The latest news cycle has revealed chasms growing in the land of luxury: In late July, LVMH, home of storied Louis Vuitton brand, reported that first half 2016 sales of its flagship fashion and leather luxury goods segment dropped .8% from same period last year. Then, on the cusp of NY Fashion Week, Tim Gunn […]
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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 […]
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 […]
What Price Ignorance? You Can’t Afford It!
Remember the scene from the Marx Brothers’ classic Animal Crackers, where Groucho as Captain Spaulding and Chico as Emanuel Ravelli discuss the price for his band to perform at Mrs. Rittenhouse’s party: Spaulding: What do you fellows get an hour? Ravelli: Oh, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour. Spaulding: I see…What do you get for […]
Marketing Consulting for Businesses that Want to Get BIG!
Big business marketing consulting tailored to the needs — and budgets — of small-to-mid-sized businesses You’ve created a product, new service, business concept, but it hasn’t found traction yet. You have a great concept to share with the market. What you don’t have is marketing and branding expertise. You need marketing to attract new customers […]