Category Archives: Marketing

Over $1 Trillion Sold: Appreciation of Craftsmanship or Unrestrained Consumption?

The global luxury industry sells over $1 trillion of handbags, shoes, cars, vacations, watches, suits, rings, bracelets and earrings a year, according to Bain & Co.   Is it appreciation of craftsmanship or just consumption?   Has the luxury industry … Continue reading

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Danziger: Mass Affluent Want Austerity, Simplicity, Financial Security

Pam Danziger is the author of “Putting the Luxe Back in Luxury.” I first came to know of her a couple years after we launched Elite Traveler, probably around 2003, when a Chanel executive recommended I check out her research. … Continue reading

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How Do You Tap Into The Next Generation of Super Rich Collectors?

The next generation of the Super Rich are growing up.  Scions of the fortune makers of the past 30 years are coming into their own.  Recently I was able to contribute to Taking the Reins: Insights into the World of … Continue reading

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Three Easy Ideas On How Luxury Brands Can Improve Their Connections To Customers and Prospects

  The Luxury Marketing Council is a 20-year old “by-invitation-only” boutique group with 43 chapters worldwide and over 5,000 CEOs and CMOs representing companies targeting High Net Worth/Ultra High Net Worth consumers. The brainchild of former Bergdorf Goodman, NYSE and … Continue reading

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The Long Tail of UHNWs

Conventional wisdom says global capitals are the hang out for the Ultra High Net Worth (Net Worth of $30 million +) and their families. And certainly, these are places many of them travel with some frequency. I’ve recently been speaking … Continue reading

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Valuing Visitors To Your Destination: Say It With Flowers  

  How much is a typical visitor worth to the places they visit?   According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, global tourism accounts for one out of every 10 jobs, meaning the stakes are high. Yet, all visitors … Continue reading

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Unity Marketing: “Moody” Aspirational Consumers Turn to “Discount Department Stores”

  While the latest Ultra High Net Worth survey, The Times of London Rich List showed the Super Rich getting richer (their wealth increased 15% in a year), Unity Marketing, a researcher focused on aspirational/mass affluent consumers (Household Income $100,000 … Continue reading

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UHNWs Shell Out Big Money For Private Concerts

The Super Rich seem to have no problem spending into the millions for 60 minutes of enjoyment when marketers create awareness and desire.  Look at your favorite rock star.   Greg Furman, the former CMO of Bergdorf Goodman who founded … Continue reading

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What Can Luxury Marketers Learn From Politicians?

  The Super Rich seem to have opened their bank accounts in a big way for politicians.  New research shows politicians have been particularly successful in increasing their share of wallet from The Top 0.1 Percent. In a study released last week … Continue reading

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For Aspirational Consumers, Saving Is The New Black

  Luxury marketers that have so successfully tapped U.S. aspirational consumers to grow sales over the past 20 years may have to re-think what the future holds with this segment. They may also want to re-think where they are focusing … Continue reading

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A Tale Of Two Lifestyles: The $250,000 Household vs. The Superyacht Life

A few days ago Roxanne Genier contributed a column based on her tenure working aboard superyachts, and she gave several examples of spending she observed. The Washington Post similarly did a study of families living in affluent suburbs of New … Continue reading

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Private Jets Brought Over $600 Million to Central Europe in Q1 2014

Recently the Central European Private Aviation Association released first quarter private jet usage figures for its member countries. While we may think of places like Palm Beach and Cannes when we think of private jets, and the money they bring, … Continue reading

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Five Reasons It’s Hard To Find Good Research On “The 1 Percent”  

One of the challenges for marketers targeting the “Top 1 Percent” has always been most research really doesn’t target the Top 1 Percent. Ron Kurtz is founder of the American Affluence Research Center whose focus is the wealthiest 10 percent … Continue reading

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What Do Billionaires Want?

Ledbury Research on behalf of Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) recently published a Billionaires Study in which they dredged through any information they could find on 250 of these 10 digit wonders from China, Middle East and Russia in an effort … Continue reading

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Private Jets Are Flying High

General Aviation, the umbrella industry that covers private jet use contributes $150 billion a year and 1.2 million jobs for the U.S. economy and is one of the few industries that contributes to the economies of all 50 states. The … Continue reading

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What’s the Best Media to Market Luxury?

What’s the Best Media to Market Luxury? Like baking a cake, it clearly is a mix of ingredients. A recent Boston Consulting Group Altagamma piece titled True-Luxury Global Consumer offered some insights. First, who was surveyed? The survey included 10,000 … Continue reading

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Do The Super Rich Know What You Are Selling?

Do The Super Rich Know What Your Are Selling? “The Super Rich already know us.” It’s one I hear quite a bit when I speak with purveyors of luxury goods and services. There is an urgency to get the word … Continue reading

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“Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics”

When I ran the numbers for The Top 0.1 Percent Spent $214 Billion on Lifestyle and Luxury in 2013 in leisure hotel and resort stays from our previous research it showed that these Ultra High Net Worth consumers spend over $12 billion annually … Continue reading

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How Should Luxury Marketers Look at the Wealth Gap?

  According to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek analysis of data compiled by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman the break out of Net Worth and Household Income goes something like this:   The Top 1 Percent: –       11,700 households with an Average … Continue reading

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The Top 0.1 Percent Spent $214 Billion on Lifestyle and Luxury in 2013

  Looking at research on luxury and lifestyle spending by Ultra High Net Worth families and layering it against recently released research on how much the Top 0.1 percent make, I estimate these 117,000 households contributed $214 billion to the … Continue reading

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