Down But Not Out: How Affluents Shop for High-End Home Brands

You know the story, but do you know the lessons learned from it?    Prior to the global financial crisis, affluent consumers spent above their means, in large part due to phantom-like perceived wealth. “Their housing values were going up and their 401k’s were going up, so they felt wealthy and tended to spend above […]

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Best Marketing Practices Among High-End Home Brands

Five things you can do to dramatically improve your marketing performance.   A few years ago, one of my high-end home brand clients was asked to participate in some benchmarking research from a leading management consulting firm. The consultants were studying a handful of leading consumer brands in order to capture some of the best […]

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