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Target Latino is a marketing consulting firm specializing in the Hispanic market.
Target Latino also brings you the latest in leading edge technology: a Multicultural Online Monitoring Solution that enables Brand Monitoring and Management, Customer Engagement, Online Reputation management, Competition Analysis and much more!
Social Media
Social Media Adoption Yields New Customers For Small Businesses
The third wave of the Small Business Success Index, by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, reports social media adoption by small businesses has doubled from 12% to 24% in the last year. Small businesses are increasingly investing in applications including blogs, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. Small Business Social... »
Gen Y or Millennials: Marketing Tips
Most of us, marketers, are trying to engage the Millennials or Gen Y. Also, most marketers are still leery of Gen Y marketing techniques. Therefore, we need to keep understanding who they are, what they do, what they like and what they dislike. Here is a brief overview of the Millennials or Gen Y. Listen... »
Large number of Fortune 500 companies got into Twitter, report says
The Fortune 500’s use of blogs, online video, and podcasts continues to increase, but Twitter was the social media channel of choice in 2009, according to a study by the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and Financial Insite. The study, “The Fortune 500 and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study of Blogging and Twitter Usage... »
Blogging loses appeal for US teenagers
A U.S. study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project. It suggests... »
Social sites eclipse e-mail use
Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report. The Nielsen survey of users’ habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites. Interest in the category is growing four times faster than the other top four sectors,... »
Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013
Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner. That’s an even more aggressive outlook than Morgan Stanley’s projection that the mobile Web will outstrip the desktop Web in five years. Gartner estimates the combined installed base of smartphones... »
Hispanics social media marketing strategy – a must
Any company that comes in contact with online Hispanic consumers would be negligent not to include them in its social media marketing strategy. The focal point should be the identification of the technologies and social media channels that are a strategic fit. By Claudia “Havi” Goffan U.S.-based Hispanic consumers are significantly more likely to participate... »
25 social interaction metrics or how to measure your social media marketing campaign
by Claudia “Havi” Goffan Social media has evolved into an every day way of interaction and communication for a large part of the population. And this evolution started in the last century when social media commenced amidst the original chats in chatrooms and blogs. The first blog was created in the late 1980’s: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ and it... »
Quepasa Launches Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox
Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), one of the world’s fastest-growing Latino social networks, today announced the launch of its Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox. The launch of the Developer Interface is part of Quepasa’s overall strategy to open the site to third party Open Social developers who would like to develop applications for... »
Materialism in the Non-Material World
MATERIALISM IN THE NONMATERIAL WORLD =================================== How many customers have you served at your café on Facebook, and how many friends have gifted you fertilizer or plants on FarmVille? The growing movement of social activity in the virtual world includes a great deal of very real economic activity, report researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. While many futurists believe... »