A marketing strategy dedicated to amateurs or a definition of the relation between brands and amateurs in the luxury sector

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A marketing strategy for amateurs
Julie Norcia-Garnier
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A marketing strategy for
amateurs
Haute Couture
Julie NORCIA GARNIER
October 2014
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A marketing strategy for amateurs
Julie Norcia-Garnier
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Interviewed brands – 30 interviews

3. Love
Practice
AMATEUR
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A marketing strategy for amateurs
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3 pilars to define the amateurs
Know Share

4. Clubs
Schools
workshops
Co-creation
Love
Practice
AMATEUR
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A marketing strategy for amateurs
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Places to get to the amateurs
Know Share
Forums
Discussions
Boutiques
Blogs
Press
Catalogues
Exhibitions
References

5. How mature are luxury sectors with the amateurs?
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A marketing strategy for amateurs
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MATURE
MATURING
IMMATURE
WINE
SPIRITS
WATCH
MAKING
HIGH
JEWELRY
HAUTE
COUTURE
HOME
DESIGN
FASHION
JEWELRY
MENSWEAR
CHILDRENSWEAR
WOMENSWEAR
NICHE
PERFUMES
BRANDED
PERFUMES

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A marketing strategy for amateurs
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In details… Haute Couture
Maturity with regards to the amateurs
Love
• Clients passion for the
products and creation in
itself
• Passion practiced in
outfits’ “co-creation”
with the designer and/or
the studio, in a
confidential manner and
privately
Know
• Product knowledge coming
from social / cultural
background
• In case there is no
previous knowledge, a
freelance plays a
mediation role,
explaining each brands in
confidence
• Knowledge of context
adequate for product wear
• Products presentation
during Fashion Week or in
private presentation
• No specialized print but
extensive web research
and time dedicated to
field knowledge
• Easy-to-understand
market, as brands
proposing the product are
rare
Share
• Within the closed circle
of the 200 haute couture
clients
• Dedicated fitting space,
allowing necessary
discretion and self-segregation
Source: interviews, research Julie Norcia

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A marketing strategy for amateurs
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Opportunity for the brands
Strengths
• In-house workshops, respected
artisans
• Appropriate clientele access, with
financial capabilities to buy
bespoke /made to order, available for
workshop attendance
Weaknesses
• Instinctive suspicion from brands
towards internet or any new
consumption style
• Brands are slow to adapt to customers
at their rapid changing pace
Opportunities
• Satisfy the demand from luxury
clients that are looking for new
products, new experience
• Development of the experience luxury
Threats
• The amateurs are subversive in
essence, they tend to reverse the
established order and any new order
that the brands would try to set up
• The brands can influence the
judgement systems but they have to
subtly do it
Source: analysis Julie Norcia

8. Propose bespoke / made to order, value products composition,
link between products (collections, re-issue);
Singularize the price with promoting creativity
Control distribution, transform point of sales into
experience place, allow practice, and also segregate point of
sales depending on client kind
Transform sales force into amateurs, inform on point of sales
and online on products and use, use CRM to identity amateurs
and nurture them;
Develop practice with a school or workshops, use social
networks to make people dream, meet with amateurs in
exhibitions or fairs with a specific approach on products and
know how
Use advertising to dream with unattainable aesthetics yet
explained products
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A marketing strategy for amateurs
Julie Norcia-Garnier
Julie.norcia@gmail.com
Copyright © 2014
Marketing of the amateurs
Product
Price
Place
Sales
Communication
Advertising
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Source: interviews, research Julie Norcia