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Will Spanish Help You Reach the U.S. Hispanic Market? It Depends

Harvard Business Review

The Hispanic market will represent $1.5 Business leaders who are contemplating how to reach such an enormous market segment, especially through their digital presence, often ask me the same question: “Do we really need Spanish, or can we get by with just English?”. trillion in purchasing power by 2015 and 30% of the U.S.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick.

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What You Need to Know About Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. How would you identify these two segments and market to them differently?

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

If you''re marketing to women through social media, imagine your conversations mediated by a smartphone screen. According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." And these messages use strong market segmentation.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. This approach works when the visionary firm can single-handedly build a new, attractive market reality.