However you measure shoe sales, an advanced testing system can help you improve them. Heeluxe’s testing helps many brands increase their sales each year and this post details one brand’s sales success after working with us. All brands can see benefits by following these steps. One of the biggest challenges we see brands facing is…
We all want to make better shoes. What if the easiest way to do this was to treat women’s and men’s shoes equally? Data shows us that in 2019, we don’t give as much attention to women’s shoes. Footwear brands that work with Heeluxe understand the power of our unrivaled shoe performance database. It is…
Research shows that “Subjective comfort data is there not a reliable measurement.” What should a brand do to measure comfort? Heeluxe has spent years determining what makes shoes comfortable and developing new measuring tools to quantify comfort. Here’s our tips for improving comfort measurements at your brand: The “Big 4 for comfort” are Fit, Contour,…
Mediocre shoes don’t sell. To be a top selling shoe the product needs to have style, the right price, and performance that sets it apart from its competitors. We’ve compiled tips on how to be the best shoe in a category. In Heeluxe’s research reports, we’ll compare a test shoe’s performance against our entire database.…
Anyone that spends their time working with feet will tell you that men and women have different proportions to their foot shape. But how does this impact shoe fit? And shoe brands design shoes different for women and men? In 2015 Heeluxe began using sensors to quantify shoe fit. During our validation testing we observed…
At Heeluxe we encourage footwear brands to have a laser focus on who is their target customer and what is the activity they are going to do in their shoes. Fortunately, the team at Livestrong and writer Cindy Kuzma understand this and wrote a great article on the differences between walking shoes and cross training…
At Heeluxe, we love helping brands make better fitting shoes. Through our testing we’ve seen a lot of common fit mistakes that almost every brand makes. Here’s a few of our (least) favorite: 1.Shrink it and Pink It: Women’s feet are not shaped like a guys. Yet the footwear industry assumes that women’s feet will…
Online returns are bad. Bad for bottom lines, bad for the environment, and bad for the customer. Luckily, data analysis has taught us why shoes are returned more online (hint: it’s not because the customer ordered multiple pairs knowing they’d return some!). The best kind of research is one that finds the cause of…
Step in comfort is the key to getting a customer to buy your shoe, but all-day comfort is the key to getting your customer to come back and buy more pairs. One of the unifying factors of fast-growing brands is their ability to meet customer’s needs for all-day comfort, and this post provides an outline…
In 2019 Heeluxe gave a presentation at the Footwear Innovation Summits in Los Angeles, USA, and Donguan, China, titled The Future of Footwear Testing. 100s of people were in the audience for both presentations and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. The Heeluxe team put in weeks of work to make certain that the visuals were…
Fit is the #1 problem customers complain about in their shoes and the world famous Runners World Magazine used the expertise of Dr Gray and the Heeluxe team on a new article about getting the best fitting running shoes. We’re always happy to share the knowledge we’ve gained over the last 5 years of sensor-based…
FMNii and their Footwear Innovation Summits (FIS) have given Heeluxe a venue to share our experience and knowledge with a wide variety of footwear industry innovators from all over the globe. In 2019, Dr Gray was not only selected as a presenter for the event but also as the Host of the Los Angeles,USA, and…
Heeluxe has been growing so quickly in the past 3 years that we needed to remodel our office to handle all of the testing! From November 2018-January 2019 we increased our storage capacity to securely manage all of our test shoes, increased our number of work stations for staff to maintain peak efficiency, created a…
Heeluxe is passionate about creating better shoes for everyone in the world. We work on this mission by completing research studies in 2 weeks or less and making sure these research reports are valuable to the footwear brands that request them. In 2018 we set out to work with more footwear brands, increase the number…
On October 2, 2018, Heeluxe will be featured at the Footwear Innovation Summit at the Hotel Indigo in Los Angeles. This event features well know speakers in the footwear industry with topics ranging from 3D Printing and Design to Machine Learning. Dr Geoffrey Alan Gray, DPT, from Heeluxe will present on new testing that helps…