Lilly Pulitzer is a high-end women's and girls' fashion line known for its preppy styles. It has collaborated with Target to create a more affordable line called Lilly for Target, with prices ranging from $2-150. The target audience includes women and young girls ages 5-54 who enjoy travel, shopping, and preppy styles. The campaign will promote the line through social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and blogs to drive traffic and increase followers. Success will be measured by engagement metrics like retweets, shares, and followers as well as website traffic. The monthly budget is $1,000 to cover social media promotion and unexpected costs.
2. What is Lilly Pulitzer?
High-end Women and
Girl’s Fashion line
Started in 1959
Sells accessories and
clothing
Clothing prices range
from $88-$328
Style took off when
Jackie Kennedy was
found wearing a Lilly
dress on the beach
3. Lilly For Target
Collaboration of
Target and Lilly
Pulitzer sold at Target
250 pieces
Prices range from $2-
$150
Girl’s and Women's
clothing, beauty
accessories, and
home accessories
4. Target Audience
Women and young
girls ages 5-54
Women who love to
travel, shop, and are
extremely preppy
5. Meet Ashley
Ashley is 6 years old
and loves to match
with her mom. You
can find her playing
with barbies after
kindergarten class
and going shopping
on the weekends with
her mom in Lilly
Pulitzer and Target.
6. Meet Alyssa
Alyssa is 36 years old
and works at an
advertising agency during
the day. She loves to look
nice but likes to buy
things on a bargain. She
enjoys spending time with
her family, dining with her
husband, and shopping
with Ashley on the
weekends.
7. Meet Shelly
Shelly is 68 years old and
is retired from her job as
a middle school teacher.
She loves to spend time
with her husband down in
Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida, on relaxing
vacations and meeting
Alyssa, her daughter, for
dinner and shopping. She
also loves to spoil Ashley
with matching Lilly
dresses.
8. Social Media Influence
Active on Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, the Lilly
Pulitzer website, and Lilly
Pulitzer Fashion Blog: The
Juice Stand
Post in the AM and PM
Posts about spoiler alerts on
the collections
#LillyForTarget
Social media will be mixed so
nothing is posted twice on
different platforms, makes
consumers follow every social
media platform
9. Rate of Success
Success will be based
off of:
Retweets on Twitter
Shares on Facebook
Followers on all social
media platforms
Page views on social
media platforms, web
pages and blog views
10. Budget for Lilly for Target
Budget will be fairly
small
$1,000 a month
Big enough to support
social media blasts and
have enough extra
incase something
happens along the way
in the campaign
Editor's Notes
This is the right age because not only will young girls want to buy the Lilly dresses in the line, but there will be little girls clothes and accessories for the home and travel. This would interest women who are older who want to buy clothes for their daughters and home goods for their house.
For social media, I would be active on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, the Lilly Pulitzer website, and the Lilly Pulitzer Fashion Blog: The Juice Stand. For Facebook, I would be creating posts launching the new dresses and accessories and vary the posts daily. I would post in the morning and at night since that seems to be the most popular time for activity on Facebook. Many women will be looking at this post so I would mix up the posts from guessing what is in the collections to spoiler alerts on the collection from little girl's to women's clothing. The same strategy will be used for Twitter and Instagram but I would change the wording and pictures of the clothes and accessories. This will create the interest to follow both social media platforms since the same pictures will not be posted. The same articles of clothing and accessories will be, just different shots of the items. I would keep the #LillyForTarget that is going on, but I would encourage more people to use it to spread the word and gain more attention to the new collection. Instagram will have a focus more on the countdown to the launch of the collection, to get people excited about Lilly for Target. I think the Lilly Pulitzer website should have some marketing in this new collection. I would have a tab in their home page to link to the look-book for the Target collection and to explain what work was behind this to make the collaboration successful and fun. This way, Lilly fans will be interested in the Lilly for Target collection and the consumers who are interested in the Lilly for Target will get a look at the actual Lilly Pulitzer clothing. Lastly, the blog for Lilly Pulitzer needs to be positive about the new collection and turn the consumers who dislike the idea of the collaboration, to be a lover of it. A blog can be very influential, and this is where Lilly Pulitzer needs to step up and help market the Target collaboration, the same way that it should be on their website. The posts will start in January and will build with more activity on the accounts as the launch date, April 19th, arrives. This will excite the consumers and get them more involved with the launch of the new collection.
I will rate the success based on the amount of likes, retweets, followers and pages views we received on all of the social media platforms, web pages, and blog views. The goal of the campaign is to grow awareness about the Lilly Pulitzer brand in general and awareness for the collaboration with Target and with that, hopefully increase revenue across Lilly Pulitzer as a corporate company. That is what I hope to accomplish.
As for the budget, seeing as most of it is through social media, I won't be spending much. I want the awareness to come from Lilly Pulitzer lovers and the consumers of Target. Target has a huge fan base and so does Lilly Pulitzer. Between all of the social media blasts and awareness coming from the website and blog, I think there will be a big following for the new collection.