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Competitive Marketing Strategies of the Digital Era

Strategy Driven

Experiment with new media formats, take a closer insight into changing purchase patterns, and brace yourself to make some digital noise. In the 21st century, social media forums are a lot more than entertainment tools. Start building communities on social media using the ‘native group’ features. Build Communities.

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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. How does New York’s fashion industry continually pull off Fashion Week year after year? They make modifications to dresses in real time under enormous deadline pressures.

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5 Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes

Harvard Business Review

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. Retailers and manufacturers are rushing out new products to keep pace with the leaders of fast fashion such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, which launch new fashions every week or so.

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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

Luxury brand Burberry maintains microsites where customers share snapshots of themselves in their own Burberry coats, and streams exclusive fashion shows for younger users of its mobile app. If brands don’t create a social media presence themselves, customers will create one for them. Add value to the consumer.

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Retail Revolution: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Harvard Business Review

Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. While GILT and its rivals sell across verticals (apparel, home, travel, kids, local), OKL deals in just one big one: home. Talk about the democratization of high fashion.

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Business Model Innovation is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

Harvard Business Review

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

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How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business Review

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. The fashion industry is no stranger to fast cycles of learning. From this seemingly simple data, the team has been able to uncover which trends change with the seasons and which fashions are going out of style.