How High-End Home Brands Are Benefiting from CGI It used to be that creating fantasy kitchen photography as part of a marketing campaign for our client Viking Range required a highly complex, six-figure photo shoot, complete with skilled set designers, food stylists, and prop masters – not to mention an A-level photographer and producer. During […]
Is the Year Ahead a Threat or an Opportunity? For Marketers of High-End Brands, the Answer Is Yes Your consumer is evolving in dramatic ways, your job may be in jeopardy, and your team is cranking out irrelevant content. Nobody ever said it would be easy. As marketers of high-end brands face down the new […]
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High-End Brands Face the Best of Times, the Worst of Times It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it […]
Brendan Howard / Shutterstock.com Yes, they are different, but don’t assume that they don’t consume media like everyone else. The high-end marketplace often thinks of Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) consumers as exotic and mysterious creatures, like Sundarbans tigers. Granted, these consumers are rare – there are only 60,000 or so of them […]
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Finding balance between creative and analytics isn’t always easy. “My job today looks nothing like it did just a few years ago,” said a friend who has served as CMO of a high-end home brand for the past ten or so years. He came up through the ranks as a strategy and creative guy, […]
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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 […]
Driving progress towards clear goals can take your brand to a higher level. I remember the first time a client admitted, “I’m not sure that we know what success looks like.” Sales and profits at his high-end home brand were solid. But as he geared up for the next marketing campaign, he was justifiably […]
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With affluent consumers choosing exotic materials and contemporary designs, the rest of the home may just follow suit. I’ve always believed that high-end kitchen cabinets were not only a good forecast tool for design trends, but also a sort of “leading financial indicator” for the entire high-end home category. After all, it was never […]
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While today’s production budgets are tighter than ever, high-end brands need to use proven strategies to project an upmarket image. For most brands, the days of $100,000 print shoots or cost-is-no-object film productions are long gone. New media demands a constant stream of content—so even if your budgets are roughly where they were pre-recession, […]
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How the mindset of one CEO might affect marketing directors across the home category. The CEO of a high-end home brand was visiting with me about revenue and profit trends at his company. We had talked about some of the inherent challenges facing his brand. On one hand, his brand was the category leader. […]
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