by Angie Ash, Executive Vice President With the constant news of brick and mortar stores closing, I felt the need to turn to our own staff – many of them millennials – to find out how much they really enjoy purchasing online, and how much of it is truly just hype. Turns out there’s a healthy mix of both spectrums. When I...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing Every jeweler goes through a phase when they’re obsessed with Google. It dawns on them that everyone uses Google for everything. But they have to dig to find their own site after trying a search. A blog isn’t just a way to address this. It’s a certified marketing machine. Blogs Give...
By Ellen Fruchtman, President Falling under the category “now I’ve seen everything”, Taco Bell has created an “experience’ for their fans in the form of a pop-up hotel. Transforming a Palm Springs hotel, the Taco Bell hotel features a limited amount of rooms for a limited time in August – all inspired by, yes, you got it,...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing Every time you make a sale, you have a new opportunity. This is the moment the customer loves you the most. The moment they were willing to part with their hard-earned money because of the value that you offered them. I wish this moment could last forever. Though it can’t,...
by Angie Ash, Executive Vice President On a quest to find out what holds millennials back from buying fine jewelry, I got some answers that may lend you a little insight. Recently, I went around our office and talked to the ladies of our mainly millennial staff, asking them questions about jewelry, what they like, and what they...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing "Amazon has retailers everywhere scared." That’s the first line in a recent YouTube video by CNBC. In it, they talk about the fall of retail giants like Circuit City and Toys R Us. Five years ago, if someone had said that Best Buy was closing its doors because of online...
by Ellen Fruchtman, President Marie Kondo and the KonMari method is still all the rage. If you haven’t read any of her books, the most famous being The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, or seen one of her Netflix shows, Tidying up with Marie Kondo, or heard about her at all, then you must be living under...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]by Shane O'Neill, Vice President There is a slow demise of some jewelry stores out there. Their sales and revenue begin to decay, their marketing efforts become less effective, and eventually, they become a shell of their former business or close altogether. These are the stores that in many cases, whether through a lack of understanding or...
by Angie Ash, Executive Vice President Open up a magazine, watch a few television commercials or banner ads, or read a few articles like this one or this one and you’ll quickly learn that showing diversity in advertising is at the forefront of everything we’re consuming these days. As someone who has friends gay and straight, black,...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing For a jeweler, checking your website is work. And most jewelers have computers for doing work. So, most of the time when jewelers check their websites, it’s on a computer. But is that how your customers view your website? Nope. Your Customers Find You On Their Phones Ok, it’s not literally all...