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Ads for high-price vs low-price products
Aug 19, 2025

Ads for high-price vs low-price products

Emotional ads increase sales for high-price, high-quality products. Informational ads work best for low-price, low-quality products.

Thomas McKinlay
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Make your products look shiny
Jan 24, 2023

Make your products look shiny

Shine a reflection of light on your product. In experiments, people rated products up to 23% more attractive and were 32% more likely to say they would buy them.

Thomas McKinlay
Thomas McKinlay
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Uppercase brand names feel more premium
May 04, 2021

Uppercase brand names feel more premium

UPPERCASE brand names feel more premium, and people looking for high-end products are more likely to buy them. Mixed or lowercase names feel more mainstream.

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Use color saturation to change product size perceptions
Apr 22, 2021
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Use color saturation to change product size perceptions

Color saturation can change how much we like a product (e.g. if larger is better), how much we’d pay for it (18.5% more for a suitcase, in an experiment), and how we use it.

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Place future-related items on the right
Mar 18, 2021
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Place future-related items on the right

People like future-related products and images more if they’re positioned to the right, and past-related ones if they’re on the left. The effect reverses for those who write right-to-left.

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Where to position rational vs emotional messages
Nov 19, 2020
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Where to position rational vs emotional messages

Rational messages work better if they are placed high in a vertical space, while emotional messages connect better if placed low.

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Your ads should show people using your product
Sep 24, 2020
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Your ads should show people using your product

Help people imagine themselves using your product to better convert new buyers.

3-min marketing recommendations from the latest scientific research. Join 30,000+ marketers, for $0.

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