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Reimagining the Tasting Room: Why Hospitality Is the Future of Wine Sales
The tasting room used to be the heart of the winery business model. Walk-ins became club members. Club members became brand ambassadors. Revenue flowed predictably, and the formula worked. That’s changing. Visitation...
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Wine Industry Insiders with Susan DeMatei
In this episode, George interviews Susan DeMatei, Founder and President of WineGlass Marketing. They discuss her love/hate relationship with Corporate Marketing Agencies during the ’90s, her two...
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Digital Friction in the Wine Industry: Meeting Modern Consumer Expectations
Strategies to enhance user experience, personalization and loyalty for millennials and Gen Z consumers in wine e-commerce By Laurie Wachter   Is “digital friction” in your team’s...
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Wine Industry Sales Symposium (WISS) a Success
In-person event delivered actionable takeaways for attendees seeking to increase sales and make genuine customer connections. May 15, 2023 (Healdsburg, Calif.) – Last week’s Wine Industry Sales Symposium,...
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The Results Are In! The Annual Email Benchmark Report
Each December, WineGlass Marketing releases email benchmarks for the wine industry. We do this because having a bar to evaluate email performance has always been a challenge within the wine ecosystem....
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Marketing During a Crisis: Tips to Pivot Your Marketing Messages (Webinar)
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected all aspects of how we do business, including marketing. And when it comes to current and planned campaigns, marketing teams face unique challenges during a crisis.
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Afternoon Brief, April 14
Marketing During a Crisis - Tips to Pivot Your Marketing Messages: Recession Marketing ProTip: Understanding consumer psychology and the underlying emotions is critical when advertising during a reces...
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Marketing During a Crisis – Tips to Pivot Your Marketing Messages
Recession Marketing ProTip: Understanding consumer psychology and the underlying emotions is critical when advertising during a recession.  In the wine industry, we don’t typically analyze consumers’...
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Changing Our Thinking for the Digital Age
By Susan DeMatei Wineries, as their true selves, are an agricultural business. Sagacious written advice for agriculture success has been around a long time – arguably since 800 BC when the Greeks wrote...
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Afternoon Brief, October 24
Study Finds Red Wines Gets Higher Scores for No Apparent Reason: Do experts rate red wines more highly than white wines, regardless of price, vintage, and region? Does this mean there is a critical bias...