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Luxury Licensing: A rose by any other name…An interview with licensing expert Ira Mayer

Luxury licensing is suffering from a bad reputation resulting from its over use by brands back in the 20th century. Specifically, luxury brand names often were linked to substandard, poor quality products that were marketed too widely. Quality and exclusivity are the traditional cornerstones of the luxury brand platform and the old ways of licensing […]

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Ideas to Help Grow Your Garden Center Business

Retailers operating garden centers know that success in growing healthy plants depends on fertilizing the garden to provide nutrients and enrich the soil in order to maximize their garden’s yield.  So too specialty garden centers and retailers need to fertilize their business with new ideas, innovative concepts and strategies that will help their businesses grow. […]

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Why Millennials Are Abandoning Grocery Stores in Favor of Special Food Shopping Experiences

This week an article in The Atlantic by Senior Editor Derek Thompson addressed the question: Why Do Millennials Hate Groceries? The article caught my attention because it picks up on a trend that I wrote about in my latest book, Shops that POP!, released earlier this year. According to Thompson, “Today’s shoppers are going out to restaurants more often. But […]

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How to Make Your Facebook Postings POP! Part 2

I recently blogged about how to make-over one of my retail client’s Facebook postings, suggesting improvements that would make the post more relevant and actionable for Godfrey’s – Welcome to Dogdom, a pet lifestyle store.  You can read that blog here and see the before and after postings below: Before:               […]

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What Makes a Brand Luxury? Why Montblanc & Shinola both earn the title

In a recent blog post, I posed the question, New Luxury, Old Luxury; Real Luxury, Faux Luxury – What’s a Brand to Do?   It got me thinking more about what exactly makes a brand ‘luxury.’ To research the question, I happened upon a section from my book, Putting the Luxe Back in Luxury:  How new […]

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