Archive for the ‘Forbes’ Category

Welcome Google User

May 24, 2009

For all of the complaints coming from publishers about how Google siphons their content while offering nothing in exchange, I found this pop in ad on Forbes.com somewhat curious.

Welcome Google User

Welcome Google User

Had I not been searching on Google and had Forbes.com not had their content indexed by Google, I am highly certain I would not have visited Forbes.com at this particular time.

With the presence of their pop in ad, Forbes has at a minimum begun to accept a higher level of responsibility for how they serve their site visitors’ needs regardless of how the visitors arrived at any particular piece of content.

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Consumer Buying Behavior Code Cracked

September 8, 2006

ID Magasin a UK based consumer behavior researcher has developed products for measuring which visual stimuli shoppers respond to during the buying cycle. According to Forbes writer Michael Freedman, founder Siemon Scamell-Katz says “fixation – the time when the eye is engaged by a visual stimulus – is typically from 50 milliseconds to 500 milliseconds.”

Scamell-Katz’s findings are consistent with what the most successful salesman have always known – “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.”