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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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, March 3rd, 2011
(an edited version of this article originally ran on MediaPost’s Engage Hispanic blog on 3/3/2011) Hispanic social media continues to be one of the hottest topics in the business of Hispanic marketing. More and more data comes out every week about Hispanics and how they use social media. A steady flow of conferences, panel discussions, [...]
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
(an edited version of this post originally ran on MediaPost’s Engage Hispanic blog on 9/2/10) If you’re like me, you’ve probably seen innumerable reports and studies stating that Hispanics are more social. Most of the data backing up this catchy headline focuses on social media usage. Hispanics are active users of social media platforms, particularly [...]
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
This is an interesting social media story growing out of an unfortunate news story. It is all over the news that there was a shooting incident today at Ft. Hood outside of Killeen, TX. The interesting social media story is that within hours, if not minutes, of the shootings the Austin American-Statesman set up a [...]
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