Course curriculum

  • 1

    Week 1. Brain Anatomy, Neuroscience Applied in Business, and Neuromarketing - How Our Brain Works

    • Enter the World of Neuromarketing

    • Brain Anatomy - Understanding the brain means understanding your business

    • Primal vs. rational or system 1 vs. system 2 - Where it all starts to make sense

    • Neuroscience techniques and methodologies

    • Emotions - why they make 97% of every human decision

    • Attention -> emotion -> memorization -> decision

    • Neurotransmitters - the key to positively influence mood and trigger human decisions

    • Understanding the 7 major neurotransmitters and their role in impacting decision

    • Text psychology

    • How to address intuitive errors: the neglect of ambiguity, cognitive biases and the suppression of doubt

    • Simplify and clarify your message - priming / repetition / anchoring / framing / rhyming

    • Are you ready for a different type of learning?

    • The Ethics of Neuromarketing

  • 2

    Week 2. Neuromarketing Tactics And How You Can Immediately Put Them Into Practice

    • Enter the Neuromarketing Tactics Universe

    • Neuromarketing tactics - anchoring, framing, visualization, loss aversion, social connection

    • Neuromarketing tactics - familiarity, effort heuristic, social proof, representativeness, scarcity

    • Neuromarketing tactics - decision paralysis, need for speed, modularity, reward & punishment

    • Case study - Neuromarketing tactics

    • The most impactful persuasion tools proven to work - part 1

    • The most impactful persuasion tools proven to work - part 2

    • Neuroscientific website optimization

    • Your live pitch: objects, a-ha moments, association, repetition, and much, much more

    • Pains / Gains / Claims - why everyone gets the order wrong

    • Neuromarketing tactics applied in content strategy - case study

    • The holistic approach applied to marketing campaigns, product offering, and websites

    • Neuromarketing does not have to be expensive - sunflower seeds case study

    • Sound symbolism & CTA buttons - case study

    • Cognitive dissonances and illusions - your primal brain is tricking you

  • 3

    Week 3. Content Strategy - Narrative Writing, Communication Models, 5 Sense Narratives, Copywriting, Writing an Email

    • If It's Not Well Written, Then Nobody Cares

    • The stage of awareness - it's about more than knowing who your target audience is

    • Concise writing - how to craft a compelling text that sells

    • Long sentences - why they kill your memorability and they make it boring and they are unpleasant to read and they can seem overwhelming and what did I actually just tell you?

    • The power of quotes: ''not hocus-pocus, but neuroscientific focus''

    • Dark background & presentation slide fundamentals

    • The elements and structure of a story - once upon a time there was a princess and a frog

    • The hero's story and its 12 stages - one of the most successful formulas in storytelling

    • Copywriting example invitation letter - exercise

    • Call to action or question - get them to act NOW

    • Headlines - Click Here To Win A Prize (no clickbait)

    • Hooks - why they reel you in

    • Three tips for writing your content

    • The only email you'll receive from me this year

    • How to write a persuasive email?

    • Are you ready for a different type of learning?

    • The Need For Speed - quite ironic that this episode is towards the end of the course, right?

    • Storytelling and narrative writing - the king and the comma

    • In a nutshell...

  • 4

    Extra Curriculum

    • Extra curriculum: The chemical structure of neurotransmitters

    • Extra Curriculum: Neurotransmitters - the dopamine pathway and why it matters in the decision making process

    • Extra curriculum: In-depth Neuromarketing methods

    • Extra curriculum: the flight / fight response

    • Extra curriculum: 11 million bits per second vs. 50 bits per second

    • Extra curriculum: homepage audit

    • Extra curriculum: ads based on Neuromarketing principles

    • Extra curriculum: case study Philips