by Sparkle Insights | Dec 3, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
News coverage of this November elections has focused on how Democrats fared in the first tests of Trump’s impact. Something else close to home also caught my attention. Hongbin Gu, a UNC associate professor and immigrant from China, was elected as a Chapel Hill...
by Sparkle Insights | Nov 17, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
I recently had the opportunity to attend a media roundtable discussion hosted by the Asian American Advertising Federation and sponsored by AARP at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2017. Going into the roundtable discussion with the news...
by Sparkle Insights | Jun 16, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
During the past few years, there has been a lot of debate on various approaches to marketing to today’s multicultural, minority-majority consumers, namely, whether a segmented/targeted approach or a Total Market approach would be more effective. At the heart of...
by Sparkle Insights | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog, Hispanic, Multicultural Marketing
Over the past two decades, multicultural marketing discussions and strategy have evolved in many aspects. This can be observed in the US, where marketing has shifted from a segmented approach targeting specifically either the Hispanic, African American, Asian...
by Sparkle Insights | Oct 19, 2016 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing, Popular Culture
In my career as a market researcher, I have tested many concepts and taglines transcreated (The process of adapting a message from one language to another, while maintaining its intent, style, tone and context) for multicultural audiences. Most of the time, the...
