2012 « Expat Marketing

Felix Baumgartner — More than 8 million people watched Baumgartner’s descent to Earth. This is just the latest of Red Bull’s famous campaigns.

Viral marketing offers many advantages to companies who have a clear objective and simple product, by using online methods to target expats.

Many expats around the world are known as ‘netizens,’ or citizens of the Internet, an ever growing community of regular Internet users.

Two of the most notable recent examples of viral marketing are that of Red Bull and the Stratosphere stunt, involving millions of dollars, NASA and a live video feed; and the Christmas advertising campaign from John Lewis, who are well known amongst expats, due to their ability to deliver their products to over 30 countries worldwide. Continue reading

The City Hospital caters to Western expats in Dubai.

In a community where topics such as self breast exams are taboo, marketing healthcare to expat women can prove to be quite a challenge. Yet because of her passion and experience, long term expat, Cynthia Beermann, has become very successful at it.

Cynthia Beermann started working with The City Hospital in Dubai as a marketing communications specialist during the hospital’s launch four years ago. Her job title includes a number of things, she said, but in general, can be summed up by saying she works with the public. Continue reading

advertising expats christmas — Targeting expats at Christmas time can be tricky, here two British retailers have shared their tactics with us.

Companies who are targeting an international, expatriate market this Christmas will be facing additional challenges attracting and capturing their audience. Of course, the normal problems apply – how to reach your audience or which media to use. But at Christmas, you find increased competition and a relatively shorter time period to capture your target group.

For most marketers, Christmas planning gets underway in September/October, or sometimes even earlier. John Lewis, a major British department store, has already launched its online Christmas shop, which allows expats to buy their gifts and decorations at an early stage. Continue reading

expat ethnic marketing — “One of the best means of marketing would be using the media that the target community uses or reads.”

Ethnic marketing is a form of marketing that targets a specific ethnicity as its demographic. It therefore tailors the marketing strategy to suit different cultural and social norms.

Expat Marketing spoke to Felicia J.Persaud, founder and brand strategist of Hard Beat Communications NY. She is also an expert in ethnic marketing strategies.

Felicia, tell me about your company.

Hard Beat Communications is a marketing and advertising agency which was founded in 2004 in New York. It is a multi-media marketing solution company, especially for ethnic marketing. It mainly focuses on the Caribbean Americans, Caribbean business, advertising, public relations and digital media. Continue reading

Global iPlayer Matilda Douridas expat — Matilda explains how the Global iPlayer service is a constantly expanding service, with new material being uploaded on a daily basis.

The BBC’s popular online catch-up service, BBC iPlayer, has continued to grow. It now encompasses several countries outside the UK. The product is clearly aimed predominantly at the British expat market, but local viewers can benefit too.

Expat Marketing has been speaking to Matilda Douridas, marketing manager at the BBC, to learn more about the expanding service.

Matilda, what criteria were you looking at when choosing the countries in which to launch the iPlayer service? Continue reading

globe with crisis text — The crisis is hitting some expats markets hard, but in the meantime some Asian and South American destinations are booming.

As global recession looms, expat marketers are wondering which markets will be left after the storm.

While some traditional expat markets seem close to collapse, others attract more and more foreigners, offering new business opportunities for expat service providers.

Our team at ExpatMarketing.com has rated some of the largest local expat markets by attractiveness. The assigned market score, portrayed by up to four stars, reflects how important the given expat market will be in the near future. Continue reading

DKV globalite health network — DKV Globality has launched a unified global health service.

One of the challenges expatriates face is how to deal with local cultures, regulations and practical issues. Whereever you go, things just seem to be different than at home, and sometimes they are quite confusing.

Expat health insurer DKV Globality seems to be taking note of this. With a new global service concept, the company tries to establish a unified communication process and service branding for their expat customers – irrespective of where they are moving to. A network of international customer assistants – the so called “Globalites” – are available to clients 24/7 and in twenty-four different languages. Continue reading

Migration from UK to Poland — Polish expats return home

Many Polish expats who had moved to the UK to make a better life for themselves are now returning home to Poland. For companies targeting foreigners, this change creates new business opportunities.

A study from UK National Board of statistics discovered that the most popular destination for non-British people was Poland – and that 98% of people moving there are Polish.

Poles have traditionally represented a large percentage of immigrants coming into the UK. Many believe the reason for the Poles abandoning the UK now, could be due to the fact that the economic gap between the two countries is closing considerably. Continue reading

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Yearly Archives: 2012

Targeting expats without advertising

Targeting expats online at Christmas

“It’s country vs. culture marketing”

“We can profit from both the local and expat markets”

Which expat markets are crisis-proof?

DKV Globality launches unified global expat service

Are Polish expats returning home?