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1. Premium Consumer Goods & Luxury Retail: Happy makes Money (episode #131) Eric Malka 1:09:09

Perception changes everything.

Think about many of the chores your customers endure in their lives. Or you do personally. The perception of a chore is not positive, right?

Take shaving – dragging a sharp metal object across your face every morning to meet societal norms…sometimes even drawing blood. Ouch. Literally.

So how do you turn something like that into a luxury experience? According to my latest guest, that is ‘the power of storytelling in branding.’

To hear the story behind that lesson, along with more lesson-filled stories, I talked to Eric Malka, CEO and Founder, Strategic Brand Investments [https://www.strategicbrandinvestments.com/], and author of On The Razor’s Edge: The story of The Art of Shaving [https://www.strategicbrandinvestments.com/projects-1].

Malka was the co-founder and CEO of The Art of Shaving and sold it to Procter & Gamble. He currently advises and coaches seven entrepreneurs and founders through Strategic Brand Investments. He has invested in more than half of their companies.

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Key lessons (backed by critical case studies) from what he made:

• The power of storytelling in branding 
• Truth in marketing matters now more than ever
• Word-of-mouth helps you find your best customers
• Actionable takeaways from the people he made it with
• Greatness in the detail
• Sometimes firing someone is doing them a favor
• Every brand should have a battle cry

Discussed in this episode

AI Guild [https://join.meclabsai.com/]

Authentic Brand Storytelling: Embed creative within your business model (podcast episode #105) [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/authentic]

“Authenticity” vs. “Professionalism”: Should you be your authentic self in your brand’s content and marketing? Or must you adhere to certain strictures considered “professional” in your industry? [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/authenticity]

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