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Luxury licensing has suffered from a bad reputation after being overused back in the 20th century. Specifically, luxury brand names often were linked to substandard, poor quality products. Quality is a traditional cornerstone of the luxury brand platform and the old ways of licensing frequently violated those principles. Besides quality issues, luxury brand licensing led […]
Recently Fast Company reported that Suave, Unilever’s mass-market shampoo brand, “fooled a bunch of beauty influencers into thinking it was luxury haircare.” It changed its name to Evaus (Suave spelled backwards), redesigned the package, gave it a premium price and presented it to a group of beauty bloggers and influencers to test. The result: The influencers […]
Selling prestige beauty used to be a straight-forward business. The formula was to recruit a celebrity to be the ‘face’ of the brand, put a magic formula in a pretty bottle, and sell it through department stores, with a little sampling and gift-with-purchase thrown in. But that formula doesn’t work anymore. Today’s affluent consumers, the […]
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 […]
Join me May 11 at the LuxePack conference where I will be sharing the stage with Marc Rosen, Marc Rosen Associates, and a panel of other eminent beauty marketing experts to unravel the secrets of successful marketing and packaging of beauty products. Also sharing will be Karen Young, The Young Group; Kodi Traver, SGD North America; and Rhona […]
Speaker, author, and market researcher Pamela N. Danziger is internationally recognized for her expertise on the world’s most influential consumers: the American Affluent. As founder of Unity Marketing, Pam leads with research to provide brands with actionable insights into the minds of their most profitable customers.
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