Posts Tagged ‘wine’

Social Media Quick Tip: Introduce Your Twitter Team

As you know, social media engagement is all about personal touches.  Remember this when thinking through your social media presence, including Twitter.  As much as possible, introduce and humanize your Twitter team.  Here are a couple of great examples of  brands who have added special touches to their Twitter strategies, going beyond a standard Twitter [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

As you’re rushing around today, getting ready to gather with your family and friends for Thanksgiving tomorrow, let me stop you for just a moment to say thank you.  I sincerely appreciate your interest in my posts and the fact that you continue to return here, even though my posting schedule is oftentimes sporadic.  This [...]

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Winery Marketing: “Trust Agents” Outlines How to Win Hearts and Minds

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m a huge fan of Chris Brogan and the book he co-authored with Julien Smith entitled “Trust Agents.”  (And Chris’ blog,  newsletter…) Okay, I know I’m gushing. This isn’t meant to be a blatant push for Chris and Julien or their book.  But one of the things I [...]

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Seneca Lake Wine Touring on a Beautiful Fall Day

It’s not often that I have the opportunity to have a “girls weekend” like I used to before I met Rich, and I definitely miss my girl time.  (Don’t worry, Rich is well aware of this and was brave enough to offer not only to host my friends for the weekend, but also to drive [...]

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Winery Visits: Rooster Hill Vineyards, Keuka Spring Vineyards

On a recent fall weekend, Rich and I spent a couple of nights in modest digs on Keuka Lake with great friends of ours.  The house is on the Northwest side of the lake and featured access to a large deck poised above a bluff overlooking the lake.  The weather was quite chilly and windy [...]

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Social Media Quick Tip: Follow 1000+ Wine Industry Tweeps with a Few Clicks

One of the benefits of the social media revolution is the ability to connect with the many smart, good-hearted people in the wine industry who are visionary and push forward to create better communities that are of value to us as participants. Last week, Joel Vincent founder of the Open Wine Consortium, a social media [...]

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Social Media Quick Tip: Add Social Media Info to Signage

I bet a bunch of you are already all over this one.  I spotted this signage from Faust Winery in Napa Valley during the Grand Tasting of Napa Wines at Quintessa during the recent Wine Bloggers Conference. This is a simple, low-cost branding strategy to promote your social media efforts.  Once you get your customers [...]

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2009 Wine Bloggers Conference: Fewer Words, More People Pictures

There’s been so much buzz about the Wine Bloggers Conference in Napa and Sonoma, CA this year.  With close to 300 attendees (and 75 waitlisted) the WBC has been a dominant topic of conversation for months now among many in the wine community.  There have been several posts already as I’m late to the game.  [...]

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Winery Resource Alert: The State of Wine Industry Social Media

More than likely, if you’re reading this post, you have an interest in gaining a detailed understanding of social media platforms and those that are most relevant to the health and happiness of your winery’s business. A group of the industry’s top thought leaders at VinTank, Derek Bromley and Tom Wark have compiled the first [...]

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TasteCamp East-Which Winery Had Bloggers Lined Up to Buy?

There are a few key takeaways that left an impression on me after TasteCamp East on Long Island this past weekend. One of them is that I couldn’t help but notice that of all of the stops we made, there was one winery that managed to easily pry open the wallets of several participating bloggers [...]

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