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Case Study: 3M listens to ideas on how to use the Post-it
Carlos Espindola, Digital Head for Latin America at 3M, wrote this case study for my book, E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos (E-X-I-T-O: Your Digital Marketing Strategy in 5 Steps), which was translated by Madalena Sánchez Zampaulo of Accessible...
Case Study: SoloEntreAmigas, P&G’s Latin American Content Marketing Program for Teen Girls
Ximena Morena of Procter & Gamble wrote this case study for my book, E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos. CONTEXT SoloEntreAmigas is P&G's pan-regional content marketing effort across Latin America, including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil,...
Flipboard Wins “Best Hispanic Media Innovation Award” at Portada’s 8th Annual Hispanic Advertising and Media Conference
I am honored and humbled to share the news that Flipboard received the “Best Hispanic Media Innovation” Award from Portada, a leading Hispanic/Latin American trade media publication, today at its 8th Annual Hispanic Advertising and Media Conference in New York City. I...
Que Pasa Festival Case Study: Social Media Strategy for Events
Following is the case study of a recent project that I worked on involving how to develop and implement a social media strategy for events and festivals. BACKGROUND The Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (VAHCC), a Richmond-based non-profit, creates, promotes and...
Growing the Web in Emerging Markets: The Stories of Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Foundation, and One Laptop Per Child
This excerpt is from my new book, E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos. In English, that is - E-X-I-T-O: Your Digital Marketing Strategy in 5 Steps. Click on these links to read the first excerpt, second excerpt, and third excerpt. In his...
The Importance of Developing “Personas” in Marketing
This excerpt is from my new book, E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos. In English, that is - E-X-I-T-O: Your Digital Marketing Strategy in 5 Steps. Click on these links to read the first excerpt and second excerpt. We begin with an unforgettable...
The Million-Dollar Question: 4 Solutions on How to Grow E-Commerce in Latin America
This is the second in a series of excerpts from my new book - E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos. Click here to read the previous excerpt. Latin American retailers have historically struggled to bring buyers online because of inconsistencies in...
A Latinized marketing model for the 21st Century: E-X-I-T-O
This is the first in a series of excerpts from my new book - E-X-I-T-O: Su estrategia de marketing digital en 5 pasos, now in its second printing. "Marketing is Dead" reads the headline of an article on Harvard Business Review's blog network, a grim prognosis of what...
Is social media right for your small businesses?
Facebook, YouTube, and Yelp logos appear on the majority of small business ads and retail entryways. But should you create and manage a presence on social media for your company? This article will outline how to evaluate whether small businesses should or shouldn’t...
Growing Importance of Latino Flavors in American Cuisine (and Search Terms)
For over 20 years, salsa has outsold ketchup in the United States, as first reported in the New York Times in 1992. Hispanic foods and flavors continue to have an increasingly important impact on the diets of all Americans, not just Hispanics. If we look at the search...
Technologies of Liberation: The End of the Digital Divide
This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com. A lot of research shows that Latinos, both in the U.S. and in Latin America, over-index for using mobile devices. But are they finding the information and services that they need? The future growth of the Internet will...
PepsiCo10: Identifying Innovative Start-ups (with Infographic)
The following post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book: A Five Step Process to Digital Marketing PepsiCo launched PepsiCo10, an incubator program in Brazil, UK and the US to take a leadership position in identifying innovative digital start-ups and pairing them...