The Influence Continuum: Who We Trust in a Post-Truth World
By now you may have heard the term "post-truth." According to Oxford Dictionaries, it means "circumstances in which objective facts are less...
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Website Visitors Trust Confident Content. Can They Trust Yours?
You can feel it. You're working busily on copy for your company's website. You know how important it is—it's the first impression you leave about...
The Fall of Stan Richards and the Rise of a New Era of Reputation Management
Note: first of two parts
Headquartered in Dallas, The Richards Group has long been one of the most successful advertising agencies in the United...
8 Factors That Make or Break Brand Trust—and the Trust Signals Behind Them
Everybody's talking about brand trust these days, and for good reason. Buyer research shows that increasingly brand trust is the No. 1 factor that...
Trust Logos: 8 Third-Party Logos to Convince Website Visitors You're Legit
Note: Trustlogos.com forwards to this post.
We write about many kinds of website trust signals on this site, and some of the most important are...
What Brain Scans Tell Us About Website Trust Signals
Marketers have begun to explore the use of neuroimaging—functional MRI brain scans—in determining what trust signals have the biggest impact on...
Trust Seals Work—and Baymard Institute Has the Receipts to Prove It
Note: ActualInsights.com forwards to this post. Actual Insights was a Dutch research firm founded by Matthew Niederberger that focused on website...
What Is a Trust Deficit—and Do We Really Have One?
Ulysses S. Grant was a great man—the leader of the Union Army and the 18th president of the United States. But by the end of his life, he was...
Will the AP Stylebook Be the Next Casualty of the Trust Multiverse?
“Mistress has been canceled, go figure! Who would’ve thought that mistresses would be canceled?"
So exclaimed outraged Fox News contributor Joe Concha
Trust Seals: From Medieval Kings to Ecommerce Conversions
Signed, sealed and delivered.
Seal of approval.
Sealed their fate.
Seal the deal.
Sealed with a kiss.
My lips are sealed.