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Why work with a Marketing Consultant?

This post contributed by my American Marketing Group partner, Paul Friederichsen. Sometimes you just need experience, perspective, and creativity on your side at the strategic level. Having the right partner can either validate and enhance the direction you’re headed or help you with a much-needed course correction. Would you ask, “why work with an accountant?” […]

Diversity

Luxury Brand Diversity Programs Won’t Prevent More Culturally Insensitive Mistakes

Recent culturally insensitive missteps by luxury brands, including Burberry, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, have people calling for greater diversity and inclusivity. While this is important, the problem goes deeper. Luxury brands need to return to the higher standards of taste and culture that made them great in the first place.

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Testosterone Is the Hormone that Drives Men Wild for Luxury

Consistently in my research with luxury consumers, I have found men more predisposed than women to luxury purchases. They typically spend more on luxury goods and services than women in Unity Marketing surveys and are more willing to own interest in luxury consumption in interviews and other qualitative research. I’ve attributed these gender differences in […]

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Word of mouth marketing

How to Make Word-of-Mouth Marketing Work

In every survey Unity Marketing conducts with retailers on their marketing and advertising methods, word of mouth is hands down the most important, being both most used and most effective. For example, in a recent survey among furniture retailers, over 80% of furniture retailers named word-of-mouth their most powerful marketing tool. By contrast social-media marketing, […]

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Where Luxury Brands Can Find Advertising White Space

Brands today face an increasingly crowded media marketplace to get their messages seen and heard.  Compounding the problem are the dramatically shifting media consumption habits of consumer who are increasingly being drawn to smaller screens on mobile devices. Luxury brands with a far smaller target market of consumers who can actually buy the brands advertised […]