The Beauty Launch Pod Show shares insights, know-how and advice from industry experts on how to develop a successful beauty business.
Janet interviews beauty brands, retailers and experts across the beauty industry. She delves into the details of how changing trends have influenced the way in which people shop and discusses what it takes to make an impact in this sector.
In this podcast we cover marketing, product development and retail as well as how mindset, positive psychology and your health and fitness are critically important to building a successful business. We aim to educate, inspire, and showcase people who are doing incredible things across the industry.
Through sharing experiences and stories of how people go about launching their beauty brands and how retailers are adapting to accommodate the changes in the marketplace, we can help those on a similar path make things happen.
In this second episode Janet interviews Sue Phillips from Scenterprises.
Sue is an internationally recognized fragrance expert, born in South Africa, she built her career working for blue-chip companies Elizabeth Arden, Lancôme, Tiffany & co and consulting for Avon, Burberry, Diane Von Furstenberg before launching Scenterprises her bespoke, fragrance business.
Sue has won many awards for developing fragrances, and has regularly been featured on television and in the press. She is an inspirational, motivational speaker and an expert witness who advises on fragrances in legal disputes.
Through Scenterprises she works with individuals and celebrities to create bespoke fragrances that form part of your unique identity and with companies to develop fragrances that are a formidable marketing and branding tool.
Listen in as she shares
* How she went from being an actress and singer to launching Scenterprises, a business that focuses on developing bespoke and personalized fragrances and experiences for people.
* How the trends across retail now are ‘experiential, Interactive, educational, entertaining’ events which is what her business focuses on under the umbrella of Scentertainment.
* How her customers include anyone who wants to create a bespoke fragrance or experience from individuals, companies including Google, American Express to celebrities and hotels.
* How she develops bespoke fragrances for customers online through taking her customers through a fragrance journey.
* How our sense of smell is the most powerful of our scents because it connects memory and emotion and it triggers amazing reactions, and is being used by the Alzheimer’s society.
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Listen in as she shares
* How they are a ‘being well’ or ‘wellbeing’ brand and as 80% of tourism is now linked to ‘wellbeing’ this provides a great opportunity for the brand and has offered an incredible area of growth, along with spas and hotels.
* How she believes we are here to serve a purpose which is why she founded the Made for Life Foundation, to help people going through cancer.
* How they still hand-blend all their products in Cornwall by infusing botanicals into olive oils and jojoba to form the base of their products.
* Packaging is a key part of their ethos ‘do no harm’. they use recycled glass for their jars, limit their use of plastic and use recycled card for their packaging.
* The importance of understanding the marketplace, trends, doing customer research groups and analysing what your competitors are doing before deciding to launch a new product.
* Why you should enter your beauty brand into awards.
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As a beauty and wellness consultancy, we develop a comprehensive strategy for your business by understanding your vision (and the marketplace) and then delving into the details to create order and structure neatly packaged up to deliver you commercial results. We design brand identities and visual elements, manage your product development, build your go-to-market strategies to help you to engage with your ideal customers.
We are proud to support our clients from different regions of the world – from Saudi Arabia, to Dubai, Sri Lanka, Africa, Australia, the US, Canada, Europe and the UK – from entrepreneurs, to multi-award-winning beauty and wellness brands, retailers, investors, distributors, embassies and trade bodies. And we work with you across the retail sector, and the professional sector, including the hair care market, professional nail care market, spas, salons, hotels and the aesthetics market – here’s a snapshot.
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