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Hi there, Iβm Richard, and welcome to Beauty Business Journal, a community for entrepreneurs, indie founders, marketers, and industry professionals. Every week I address reader questions about marketing, digital, growth, strategy, and anything else thatβs stressing you out in your…
Continue readingTikTok started it: short form video content that entices users with an irresistibly digestible and entertaining way to lose themselves in scroll time. Then Facebook played copycat, and invented Reels β and now Reels take up 20% of time spent…
Continue readingIn the first of this two-parter I wrote about creators taking a directive role in their own economy, and about the increased consumer appetite for creative content in general; as well as live shopping and NFTs. You can read that…
Continue readingIf youβre anything like me, youβre still trying to get your head around whatβs happened over the last couple of years. To try and make sense of a small piece of the pandemic chaos, Iβve laid out how beauty commerce…
Continue readingAs tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz of Marker pointed out, DTC is a solid model when costs are kept low. Cosmetics brands that used the model to scale fast and reach cult status include The Ordinary, Charlotte Tilbury, and Fenty Beauty…
Continue readingBeauty brand marketing is creative, multi-faceted, requires innovation and a curious mind. But itβs also, at the end of the day, about selling products. Thatβs the underlying question in every brand discovery meeting: while Iβm asking questions about brand culture…
Continue readingEmojis: 128×128 pixel pictures that made grown-ups groan, βyoung people just donβt know how to write anymore.β But even older generations have largely embraced the use of emojis in messaging apps today; and for Gen Z, theyβre definitely not a…
Continue readingIt goes without saying that 2020 and 2021 have truly changed the game and generated an ecommerce momentum for brands like never before. Consumers have modified not only the way they purchase but also how they think and behave. Although…
Continue readingOne of my key predictions for 2022 is that big brands will continue to focus their investments on tech. Theyβll partner with tech firms to increase the functionality of their offerings, for both physical and digital products and services. And…
Continue readingTikTok started out as a platform for video memes, offering its users easy, low-stakes production and quick engagement. But the app has loftier goals, and itβs making moves to come into its own as a key route for brands to…
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