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  • Roundtable — episode 139
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    Bridge Mentorship: How to Become Funding Ready

    Celebrating the end of another successful year with the Bridge Mentorship program in partnership with True Beauty Ventures, Nader Naeymi-Rad,...
  • Roundtable — episode 137
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    Building Beauty Campaigns That Captivate

    In today’s crowded digital landscape, capturing a beauty shopper's attention requires more than just a catchy hashtag or a vibey Instagram...
  • Roundtable — episode 136
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    TikTok Shop

    TikTok Shop is revolutionizing the way beauty brands engage with customers, create viral moments and drive sales. Join Nader Naeymi-Rad and...
  • Roundtable — episode 135
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    Beauty, Wellness & Beyond

    What do eyelashes, scalp care, and mushrooms have in common? They are just some the beauty-adjacent categories tapping into whitespace and...
  • Roundtable — episode 134
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    Succeeding in Mass & Prestige Retail

    Securing placement in retailers with hundreds—or even thousands—of doors can be a game-changer for any brand. However, managing partnerships...
  • Roundtable — episode 133
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    Dealmaker Summit + Uplink Expo: Insights and Top Takeaways

    Join Nader Naeymi-Rad and Beauty Independent's editorial team as they distill key insights about topics like the State of Dealmaking, retail,...
  • Roundtable — episode 132
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    Bringing Brands Stateside

    Achieving success in your home market is hard enough, but growing internationally comes with a landslide of other challenges to work through....
  • Roundtable — episode 131
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    Bridge Mentorship: How to Become Funding Ready

    On the fifth edition of the Bridge Mentorship program in partnership with True Beauty Ventures, Nader Naeymi-Rad, True Beauty Ventures...
  • Roundtable — episode 130
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    SPF & Self Tanning

    While self-tanning and SPF products are not new—a flood of upstarts are making noise, innovating the way (and frequency) customers are using...
  • Roundtable — episode 129
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    Beauty Buyers

    Retail partnerships are key to scaling but can be complicated to navigate for big and small brands alike. Buyers shed light on their perspective...
  • Firsthand — episode 124
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q4 ‘23

    Join us for our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the industry....
  • Roundtable — episode 116
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    Leading Celebrity Backed Brands

    From Instagram-famous influencers, to models, actors and atheletes, the possible payouts of owning a beauty or wellness brand is luring famous...
  • Roundtable — episode 114
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q2 ’23

    Join us for our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the industry....
  • Roundtable — episode 113
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    Stand Out Brands

    What does it take to succeed (and sell out) in Sephora or Ulta? Join Claire McCormack and the founders of three fast-growing brands (all...
  • Roundtable — episode 112
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    How Emerging Brands are Using AI

    Emerging brands are often on the cusp of what's new whether that is a trending ingredient, brand positioning or new marketing channel, and...
  • Roundtable — episode 111
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    The New Guard

    From driving industry trends to securing major retail placements— there is no doubt about it, U Beauty, Nécessaire, Shani Darden Skin Care...
  • Roundtable — episode 108
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    Emerging Beauty’s Brightest Stars

    Founders garner much of the attention in indie beauty—as they should. However, they're not the only people responsible for a brand's success....
  • Roundtable — episode 107
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    Luxury Retailers

    “Premiumization” is beauty’s new leading buzzword and for good reason. With it comes the promise of lofty margins, target markets with...
  • Roundtable — episode 106
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    Brand Closures: The Post-Pandemic Landscape

    The onset of the pandemic was undoubtedly a stressful period for beauty brand founders, but the stress hasn’t faded as founders try to...
  • Roundtable — episode 105
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q4 ’22

    Join us for our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the industry....
  • Roundtable — episode 103
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    Retail Distribution

    Direct-to-consumer brands may have proliferated in recent years, but building out omnichannel operations is widely considered the key to scale...
  • Roundtable — episode 99
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q3 ’22

    Join us for our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the industry....
  • Roundtable — episode 98
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    Bridge Mentorship: How to Become Funding Ready

    Following the inaugural session of the Bridge Mentorship program in partnership with True Beauty Ventures, Nader Naeymi-Rad, True Beauty...
  • Roundtable — episode 97
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    Live From The Showfloor Of Adit Live

    Join host Nader Naeymi-Rad from the inaugural Adit Live event in Los Angeles for a special episode of Beauty Independent's In Conversation...
  • Roundtable — episode 96
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    Building Brand Loyalty

    Any brand can have flash in the pan success thanks to the virality of TikTok, but the key to building lasting success lies in having a devoted...
  • Roundtable — episode 95
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    Amazon Metrics That Matter

    Amazon has proven to be an extremely lucrative channel for beauty and wellness brands that are able to capitalize on the opportunity;...
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  • Spotlight — episode 22
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    Going Global

    Vegamour launched when a digital-only brand had the opportunity to grab market share quickly without outside retail partnerships. But...
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  • Roundtable — episode 89
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    Retail Strategy

    Direct to consumer brands may have proliferated in recent years, but working with physical and digital retail partners is the key to ensuring...
  • Spotlight — episode 21
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    Building A Unicorn

    It takes more than a great idea and efficacious product to make noise in the beauty industry. Join Nader Naeymi-Rad, Vegamour’s founder and...
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  • Spotlight — episode 20
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    Founder’s Foundations

    Every entrepreneur starts somewhere. Join Nader Naeymi-Rad, Vegamour founder and CEO Dan Hodgdon and his wife and co-founder of Akhassa Lisa...
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  • Roundtable — episode 85
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q1 ’22

    Join us for our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the industry....
  • Roundtable — episode 83
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    Beauty And Lifestyle Buyers

    Between the many retailers in the beauty and lifestyle segment, there’s a fierce arms race raging to secure the hottest brands in the market....
  • Roundtable — episode 80
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    The Store Of The Future

    Consolidations, department store struggles, and ongoing pandemic disruptions shaped the industry significantly at the outset of this year. But...
  • Roundtable — episode 64
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    Niche Beauty E-Tailers

    Launching in hundreds of doors with big box chain or pure play retailer is often what a founder dreams about, but many brands find more...
  • Roundtable — episode 62
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    The Great M&A Retail Shakeup

    The tide is rising for beauty retail. Beauty insiders have been abuzz over the recent movement in the retail segment—Sephora acquiring...
  • Roundtable — episode 61
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    Winning Retail Strategies

    Direct to consumer brands may have proliferated in recent years, but working with physical and digital retail partners is the key to ensuring...
  • Roundtable — episode 56
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    Lessons In European And UK Product Compliance

    The shift to digital has enabled consumers from all over the globe to discover new beauty brands, increasing the desire for US-based brands to...
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  • Roundtable — episode 51
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    Beauty In China

    China, the world’s second largest beauty market in terms of revenue and consumption value behind the US, is ripe with growth opportunity. And...
  • Roundtable — episode 45
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    Selling On Amazon

    Beauty Independent conducted surveys of independent brands in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2020 (post-pandemic) to explore the diverse experiences of...
  • Roundtable — episode 43
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    Omni-Channel Retail

    Delivering a seamless digital and in-person shopping experience is crucial for leading retailers. Join IBMG co-founder Nader Naeymi-Rad and top...
  • Roundtable — episode 42
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    Sex Sells: Sexual Wellness At Retail

    In 2021, you can buy lube at Nordstrom, shop vibrators at Holt Renfrew and browse arousal oils at Urban Outfitters. Sex sells, now more than...
  • Roundtable — episode 38
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    Maximizing Amazon

    For emerging beauty brands, Amazon is perhaps the biggest opportunity in commerce, but it is an enormous and oftentimes perilous portal to...
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  • Roundtable — episode 36
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    Beauty Retail’s Evolution

    To say shopping for beauty and wellness changed in 2020 would be an understatement. But nimble retailers are embracing this as time to innovate...
  • Roundtable — episode 29
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    Quarterly Data Snapshot Q3 ’20

    Join us for the first installment of our ongoing roundtable bringing together the best and most respected providers and research from around the...
  • Roundtable — episode 18
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    Niche Retailers

    In this episode, some of the most prestigious indie beauty retailers gather for a panel on meeting unmet consumer needs and what they look for...
  • Roundtable — episode 14
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    Cosmetics & Skincare Retail Leaders

    The heads of three of the most highly desirable boutiques for beauty entrepreneurs sit on a panel to shed light on their perspective of...
  • Roundtable — episode 7
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    Post-COVID Retail Models

    Stores with walls aren’t dead, agreed the four retail experts and strategists during the In Conversation webinar about the retail models of...
  • Roundtable — episode 6
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    Department Stores: Is There A Future?

    The pandemic didn’t cause department stores’ struggles. It did, however, speed up the consequences of those struggles. In this webinar, four...
  • Roundtable — episode 3
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    Beauty Retailers

    There’s no roadmap for operating beauty stores during a pandemic. The challenge for retailers? Sorting through how to allow and urge shopping...