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To the Selling Year 2018
The time is now! The time is now! This is not a Gary V rally cry, although perhaps it should be as he is a smart dude! This is the hard reality of the 2018 selling season for adult beverage. The front...
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The Rise of the Independent Brand in 2018
Champagne and corks have settled. We are collectively wiping the crud out of the corner of our eyes and getting back the grind. This time however, it is not just a start of the new week, it is the start...
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Top 5 Happenings for Adult Bev in 2018
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy New Year, and if I have missed your specific holiday, please celebrate that as well. We are at the end of the year and now, it is time to look forward. The only real...
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Four Ways to Make 2018 Better than 2017 with Planning and Selling
Calendar says early December. Calendar says that there are two week before holiday and an additional week for bubbles. That is what the calendar says, you are correct. There are a few other points of view.  If...
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Who Loses in the Breakthru/RNDC Merger? Everyone
Happy Thanksgiving to Them Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. Happy Thanksgiving to the thousands of independent suppliers that read my writings and the 100 or so distributors that check in with what...
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The Supplier's Year Is Over!
Obviously there is a month plus left on the calendar. Seriously, my Aunt has not even fumbled through Thanksgiving dinner yet. My Sister has not sat across the table yet and complained about everything...
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Why Retailers Need to Carry More Small Independent Brands
We define independent brands as <25,000 9L cases sold in USA Looking at the current state of the supplier and retailer relationship one point is clear to me for sure. The commodity brands across all...
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The Death of Beverage Brokers
This will undoubtedly get some hate mail sent my way. What can you do? All good mainstays in business at some point die. Who remembers marketing companies owned by retailers? Who remembers merchandising...
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The 5 Best Ways a Supplier Can Support Their Brand in OND
We are in the throws on OND and a few things to note.  If you are not aware of what OND means, you might be in the wrong business. The sales market is getting a slow start this season because of...
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What Is the Supplier Obligation?
I have two kids. They are wonderful kids and like siblings, they argue about nearly everything. Who does what? Who is responsible for what and who gets credit for what? Those are my kids struggles, but...
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If You Don't Want to Invest in the Market, There Will Be No Success in the Market. Guarantee It!
We at BevStrat get calls all day from suppliers and importers that want support in the market. They want selling support, marketing support, and distributor and market management. That is wonderful, all...
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What Does the #43 Mean to You?
We are in it now! We are post Labor Day season. Hopefully, post “on hold” list from the summer buying season. Post “the whole family is on vacation” mode and post dog days of summer. We are 43 now. What...
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Who Needs a Sales Force?
The question is not rhetoric but rather a real question that we get asked all the time. Real questions asked by real people, suppliers, and importers. Questions like, “how can you have a business here,...
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Managing Your Beverage Sale Force
The hardest part of the adult beverage business is not making the product. There are trained distillers, brewers, and winemakers that can handle that.  It is not accounting for your sales and revenue,...
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The ABCD's of Distributor Selling Logic
When I was in school, a challenging experience in and of itself, I was an A/B student. I may have some revisionist memory, but that is what I recall.  The further I went in school the better my grades...
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These Dog Days Are Opportunity Days for Holiday Sales
In the last 3 weeks I have traveled to Napa, NYC, Wisconsin, Chicago, Australia, Hawaii, LA, Phoenix and back to Chicago. I would love to write that I was seeing the globe with my family or that I was...
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