I recently wrote a feature article on marketing to the Hispanic community, and what’s striking is the role that a little education may play in boosting sales.
The term “Hispanic” can describe a wide range of clients, from people who moved to the United States yesterday to families that have been living within the borders of what is now the United States since before there was such a thing as the United States.
In many ways, U.S. residents with roots in Spain, Central America or South America are no different from members of other demographic groups.
Like everyone else, they want to plan for their financial futures.
“They want to invest,” says Ruben Ruiz, the chief executive officer of the Ruiz Financial Group L.L.C., San Marcos, Texas, who belongs to the Hispanic chambers of commerce in Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley. “They want to save. They want to get all the benefits. They want to fix their income and expenses; their money management. [And] they’re going to do it with a person that calls on them and explains to them financial planning, investments and savings.”
But Hispanic American consumers who happen to be immigrants or the children of immigrants may need a little extra help understanding the quirks of the U.S. social welfare system, and the same is true of other first-generation and second-generation Americans.