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Wine Adwords: Your First Campaign

28 January 2010

At some stage you’re going to see so many of the other local businesses start Google Adwords campaigns you’re going to want to try it out yourself. As long as you’ve got a website then I reckon you should just jump in – at the shallow end. If you’re a wine retailer, and wanted to have a go at Adwords, then follow these simple instructions in this series of posts.

Wine Internet Marketing: Five Wine Store Sub Markets

11 January 2010

There are a number of submarkets within wine online stores: 1. Wine Gifts, 2. Wine Clubs, 3. Single Wine purchase by individuals, 4. Corporate beverage purchases including wine 5. Special events such as weddings that include wine purchases.

Wine Marketing: Different Wine Consumers (2)

12 December 2009

The best academic research on wine drinkers is an Australian study that I believe is also very applicable to the US, UK and New Zealand. The Segments are: 1. Conservative, Wine Knowledgeable Wine Drinkers (20.9% of wine drinkers); 2. Image Oriented, Knowledge Seeking, Wine Drinkers (22.3%); 3. Basic Wine Drinkers (16.8%); 4. Experimenter, Highly Knowledgeable Wine Drinkers (19.0%); 5. Enjoyment Oriented, Social Wine Drinkers (20.9%)

Selling Wine Online: Your Point of Difference

9 December 2009

This post is about possible points of difference for an online wine retailer. First what most of the good online wine retailers offer, the “price of entry” rather than your point of difference. Second potential points of difference.

Selling Wine Online: The Long Tail of Wine- an opportunity?

8 December 2009

Chris Anderson, wrote a book called “The Long Tail”. It was a best seller, and is all about the millions of niches in the world and the successful businesses that have been built around this concept e.g. Amazon with books, iTunes with music, and Google Adwords with small business advertising. But the truth is the concept has a serious flaw.