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Luxury Brands: Tell New Stories for Your Most Profitable Customers

Brands need new stories to tell that connect with the next generation’s values and mindset In a recent Adweek article about five trends shaping the future of retail, Christopher Brace, CEO at Syntegrate Consulting, made it crystal clear: Brands need to tell new stories to capture the next generation customers.  On the need for effective story […]

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Brand Stories for HENRYs

How to Get Affluents to Spend More: Make It Really Worthwhile!

It’s all over the news — the rich are getting richer, as this recent New York Times article asserts.   And it’s true: The affluent consumers at the top 20% of household incomes are sitting pretty financially and their numbers are growing. But it’s not the affluents’ positive financial circumstances that will influence their spending on […]

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fast food diet

Is Your Marketing Department on a ‘Fast-Food’ Diet?

Back in 1954 in the classic business book, The Practice of Management, Peter Drucker wrote: Yet how many businesses manage, staff and budget their marketing departments as their ultimate competitive weapon? Is the business failing to thrive because the marketing department lacks the proper ‘nutrition’ in the form of market research to use to create […]

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Luxury Marketers: We Are in the Happiness Business

I have recently been working on a branding concept for a new luxury offering.  Through the research process, it’s become clear to me that at its heart, every brand participating in the luxury market is ultimately in the Happiness Business. People trade up to luxury not because of quality, value or enhanced features offered, but […]

leon & lulu

Transform Your Furniture Store into a Shop that POPs!

A shop that POPs! is simply irresistible to customers. It’s a special destination that engages the customers in such a way to make them feel special too.  It magnetically attracts shoppers, made curious about the special experiences and things they will find there.  A shop that POPs! keeps focused on attracting the highest potential shoppers […]