4 Transformative Digital Shifts Play Pivotal Role for High-End Home Brands

Marketers must adapt with digital consumer behavior in order to succeed.   The changing landscape of digital marketing continues to impact high-end home brands, and marketers must evolve and adapt in order to succeed. A recent report from comScore underscores this trend, and offers some interesting insight into some of the seismic shifts marketers now […]

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Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone

Introducing the Ramey Reach Higher Grants Last year, I helped sail a boat in an overnight race from Key West to Cuba – which for me was literally and figuratively sailing into the unknown. Not only had I never sailed a boat out of sight of the shoreline, I had certainly never sailed through the […]

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Digital Storytelling in the High-End Market

  Affluent Consumers want a connection. Not a sales pitch. Affluent consumers buy differently. They research large purchases and seek not only a wise choice, but also genuine benefits and an authentic experience. In fact, 70% of affluent consumers say they prefer to learn about a product or service through content rather than traditional advertising. […]

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Aspirations of the Millennial Homeowner

And how they will impact high-end brands To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. That simple quote from Gibran helps me understand what’s going on in the housing market with Millennials. A couple of years ago, I theorized that […]

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Stakeholders Need Numbers to Realize the Value of Marketing

  Sometimes CMOs have to help other decision-makers understand that marketing entails more than advertising—particularly in the case of high-end brands. A recent study from Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Stanford University and London Business School examined 506 CEOs of large corporations and found that 25 percent have a marketing background. In this sizable […]

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Five Tactics that Help Big High-End Home Brands Shine on Small Screens

VW Think Small

Instead of adapting traditional marketing to mobile devices, realize that new media requires a radical rethink.   We live in an age of 110-inch flat screen TVs, but the future of marketing may belong to your 5-inch phone screen. The continuing trend towards mobile platforms offers challenges for all brands, but can be particularly vexing […]

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How Can High-End Home Brands Compete for Clicks on YouTube?

Sophisticated home brands need not compromise their core principles to find an audience on YouTube.   The opportunity to create video content that consumers seek out and share with friends is there for any advertiser. And with more than 1 billion unique users visiting YouTube each month, the potential rewards are clear. But with 100 hours […]

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Beyond the Purchase of High-End Home Brands

Buying decisions continue to be made after the actual purchase. Marketers of high-end brands understand Plato’s description of emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in different directions. After all, it can be painful when you’ve carefully helped a customer along the path to purchase, only to have her return the product the following […]

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Cooking from scratch: Upward Home interviews Eric Deng, Hestan

Editor’s Note: We are excited to launch a new series of interviews with some of the leading voices in the high-end home industry. Today we visit with Eric Deng, Co-Founder and President of Hestan Commercial Corporation, who is shaking up the culinary world with the launch of Hestan Commercial, Hestan Outdoor, and Hestan Indoor. Chris […]

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BankPlus: Commitment Campaign during COVID-19 Pandemic

BankPlus COVID-19 TV Spot

For over a century, BankPlus has served its customers and their communities with unwavering commitment, built on the power of relationships and trust. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, BankPlus was among the first in its communities to temporarily close its lobby doors in order to keep customers and the community safe and healthy. Even though […]

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