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WIN Expo 2022: Technology, Sustainability and Leadership in the Seminar Sessions
This year’s seminar tracks challenge accepted norms with new communication methods and unexpected product presentations. Plus, using technology to enhance sustainability is just good business practice.  By...
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Afternoon Brief, October 4th
Farmworkers, Napa-Sonoma Trade Groups React to New California Unionization Law: Advocates for farmworker rights in the North Coast are cheering a newly inked compromise in Sacramento that could make it...
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VinterActive Launches Free Text Marketing App for Small Wine Merchants
New app transforms SimpleTexting™ into a wine marketing machine — starting @ $29/mo October 4th – Windsor, CA – VinterActive LLCcontinues to pioneer new ways for wine merchants to profit from...
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Afternoon Brief, September 8th
10th Annual Wine Industry Expo Attendee Registration Opens: Wine Industry Network opened registration for the 10th Annual North Coast Wine Industry Trade Show & Conference (WIN Expo), scheduled for...
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Best Practices for Text Marketing in the Wine Industry
2021 was a banner year for wineries that sell directly to consumers.  Twenty-nine percent of wine marketers reported their best year ever on the strength of ecommerce and innovation in the way consumers...
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Afternoon Brief, December 8th
Foley Family Wines Acquires Chateau St. Jean in Kenwood: Foley Family Wines today announced the acquisition of Chateau St. Jean winery from Treasury Wine Estates…
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Coronavirus Again Exposes Fragility of Hospitality Driven Wine Business
In the beginning of March when the seriousness of the Coronavirus outbreak began to dawn on US Consumers, WineDirect noticed an immediate 22% volume decrease in weekend tasting room sales compared to the...
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Afternoon Brief, November 18
Wine Moguls Destroy Land and Pay Small Fines as Cost of Business, Say Activists: After California wine industry mogul Hugh Reimers illegally destroyed at least 140 acres of forest, meadow and stream in...
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Automated Wine Marketing Has Potential to Boost Company Revenues by as Much as 50%
If someone told you that you could increase your business by a whopping 50 percent through an affordable technology using the principles of preference based marketing, would you be willing to give it a...
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Intersection of Key Findings from Two Major DTC Reports
For wineries seeking answers and comparisons, there are two major reports available which can give insights into sales and marketing trends and tactics. Released in May 2019, VinterActive’s VinQuest Report...
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SecureWineShop™ Offers the Industry's Best Value All-in-One Wine Sales Software
Visit VinterActive at Booth #703 where they will be exhibiting their latest generation of winery POS, wine club management, ecommerce, email marketing, and winery website solutions.   With POS, wine...
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Top 10 DTC Sales Growth Practices
Bryan St. Amant of VinterActive LLC has been doing VinQuest research for more than a decade, producing data that illustrates which tactics have been successful for wineries seeking more direct to consumer...
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Excellent Hospitality Shows Direct Impact on Wine Sales
The 2017 VinQuest Tasting Room Survey revealed that wineries that employed staff training saw 37% faster tasting room sales growth, 7% better tasting room conversion, and 83% quicker wine club sales growth....
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Tactics Associated with DTC Success
Direct to Consumer sales continues to be wineries’ most profitable revenue channel and in many cases, the only channel. However, developing a strategy that optimize sales, customer acquisition, and retention...
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East Coast DTC Survey Reveal Top Performing Winery Strategies with 50% Higher Growth
VinterActive has just released their newest data report, VinQuest 2017, which focuses on the East Coast wine industry’s direct-to-consumer practices. Bryan St. Amant, Founder & CEO of VinterActive,...
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Afternoon Brief, March 9
Total Wine Shipments to the US Expanded 3% to 399 Million Cases in 2016: For 12-months ending December 2016, Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates reports that total wine shipments into the US market expanded...
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