If you're like most people, you're way too smart for advertising. You flip right past newspaper ads, never click on ads online and leave the room during TV commercials.
That, at least, is what we tell ourselves. But what we tell ourselves is hooey. Advertising works, which is why, even in hard economic times, Madison Avenue is a $34 billionayear business. And if Martin Lindstrom author of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disney is correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get...