All You Need is Love
/0 Comments/in General, QualiQuant/by QRi AdminBrand Love and Our Lovemarker® QualiQuant® Tool
How do you measure a persons’ loyalty to a brand? How do you find out what drives consumers to buy the biggest brands? How do you build a relationship with consumers?
How about through LOVE?
Kevin Roberts of Saatchi & Saatchi pioneered the idea of Lovemarks; what differentiates products and brands is the love and respect towards them that is experienced by consumers. QRi (formerly QiQ and CRAM International) has developed the Lovemarker® Tool to sensitively measure a Brands’ Lovemark status based upon levels love & respect.
“Counting the beats of your heart, not the fingers on your hands”
– Kevin Roberts
This insight into consumer behaviour allows us to go beyond understanding the rational benefits usually uncovered by traditional research (trust, reputation, and performance), and delves further into unconscious and emotional connections to brands through measuring mystery, sensuality, intimacy.
If a brand scores highly on mystery, it has great stories behind the product that draw in consumers and taps into their dreams, they use myths and icons and should inspire consumers. Sensuality involves the sounds, sights, smells, touch, and tastes that are elicited by a brand. And to truly be a Lovemark, a brand has to have intimacy – commitment, empathy, and passion.
Our Lovemarker® approach delivers insight into both rational and emotional motivations, understanding the brand relationship inside the consumer mind.
Our strategic recommendations help strengthen consumer relationships with your brand, creating loyalty beyond reason!
The Beatles had it right…. All you need is Love!
The QRi Team x
Fragrance, Flavour & Synaesthesia
/0 Comments/in General, QualiQuant/by QRi AdminSensations® is a vital QualiQuant® tool we created, which we are very proud of, having won the ESOMAR Congress Award for Best Case History for ‘How Does Your Cappuccino Feel?’ in 2013, through our extensive collaboration with Mane. The Sensations® tool allows us to discover unconscious feelings about fragrance and flavour that are not accessible by other modes of research. This provides us with unique and invaluable insight into consumers’ feelings and helps us help technicians to engineer fragrances and flavours that truly meet consumer and brand needs.
Our Sensations® methodology uses the principles of the psychology of Synaesthesia to overcome the problems presented by traditional flavour testing techniques; limited vocabulary of consumers in terms of describing flavour and fragrance and limited methods of flavour testing (i.e. hedonic questions and verbal rating scales which lack sensitivity and make it hard to discriminate between one flavour and another).
We are able to develop a rich, emotionally based, description of flavours and fragrances and to create a visual and verbal language that our clients can use to help engineer brand positioning using our Sensations® methodology.
For example, we can look at how flavour and fragrance are experienced in terms of the other senses, i.e. sight in terms of colours associated with it, touch in terms of material associations, smell in terms of odour associations, hearing in terms of musical mood associations, etc.
Knowing how people experience and associate flavours and fragrances in relation to their other senses allows us to build a projective world around each flavour or fragrance tested. Synaesthesia is thought to be the basis of long-term memory, imagination, emotion, and language, which leads to improved brand relationships through better sensory and emotional engagement with consumers resulting in stronger brands and higher brand shares.
Our Sensations® Tool has allowed us to dig far beneath the surface of consumers’ perceptions, bringing to light extraordinary insights into emotional responses to flavour and fragrance.
Read the paper here!
The QRi Team x
Body Art Branding
/0 Comments/in General/by QRi AdminHow far are you willing to go to show your dedication to a brand?
Some people have decided to show their dedication by getting their favourite brand’s logo tattooed onto their body.
It was not long ago that tattoos at work were considered taboo especially from an employer’s perspective, and some might still be opposed to ink peeking over an employees’ collar or out of a cuff. But, recently a phenomenon has arisen in which people – employees and customers – are tattooing the logos and slogans of the companies they work for or the brands they love!
The BBC has reported that the phenomenon started when a company manager of Anytime Fitness got a company tattoo on a dare, but was quickly followed by more than 2,000 people around the world who now have the company’s logo tattooed on their body. Now the company encourages people to get tattoos of their logo and to tell them why they decided to get inked and in return the company will reimburse them.
One woman who lost 68kgs at Anytime Fitness got the tattoo because it gave ‘her life back’.
But does encouraging customers and employees to get inked strengthen your brand?
Some say yes! If people feel such as strong connection with your brand that they are willing to permanently mark their body with your logo they are extremely committed to it!
“It demonstrates a real emotional commitment to a brand, and shows how much brands have come into different aspects of our lives – they are no longer just about a product or experience”
– Rebecca Battman
Id this the ultimate Lovemark? Kevin Roberts of Saatchi & Saatchi, believes that what distinguishes brands is the love that consumers feel towards that brand and the products it produces. Consumers are more likely to use a brand they feel they have an emotional connection with, otherwise known as a Lovemark. If consumers show off their relationship with a brand though branding their own body, surely this will leave a lasting impression on other potential consumers of the brand and work as publicity. It will make others consider what is so special about the brand and leave them wanting to experience the same relationship.
The QRi Team x