Now that the New Year has arrived, you probably want to establish better habits for planning, managing, and executing your jewelry marketing, including your social media channels. Joy Joya YouTube channel subscriber Kenny recently asked if I could recommend some best practices and tools for improving and streamlining a social...
A hot-of-the-presses report titled "Adobe Analytics Holiday Forecast 2020" predicts that 42% of shopping will be done from smartphones this holiday season. Furthermore, the report states that "smartphone shopping dollars will grow by 55% YoY this season" and that "$28.1B more will be spent on smartphones this year". If your jewelry...
Who doesn't like free stuff? I can guarantee that your customers would surely appreciate it. In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we'd like to celebrate the spirit of giving. When was the last time you gave back to your followers and customers as a way of showing your appreciation?...
In branding and marketing, color is so important because it can trigger powerful emotions and help solidify memories. When used strategically and with great care, color can also encourage certain behaviors; for example, red can captivate someone's attention, but it can also incite a negative reaction. In this blog post,...
Developed by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in the early 1900s, the Pareto principle, or "the 80-20 rule", states that approximately 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes or efforts. While observing land-ownership patterns in Italy, Pareto noticed that only about 20% of the population - the most...
You may have heard the phrase "You have to spend money to make money", and that definitely applies to jewelry brands that want to increase market share and remain competitive in their respective categories. How much should you be spending on marketing your jewelry brand every year, and how should...
After reading a recent article from Business of Fashion titled "Now’s the Time for Brand Founders to Speak Up. Here’s How.", we were inspired to consider how jewelry founders can be the faces of their brands. Especially this year, when consumers are craving personal and meaningful relationships with the businesses...
Have you heard the recent announcement from Instagram about the platform’s new feature called Instagram Checkout? Different from Shopping on Instagram - which allows businesses to add product tags that provide more information and a link to purchase - Checkout allows users to make a purchase without leaving the Instagram...
In Episode #24 of the Joy Joya Jewelry Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Kat McCoy, the founder of Best Kept, which is a Brooklyn-based concierge service that makes it easy for anyone to buy jewelry as a gift. Kat curates jewelry pieces based on a customized analysis of individual tastes, personality, and...
I recently read an article in JCK about Pandora’s efforts to reinvent itself after an “unsatisfactory” 2018. Pandora executives admit the brand has high brand awareness but lacks brand identity. This got me thinking about the difference between brand awareness and identity and why it matters to jewelry brands. In Pandora’s...
