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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The New World of Computer-Generated Imagery

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 […]

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Can Your High-End Home Brand Triple Sales in Two Years?

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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Consumers Are Shopping High-End Home Brands via Mobile

Do you understand how consumers are shopping your brand?   More and more consumers are using mobile devices to shop for home-related brands. And since one of the top-five purchase categories for smartphones is the home, you would expect that home brands would finally get into the game. The short answer is that some are […]

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