February 3, 2025
There is both promise and peril in online engagement. Successful users share what works.
By Kathleen Willcox
The other day, in front of several people of various generations — and in the humiliating...
October 18, 2024
The holidays are around the corner and 2025 budgets are being allotted. TikTok should be in your marketing plan.
By Melanie Young
Recent changes allowing wine advertising on the TikTok social media...
September 5, 2023
Consider how an influencer will relate to your brand image and customers.
By Melanie Young
“Influencer” is a marketing term that’s recently exploded as fast and forcefully as the pop of a champagne...
March 24, 2023
Brands should put sustainability front and center in their online marketing
to capture the attention of drinkers who shop their values.
By Robin Shreeves
Millennials and Gen Z aren’t embracing...
January 25, 2019
Direct Sales Alters US Wine Market: In 2018, wineries shipped more than 6 million cases of wine, a nine percent increase over the previous year, according to Larry Cormier's presentation at the annual...
December 27, 2018
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Was Tricked into Investing in an Israeli Winery, Lawsuit Alleges: The U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was presented with allegedly fraudulent documents when he agreed...
June 13, 2018
I was checking my emails the other day and came across an email from LinkedIn with a request ostensibly from a woman in New York State wanting to connect with me on LinkedIn.
I have a rule about connecting...
October 4, 2017
While distributing information to your customers and potential customers through social media is important, it’s also important to know how the people that you are reaching are reacting to what you have...
September 13, 2017
“We have to understand this … that in 25 years, there won’t be people alive who have lived without it.”
November 9, 2015
Wine Industry Has Yet to Embrace Full Potential of Social Media Marketing: There's little doubt that social media marketing has become a cornerstone of modern-day communications and has revolutionized...
October 14, 2015
There are lots of examples of people using social media to say or do things that it would be better if they didn’t. It is common now to hear of some celebrity tweeting their opinion on some topic that...
March 30, 2015
Washington Wine Country's Nuclear Threat: A nuclear facility in Washington state's prime wine country is leaching radioactive groundwater and is one natural disaster away from Fukushi
February 10, 2015
The Preliminary California Grape Crush Report released today reveals the 2014 winegrape crush was down 7.9% to 3,910,178 from the 2013 record high winegrape crush of 4,245,852 tons...
February 10, 2015
It isn’t a matter of whether the wine industry needs to focus resources on 21st century technologies in order to stay competitive. The question is where to begin?
February 3, 2015
We use it all, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and more; just like you do. But, there is a shift happening in social media that can impact your business and really change the way we communicate with...
January 5, 2015
Shoppers should take care when buying wine in clear glass bottles, says Wotwine, after 35% of wines in clear glass out of the 6,000 wines it sampled in the last two years exhibited signs of damage from...












