{"id":1464,"date":"2017-02-27T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2017-03-06T06:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:47:52","slug":"unconscious-myths-of-digital-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/unconscious-myths-of-digital-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unconscious Myths Of Digital Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1465\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1465\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/unconscious-myths-of-digital-marketing\/crystal-buzz-cola\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?fit=512%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"512,384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Unconscious Myths of Digital Marketing\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Case study from Pepsi Crystal. Unconscious brand connection didn&#8217;t serve well for Pepsi.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Unconscious Myths of Digital Marketing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?fit=512%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1465\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Unconscious Myths of Digital Marketing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/crystal-buzz-cola.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Unconscious Myths of Digital Marketing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The quest to change Digital Marketing continues with\u00a0Douglas Van Praet\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1137278927\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=casalazar-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1137278927&amp;linkId=725ebe581fb2382fef963737bc404f33\" target=\"_blank\">Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (And Inspire) Marketing<\/a>\u201d and after an interesting, yet <a href=\"http:\/\/disq.us\/p\/1gj2fsr\" target=\"_blank\">controversial<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/power-of-neuroscience-in-digital-marketing-intro\/\" target=\"_blank\">introduction<\/a>, we&#8217;re getting more into the beef of Neuroscience and how unconscious\/conscious consumer decisions affect brands, sales, and Digital Marketing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In each of us there is another whom we don&#8217;t know&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Carl Jung, Psychologist<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carl Jung coined the term &#8220;persona&#8221; and in fact, it&#8217;s origination is much different than what Marketers use today. How many times have you been in a Marketing meeting and the idea of a &#8220;persona&#8221; came up?<\/p>\n<p><em>Let&#8217;s identify our user persona(s). For this user persona, we should follow these tactics. Who is our user persona? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d bet it&#8217;s more than you can count. Persona was created to describe a &#8220;social mask&#8221; created by people to make an impression on others while keeping their true nature in tact. It was meant to shield your true, authentic inner-self from the public world. Ironically, we as Marketers, look to user personas to help define our Marketing strategies.\u00a0<strong><em>That&#8217;s Myth #1 busted!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, we should be focused on what the persona is hiding &#8211; one&#8217;s true self and its hidden intentions\/emotions. This is the real opportunity for Digital Marketers. How do we bring this to life online through web, email, social, and advertising?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One way is to create qualitative studies to find the true meaning of the inner-self. Every company should be deploying some type of qualitative study in all Digital Marketing activities.<\/li>\n<li>Observing humans\u00a0first-hand will help you uncover true meanings that are hidden between the lines\u00a0&#8211; this is what your Digital Marketing campaigns should be based off of, not a fake social mask.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metaphorically, Unconscious Branding introduces an interesting concept for Digital Marketers: \u00a0think of the human mind as if it were an iceberg with the tip representing the conscious actions of consumers. The vast majority of consumers&#8217; buyer behavior is unknown and hidden. The complete iceberg of conscious relationships mixed with deeper connections form brand loyalty. The true value of a brand is measured by the thoughts, emotions, and associations of it&#8217;s consumers. If this is the case, we as Digital Marketers have a long way to go before we truly understand consumers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Study<\/strong>: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Pepsi\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Pepsi<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New colorless beverages were introduced to target the &#8220;rational&#8221; consumer who would rather NOT drink the artificial brown coloring &#8211;&gt; by the way, burnt sugar could be cancerous<\/li>\n<li>The rational consumers should have chose the product without the artificial brown stuff right?<\/li>\n<li>Nope, our unconscious minds have an immediate connection to the traditional brown Pepsi based on memories of the brand<\/li>\n<li>This was a Marketing fail and was not executed very well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Few myths busted and we&#8217;re beginning to understand that consumers use 2 parts of their brain to make decisions: unconscious and conscious. Today, most Digital Marketing professionals are focused on the conscious senses because it&#8217;s easier to control, but unlocking the powers of appealing to the unconscious mind could be even more fruitful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest to change Digital Marketing continues with\u00a0Douglas Van Praet\u2019s \u201cUnconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (And Inspire) Marketing\u201d and after an interesting, yet controversial, introduction, we&#8217;re getting more into the beef of Neuroscience and how unconscious\/conscious consumer decisions affect brands, sales, and Digital Marketing. &#8220;In each of us there is another whom we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,5,290,301],"tags":[283,295,293,294,292,298,291,297,296],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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