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    From Marketing To Hispanics To Marketing Hispanic Food Products To The Mainstream
    When I started my career in marketing back in the early 2000s, Hispanic marketing was a tremendous career growth opportunity. The Latino market was underserved and Hispanic marketing expertise was at a premium as many companies across industries where trying to figure out how to win with this elusive consumer. Hispanic agencies and different marketing approaches emerged; companies invested billions of dollars in their Hispanic marketing efforts.
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    Effective Hispanic Advertising That Drives Behavior Change
    Most marketers view their role as driving demand, either via upper funnel branding and awareness activities or lower funnel direct response, sales and retention activities. Advertising is generally viewed as one of the primary tools to drive consumer demand. But what is at the core of driving consumer demand? Changing consumer behavior. That behavior change could involve new product trial, increasing occasion, acquiring market share by driving preference change, or increasing retention. To quote Adam Ferrier from his influential book The Advertising Effect, "Advertising is really the business of behavior change."
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    The Real Meaning Of Hispanic Marketing
    The Hispanic population has nearly tripled in size since 1990 and has been the largest "minority group" since 2000. It represents more than half of the nation's growth in both population and consumer spending. This will continue to increase over time. With this momentum, marketers are finally starting to realize the value of these high-growth consumers. They're using geo-location and purchasing data, among other sources, to find out who their consumers are and what they buy. They claim that they're trying to reach Hispanics in a genuine way, but their messages are often lost. So how can they utilize all …
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    The Latino-Infused CPG
    A few decades ago, Frito-Lay was onto something. The year was 1994 and they realized that there were a lot of Latinos in Los Angeles. They also realized that Latinos had different taste palates and over-indexed in the salty snacks category. So they decided to launch "Sabrositas," a series of Latino-infused (Limon, Chile, etc.) line extensions for the Frito-Lay brand.
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    Why Targeting Hispanics Online Is Worth The Money
    Last month, CPG giant and the world's largest advertiser Procter & Gamble declared that they would buy highly targeted Facebook ads less often. P&G will continue to invest heavily in Facebook advertising, but found that "targeting to super-specific audiences was expensive but didn't result in a big difference to its business."
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    The Persistence Of Hispanic Culture In The Digital Age
    Acculturation continues to be contested in our industry. The death of the Spanish language continues to be trumpeted. The need for specific Hispanic marketing efforts has even been called into question with the growing popularity of Total Market efforts.
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