by Angie Ash, EVP Last week, I had a very engaging conversation with a UCLA grad student researching, you guessed it and no pun intended, an emerging engagement ring brand. The new brand, which had to be kept from me, was considering an online storefront with a brick-and-mortar showroom. Emily asked me some great questions and we discussed...
by Angie Ash, EVP I have great news - my daughter is officially engaged! My future son in law asked for our blessing to marry Meredith about a month ago, and Matt and I both loved that he followed this tradition of sorts. Within the conversation, I mentioned that I was in the jewelry business and told...
Seems like every retailer wants the same things consistently and, no doubt, they’re great things and smart things to strive for. Better bridal business. Repeat customers. Higher average sales. More traffic. But when it comes to putting those wants into tangibles, sometimes the obstacles to success begin at store level basics. Better Bridal Business. Every weekend...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing When the Apple Watch was unveiled, any retail jeweler selling watches had to have taken notice. Does this mean something or nothing? However, it would have been easy to overlook how this new frontier could have affected the rest of their jewelry business. Smart jewelry is here and its presence is...
by Charles Pobee-Mensah, Director of Digital Marketing Amazon is getting scary. They’ve disrupted some brick and mortars and decimated others. So when news broke that they might be starting to encroach on the jewelry industry with its own line, the natural reaction is to think about how to protect your business. Could selling online be the way...
by Ellen Fruchtman, President In advertising and marketing, we’re on a constant trajectory - to find the most cost-efficient places our clients can communicate their message to people who have a propensity to buy fine jewelry. In the beginning days of my career, that was a relatively easy task. You took a road (or two) and you...
by Ellen Fruchtman, President This is not an article about digital. Stay with me. There are other things to talk about in the world of marketing. Because even digital can’t take the place of little things. The little things retailers forget to do. And the little things that count. Because the little things matter. And, today, more...
by Angie Ash, Executive Vice President Marketing Campaigns are like Ice Cream Flavors. At Fruchtman, we’re in the midst of testing out the capabilities our project management software offers. We decided one of the tests should be fun, because who really looks forward to testing out software capabilities, right? Someone on our team threw out the idea of...
by Ellen Fruchtman, President According to womangettingmarried.com, November and December are by far the biggest months for engagement ring sales, representing approximately 22%. With men spending an average (according to the study) of 3.5 months searching for the right ring, your engagement ring customers are about to enter (if not already there) what we call the “bridal...
