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Method Behind the Madness

Posted on April 08, 2005 by Sarah Eaton.

I don't know about you, but I spend most of my spare time thinking about the psychology behind marketing.

All right, maybe I'm being a teensy bit facetious, but I do like knowing the why behind the what.

And I like Chris Baggott's from-line philosophy when it comes to email marketing.  He's always contended that using a person's name instead of a company's name will yield better results, and now, over at his Email Best Practices blog, he's got the evolutionary psychology research study to prove it:

We are hardwired to pay attention to those that are familiar. 

Humans unconsciously feel that people we see frequently are our friends (which explains celebrity endorsements). 

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