By now, many marketers have heard of the tremendous opportunities the United States. Hispanic consumer represents in terms of numbers and purchasing power. However, in the age of hypersegmentation and targeting, Millennials and bi-cultural Hispanics have risen to the top of marketer’s go-to Hispanic sub-segments.
While most companies focus on this target, there is an untapped consumer segment that has serious growth potential, Hispanic business owners.
Many consumer marketers dismiss this segment as a B2B target. What they fail to remember, however, is that there are people behind businesses; business owners are people too, making them a unique B2C marketing opportunity.
Per a recent study by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI); Latino firms continue to be created at faster rates than the national average. While new business creation slowed through the recession overall, Latinos continued to create firms at similarly high rates as before. The 2012 Census counted 3.3 million Latino firms, making up 12% of all U.S. firms. When you factor in Hispanic firms owned by two or more Latinos and family owned and operated businesses, that translates into almost 1 in 10 U.S. Hispanics being business owners.
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In a recent Sageworks webinar, The Rise of the Accounting Entrepreneur, Jason Blumer compared the accounting industry today to that of the past, and explained how accountants can lead their firms to greater financial success while finding greater personal fulfillment by becoming entrepreneurial.
Blumer, founder of the CPA network Thriveal, began by asking webinar attendees to conceptualize what it means to be an entrepreneur, and what is at the heart of entrepreneurship. Blumer quoted Strategic Coach Founder Dan Sullivan as asking, “What motivates people like you to go off on their own with no guarantee of success or income? It isn’t what most people think. It’s not money, it’s not status, but it’s freedom. Why would you take risks with no guarantee?”
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