How The Internet Looked in 1996 vs 2011

In The Golden Age Of Twitter And Facebook, Is Email Dead?

Key takeaways:

• There are almost 3 billion active email accounts around the world, sending 188 billion messages every single day
• The average email account receives 64.8 emails each day
• 107 trillion emails were sent in 2010, which was up 19 percent from 2009

6 Ways To Psyche People Into Shopping On Facebook

That said, here are six ways to appeal to people’s psyches to motivate purchases:

1. When people feel insecure about making a decision, they turn to others;
2. The most authoritative of these sources will end up with the strongest influence on a person’s decision;
3. Scarcity of any resource makes it seem more valuable;
4. People want to emulate those that they like;
5. When faced with uncertainty, people tend to make decisions that are consistent with what they’ve done in the past; and
6. People have an innate desire to repay favors from others.