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The Continuum and the Marketplace

Strategy Driven

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs.

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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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