The Psychology or Colors in Advertising and Marketing

Are you stimulating emotions while marketing with your business logo, stationery, business cards, brochures, signs and with your website?

If you know it or not, colors speak very loud to our subconscious and have a positive or negative reaction within 90 seconds. On the web you have less that 30 seconds to make a good first impression.

Are you using the silent language of color to impress, motivate, divert and persuade your prospects to buy from you?

The following lists a partial summary of how colors stimulate with mental and emotional responses.

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