Explore How to Bring Emotional Intelligence into Brand Strategy
Emotionally Intelligent Brands are…
✓ More aware of how they make people’s lives better
✓ More in-tune with the needs & desires of others
✓ More purposeful, helpful, compelling & desirable
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How Strong Brands Embrace Emotional Insight to Drive Growth
In 2020, the global pandemic caused many businesses to rethink how they will survive and grow. Going forward, we can look back to understand how some brands remained strong despite these disruptive challenges. It comes down to two things…
Going Solo - Launching a Brand Strategy Business Featuring Kevin Perlmutter
In 2019, I launched Limbic Brand Evolution – my fist business after working for others my whole career. It's continues to be and incredible journey and I'm learning so much. This 22-minute interview shares details about my experience and why I’m the toughest client I’ve ever had…
How Brand Leaders Overcome the Illusion of Customer Loyalty
In a wake-up call for CMOs, brands, and business leaders everywhere, McKinsey reported that “Consumers are switching brands at unprecedented rates”. All of a sudden, long-standing customer loyalty, for many brands, was exposed as an illusion…
The Power of Emotion - Podcast with Kevin Perlmutter
In this podcast, Kevin has a fun and lively conversation with host Jasmine Moradi about the power of emotion in our lives’ - from deep childhood memories to the best and worst brand experiences…
How Instinctive Emotion Drives Behavior - Interview with Cyrus McCandless, PhD
Enlightened brand leaders are wrapping their heads around methods to understand how instinctive emotion influences the behavior of their desired consumers. This interview reveals things brand leaders should know about what makes people tick…
Creating Brand Desire with a Focus on Emotion - NeuroU Conference Presentation
Hear about Limbic Sparks - the ultimate competitive advantage! In this Neuro U conference presentation, I had fun being the presenter who shared how to apply behavioral science insights and approaches to strengthen the relationships between brands and people…
Why It’s Time for Brand Leaders to Get Serious About Emotion
It’s every brand leader’s dream to have a greater impact on consumer behavior. Oftentimes, the difference between great results and disappointing results comes from a slight twist in perspective or approach…
How Emotion Dictates Our Behavior - Podcast with Kevin Perlmutter
“Understanding what makes your customers tick - what's driving their decisions and their behaviors - is a lifelong pursuit of any marketer.” Host Kelly Campbell and Kevin discuss the power of emotion on consumer behavior and the neuroscience behind it all…
How to Avoid Mis-Steps When Reopening for Business
The moment you’ve been waiting for. Permission to reopen. However, the business environment that Covid-19 sent everyone home from, isn’t the same when you return. We’ve all changed…
Kindness is Cool: the PirateBroadcast - Podcast with Kevin Perlmutter
In this podcast, Kevin talks with host Russ Johns about how brands will become a bigger part of people’s lives by combining Kindness is Cool with Emotion-Enhanced Evolution, and focusing how they want people to feel...
How Emotional Branding Helps You Stand Out in a Crowd
We’re all emotional beings. Whether you realize it or not, up to 95% of decisions happen in the subconscious part of our brains - the Limbic System, that guides emotion, motivation, behavior and memory…
Moving Forward with Positive Intention…
A favorite line, from my favorite movie, is “It’s business, not personal.” Right now, this feels so inappropriate. Business is personal. How businesses treat customers, employees and communities is felt at an emotional level…
The Science of Emotion: How to Turn Your Business into a Desirable Brand - Podcast with Kevin Perlmutter
Kevin and host Jürgen Strauss talked about the role that emotion plays in relationships between brands and people, and how it is increasingly important for brands to be empathetic toward customers, employees and communities…
How to Evolve Brand Strategy & Customer Experience in the New Now
I’ve never been a fan of standing still. To me, standing still is equal to falling behind. In times of uncertainty, business owners and brand leaders are often unsure what to do next, and when. This is why I’ve found it helpful to focus on the New Now…
Why Caring Matters Most Now…
We’re all creatures of habit. Despite our individuality, we like routine, we have our go-to approach, we take a lot for granted, and we sometimes lose sight of how our actions affect others…
Why Connection is So Important Right Now…
I’ve found that staying connected makes all the difference, in this time of self-isolation and social distancing. The biggest smile I have each day is at 2:00, when my amazing wife has a zoom ‘meeting’ with her class of 24 3rd graders…
3 Ways to Support and Strengthen Customer Relationships Right Now
I believe that brands should exist to make people’s lives better. Fact is, at any given moment, a brand is either helping us get through life more successfully or enjoyably, or getting in the way of the things we want and need…
Staying Focused on What's Important…
I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s most important & how to direct my focus. Here’s where I'm at: Friends & Family, Health & Safety, Appreciation, Empathy & Kindness, Offering Support…
When Brand Purpose Inspires Crisis Support
I believe that all brands should exist to make people’s lives better. In that spirit, my attention has been caught by several brands that are turning what they do best into unique offers of support as the Coronavirus crisis unfolds…
Staying Calm in a Crisis...
A good friend once said to me, when things get challenging, sometimes "the only way out, is through.” Last night I shared those words with my family as we started getting nervous about the global health crisis…