As a luxury real estate marketing
professional if you are thinking of co-marketing with another company,
organization or individual be sure to pick partners that have the same
demographics and psychographics (values, attitudes, interests and
lifestyles). Otherwise, you will dilute your marketing message, and
also confound and confuse your target market. Here is an example of how
two well-known brands created a PR fiasco because they did not follow
this important branding principle.
In an effort to attract foot traffic to
its flagship store in on Madison Avenue, Barney’s, the luxury retail
store, has partnered with Disney to promote high fashion. There could
not be a better example of a co-marketing mismatch both in the
demographics and psycho graphics of their target market.
Disney morphed the bodies of their
iconic female characters into size 0 models wearing designer clothes in
their Electric Holiday Moving Art exhibit. Minnie Mouse is now
elongated like a runway model. (See pictures). What were they thinking?
The skinny Minnie and other Disney characters such as Daisy Duck have infuriated some of the public. Change.org is raising awareness to the negative effects of shrinking Minnie and Daisy. Here is what they shared:
According to sources cited on the non-profit National Association of Anorexia and Associated Eating Disorders website:Here is the statement released jointly by Barney’s and Disney:
•47% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures.
• 69% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape.
• 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner.
• 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat.
To this, Change.org replied, ““They have deliberately ignored previously released information clearly stating this promotion is a three-minute ‘moving art’ video featuring traditional Minnie Mouse in a dreamlike sequence set in Paris where she briefly walks the runway as a model and then happily awakens as her normal self wearing the very same designer dress from the fashion show.”
What do you think about this?Girls have enough pressure to be thin; now the beloved Disney mouse of their childhood has to add to the message that the only good body is a tall, size 0 body? Enough already. Let’s give girls a chance to celebrate the actual bodies they have instead hating them for not fitting into a Lanvin dress. Then maybe enough girls will get together and demand dresses that look good on their actual, non-digitally altered bodies and designers will just have to become talented enough to design a dress that looks good on them.”
Avoid PR debacles like this at all costs. Be sure to pick your strategic partners wisely. Make sure you are aiming for the same target market both from a demographic and psycho graphic standpoint.
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