How Brains Buy (Reminders for Financial Services Companies)

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Most companies fail to realise that objectives work well when dealing with employees but not with consumers. They'd be well advised to apply insights from Retail Psychology and Behavioural Economics and focus on how brains buy rather than how executives want to sell.

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HOW BRAINS BUY, © Alan Newman, 17-Jan-2014

HOW BRAINS BUY, © Alan Newman, 17-Jan-2014

WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?

Brain Biology: basically un-changed for 150,000 years

Cultural programming

Social programming

Personal programming

Family programming }

OUR FOCUS TODAY

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

WE THINK

MUCH LESS

THAN WE THINK

WE THINK

4WHAT INTERESTS BRAINS MOST?

HOW DO BRAINS WORK?

BRAINS & MONEY

SO WHAT ?

FACE FACTS

173 X 31 = ?

4WHAT INTERESTS BRAINS MOST?

HOW DO BRAINS WORK?

BRAINS & MONEY

SO WHAT ?

PATTERN RECOGNITION

ILLUSIONS

BRAINS CONNECT WITH BRAINS

STORIES & NUMBERS

( i ) 88 %

7 %STORY

Negative Positive

30% Effective

90% Effective

Source: Freymuth & Ronan 2004; Paul Craven Goldman Sachs AM 2013

( ii )

TREATMENT

STORIES & NUMBERS

39 % 88 %

7 % 78 %

TREATMENT

STORYNegative Positive

30% Effective

90% Effective

Source: Freymuth & Ronan 2004; Paul Craven Goldman Sachs AM 2013

BRAINS AND TIME

One Year ± 4 seasons

One Year Plus or Minus

Dry and Wet seasons

T

R

U

S

T“A psychological state where a person accepts vulnerability based upon positive expectations of the intentions of another.”

BRAINS’ DEFAULT IS TO TRUST*

This level of trust is based on COMPETENCE

INTIMACY

Trust based on INSIGHT

Trust is based on EXPERIENCE

This level of trust is based on REPUTATION

BRAINS LIKE: • Now or Short Term• Being in company• Stories• Pictures• Fun• The Status Quo• Security• Guaranteed• Easy

• Long term• Being on their own• Facts and graphs• Words• Serious• Changing habits• Vulnerability ***• 99%• Hard

RATHER THAN:

4WHAT INTERESTS BRAINS MOST?

HOW DO BRAINS WORK?

BRAINS & MONEY

SO WHAT ?

BRAINS AND MONEY

HUMAN BRAIN. CURRENT

VERSION HAS BEEN AROUND

FOR B YEARS

MONEY AS WE BROADLY

UNDERSTAND TODAY HAS

BEEN AROUND FOR M YEARS

BRAINS DON’T DO ‘MONEY’

Angelis Merkalos

Reward?

Risk?

Time?

Reward? x x

Risk? x x

Time? x x x

4WHAT INTERESTS BRAINS MOST?

HOW DO BRAINS WORK?

BRAINS & MONEY

SO WHAT ?

PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY

My daddy says I’ve

changed the way he

thinks. Less focus on

boys’ toys and more stuff

that helps the family.

If your kids have chosen their parents well,

press here:

AIDA

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HOW BRAINS BUY, © Alan Newman, 17-Jan-2014

That’s all folks!

Thank you.