5 Questions To Ask Consumers are buying more wine than a year ago. That’s the good news and if you don’t look past that, everything looks rosy. DTC sales are still well above pre-pandemic levels but scratch the surface a bit and there are some reasons to ask questions on how the industry is encouraging […]
I published a blog post titled “DTC Wine Shipments are growing at a record pace. How long will it last?” in April of 2017. In it, I wrote about the euphoria around a 17% increase for DTC shipments the previous year. Several years before the pandemic, DTC was growing rapidly and Covid-19 gave it additional […]
The world is abuzz about AI and how it’s going to revolutionize our future in both good and bad ways. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t see an article in a major publication about it. Truth be told, we’ve been fascinated by it and have been looking at various AI tools to help […]
Published in MarTech There are two points of particular friction that currently hold back marketers wanting to strengthen customer relationships and engagement in an era of enhanced data privacy: The first is transparency. Consumers have shown repeatedly that they’re willing to share personal information in exchange for content that’s genuinely relevant to their interests. Instead […]
Published in Advertising Week With cookies and third-party tracking soon to come to an end, it’s time we take a look at how we can gather zero and first-party data directly from the customer. I had the good fortune to know one of the best collectors of data directly from the consumer’s mouth — the […]
According to Statista, 2021 will see social network spending in the U.S. rise to nearly $50 billion. Research conducted by The Content Factory indicates that “the average organization spends between $200 and $350 per day on social media marketing. This works out to be between $6,000 $10,500 per month or between $72,000 and $126,000 per […]
This is the year to invest in and revise your digital marketing plan. Why? Two big changes are coming in 2022: These two changes will revolutionize how we interact with consumers over email, text and on the Internet. If you didn’t know, first take a breath. Then, download this excellent article and overview of the changes from McKinsey […]
Over the past five years, the amount of data being acquired by marketers has risen steadily but here are three key questions: If you’re like most companies, you’ve acquired information on where your customers live, their gender, age and transactional history with your company. If you’re using a email marketing platform, you may also know […]
The 4 P’s of marketing (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) still get bandied about in business speak but have their roots to a time when marketers thought of consumers as shoppers who would follow their orders when presenting a product at a reasonable price, putting it in the right place and telling them where it […]
On August 13th, we held a webinar for 99 participants from the wine industry. We presented findings from two surveys that we conducted overlaid on top of data from three other sources. Included were: Our two surveys were conducted over a six-week period from late March to early May. Our data led us to some conclusions […]
