Posted by Elena del Valle on September 24, 2020
By Joy Gendusa
Owner, PostcardMania
Joy Gendusa, owner, PostcardMania
Photo: PostcardMania
In this new pandemic age, many businesses felt the impact of COVID-19 in a major way, including my own, PostcardMania. The first wave of mandated closures wreaked havoc on our bottom line, dealing a massive 41 percent hit to weekly revenue earnings. Instead of sitting around waiting for our luck to change, however, we took several pivotal actions that allowed us to rebound to pre-crash numbers and have the best summer in our 22-year history.
The first thing we did was look around at all the coronavirus information overflow and say, “Holy smokes, we need to help our clients filter this and find relevant information.” (Small businesses are our primary clientele.) Small businesses were hugely impacted by the pandemic panic and mandatory shutdowns, and we wanted to help them find information that would help them stay afloat and maybe even thrive during period in history. Click to read the entire Guest Article: Covid-19 Marketing Idea: $117,514.21 Generated from Email Marketing
Posted by Elena del Valle on June 17, 2020
Between Scientific Challenge and Reputational Impact
Will the value of innovation be recognized?
By Javier Marin
Senior director
Healthcare Americas
LLYC
Javier Marin, senior director, Healthcare Americas, LLYC
Photo: LLYC
SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, was first detected in mid-December 2019. The virus had already spread by the time its source had been discovered because, unlike other viruses (such as SARS-CoV-1), this one can remain hidden for a long time. However, after five months of this health and economic crisis, there are now signs of hope for curing and vaccinating the population thanks to the swift efforts of dozens of scientists around the world. Every day, they are getting closer to finding a medicine that promises to end this deadly virus. Scientists in China, Germany and the United States are leading the research in the race to develop therapies and vaccines. Click to read the entire Innovative Medicines and Vaccines to Fight COVID-19
Posted by Elena del Valle on November 20, 2019
By Gabriela Lechin
Senior vice president
Global Results Communications
Gabriela Lechin, senior vice president, Global Results Communications
Photo: Global Results Communications
Despite accounting for less than 20 percent of the United States population, Hispanics accounted for 82 percent of the United States labor-force growth participation between the years 2010 and 2017. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) among Hispanics in America grew at a faster rate than the overall United States economy during this time, increasing from $1.7 trillion in 2010 to $2.3 trillion in 2017, according to the 2019 LDC U.S. Latino GDP Report by the California Lutheran University, making it the third-highest growth rate among all global economies during that period on a compounded annual basis. Some of the main influences powering this performance are Hispanics healthy growth in population, their increasing consumer spending and high labor-force participation. According to the report, the financial contribution of the Hispanic community in America will become progressively significant in the upcoming years of the country’s economy.
Click to read the entire Guest Article by Gabriela Lechin: Finding the silver lining in cultural appropriation
Posted by Elena del Valle on October 8, 2019
By Isabel Rafferty
CEO
Canela Media
Isabel Rafferty, CEO, Canela Media
Photo: Canela Media
In this age of social media and personal branding, people are more attuned than ever to the PR-speak, photo-shopped images and marketing tactics that brands engage in. As a result, audiences have shown an affinity towards those brands that present a more “authentic” version of themselves – that is to say, a version that takes a more active role in addressing real world issues and promoting diversity. As a result, many brands have looked to influencer marketing to bring them additional credibility. However, as consumers grow increasingly cynical not only of brands but of the influencers who peddle their products, brands have to find new ways – and new influencers – to increase trust.
Click to read the rest of Micro-Influencers Are the Future of Marketing
Posted by Elena del Valle on May 1, 2019
By Javier O. Delgado
Chief executive officer of PeopleToo LLC
Javier O. Delgado, CEO, PeopleToo LLC
Photo: Javier O. Delgado
Article Takeaways
- Employee engagement has barely budged in years
- Measuring engagement isn’t sufficient to improve it
- Five proven strategies can improve employee engagement
The world has an employee engagement crisis, with serious and potentially lasting repercussions for the global economy.
Though companies and leaders worldwide recognize the advantages of engagement, and many have instituted surveys to measure engagement — employee engagement has barely budged in 18 years. Click to read the entire Guest Article: The Global Employee Engagement Crisis
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 13, 2019
Branding Implications
By Jay Gronlund
President
The Pathfinder Group
Jay Gronlund, president, The Pathfinder Group
Photo: Jay Gronlund
We have heard a lot about Millennials (i.e., Generation Y), their impact on business, politics and society, and how different their values and practices are. Well, get ready for Generation Z. Their attitudes and actions are even more progressive and even more confounding to marketers. This Generation Z (born after 1996) is the best educated, most diverse and easily most open to emerging social trends of any prior generation. And their potential impact on commercial and political brands will be transformative. Click to read the entire article What To Expect From Generation Z
Posted by Elena del Valle on February 13, 2019
By Mario Anglada
CEO
Hoy Health
Mario Anglada, CEO, Hoy Health
Photo: Mario Anglada
Three trends pose a growing issue for Hispanics families in the United States: 1) Hispanics have the highest uninsured rates of any racial or ethnic group 1; 2) this community is projected to comprise almost 29 percent of the U.S. population by 2050 2; and 3) healthcare disparity for this underserved population persists in the form of barriers to care, including cultural/language barriers3, lack of access to preventive care, and the lack of health insurance. In 2015, 19.5 percent of the Hispanic population was not covered by health insurance, as compared to 6.3 percent of the non-Hispanic white population.
Click to read the entire article: Helping Hispanic Families Access Affordable Healthcare
Posted by Elena del Valle on November 28, 2018
The New Content Omnivore Paradigm™
By Adriana Waterston
Senior vice president
Insights & Strategy, Horowitz Research
Adriana Waterston, senior vice president, Insights & Strategy, Horowitz Research
Photo: Horowitz Research
To succeed in today’s complicated media ecosystem, companies must make it a strategic imperative to cater to the needs of Hispanic and multicultural consumers and audiences.
Historically, these audiences have been the hungriest for content. These are larger households run by relatively younger heads of household that are more likely to include more children than their White, non-Hispanic counterparts. They are often multigenerational and multilingual. To keep up with their varied content needs, they are willing to use all the platforms, screens, and services at their disposal.* Click to read the entire article: Reaching Multicultural Audiences
Posted by Elena del Valle on September 26, 2018
By Ray Zinn
Author
Tough Things First
Ray Zinn, author, Tough Things First
Photo: Ray Zinn
We truly live in a global business environment.
People are mobile. Silicon Valley, where I lead my semiconductor company for 37 years, attracts talented people from across the globe. Any cosmopolitan city does as well. In the age of the Internet, even mom-and-pop companies routinely interact with people in vastly different cultures.
The 21st century reality is that you need to create diversity to thrive. Long gone are the days when all your employees and partners come from one country or one culture. To make it, you have to communicate with a lot of very different people.
Click to read the entire article Communicating Effectively Between Diverse Cultures Within a Company
Posted by Elena del Valle on February 6, 2018
By Jay Gronlund
President, The Pathfinder Group
Jay Gronlund, president, The Pathfinder Group
Photo: Jay Gronlund
Most people think “branding” is simply about creating a catchy, memorable name for a product, service, organization and even people. However branding is much more complex. Good branding starts with the development of a message or impression that reflects the unique benefits and characteristics of that entity, and then creating a name that ideally communicates its qualities and personality to targeted customers. There are numerous approaches and philosophies for brand naming. Here are two contrasting examples: President Donald Trump’s tendency to coin descriptive, simplistic (and usually negative) labels on his adversaries that reflect his opinion of them, and the more subconscious, subliminal use of “phonologics” by pharmaceutical companies to create brand names for their products.
Click to read the entire article Brand Naming, The Unsubtle (Trump) And The Subtle (Pharmaceuticals)
