Brand Share Growth Strategies and Solutions

Today’s consumers can express their consumption preferences in very individualistic and complex ways. Distinct behavioral choices across channel preference, lifestyle and culture are the new reality, not only in the top DMAs in the U.S. but also in the emerging markets that make up our hemisphere.

Additionally, the Multicultural population in the U.S. will continue to grow at triple the rate of the general market, and Latin America’s emerging markets will grow at double digits.
Our brand building expertise is in the cultural and lifestyle nuances that are imperative to succeeding in the complex, diverse and rapidly changing U.S., Canada and Latin American markets.

Our intimate knowledge of today’s sophisticated consumer, global market insights and intelligence mitigate the risks of market product expansion, brand share and adoption success.

The digital communication revolution has set the stage for our fragmented Polycultural society to express themselves with many voices, opinions and influences. There are hundreds of channels to choose from, yet engagement, or the lack thereof, is still rampant. Communication proliferation in content and channel preference is the new standard and our still predominant, homogenous culture has not kept pace.

Our Convergent Communications Solutions approach begins with identifying an overarching strategy based on global truths insights among the various targeted groups that make up our Polycultural society: first LIFESTYLE, then CULTURE, DEMOGRAPHICS, AFFINITY, and finally LANGUAGE. We then design communications strategies that appeal to the common connection points in both lifestyle and channel consumption.

We draw upon heritage and one of our core strengths and capabilities: the ability to obtain in-depth insights into consumer aspirations, wants, and desires. Then we create convergence by developing a rational and emotionally balanced message for the targeted cultural lifestyle groups.

Many refer to these times as unpredictable, but perhaps what’s needed is perspective and insight.

In today’s converging business and marketplaces, corporate strategizing and business planning are imperative to a company’s success.

For over 40 years, our San Jose Consulting team has developed business strategies in multiple industries including financial, healthcare, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, retail, travel and not-for-profit. Through our Inside Out™ proprietary planning tool, we have reworked the traditional SWOT analysis plan and restructured it to include the needs of both the general and multicultural market segments. Our Inside Out™ method allows us to provide our clients with unprecedented marketing results.

Our unparalleled insights and experiences in effective business planning, strategizing and developing allow us to assist our clients with organizing and assessing their short-term and long-term goals. Our in-depth understanding of the market and corporate demands allow us to provide our clients with a clear vision of how to strategically reach theirs.

Using our proprietary tool, InsideOut™, we uncover robust insights from the marketplace and convert them into fully digested, written blueprints that deliver actionable marketing solutions. To date, this tool has helped to generate close to $8.5 billion in incremental sales for our clients. InsideOut™ is one of the many tools we leverage to help unearth insights and convert them into growth.

The increasing population growth across the Americas, each with its own cultural traits and nuance, presents a challenge to a brand’s communication strategies. As the push for global growth increases, companies must ensure they are equipped to not only market to a global audience, but to reach targeted consumers as well.

Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations and markets. These integrated patterns of human behavior include languages, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs and values as well as institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social groups. Quite simply, companies that are respectful of and responsive to consumers’ cultural and linguistic needs, beliefs and practices can generate positive outcomes.

We have helped clients strategically target consumers across cultural boundaries across the Americas. Our best practice audits allow us to gain insight on how our clients are currently equipped to market their brands to consumers based on quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

The San Jose Group team uses our Life Mapping Inside Out™ tool which helps us assess and make recommendations on how to maximize marketing efforts so companies can maximize their ROI. This tool its often applied to both the U.S. and International markets we serve to deliver strategic decisions, results and growth.

Most companies now recognize the importance of Multicultural Marketing ROI. Indeed, marketers are under increasing pressure to show a positive and tangible return on their activities and investments. We know how to assess factors impacting a brand’s success. The ideas we select moving forward are engaging and compelling, capable of building brand loyalty and maximizing ROI.

For our clients, we provide a clear advantage over traditional consulting organizations by providing value-added depth and dimension to all phases of the insight-gathering process. In the end, we make our clients’ research dollars work harder for maximum Multicultural and Complex Markets ROI.

The increasing complexity of the risks threatening brand equity and corporate reputation is understood and recognized by companies. However, that is not translating into systematic preparedness and planning.

Today, organizations are afflicted with a form of cultural blindness that is preventing them from wholly understanding a new form of risk that is the result of significant social, cultural and political changes against a background of population shifts.

A number of the catastrophic failures of major companies over recent years to protect Shareholder and brand equity when faced with threats and crises are partly responsible for this cultural blindness—BP, Sony, Petrobras, VW, to name a few.

We understand those diverse, global, social, cultural, political and population forces involving and affecting consumers, stakeholders and Global markets.

We conduct a Risk & Opportunities Audit to identify and catalogue ALL RISKS, including those that may not have been identified or which lack response plans in traditional risk methodologies.

The Audit is based on interviews with key people in the organization around the world beginning with the CEO and the C-Suite, but also includes managers of key functions and geographical leaders plus customers and other stakeholders. This is supplemented with additional research into the relevant issues and threats. We also review existing risk and crisis preparedness plans at the organization and provide recommendations to strengthen risk management planning, processes and training.