’. So instead of [...]
Consider yourself for a moment. The first time you saw either of our sites at 5000bc or Psychotactics, did you buy anything? Yeah, sure, so you signed up for a free newsletter. But did you buy? You couldn’t or wouldn’t because of the six degrees In all our testing, all our measurements and weird tracking, [...]
Superman lay writhing on the valley floor, the energy being drained from his body with every passing minute. Above Superman, towered the evil face of Lex Luthor. In Lex’s hand, was a rock-a green rock that wasn’t from our planet. The rock would enable Lex to get rid of his arch-nemesis, Superman, once and for [...]
Imagine you went out to dinner. And the wine was just superb; the bread roll with the exact crunch molecules and texture; and the service so impeccable and knowledgeable that you can’t remember when you had service so good. Oh and yeah, the fish you ordered for the main was a bit too salty. What [...]
Say cheese,” says the person behind the camera. And you say cheese. Your facial muscles are frozen. You have a dumb, goofy look. And under your breath you’re muttering, “C’mon Take the picture, take the picture, c’monnnn!” Click! You blink. The picture’s been taken. And then the photographer runs across to you, all excited to [...]
You remember when you signed up to the Free Brain Alchemy Masterclass, we said we’d nudge you. The nudge was so you could tell us how it’s helped you—and possibly how you’re implementing the Masterclass. And yes, if you’ve got any results. Of course we get the warm fuzzies when reading your experience, but it’s [...]
Imagine yourself in a helicopter over Milwaukee, USA, on the shiny morning of June 13, 1998. You look down casually on the criscrossing tangle of roads on Interstate 94, and then do a doubletake. You can’t believe your eyes. It seems like there are hundreds of moving objects on the highway below. Maybe even thousands. [...]
It’s easy to blame your parents for your lack of great genes. It’s just as easy to praise your parents for their superb genes. But while genes may be a handed down trait, talent is not. And to understand talent you have to first understand genes. Genes are sequences of DNA letters that when activated [...]
Phil doesn’t really care about American Express. Why should he care? I mean it’s just a credit card after all. Sure it’s got a few benefits and features and stuff that other credit cards don’t have, but that’s not enough to make Phil yodel about American Express. Yet recently, Phil’s been yodelling Suddenly, Phil’s become [...]
It must have been 6:58 pm on Thursday, June 10, 1999. Without warning, Ebay’s site went down. But no one at Ebay broke into a sweat. Back in 1999, Ebay had been down on May 5 (for five hours), on May 20 (for seven hours). And on June 9, after Ebay’s site redesign, the server [...]
Santa Claus Inc. is well and profitable, right through recessions, depressions and just about any economic scenario. The reason why his marketing strategies work better than yours, is because he uses solid, dyed-in-the-wool psychology. He knows he doesn’t have to use new fangled techniques, when his simple marketing has stood the test of time. If [...]