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Pamela Danziger

Luxury Marketing Expert and Author

Pamela Danziger

An internationally renowned expert on the psychology of consumers, Pamela Danziger plugs marketers and retailers into the collective mindset of the consumer. As the president of Unity Marketing, Danziger specializes in the ever-changing high-end marketplace, calling on her expert knowledge of consumer psychology, behavior, and the economy, as well as her in-depth research into the trends and patterns of the American shopper.

Shopping and Why We Love It. The recipient of the Harper's Bazaar 2007 Global Luxury Award, Danziger is the author of three ground-breaking books on the consumer-mindset. Her first book, Why People Buy Things They Don't Need, was called "a roadmap" for investors in the retail market by USA Today. Her next book, Let Them Eat Cake: Marketing Luxury to the Masses--As Well As the Classes, was the first research-based study of the 15 million truly affluent households that make up the leading edge of the new luxury market. She followed this with Shopping: Why We Love It and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer Experience, a book that explains the mindset of the shopper and seven concrete steps retailers can take in order to create an extraordinary shopping experience in their store. Her current project, The New Customer Service in the Internet Age, explodes the misconception that the "experience" of shopping over the internet does not exist.

A Trusted Voice on Luxury. Danziger has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS News Sunday Morning, CNNfn, Fox News, NPR's Marketplace, and CNN's In the Money. She is frequently called upon by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Women's Wear Daily, and many more for business and consumer commentary, research, and analysis. She has spoken to dozens of conference audiences, including National Retail Federation, Global Luxury Forum, and Luxury Interactive. She has also addressed corporate sales and advertisers' meetings for clients such as Diageo, Goldman Sachs, Cartier, and Disney Resorts.

In 1992, Danziger founded Unity Marketing, a boutique market research firm that combines market research studies with research into consumer psychology to create a holistic view, both economic and personal, of the luxury consumer.

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Pam customizes each presentation to the needs of the specific audience by using one of the following speech topics as a foundation and adding the latest research data from Unity Marketing's extensive database of consumer insight studies.  She aims to make each speech timely, relevant, and actionable for the particular audience.

Speech topics include:

Why People Buy Things They Don't Need--So You Can Sell More
American consumers spend $3 trillion buying discretionary and luxury products and services. In today's consumer-driven economy we spend proportionately less on basic necessities and more on things based upon emotion and desire. Danziger delves into the psychology of consumer spending on things they don't need. Learn how consumers use 14 different "justifiers" to give themselves permission to make emotional purchases. She provides new ideas about how to stack the consumer's emotional-buying equation in your favor to increase sales. By uncovering the interior emotional life of the consumer, Danziger delivers actionable ideas and recommendations so marketers and retailers can devise new marketing strategies, competitively position their products, and craft persuasive advertising messages.


The Coming Luxury Drought:  What Luxury Marketers Need to Know and What They Can Do about It
Pamela Danziger delivers the vital information every luxury marketer needs to know. Storm clouds have been brewing in the luxury market since the second half of 2007, coinciding with the mortgage crisis, decline in the dollar and rising gasoline prices. Luxury consumers spent 16% less on luxury in the second half of 2007 as compared with the first half. But this trend in reduced luxury spending is not just some temporary blip. There are other factors at work in the culture that signal a fundamental change in people's inclination and propensity to indulge in the luxury lifestyle. According to Danziger, luxury brands lost a 20% share of the total luxury market with the emergence of new luxury consumer personality--the Temperate Pragmatists--who live a "less is more" lifestyle and for whom luxury is just not all that important.


Meet the Young Affluents: The Ascent of the Young Affluents and What They Will Mean to the Future of Luxury Brands
Using her extensive research data, Danziger describes how the fresh and unexpected needs and desires of the young affluents--The Want-It-All Generation--is the most important trend that will impact the global luxury market over the next decade and beyond. According to Danziger, savvy marketers need to be poised to meet the demands of this unique new force in the luxury marketplace. She discusses the nine key trends that distinguish the young affluents from the more mature luxury consumers. These nine trends form the basis for a strategy to help luxury marketers understand and reach out to the young affluents who will be their primary consumers for the next decade and for years to come.


The Ten Things Every Marketer Needs to Know about the New Luxury Market
In retailing, the '80s was the decade of the mall and the '90s was the decade of the discounters. This first decade of 21st century is the decade of luxury, which is ushering in changes of paradigm-shifting proportions for marketers and retailers. According to Danziger, the gigantic Baby Boom generation (born 1946-1964) has reached the empty-nesting life stage, freeing up vast stores of discretionary spending as boomers indulge in the luxury lifestyle to which they have always aspired. In addition, the Generation X (1965-1977) cohort is rapidly reaching middle-age which corresponds to a rise in affluence and spending on luxury.

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