Mark Simmons

Vice President of ecommerce & Digital
Design Within Reach

Mark Simmons is the Vice President of Marketing at Design Within Reach, the leading modern design brand in North America. For the last two years, he has led the re-launch of the DWR brand, building loyal DWR fans and nurturing their life-long love affair with modern design. In his prior stint at DWR, he led the eCommerce group from startup through IPO.

Prior to DWR, Simmons helped launch the bicycle start-up, PUBLIC Bikes, and video game start-up, Simraceway. As any early evangelist of social media, Simmons led the marketing team at Six Apart (now SAY Media), a leading blogging services business.

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Day 1

Saturday, January 10th, 2015

14:10 Panel Discussion: Utilizing Creative Options On Instagram To Engage With Consumers While Attaining Key Insights

Instagram has become more of a social tool to display images of your luxury brand—it’s now an essential tool for your marketing campaigns. You’re able to surprise and delight your most loyal consumers, and add in an education element by displaying the product in a unique way. The experts on this panel present various ways to use Instagram by:
• Creating Instagram-only marketing campaigns
o Image filled announcements
o Coupon offers or loyalty offers for followers
o Flipbooks and insta-videos to show product
• Building a customer service component: using Instagram Direct to answer consumers’ questions on how to use a product
• Measuring likes and comments to add popular products for merchandising
• Qualitative analysis: interacting with consumers to gather customer sentiment