6 Successful Branding Techniques Executed By Drunk Elephant Skincare

Every week we will take a deep dive into a business and share with you some of their marketing & business strategies that helped these businesses scale.

In Episode 29, we dissect Drunk Elephant’s business & marketing strategy – Launched in 2013 by Tiffany Masterson disrupted an overly competitive skincare market through her clever branding & marketing tactics. We discuss everything from packaging design, creating multi-step guides, using hashtags properly and much more to help you understand how this brand grew tremendously such that they sold to Shiesido in 2019 for $845 million.

Timestamps:

00:40 Intro to Drunk Elephant
3:15 Create a multi-step plan to help sell product combos. Drunk Elephant creates routine guides that help the customer with their skincare regime by providing different product types for solving the same problem but are more impactful when combined together based on their instructions.
5:29 Using vibrant colors when packaging your products & other brand assets.
7:15 Focus on your competitive advantage
10:45 Leverage The Power of Hashtags. Customers post their experience using Drunk Elephant products & use #BareWithUs hashtag so that Drunk Elephant sees that these users are posting about their product. Drunk Elephant takes some of these features and posts them on their page.
12:59 Keep it simple stupid (KISS). Drunk Elephant uses lingo that makes their skincare products fun and easy to use.
18:39 Use fun animated videos to educate your consumer. Drunk Elephant use animated characters and storyline to create short videos that help the consumer understand how the product is used. In this excerpt, we share how you can outsource this help at an affordable rate to help you go this route.

ABOUT MATT SKOPAK:

An adventure and fitness addict with a passion for entrepreneurship and numbers. Lead Investor in Sweetberry Bowls and CFO of Sugar & Kush CBD.  Rutgers MBA 2020 in Entrepreneurship & Accounting

ABOUT SEAN AZARI:

In 2015, Sean launched a creative ad agency called Breakthrough Social specializing in content creation & distribution, marketing campaigns, & paid media that helped brands build awareness and drive sales. Prior to starting his agency, Sean worked in finance for 4 years as an Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse & studied Mathematics & Statistics at Rutgers University.

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