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Introducing the JRB Designer Jewelry Marketing Academy

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Ranking the digital competency of luxury brands -- report by LuxuryLab
Created by Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business professor of marketing, and a team of experts, the Digital IQ Index scores 109 luxury brands in 11 categories including fashion, beauty and skincare, watches, and automobiles. The study, the first and largest of its kind, measures brands on the effectiveness of their digital competence based on criteria including search engine optimization, brand translation, ability to leverage technology, and use of social media. “2009 represented a tipping point concerning the importance of digital competence in the luxury industry,” says Scott Galloway. “While

Trademark 101 for designers by Design*Sponge's biz ladies 09
Most designers are very careful about registering copyrights for their designs. At least most everyone KNOWS they should be very careful. But life gets in the way, you get busy and bogged down and sometimes the registration fee seems just a little too indulgent when you look at your cash flow.But trademarks are very different.  Here's some advice via the design*sponge blog from Amy J. Everhart,  founder of a Nashville, Tennessee, law firm to counsel clients in the creative industries, entrepren

Luxury Retailers Report Sales Increases
Read today in the New York Times: Of all the retailers hurt by the recession, no group has been pummeled as badly as luxury chains. For months, high-end stores have posted double-digit declines, even as other types of retailers have begun clawing their way toward sales gains.But new numbers released Thursday show that some of the nation’s upscale chains came back from the dead in the weeks before Halloween.After months of double-digit declines, Saks, the luxury department store chain, also posted a refreshing number: a 0.7 percent sales increase. The chain, a purveyor of $

Luxury Retailers Report Sales Increases
Read today in the New York Times: Of all the retailers hurt by the recession, no group has been pummeled as badly as luxury chains. For months, high-end stores have posted double-digit declines, even as other types of retailers have begun clawing their way toward sales gains.But new numbers released Thursday show that some of the nation’s upscale chains came back from the dead in the weeks before Halloween.After months of double-digit declines, Saks, the luxury department store chain, also posted a refreshing number: a 0.7 percent sales increase. The chain, a purveyor of $

Forrester Expecting Online Holiday Sales to Increase 8%
While overall retail sales are expected to remain flat or down slightly this holiday shopping season, Forrester Research predicts online retail sales in the U.S. will reach $44.7 billion. That’s an 8% increase over the 2008 holiday shopping season, reports MultichannelMerchant.com.Forrester defines the holiday shopping season as the months of November and December.“Despite the lingering effects of the recession, the online space remains the retail industry’s growth engine,” Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president/principal analyst for Forrester Research, said in a rele