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SILVANO C ASSANO
CEO, Benetton
ROGER DOWNER
President, Limerick University
C ARL ELSEN ER
CEO, Victorinox
JOHN FLEMING
Chief Marketing Officer,
the
Wal-Mart
WALT FREESE
CEO, Ben & Jerry’s
MALCOLM GLADWELL
lovemarks
Award-winning writer
M AU R I C E L É V Y
Chairman and CEO,
Publicis Groupe
effect
JOHN LORING
Design Director,
Tiffany & Co.
ARNO PENZI AS
Nobel laureate
TOM PETERS
CEO, Tom Peters Company
WINNING IN THE MIKE PRAT T
RESPECT
General Store, Segway, Silhouette, 9. LOVE GOES TO WORK
and Victorinox. Saatchi & Saatchi people use Lovemarks
PRODUCTS FADS Love/Respect Axis
to inspire, create, and innovate. Eight of The Love/Respect Axis is a fantastic way
5. ROMANCING THE SHOPPER Low Love High Love
Saatchi & Saatchi’s ideas people share to separate Lovemarks from brands,
An investigation into wooing the shopper Low Respect Low Respect fads, and products. Remember—to be a
their insights for creating emotional
with Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy. Lovemark you must have high Respect.
connections and making Lovemarks
Featuring John Fleming, Chief Marketing No Respect, no Lovemark.
live in the world. Featuring 26 pages of
Officer, Wal-Mart; and Andy Murray,
examples of Lovemarks at Work.
Global CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi X.
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We first presented Lovemarks in the September 2000 issue of Fast Company. in the UK and working with many creative partners to create astonishing
Back then I was talking Trustmarks, but a bottle of great Bordeaux turned experiences like the Lexus interactive billboard in Times Square.
Trust into Love. We’ve never looked back.
Taking the first Lovemarks book to the world has been a fantastic ride—the
Lovemarks in business
response has been unbelievable. In China I talked with students who grabbed It’s not only Saatchi & Saatchi who have been putting the Lovemarks philosophy
at Lovemarks like a life jacket. China is changing and these kids got it right to work. I have been delighted to see Love become a welcome guest in the
away. Any real change will come from new ideas like Lovemarks, not rehashed world of marketing. This is a big step up from when I used to mention the
versions of old ones. They saw that Lovemarks means transformation, not “L-word” and CEOs slid under their boardroom tables. Love is here to stay.
incremental improvement. Emotional connections with consumers are an irrefutable differentiator in
the market.
Their response was echoed everywhere. We’ll have editions of Lovemarks: the
future beyond brands (powerHouse Books, 2004) in 16 languages by the time Early on in the story I took the three vital Lovemarks elements—Mystery,
you read this and we have people from 149 countries registered at lovemarks. Sensuality, and Intimacy—to the auto industry. For Lovemarks to work it had
com. I was so energized by the whole experience, and the response was to be able to survive in one of the toughest, most macho businesses in the
building so swiftly, that I knew we had to publish a new book fast, one that world. I looked out at a sea of guys at the J.D. Power 12th Annual Automotive
showcased what had been happening since we published Lovemarks. Advertising Strategy Conference in California and told them that “moving
metal” was an abysmal description of selling cars. “Don’t tell your customers
The big news is that Lovemarks works in the marketplace. You can see it in
how much metal you move,” I said. “Tell them how much the metal moves
the growing community on lovemarks.com, you can feel it in the responses we
you.” Suddenly these tough car guys realized that what they felt for the beautiful
get from clients, and you can taste it in the numbers crunched in Lovemarks
creatures they sold was Love.
research. We have proven, once and for all, that Lovemarks are guaranteed
profit generators and unbeatable consumer attractors. Tools like the Love/ I’ve seen the auto industry, more than any other, take up the powerful imagery
Respect Axis enable Inspirational Owners to examine their businesses and messages of Love and Lovemarks. Take a look at their most recent car
and develop transformational ideas. They can help ideas people create the advertisements—the emotions of ownership have replaced the conventional
astonishing iPod out of the MP3 player and the magical Cirque du Soleil out of listing of benefits. Everywhere I see the word love—on billboards, in television
the traditional three ring circus. To find out how Lovemarks can transform real commercials, and in print. At one stage there were so many hearts in
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lovemarks stories
Craig, CANADA
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Chapter overview
C R E AT I N G L O V E M A R K S
2. 3.
1.
GET CLOSE TO CONSUMERS FIND OUT WHERE YOU STAND
A fundamental of Lovemarks T WO : FOUR : There are many different paths to T WO : GENERATE • Come up with 50 ideas that can
from the beginning was that CREATE A CRUSADER DON’T KEEP SECRETS becoming a Lovemark. Here are help close the gap. Develop five.
• Where would consumers
consumers own the brand. What two Lovemark tools that can start
You’ll need a consumer advocate. it’s impossible to be invisible. put your brand on the Love/ • Leave the whiteboard behind
does this mean? For a start, it you on the Lovemark adventure or
Raise the temperature and call Blogs are alert to every misstep. Respect Axis? and unleash your ideas in the
requires every Lovemark business act as insight generators to help you
them a crusader. This accelerates They have the power to amplify marketplace.
to be more interested in what keep your Lovemark alive and well. • Discuss the difference between
them straight out of being a moans- problems faster than any corporate
consumers have to say to them, the perception of your brands
and-complaints collector into communications department ONE : LOCATE FOUR : STRETCH
than what they want to say to and business compared to
someone who sees consumers as can control them. A Lovemarks • Work through the Lovemarks • Use your inside knowledge
their consumers. Sounds easy, but your own thinking about your
their mission. This will always be relationship with consumers sets elements and locate your brand of your industry. Select four
plays hard. positioning. Go through the
a difficult job because it is about the same demanding standards as a on the Love/Respect Axis. In Lovemark qualities and test brands, one for each quadrant
It’s easy to surround consumers creating change. Pay them well and love affair. Lie and you die. BRANDS LOVEMARKS of the Love/Respect Axis.
Low Love High Love
some cases it might help to each one for ways to bring
with your images and messages, but unleash them on your business. High Respect High Respect separate the company from perceptions and reality closer
it’s tough to connect with them. FIVE : • Develop specific, actionable
the brand, and it always makes together. strategies for how each brand
Here are five ways to get started. THREE : SHARE THE PLEASURE, ���� sense to be clear about whose
• Discuss how you can apply the could become a Lovemark.
GET OUT OF THE SUCK UP THE PAIN point of view you are taking.
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ONE : OFFICE PRODUCTS FADS
Usually it will be the consumer’s
Lovemark qualities to your • Focus on the differences in what
FORGET WHAT YOU People love to be part of a success. Low Love High Love brands or business to take you
Low Respect Low Respect perspective, but you may is required to get out of the
When I talk about inviting They want to feel that they made from your current position to
THINK YOU KNOW want to check out investors fad quadrant, the commodity
consumers into the heart of your the right choice, whether it’s the the Lovemarks quadrant on
Businesses have analyzed and measured Respect for decades. But it keeps
for the factory tour once you get to and hardships of your business to sits on the Love/Respect Axis.
a sense of where you are strong
business magazines than most know one another. yourself. When things go wrong, fix Now locate your top five
and where work needs to
companies know about their own them straight away. When you’re competitors.
be done.
consumers. Make a commitment in pain, don’t share it with your • Work through The Lovemarker
slipping through their fingers. The trouble is that consumers keep changing
to do far better. Start asking them consumers—suck it up. elements and decide where
what keeps them awake at night,
your competitors have out-
what they would do if they won
Lovemarked you.
the lottery, and how they celebrate
and the stakes keep going up. Respect has to be earned again and again, just good news.
as Love can only be given. Before you start out on the road to Lovemarks,
you must have Respect. Too often I find businesses think of consumers as
just another hurdle before making a sale. The first job then is to transform
any consumer suspicion or indifference into Respect.
Human beings live through their five Screens play to our senses of sight
and sound everyday. Not only has
FOUR :
a major turn-off. People love to be are your stories. People can tell BECOME DREAM First nominated by Margarita, senses. They are the rich context GET IN TOUCH
intrigued and to make discoveries what’s authentic and what’s not MERCHANTS UNITED STATES that allow us to choose between the the mobile phone elevated touch,
Beware of blandness. The brands
of your favorite relative. Can you separate the emotions you have for
can’t speak the language and your emotional promise! If they had inspiration. Sensuality means ON TASTE
plot, style, and so on. This is hard to bring a sense of Mystery than what you do with them. trusty guidebook helps you find that kept that passion alive they could getting physical. Don’t just ask a
an important way to begin to to brands. The Pillsbury Doughboy Shoppers could have dreamt forever A lot of people find the sense of
warm and safe bed! have become one of the most few questions and filter out the
understand why some stories are with his charming giggle has about somehow taking a relaxing taste a challenge. If they are not in
loved companies in the world. answers you don’t like. Get people
them into neat Respect and Love boxes? Of course not. People forget that
more powerful than others. Collect delighted generations of consumers. break in the supermarket. This was “What makes Lonely Planet special the food business they figure it is
Today any brand can open the ears to play with your product, let them
every story you can find about Agree on the 10 most famous icons all fantasy until some supermarkets for so many people? It helps irrelevant to them. Use taste as a
of consumers. Just make sure it’s get their hands into the packaging
your brand and then go out and in the world, and then invent one responded by opening coffee shops them be brave, it helps them take sure fire way to stretch your brain.
about them, not you. You want and encourage them to make
ask consumers for any stories they of your own. It won’t be easy, but in their stores. the journey that they might not Imagine you manufacture bricks.
to entertain them, not put more prototypes that work for them,
Just as we did for Love, we have worked out the most important elements
beauty. Never forget consumers are food award or creating chocolates
usually regarded as the opposite of
Storytelling has come back into smart—that’s why they buy your that look like bricks. The perfume
the sensuality of Lovemarks. Your
fashion so there’s a lot of hands- brand. creator Demeter have scents called
Lonely Planet cover image—young challenge is simple then: reinvent
on help out there. You may need Grass and Vinyl. I’m sure brick
Aboriginal dancer from Cape York Sensuality so it includes the screen
of Respect. Use it as a guide to action, not an excuse for more analysis. an experienced storyteller to get Peninsula, Australia. would be a breeze!
senses. After all, the screen is
you moving in the right direction the marketplace for this century.
Take a long, hard look at the items on the list. Every one of them feels like a
explanation. Explore your brand their sneakers to their automobiles. First nominated by Bonita, First nominated by Charles,
closest companion of millions. This why Lovemark companies attract
to find resonances consumers can The big question to keep asking is: SOUTH AFRICA ITALY NEW ZEALAND UNITED KINGDOM AUSTR ALIA
transformation alone shows the communities. It’s all about family.
uncover. It could be a thoughtful where can consumers get more “To be a loved brand means “Sometimes our products will “Our customers can tell, from “A Lovemark is not just a brand “My attitude is that life is a beautiful
passion people have for emotional If you can prove to consumers that
comfort like a luminescent drink involved? People like to participate attracting loyalty—the dream of start merely as words suggested by the way we think and write about people love, but also a brand that thing and being in business is a raw
connection.
routine business expectation, until you wrap some personal emotion around
holder for night driving or a bench when they have meaningful choices. you care about their well being,
every marketer. The brand is in customers that inspire us to make technology, that we care about the loves people: answering their exercise. You learn a lot about
ONE : in exactly the right place in the The father who shows a son how to their future, they will reward you
the consumer’s eyes and there’s an products to match. How do I know? same things they do. At our best we needs, making their life easier, yourself and the world around
TAKE ACTION store. paint a wall, but never hands over with Loyalty Beyond Reason. With
emotional connection. Because I often take part in our give voice to our community. fitting their way of life, acting for you. I love the idea of starting with
the paint brush is missing the point. the right combination of Mystery,
THREE : web-based customer forums. We their well-being. nothing and making something.
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I N S I G HT I NTE RV I E W TO M P E TE R S
coolstuff I’ve always appreciated the way Tom Peters has helped spread the Suppose you have a dull and dreary company. Bring in a design superstar and
Lovemarks message around the world. Tom and I started talking you may get a couple of good products, but you’re not going to change the
Lovemarks when he sent me a note after buying the book at a store company. If you are serious about design Apple-style, then it has to be a way
in Edinburgh on a rainy Scottish day. We share a great love of design; of life that will necessarily encompass some seriously cool designers. But it’s
“
here he holds forth on the subject. KR the cultural dimension that’s the glue.
awareness a car as it does with the actual creation of its shape. design in how it deals with its customers as well as with the product.
Week as “Business’s best friend and
worst nightmare.”
is done, it’s Somebody once asked me, “How did you get into design?” I said, “Well, I
The web as the design of
10 years of don’t have an artistic bone in my body,” which is really the case. “I got into
design not because I thought it was useful from a strategic standpoint to participation
hard work establish a competitive advantage, I got into design because I think cool stuff
”
We’re beginning to buy an awful lot of things via the web. While the web
ahead. is cooler than not cool stuff.” And that’s fundamentally the point. certainly has a lot of technology behind it that allows us to increasingly do
stuff, the web is a pure design medium.
We use the expression “design-driven” with great regularity, but companies
TOM PETERS
don’t have much more of an idea as to what it means than they did five years Like many others I’ve always broken design into two parts: cool per se and
ago. How do we get beyond the use of the words to a truly design-driven or usability. Websites that people love have got high doses of both. The web
a design-cultured company? Now that the sexy part of awareness is done, is training people in design. I also think that customers are going to demand
it’s 10 years of hard work ahead. It is going to be hard work to establish a a world of participation, or at least joint ownership, and that plays directly
design ethos, just like it was hard work 20 years ago to get beyond the idea into the hands of design.
that quality is cool.
Lovemarks in business
Design and culture
IBM is a a great example of a Lovemark. Here’s a company that has basically
Design has to be a corporate culture. A friend of mine wrote a book about changed from being a hardware maker to doing consulting services. IBM’s
design long before it was a hot topic, and he talked about Olivetti. There goal, relative to their clients in that world, is to become a Lovemark. What
design was a cultural given and the CEO was a guy who loved designers. On IBM is offering people is an entirely new way of looking at their industry,
the one hand design was the cultural ethos of the corporation, while on the their company, and how they organize themselves. By my definition that
other hand they went out of their way to hunt for design stars. Design is fits an awful lot of the parameters of Lovemarks. Lovemarks apply to
both a collective and an individual process. professional services as much as to a motorcycle or a Nokia cellphone. It’s
the same deal.
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Chapter overview
H E A R T B E AT S
The main objectives for the tests were: Respondents are asked to sort brands into the relationship categories and to
rate the Respect they have for each brand. Visual association is then used to
• to establish for what proportion of users the brand being measured further diagnose the nature of the relationship. This generates a position for
was a Lovemark;
each brand on the “Love/Respect Axis” (see Fig.2).
• to estimate the increase in sales volume when the number of users for whom the
brand is a Lovemark increased;
When Peter Cooper and John Pawle of QiQ International took up my THE PATHWAYS MODEL
We developed the Pathways Model for understanding and measuring the role
to measure Love and Respect—and to tie them all into measurable business
results. Saatchi & Saatchi and QiQ International have now completed several
Lovemarks research studies and have many more in progress with clients
in industries ranging from consumer finance to pharmaceuticals, packaged
goods to beverages. The most significant finding? “There is conclusive
evidence that creating a Lovemark will increase sales.” Here is a paper on
Lovemarks research prepared by Peter Cooper and John Pawle. KR THE FACTORS THAT TRANSFORM A BRAND INTO A
LOVEMARK
criticize, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative.4”
We find that stories are major ways in which Lovemarks resonate with people’s
everyday lives. Consumer stories about Lovemarks are often several hundred
Our analysis shows that the dominant factors are Intimacy and Mystery, which
influence both Love and Respect, and Trust, which mainly influences Respect.
Intimacy is how closely in tune a respondent feels with the brand, how relevant and
Current concepts of brands pay careful attention to the rational and symbolic
words long, indicating their rich and guiding roles. empathetic it is to them. Mystery also plays a part in influencing Love, and strong
aspects of brands, but often overlook their sensory, experiential, or synaesthetic
characters and symbols influence Trust.
aspects.3 After Intimacy and Mystery, Sensuality is critical in building a passionate We use the skills and intuition of professional psychologists to diagnose our
Two functional factors, Trust (reputation, honest, and safe) and Performance
To create a Lovemark, marketing strategy needs to focus on increasing narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, These determine how hot, warm, or cold respondents feel about brands in
terms of trust, respect, performance, and category-specific attributes. We also THE VALIDATION OF LOVEMARKS
NETWORK OF INFLUENCES ON include conventional behavioral questions on buying habits and future propensity
Other Lovemarks research studies carried out across many different categories
LOVE AND RESPECT to purchase. This data allows us to explore how emotional processes link to
confirm the contention of Lovemarks that the key factors that influence Love are
Love and Respect for a brand by maximizing the consumer’s emotional Fig.3 QiQ International, 2005 functional processes as set out in the Pathways Model (Fig.1).
Intimacy, Mystery, and then Sensuality, and the key factors that influence Respect
The degree of correlation between The next stage is to show how these influences interact. Structural Equation are Trust, Reputation, and Performance.
the factors of Love and Respect Modeling (SEM) draws inferences about emotion from statistical analyses of The major deviation from Lovemarks theory shown by the research is that
in the food category beta test verbal and non-verbal rating scales, and verbal and visual brand association
brand-person relationship.
performance-related attributes. Percentages reflect the weight of each
element in the total relationship in the
food category beta test.
part in determining behavior. Neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio states THE POWER OF EMOTION
Using multiple regression we can estimate the degree of influence of emotion. Figs.6
• Sensuality, although less of a direct influence on buying intention, is a strong
trigger for closer Intimacy and a stronger sense of Mystery. Sensuality is
about creating a richer and fuller brand experience by developing brands
unconscious mind.”
more heavily influenced by emotional than by rational factors. Our impression is that can increase its volume by up to two times by increasing Love and becoming
rational factors mainly help to justify decisions driven by emotions. a Lovemark.
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2004 my favorite magazine, The Lovemark status. Their goal was titles. This result put The New Yorker
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great stories and icons, inspiration, clearly demonstrated that The positive benefits for advertisers and
and empathy. The publishers wanted New Yorker was a Lovemark to other partners. KR
to get beyond intuition, however, its subscribers. In fact the figures
to prove to their advertisers that showed that subscribers read
The New Yorker was special, and to The New Yorker with 15 times the
International
complex problem—the silencing
of independent journalists and
politicians in Belarus. Newspapers
Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita
were published with censored
front pages and over 20,000 taped
posters were put up in Polish
streets, while two key internet
portals similarly “censored” their
news. Combining the sense of touch
with the suppression of sound
created a campaign that spoke
volumes through silence.
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A business revolution is changing all
the rules of the marketplace. Power is
shifting from manufacturers and retailers
directly to consumers, freshly enabled
with information, choice, and connectivity.
Price, service, quality, and design advantages
are no longer enough to win.
“Just
ing to media, from product development to
the ways companies are actually managed.
bloody
charted the way companies can connect
emotionally with consumers at every level.
The response was immediate.
brilliant”
“A philosophical challenge for
companies to change the world.”
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