Tag: psychology

The High Cost of Multitasking
Infographic Showing The High Cost of Multitasking

How to stop people choosing low prices on a web page
When people are presented with price choices on a web page they may choose the low price. To increase your profits use these techniques to get higher priced selection by customers.

Social networks could be bad for your future business
Social networks allow us to learn from each other. But the more we rely on social learning, the less we produce new ideas.

Facebook: The Psychology of a Ten Year Old
Facebook is 10 years old today. But what can we expect from a 10-year-old? What is the psychology of this age?

Workplace Stress Hits Productivity
Infographic Showing How Workplace Stress Hits Productivity

5 psychological ways to increase online business
You can increase your online business by tapping into psychological ways of connecting with your customers. Here are five ways you can use psychology to sell more.

Are you giving up on web business before you begin?
The motivation to gain new online business might last only until you actually win a client. After that you might not be so motivated, new research implies.

Stan Collymore Deserves YOUR support
Stan Collymore has received terrible abuse on Twitter and has complained the company has done little about it. The company could do something by funding a major educational campaign.

Reviewing what you know about the Internet helps
The Internet continues to change and grow on a daily basis. Keeping up can be a problem. But reviewing what you know can help.
Switch off the Internet to reduce work errors
Short term interruptions such as emails or Tweets can derail concentration which leads to errors at work. Switching off access to the web can boost productivity.

Study of Online Behaviour, CyberPsychology
Video discussing the growing field of cyberpsychology

Time to tell your web visitors a story
Stories have a powerful way of ensuring your message sticks. Research suggests that if you use stories people remember your website longer.

Brain studies reveal what to do with your website
You need to accept that nothing about online business is proven. Only testing and re-testing will work in the long term.

Get people to like you because you like them
Likes on the web are mostly one-way, which is not real liking. Liking happens when it is two-way. How much do you like your customers?

Five psychology tips for web design
Taking account of the psychology of web visitors is essential if you are to get the design of pages right and get your visitors to stay.

Individual customers are not as individual as you think
People have multiple identities within their minds; they are not just one person. So targeting your business at just one persona could be the wrong way to go

Facebook raises awareness and so could boost business
Facebook heightens psychological responses in the real world and could therefore make business encounters more positive.