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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

That is significantly higher than what companies typically spend on sales and marketing. Take department store Kohl’s, last year its marketing costs were only 4.9% A survey by Gartner found the average marketing spend as a percentage of a company’s revenue was 6.4% of revenue.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

5:32] E-commerce and digital marketing obviously but it’s watchable and changeable, and movable and it can be with you the rest of your life that that led us to a whole design philosophy that now. [5:42] We don’t have any wholesale.