{"id":804,"date":"2016-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motionpoint.com\/?post_type=blog&p=804"},"modified":"2016-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"cultural-fluency-in-global-marketing-part-1","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.motionpoint.com\/blog\/cultural-fluency-in-global-marketing-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Fluency in Global Marketing (Part 1)"},"template":"","blog_categories":[5,9],"resource_categories":[],"targeted_localized_audience":[],"document_categories":[],"class_list":["post-804","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry","blog_categories-international-business-strategies","blog_categories-marketing-strategies"],"acf":{"blog_short_description":"Discover how to engage international customers in authentic ways online, in this first installment of our two-part series.","news_inline_styles":"","blog_video_id":"","article_body":"

This is Part 1 in a 2-part series. Find Part 2 here.<\/a>
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As your company enters new markets, a \u201cone size fits all\u201d marketing approach rarely works as intended. It\u2019s not enough for corporate websites in these markets to speak the locally-preferred language through translated content.<\/p>\n

To resonantly connect with new global consumers, your organization must embrace transnational thinking<\/a>\u2014perceiving new markets as something far more than business opportunities. Markets represent complex mashups of cultures, ideas and consumer desires. To engage them authentically, companies and marketers need more than linguistic fluency. They require cultural fluency<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This nuanced, native-friendly approach isn\u2019t easy for most companies to acquire. <\/p>\n

For instance, did you know that Japanese companies go to heroic lengths to avoid price increases of their products? One Japanese ice cream manufacturer recently raised prices by only nine cents<\/a>, after maintaining the same price for 25 years,<\/i> and launched an apologetic marketing campaign<\/a> to preempt consumer backlash.<\/p>\n

Curiously, many South Koreans believe that leaving a ceiling fan on overnight will kill its owner. (Some believe this certain death comes via suffocation, with the fan somehow sucking the air out of the room.) \u201cIt sounds like the plot of an X-Files<\/i> episode,\u201d a New York Times<\/i> correspondent recently wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite how these customs and beliefs might appear to Westerners, skilled marketers understand they\u2019re not silly at all, when viewed within the context of the markets\u2019 cultures. (America is no stranger to this strangeness: using a large rodent every February to determine the length of winter<\/a> is a mighty peculiar practice, too!) <\/p>\n

We spoke with Omar El Ali, a Global Online Strategist for MotionPoint\u2019s Global Growth team, about the importance of cultural fluency, and how savvy companies can use cultural awareness and resonant translations to boost online engagement and conversions\u2014and increase revenue in global markets.<\/p>\n

Localization: Going Beyond Translation<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

The terms translation <\/i>and localization <\/i>are often used synonymously\u2014sometimes on this very blog!\u2014but in fact represent different approaches to translation. Localization transcends the linguistic word-for-word conversion of conventional translation and instead uses terms that resonate within specific markets or subcultures. (Consider the American linguistic regionalisms regarding soft drinks: some consumers call the stuff soda<\/i>, others call it pop<\/i>, and still others always call it Coke.) While region-neutral translation is often very effective, the customized approach of localization can be far more resonant to particular global consumers.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, localization goes a long way to helping companies improve brand awareness and trust,\u201d Omar explains, \u201cwhich often leads to higher engagement and KPI conversions on translated global sties.\u201d<\/p>\n

MotionPoint offers a powerful service called Market Management to help companies accomplish this goal. Market Management customizes specific elements of a translated site, such as an on-site promotion or call to action, in ways (and language) that best resonate with certain global shoppers.<\/p>\n

We saw great success with this approach when we recently helped a global home furniture retailer enter the Moroccan market. The company opted to launch its brick-and-mortar retail and online presences into this market at the same time. However, its website wasn\u2019t transactional; instead, the company relied on the translated site to drive foot traffic, and sales, to the offline retail store.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo help maximize this \u2018online to offline shopping\u2019 endeavor, we crafted a localized promotion on the translated site,\u201d Omar says. \u201cIt congratulated local consumers on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, celebrated after the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. It also prompted them to register to receive special offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

This move, which leveraged a timely and authentic event in a clever way to drive email opt-ins, generated nearly 25% more conversions than average.<\/p>\n

MotionPoint helped a UK-based retailer gain consumer trust in North America when it launched its U.S. e-commerce site. (The lexical differences in UK and U.S. English are significant; companies that ignore these differences often alienate customers with unfamiliar, seemingly-foreign terms.) The UK company was practically unknown in the States. The lack of familiarity was hurting sales.<\/p>\n

MotionPoint conducted an A\/B test, leveraging localized banners for some of the U.S. shoppers. The banners talked up the company\u2019s robust return and shipping policies, and other key credibility-boosting differentiators. \u201cThe goal was to reduce any perceived risk from American shoppers,\u201d Omar explains.<\/p>\n

The tactic worked. One week later, this checkout rates rose by nearly 30%, contributing to a monthly incremental revenue of nearly \u00a32,000,000.<\/p>\n

E-commerce sites that leverage these market-specific content customizations see a 52% average increase in conversion rates, we\u2019ve found.<\/p>\n

Culturally-Relevant Translations<\/h2>\n

Localizations\u2014aka authentic and relevant translations\u2014move the needle in other ways. While MotionPoint understands the overwhelming value in conventional, region-neutral translations (you can learn more about \u201cUniversal Spanish,\u201d which exemplifies this concept, here<\/a>), region-specific localizations really get readers in those markets to lean in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can apply to different geographic regions within a country,\u201d Omar explains, \u201cwhere a common language is spoken throughout the nation, but certain important phrases differ in specific regions.\u201d<\/p>\n

We addressed this this need for one MotionPoint travel client by localizing a site\u2019s user experience, content and some terminology. One month later, the localized site\u2019s impressions grew by nearly 75%. Its average SERP ranking<\/a> improved by 11 positions, too.<\/p>\n

In another instance for a global airline, we identified ways to improve the translations of high-profile promotions serving its South Korean customers. These translations required a creative nudge\u2014in this case, an addition of detail and words not seen in the airline\u2019s flagship English site.<\/p>\n

(Interestingly, native Korean news and airline websites often feature much more text and detail on their own homepage content than sites in other global markets. Korean copywriters don\u2019t operate on the same \u201cless is more\u201d wavelength as their English counterparts. In-depth descriptions of products and services aren\u2019t just tolerated on native Korean homepages. They\u2019re expected!)<\/p>\n

After we crafted more resonant localizations for this promotional content, engagement dramatically improved. Click-throughs increased by an average of 15%. Checkouts rose by nearly 45%. One promotion generated a nearly 30% jump in clicks, and a nearly 70% increase in checkouts.<\/p>\n

Crafting culturally-resonant, localized content made all the difference.<\/p>\n

To Be Continued\u2026<\/h2>\n

So far, we\u2019ve learned how optimizing translations and on-site elements can improve engagement and consumer loyalty in global markets. But stay tuned: we\u2019ll wide the scope of our conversation to include in-language social media, conversion rate optimization and more, in the second part of this blog series. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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