A recent article in Alabama Construction News featured Adrenaline’s own Adam Huxhold discussing the importance of appealing to the senses to create memorable experiences for consumers across countless retail settings.
In Brand Sense – Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound, author Martin Lindstrom explores how the best brands are embracing sensorial strategy to create holistic sensory and emotional experiences for consumers. Companies like Starbucks, Apple, Disney, Mercedes Benz, and Tiffany are among the top-10 brands emplying sensorial marketing strategies, according to Lindstrom. But you don’t have to be a brand giant to fully embrace sensorial elements.
“The more senses that you influence in a positive way, the more likely your brand will be remembered,” according to Huxhold. Whether it’s sight, sound, scent, touch or taste, brands that are able to touch on more senses will have greater memorability in the consumer’s mind and greater brand engagement within a physical space. Restaurants, for example, have an opportunity to engage in all of the sensory elements – good lighting, pleasing music, good scents from the kitchen, high quality linens and dishware, and, of course, tasty food. Even if you are operating a retail space, meticulous planning for how the space will function is central to how successful the store will be.
