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Luxury Institute: From Cookie-Centric to Emotionally Intelligent Digital Luxury Marketing
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
NEW YORK, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury really is different. Luxury and premium brands cater to the most affluent, educated, and sophisticated consumers. The luxury goods and services that affluent, wealthy, and uber-wealthy consumers buy are highly considered, high-value, high-investment, and high-emotion purchases such as fashion, watches, jewelry, vehicles, high-end appliances, homes, travel, private jet charters and financial services, etc...
Most luxury brands have allowed third-party cookies to take over their unique, humanistic digital customer experiences, annoying consumers as soon as they land on the brand website, making them waste precious time to preserve their privacy, and threatening to withhold access if they don't agree to onerous tracking terms. Due to these actions, customers may not feel cared for, or protected by the brands. These interactions are devoid of the beauty, humanity, and creativity that luxury brands are known to design throughout their rich histories. Self-interested digital experts who advise brands will try to convince luxury brand leaders that, in the Digital Age, this is the way forward. Brands do need to comply with all legal and privacy regulations, but what brands do digitally to engage and build human relationships with luxury customers, and, most importantly, how they do it, should be a creative and emotionally intelligent choice.
True luxury brands need to highly differentiate by delivering unique and extraordinary experiences that make customers, and associates, feel special, develop deep trust, exchange fair value, and build long-term relationships. The customer lifetime value potential is far too high to leave to today's blunt digital marketing practices. Below, Luxury Institute outlines 8 recommendations for brands to test and optimize over time to build trust and find an intelligent path towards respectful, symmetrical customer data relationships. As third-party cookies fade, and privacy regulations emerge, brands can use these recommendations to evolve their practices to get much closer to prospects and customers and achieve trustworthy, mutually profitable relationships over time.
1. Eliminate the impersonal online gatekeepingEvery luxury brand begins the
online experience by presenting onerous, hard to understand, tracking
terms as the greeting. Instead, brands should welcome customers to the
site as dignified, valued human beings. The first thing luxury brands can
do is gently and respectfully inquire about the reason for the visit, to
try to optimize it for the customer. Next, brands can ask the customer if
they would like to navigate on their own, would like to navigate with a
human on live chat, or engage in livestream shopping with an expert
associate. By providing a choice, brands can gauge how willing consumers
are to engage, and how much curation they require. Be ready to execute on
their choice. If the choice is human-to-human engagement, ensure that
customers are introduced to a high-performance, emotionally intelligent
associate. Many brands have been led to believe they are saving money by
fully automating the online experience. The dismally low conversion
rates, and unacceptably high abandon rates, prove otherwise.
2. If you must for now, intelligently ask the customer for consent to
trackAfter confirming the reason for the visit and how she will engage on
the site (self-serve or with a curator), the brand can respectfully ask
her for consent to track the experience to best personalize for the
customer. Communicate positive policies such as "Our brand will never
sell or share your data" and "your data will be encrypted." Then, present
the legally compliant, customer value generating reasons for tracking in
a simple and kind way. Humanistic and trust-building gestures, along with
legal protections, will likely inspire many to consent. Eventually all
data sharing will be conducted without tracking as technology evolves.
3. Empower customers to take control of their dataIf customers agree to be
tracked, whether they buy, or not, offer to create a complimentary
personal data vault, which they completely control. Build it with the
data customers volunteer along with legally gathered first-party data.
Over time, as trust is earned, customers will share their favorite
products, brands, transactions, and other insights. In return, identify
helpful insights about the customer that enhance their lives, and share
actionable valuable insights about cohorts that they will also find
valuable.
4. Offer to sign an NDA with the customerToday, all brands have cybersecure,
encrypted data vaults. True luxury brands never sell or share customer
data. Luxury brands can offer to sign a brief, simple, non-disclosure
agreement with each customer. This will guarantee to the customer that
when they share their precious data, they are assured of secrecy beyond
privacy regulations. With this above-and-beyond gesture, the brand will
likely earn the right to far more relevant data, faster.
5. Guarantee the customer that you will not buy third-party dataStudies show
that third-party data is notoriously unreliable, incomplete, and expires
quickly. It is collected via secretive, deceptive, unethical, sometimes
illegal, means. Customers know that and are resentful of having their
data sold by data brokers. Third-party data is a major cost to a brand,
too. Independent studies show that third-party data delivers very little
in conversion lift. It is most often used for ad targeting efforts that
are reduced by high commissions, are mostly served up to
bots/click-farms/unethical websites or are clicked on by people who were
going to buy anyway. When brands reassure intelligent and sensitive
affluent customers that they are willing to protect, enhance, and promote
their best data interests, customers will be willing to share more
relevant data over time.
6. Ask the customer to share their intent to buy when the time is right for
themWhen customers feel a need or desire to buy, they often also have an
idea which trusted brands they want to consider. Ask customers to join a
"real-time purchase intent service" so they can signal to the brand when
they are interested in shopping or buying an item via their preferred
communication channel. Reward them for doing so with special benefits
such as invitations to exclusive events. Respond accordingly in real-time
while respecting their preferences.
7. Don't spam the customer into unsubscribingBrands consider it a great
victory when the customer agrees to provide their email address or phone
number. Marketers often assume that this is tacit customer consent to go
on a marketing spamming spree. Customers immediately delete the email or
text, ignore it, resent the brand, or unsubscribe. Instead, ask the
customer what means of communication they prefer, how often, and under
what circumstances. Provide realistic, relevant options they can select
for future communication. And, on an exceptional basis, ask the customer
if they can be contacted when the brand feels they have a compelling
offer for them. Never abuse the trust.
8. Ask the customer to license their data with complete privacy for fair
value rewardsCustomers are becoming fully aware that they fully
own/co-own, all the data they create, online and offline. The greatest
repositories of data collected online about individuals are search,
retail, and social platforms such as Instagram and Google. Once some, or
all, of the trust-earning recommendations above have been optimally
tested and evaluated, respectfully ask customers to share their
copyright-protected data from digital platforms using encrypted, secure
technology. Test and learn the best way to ask and follow all privacy
regulations. Offer fair value rewards and benefits for the use of the
data, such as a gift card, or a complimentary room night. Accessing rich,
relevant descriptive and predictive data from customers is a breakthrough
innovation and Luxury Institute's Advanced Personalization Xchange (APX)
is leading the luxury and premium industry. This approach will become the
norm in the next 2-years as strict privacy legislation is enacted and
third-party cookies disappear.
Over the next decade, instead of the customer data traveling to the algorithms, the algorithms will come to the data in the customer's encrypted personal data vault. The U.S. government has already made zero trust architecture the security tech standard for the 2020s, guaranteeing it will happen. Luxury brands must steadily prepare for the Web 3.0 revolution that will empower the full decentralization of personal data, where individuals will store all their data (medical, financial, lifestyle consumption) in a fully encrypted, zero trust architecture, personal data store. Brands that have earned trust throughout will receive consent to access the insights, within the customer's safe space, in real-time, to deliver true personalization. Brands that have failed to gain trust with affluent consumers will be denied access.
Luxury Institute believes that many affluent consumers will find the recommendations above deeply trustworthy in an imperfect world. Some of the steps recommended, such as the NDA, are similar to ways affluents conduct respectful B2B interactions. The recommendations are designed to deliver deep trust while achieving personalization. For luxury brands, whose customer experiences and value propositions can deliver massive customer lifetime values, it is imperative to build human, trusted, emotionally intelligent customer relationships now by testing and learning; by taking intelligent risks. Data is the fuel of the digital age. How brands access and use that precious human fuel, legally, ethically, creatively, and earning trust every little step of the way, will determine the luxury winners and losers in the 2020s.
About Luxury Institute
Luxury Institute is the world's most trusted research, training, and elite business solutions partner for luxury and premium goods and services brands. With the largest global network of luxury executives and experts, Luxury Institute has the ability to provide its clients with high-performance, leading-edge solutions developed by the best, most successful minds in the industry. Over the last 19 years, Luxury Institute has served over 1,100 luxury and premium goods and services brands. Luxury Institute has conducted more quantitative and qualitative research with affluent, wealthy and uber-wealthy consumers than any other entity. This knowledge has led to the development of its scientifically proven high-performance, emotional intelligence-based education system, Luxcelerate, that dramatically improves brand culture and financial performance. Luxury Institute has also innovated the Advanced Personalization Xchange (APX), powered by DataLucent, to empower affluent consumers to license their digital platform data to premium and luxury brands they trust legally, securely and privately in exchange for fair value rewards and benefits.
To learn more about Luxury Institute, please contact us at LuxuryInstitute.com
Contact: Milton Pedraza - mpedraza@luxuryinstitute.com
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