Cosmetic Promotions creates customized experiential marketing tools for the introduction, sampling, and training of beauty and personal care products to retail employees and their customers.
Since 1990 we have saved our clients more than $20 million and thousands of labor hours as their execution partner —resulting in a 98% client retention rate and a 100% on-time delivery record.
Our services include in-store makeup artist events, direct sampling programs, national live product training, point-of-purchase events and displays, and creation of regional and national sweepstakes & contests.
Through our shared vendor programs, we multiply ROI while maximizing sales lift without increasing our clients’ workload.
What Sets Us Apart?
- 28 years’ experience promoting beauty products in mass, food & drug chains.
- Providing unique Beauty Expert customer-interaction kits that result in significantly higher than normal redemption rates and sales.
- Creator of shared-cost experiential marketing programs that lower vendor investment and raise ROI.
- Only execution partner that secures the funding for the chain programs we create by obtaining the vendor participation.
- Complete management and execution of chain-specific programs frees the category management teams to concentrate on their core objectives.
- Completely turnkey – all design, warehouse production and shipping is in-house.
- Only agency that has more than 8,000 professional makeup artists and beauty experts nationwide on call.
Meet Our Management Team
Joann Marks
CEO and Founder
Joann Marks started Cosmetic Promotions after working in sales and marketing for beauty-sector companies large and small. Today the company has more than 20 employees, operates a 12,000 square foot warehouse, and supports two offsite workshops for mentally challenged adults with thousands of hours worth of work each year. Altogether, the Cosmetic Promotions team produces and delivers more than 20,000 beauty kits each month… More »
Tracie Gilbert
VP of Business
Development
Tracie has been with Cosmetic Promotions since she graduated Cum Laude from the University of Central Florida with her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Marketing. She has grown with the company, from an Executive Assistant to launching the Agency and now enjoys working to continue to expand it in a way that is controllable and beneficial to both the company and our clients. She takes pride in owning a project and making it as turnkey as possible for her customers.
Kristin Bocox
Agency Director
Kristin has been with Cosmetic Promotions as Agency Director since 2004. She is responsible for ensuring each event is executed with the highest professionalism and everything runs smoothly down to the very last detail. Kristin has a background in Human Resources and was a Contract Manager before she found her place at CosPro.
