Jan 2024
Priorities, Myths and Realities of AI in Luxury Goods and Services
AI is here to stay. That is a fact. How the luxury industry, a business segment that has always stood for delivering the best of the best products, services, and client experiences chooses to use AI requires deep consideration. Luxury Institute recently conducted a qualitative su ... Show More
17 m
Sep 2023
Extraordinary Customer Experiences - A Series: Clienteling
In Chapter 8 of Luxury Institute's latest podcast series, Extraordinary Customer Experiences (ECEs), we discuss Clienteling: an essential element of any customer journey. Clienteling, if approached as a means to earn, create and nurture trust, activate referrals, and be an ethica ... Show More
26m 44s
Sep 2023
Extraordinary Customer Experiences: A Series - The Demise of the Luxury Department Store Experience
In Chapter 7 of Luxury Institute's latest podcast series, Extraordinary Customer Experiences (ECEs), we discuss the recent headlines featuring “luxury” department stores: Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. When was the last time you heard a story of an extraordinary ... Show More
27m 9s
Sep 2021
How Is Luxury Customer Service Evolving? | Transforming Luxury
<p>In recent decades, the race to attract and retain customers saw dizzying amounts of money spent on clienteling — the industry term for building a 1 on 1 relationship with customers. Today, for major players of scale with the resources to invest in it, successfully digitising p ... Show More
36m 53s
Sep 2021
How Is Luxury Customer Service Evolving? | Transforming Luxury
In recent decades, the race to attract and retain customers saw dizzying amounts of money spent on clienteling — the industry term for building a 1 on 1 relationship with customers. Today, for major players of scale with the resources to invest in it, successfully digitising pers ... Show More
36m 54s
Nov 2023
52. Diana Jakubcova on: Creating A Premium Client Experience
Think your marketing and branding are the key to six-figure success? The online world can often blur the lines of what it takes to scale, but I’m going to let you know the true game-changer: a premium client experience. And in this episode, I sit down with Diana Jakubcova, to div ... Show More
30m 52s
Nov 2023
E 214 Communicate Like a Luxury Brand For Thought Leadership, Persuasive Communication Style, and Visibility
<p>In this episode, Laura is excited to introduce you to Carlo Pignataro, whose uber cool job is to help companies & individuals add a touch of luxury and elegance to their business so they can stay out of price wars and build emotional links with their clients/stakeholders. ... Show More
46m 41s
Nov 2019
To Truly Delight Customers, You Need Aesthetic Intelligence
Pauline Brown, former chairman of North America for the luxury goods company LVMH, argues that in additional to traditional and emotional intelligence, great leaders also need to develop what she calls aesthetic intelligence. This means knowing what good taste is and thinking abo ... Show More
25m 55s
The biggest customer experience opportunity, pandemic, or not, is to understand and embrace the skills that support the blending of digital and emotional intelligence. To optimize their digital strategy brands must embrace the fact that they will need to master three critical skills: personal data expertise, AI expertise, and emotional intelligence expertise ... Show More
<p dir="ltr">In the noisy world of digital marketing, what can catapult a brand to "genius" status?</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Suzanne Schwartz, Senior Director Analyst in the Gartner for Marketing Leaders practice, delves into the findings of our annual Genius Br ... Show More