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What’s Missing in the Interior Design Industry? In a Word, BRANDING!

In preparation for my September 12 talk at the New York International Carpet Show (NYICS) on Trend Insights:  What Consumers Are Looking for Now!, I have been digging into the interior design industry, one that leads the consumer market in home design trends. ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) just released a new state of […]

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How to Create Customer Curiosity? This is what I am talking about!

Retailers need to use the power of curiosity to magnetically draw customers into the store and down the aisles to fully explore the wonderful product experiences offered.  Curiosity is one of the essential qualities that transform a store into a shop that POPs! In a visit to Morristown, NJ, my husband and I took an […]

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How to Make Word-of-Mouth Work for Small Businesses

On August 15-18 the 47th anniversary of Woodstock will be celebrated, a watershed moment for we Baby Boomers in the 60s, when nearly half-a-million young people gathered on a farm in upstate New York for a festival of ‘Peace and Music.’ Woodstock was also notable as one of the early examples of word-of-mouth marketing’s power, […]

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Successful Content Marketing Starts with Research

Today it seems like every brand is doing it:  Content Marketing.  Gone are the days of simply taking out an ad with a product-as-hero picture and some expressively, and expensively, crafted benefits copy to sell.  Now brands need to tell stories about their products and what unique differences they offer to the customer.  So content […]

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Luxury Beauty: Does the ‘Lipstick Effect’ Still Hold Today?

Back in 1999, former Harvard University Professor, and now Professor Boston University, Juliet Shor introduced the ‘lipstick effect’ theory in her book entitled The Over Spent American (1999).  Her thesis: Consumers will buy higher-priced, more prestigious lipsticks, specifically Chanel, that are used in public, vs. lower-priced, less prestigious brands that are used in privacy of the […]

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