Director of Marketing at Emergent3

Marketing built on how people actually think.

I'm Cade Huskinson, a psychomarketer. I pair behavioral psychology with short form video and a stubborn habit of listening to real customers, then turn what I hear into products, stories, and campaigns that move people.

120KTikTok followers in 10 months
Woodwind ProCamp Chef's best seller, 3 years running
Cache ValleyNorthern Utah
Cade Huskinson
Selected work

Ideas that earned attention.

From a grill people asked for to a TikTok channel built from zero, and now school safety.

Featured
Woodwind Pro

Customers asked. We built it.

Camp Chef · Best selling product 3 years running
Camp Chef
0 to 120K

TikTok followers in 10 months

Camp Chef · Short form video
Emergent3

Marketing a school safety platform

Emergent3 · Director of Marketing
Featured case study

The Woodwind Pro started in the comments.

Pellet grill owners kept asking the same question across social media and forums: how do I get more smoke flavor? Instead of answering one post at a time, I collected them.

  • 1Mined social posts, comments, and forum threads for the recurring smoke flavor complaint.
  • 2Compiled pages of real customer language into a clear case for the product team.
  • 3Camp Chef's product team built the Woodwind Pro around that insight. It has been Camp Chef's best selling product for 3 years.

Listen to your customers long enough and they'll tell you what to build.

Camp Chef Woodwind Pro pellet grill in use
How I think

Psychomarketing, in four ideas.

The principles behind everything I make.

01

People decide, then justify.

Behavioral psychology first. I design for the emotional decision, then give people the reasons to back it up.

02

The customer already wrote the brief.

Comments, reviews, and forums are the most honest research there is. The Woodwind Pro is proof.

03

Earn the first three seconds.

Short form video is where attention lives now. Hook fast, deliver value, and make it feel native to the feed.

04

Brand and results aren't opposites.

The best campaigns build trust and drive action at the same time. I measure both.

On my shelf

Books that shaped how I think.

Logic gets you to the starting line. Psychology wins the race.

Rory Sutherland

Alchemy

The case for ideas that don't make logical sense but work anyway, because people aren't spreadsheets. The book I recommend most.

Jay Baer & Daniel Lemin

Talk Triggers

Word of mouth isn't luck. Give people a story worth repeating and they will market for you.

Byron Sharp

How Brands Grow

Evidence over folklore. Brands win by being easy to think of and easy to buy, for as many people as possible.

Emily Heyward

Obsessed

Great brands make people feel something before they ever explain the product. Start with the emotional why.

April Dunford

Obviously Awesome

Positioning is context. Frame a product the right way and its value becomes obvious to the right buyer.

The thread through all of it

Behavioral psychology

Why people actually choose what they choose. It's the lens I bring to every campaign, product, and video.

Career

Where I've been.

From social strategist to marketing leader, always close to the customer.

  1. Director of Marketing
    Emergent3 (E3), school safety platform Current

    Leading marketing for an emergency communication platform that helps schools account for everyone in seconds.

  2. Marketing Manager
    Holbrook Pickleball
  3. Marketing Manager
    Camp Chef

    Led the customer insight behind the Woodwind Pro, Camp Chef's best selling product for 3 years.

  4. Social Media Marketing Manager
    Camp Chef

    Grew TikTok from 0 to 120K followers in 10 months, built social-ready ads with e-commerce, and ran influencer partnerships.

  5. Marketing Strategist, Social and New Marketing
    Camp Chef
Cade Huskinson with his family
Life outside work

Dad first.

Home is Cache Valley in Northern Utah, where we're raising six kids, including a brand new baby who arrived this October.

Being a dad keeps me curious about how people think, which turns out to be the whole job.

Have a product people should be talking about?

I'd love to hear what you're building and who it's for.

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