Choosing a wine niche is the way for a small vineyard or winery to be financially successful. A niche which you market consistently well to, and has no strong competitors is the ideal.
3. Overwhelmed by Wine Industry Competitors?
June 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
Is your great wine being overwhelmed by stronger wine industry brands perhaps with a more comprehensive wine marketing programme? Most wine industry competitors are doing what everyone else does – they are trying to copy success. They’ve looked at what others are doing and may have also chosen a less sophisticated form of analyzing niches – e.g. women, Napa Valley, cool climate Pinot Noir. Indeed they will probably be doing no marketing at all (Wine Business Monthly 2006, of the 9300 wineries in the US fewer than 10 percent have clear marketing strategies). This post outlines how to (re)position your brand.
2. Customer Wine Research, Insights into Premium Wine Consumers
May 31, 2011 By 3 Comments
Wine Research tells us that great wine product is a start but not enough. It needs to appeal to customers in other non sensory ways, including some not well known. I present a wine market model with three segments most interested in premium wine.
How many Premium Wine Drinkers are in your Area?
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m going to design some local market research. This will allow me to estimate the most important and sensitive elements of opening this particular wine store. It’s an easy and cheap, but statistically valid, way of doing research. I’ll create some questions, put it into a online survey form (SurveyGizmo), deliver the invitations to a representative local sample, and process the survey.
People drink other People’s Wines: the influence of others’ advice
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tony Spawton on why consumers buy wine. He says, ‘the expectations of the consumer varies with the occasion for which the wine is purchased. The wine consumer is promiscuous in brand, price, region and style so to suggest that the consumer is stuck in one category is a fallacy. Consumers are most influenced by the advice of others “people drink other peoples’ wines” a phrase I coined in the late 1980′s. Brand is important as a choice factor and variety is a given. Another phrase of mine is, “the package sells the first bottle the wine maker the second”. The extrinsic attributes need to be distinctive to break though the clutter and jog the consumer memory whether in the retail store or the restaurant.’
