Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Anyone who has ever looked at the U.S. Hispanic market views it from the lens of segmentation – or the subsets within the broader market, based on one or more shared characteristics. There are countless ways to segment the U.S. Hispanic market: age, religion, political affiliation, family size, nationality, geography, etc. However, as I’ve written [...]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
It’s that time of year – when all the prediction articles come out. Not one to be left behind, I have decided to take a stab at some bold predictions for what I see happening in Hispanic marketing in 2012. However, in my contrarian tradition, I’ve decided to make 8 predictions of what I don’t [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
If there is a concept older than the abuelita in the Spanish language TV spot it’s the argument that marketers are not investing enough in U.S. Hispanic advertising and media – that they haven’t reached the mythical “right spend” figure. Right spend is usually defined as the percentage of a marketers advertising and marketing budget [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
What makes Hispanic social media more challenging than general market social media marketing and more difficult traditional Hispanic marketing? I would argue two fundamental things: • Hispanics are early adopters of new technology, especially within the social media realm (we’re basically dealing with an “early adopter” consumer segment) • Traditional Hispanic marketing is fairly predictable [...]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
If you read my blog posts either here or on MediaPost with any regularity, you’ve likely read my controversial January 2011 piece entitled “2011: The Year Of Creative Destruction.” If you haven’t read it, give it a once over (it’s re-posted at the end of this blog) As we near the end of 2011 (isn’t [...]
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