These are my links for July 21st through August 21st:

• Good Wine that Does Good
• Gallo’s social media strategy: First, do no harm
• How to Manage Twitter
• Why You Won’t Make Money With a Wine Blog
• Divining Markets within Beautiful Chaos
• What has blogging contributed to wine writing?
• UK: Concha y Toro unveils 50cl wine bottles
• Great Bathroom Wine Reading
• Video as an Effective Emotional Branding Medium
• Tech Trends Coming to a Winery near You
• Top 5 Wine Tourism Tips Iberia Can Learn from American Wine Producers
• Metrics for Social Media / Social Business
• Highlights from the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference
• The 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference: a foundation for raising the collective spirit
• After the Dust Settles …
• The Coming of Age of Wine Blogging
• An analysis of the 2009 Wine Bloggers’ Conference
• Jancis Robinson Talks About Her Career in Wine at IPNC
• The Blob: Will the wine industry co-opt social media for its own purposes?
• How To Pitch a Wine Blogger

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These are my links for August 6th through September 30th:

• Social Media Tools Are Like Phones | chrisbrogan.com
• Tablas Creek Vineyard Blog: Updated “How’s it drinking” Vintage Chart – An excellent idea for all wineries to do for their customers. A drinking window vintage chart.
• The Winery Web Site Report: Double Your Online Wine Sales? – Some good questions about website design and conversion rates from Mike Duffy… looking forward to reading the comments here.
• 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business | chrisbrogan.com – “We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape.”
• Twitter as a Marketing Tool | .eduGuru – A good post about using Twitter as a marketing tool.
• The Winery Web Site Report: The Art of Marketing Wine – “Wine marketing is not about features and benefits – it’s about emotion.”
• The Winery Web Site Report: This Coupon Is Not For You – Another good wine marketing tip from Mike Duffy. I hope a winery tries this out…
• Tablas Creek Vineyard Blog: A winery blog? Who needs it? – Some great advice from one of the best winery blogs on things to consider before blogging.
• Why Brands Are Unsuccessful in Twitter – “Rodney Rumford bluntly points out in this latest post about 33 Brands That Suck on Twitter…”
• 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site – Inside CRM – A good website checklist to follow to improve reader engagement.
• How Content Marketing Will Shake the Tree | chrisbrogan.com – Another great post from Chris Brogan about content marketing. It’s still amazing to me more wineries don’t podcast – audio or video – given one of the best examples of content marketing is Wine Library TV. No, you don’t need to be like Gary V to win here.
• The Escalator Pitch – “Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a “Twitpitch” about your business, it would be over by now.”
• PR Secrets for Startups – A good overview and discussion of “PR 2.0″
• Would YOU be able to tell the difference between a $15 and a $150 wine? | Uncorked | Wine advice and commentary – “There have always been good wines and better wines, but the luxury products manufacturers and the mass brands got really smart about marketing their products. They created this niche out of thin air.”
• The Winery Web Site Report: Twitter for Business – “John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing has created a free e-book called Twitter for Business which will help you take the next steps to using Twitter to meet specific marketing goals (which he lists).”

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• Wine Blogging from the Perspective of a Small Rioja Winery, Miguel Merino

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These are my links for July 26th through August 3rd:

• Gary Vaynerchuk: The wine world’s new superstar – Features, Food & Drink – The Independent – “In a spartan room above a New Jersey liquor store, a revolution is fermenting. With his witty, irreverent, in-your-face approach to the time-honoured art of wine tasting, Gary Vaynerchuk, the 32-year-old son of Soviet immigrants, is a megastar…”
• Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss | chrisbrogan.com – For those looking for the benefits of social media marketing, here’s a dozen to start with…
• How to Measure Social Media ROI for Business – “The key takeaway, regardless of how your company chooses to measure engagement, is that you have a success metric in mind before you begin. Without some sort of benchmark, it’s impossible to determine your ROI.”
• Social Media will Normalize –Why Dedicated Roles and Direction are Required – “Summary: Expect dedicated roles to appear –but as a guide, not a force”
• How I use Twitter, and you? – Good primer on using Twitter fully for those confused or just starting out.
• smashLAB – White Paper: A Primer in Social Media – Excellent white paper on social media; every winery owner should read this…
• Why does wine blogging matter? – “The wine business has always sought ways to reach out to consumers and communicate the personality and individuality of their wines, and now blogging… makes this possible.”
• Honig Blog – “There is absolutely no reason natural wine corks should end up as landfill, when recycled cork can be converted into a variety of new products.” — a good cause more wineries should support.
• Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Gratefulness – A great post about one of my clients’ new blog. Some good points about writing style and point of view that is applicable to any winery who blogs.
• How to Make Your Blog More Personal – “Over the last few years of blogging I’ve found that readers really respond well to when you approach your blogging in a more personal way.”
• 50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice | chrisbrogan.com – A great digest of tips for getting the most out of your social media initiatives by Chris Brogan.
• Wannabe Wino: Michel Schlumberger Jumps In! – “I’d like to extend a warm welcome to the newest winery blog, coming from one of my favorite Sonoma area wineries, Michel Schlumberger.”
• Israeli Wine Tweetups are Coming: For Twitterers ONLY! | Israeli Wine Direct – “SO if you want to play, and you live in a state we can ship to, and you can get a group of 10+ people, THEN first, follow me here on Twitter, then email me richard@israeliwinedirect.com to chat further.”

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• Guardian column: Gary Vaynerchuk

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These are my links for July 21st through July 24th:

• Testing 1,2,3…Is This Thing On? | Benchland Blog – An new winery blog is born… check it out.
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Brix: What’s In It For Me? – Interesting open source CMS from IBG.
• Neuromarketing » Clever Wine Marketing – Good post about how Killer Juice is changing customer expecations with their box wine via clever marketing.
• Millennials are Supporting Independent Labels – “The future of the world thus depends on the little guy, the independent store and the niche label – and thus whilst the big brand peddling baby-boomers have been the antithesis of what the world needs, the mass label eschewing millennials will save…”
• Wines & Vines – Wine Industry News Headlines – Continuum Finds a Home – “Continuum, a partnership of the Marcia and Tim Mondavi families and Margrit Biever Mondavi, announced today it has completed its purchase of Cloud View Vineyards on Pritchard Hill, overlooking the Napa Valley….” — Great to see The Mondavi’s back.
• Bloomberg.com: Muse Arts – “It all began here,” Montefiore said. “Israel has been making wines for 5,000 years. It’s in the biblical history, part of Judaism and Christianity.”
• Breaking Wine News: Bordeaux’s Cos d’Estournel Buys Napa’s Chateau Montelena – Vinography: A Wine Blog – Quite ironic given that Montelena won the Paris tasting of 1976 with their Chardonnay.
• Wine Tastings Are Now Just A Tweet Away (Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic) – “Twitter has been used by a new wine company, Bin Ends, located in Braintree, Massachusetts, to facilitate online wine tastings. Dozens of people, armed with their Twitter accounts, participated recently in the now-monthly tastings…”
• Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto – “The dumbest money spent in the wine business? Wine trade commission ads for countries. Dumb, dumb, dumb.” — Yep, 100% right, Jeff!
• The Wine Conversation: Interactive Wine Sites – Some good advice about using Flash splash screens on winery websites… it just seems so 20th Century and breaks iPhone display of the site.

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These are my links for July 19th through July 20th:

• 50 Ways to use Social Media, listed by Objective – A great breakdown of 50 social media tactics by objective; required reading.
• 380 Attend Compliance Conference: Video & Slides Now Available – ShipCompliant – ShipCompliant’s 3rd annual Direct Shipping Seminar and Users Conference was the largest yet with over 380 winery staff, ShipCompliant users, and ShiCompliant partners in attendance.
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Winery Blogging: A Second Look – “He [Gary Vaynerchuk] delivered an inspiring talk at our symposium shaming the audience for ignoring blogs and social networking and saying that every winery had an obligation to blog or see their business go the way of the dinosaur.”
• The Winery Web Site Report: Yet Another Reason Not To Have A Splash Page On Your Site – “Remember, no matter how cool your splash page is, your site visitor didn’t come there to see it.”
• Gary V on the need to blog: right or wrong? | Small Winery Marketing – Some thoughts about Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk at the recent Inertia Beverage symposium.
• Is it curtains for critics? | Theatre story | guardian.co.uk Arts – No, but there will be fewer critics in second city markets…

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These are my links for July 11th through July 14th:

• If You Intend To Blog Seriously | chrisbrogan.com – Great advice on blogging… should you decide to do so.
• Good Wine Under $20: Through the Looking Glass: Seeing Online Wine Culture from the Other Side – “People in the wine business know that online wine culture is important.” … “We are in a major shift from points to personality in the wine world.”
• Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto – However, there is one simple no-brainer way that is infrequently, if ever, used in wine retail merchandising… Duh. Wine is never grouped by winery.
• Managed Word of Mouth-Still Thinking | chrisbrogan.com – I just re-read Dave Balter’s Word of Mouth Manual. You might recall that I wrote about it here a few weeks ago. There’s a link to a free download on that last
• The Winery Web Site Report: Winery Blogging Do’s and Don’ts – Some good advice from Mike Duffy on blogging.
• How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps – Some good resource links in this article.
• Live! 2008 ShipCompliant Users Conference – ShipCompliant – Great use of social media but I wonder why they didn’t record this for people like me who missed the live broadcast?

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These are my links for July 8th through July 11th:

• I’m Pouring Israeli Wine for 200 Lady Bloggers! | Israeli Wine Direct – Putting some of the theories I’ve been blogging about into action… a case study will be forthcoming after the event next week.
• Another Paper Return Bites the Dust: Required Electronic Filing in New York (Due July 15th) – ShipCompliant – New York announced that their semi-annual New York Wine Manufacturer’s Report of All Wine Directly Sold and Shipped? is required to be filed online. Shipments made from January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008 must be reported to the New York Liquor…
• Ten Secrets to Better Blogging | chrisbrogan.com – 10 articles on blogging by Chris Brogan.
• The Winery Web Site Report: Creating Online Video – If you’re thinking about dipping your toe into online video for your winery, here’s a nice guide to doing online video on the cheap and easy.
• How to Change the World: Everything You Need to Know About Online Advertising–Advice from 1923 – Hopkins’s book is only fifty-seven pages long, but it’s filled with simple, clear, and classic advice about topics such as salesmanship, headlines, storytelling, pricing, content, samples, distribution, testing, and naming.
• Social Media Does Not Replace Marketing Strategy | chrisbrogan.com – “BUT social media tools alone are not especially built to carve out more productive customers on their own. That still requires a strategy and surrounding marketing & products to help convert potential segments of the community into potential customers.”

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These are my links for July 3rd through July 8th:

• The Connection Between Wine & Web 2.0 | Easy Renegade – You may ask what on earth has wine and web 2.0 got to do with each other? Just about everything if you listen to these snippets of the interview that Rich Schefren did with Wine Library TV host, Gary Vaynerchuck.
• eWinery Solutions and ShipCompliant Complete Real-time Integration – eWinery Solutions, a market leading e-commerce software company dedicated exclusively to the wine industry and ShipCompliant announced today the launch of eWinery’s real-time integration with ShipCompliant’s compliance engine.
• Wine Marketing + Law Canada – Interesting new Canadian wine blog focused on legal issues.
• Digital Web Magazine – Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy – If your client or company does not have an existing communications plan, or even a mission statement that includes nods to openness or transparency, a social media strategy might be a good starting point for developing one.
• What Social Media Does Best | chrisbrogan.com – “If you?re still looking for the best ways to explain to senior management or your team or your coworkers or your spouse what it is that social media does, why it?s different than the old way people used to use computers…”
• A Sample Blogging Workflow | chrisbrogan.com – A GREAT post about the mechanics of blogging for those just starting out. Even those of us who have been doing this for a while will learn something (at least, I did).
• Raiders of the Lost Vine Revive Long-Forgotten Grapes – WSJ.com – A new trend? “Mr. Reinotti, 29 years old, practices the agricultural equivalent of archaeology, looking for long-abandoned vines that can be brought back into cultivation and, eventually, turned into wine.”
• Guests pay $10k to celebrate Mondavi life – decanter.com – the route to all good wine – Nine Napa Valley wineries, five of America’s best chefs, 95 guests and a panel led by Jancis Robinson MW remembered the life of Robert Mondavi last week.

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These are my links for July 1st through July 2nd:

• Boutique non-kosher Israeli wine now in the US « HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog – I have written previously about Israeli Wine Direct and the important work Richard Shaffer and his team are doing to bring small-quantity Israeli wine into the United States.
• New Camera Phone Application from CorkSavvy.com Puts the Wine Journal Online – MarketWatch – Never again will you forget the bottle of wine you had at dinner. CorkSavvy.com – the website where wine lovers get savvy – recently launched an inventive new application for smart phone users, allowing them to electronically store bottles of wine…
• Press J for ‘Jammy’ | Newsweek Newsweek | Newsweek.com – As much as I love technology and how WineConnect works, kiosks will be no more than a novity in the wine industry. Best to take the brains behind these and adapt them to a mobile website for market imact IMO.
• Wine marketing goes high-tech – Jun. 30, 2008 – “I became part of the conversation instead of dictating the conversation,” says Gary Vaynerchuk
• Context: The Keystone of Wine Education – Meanwhile, Josh at Pinotblogger has some other thoughts on wine education.
• YouTube – Wine Tasting with Gary Vaynerchuk & Kevin Rose – Gary Vaynerchuk and Kevin Rose define the new age of wine education in this video.

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These are my links for June 25th through June 26th:

• The Winery Web Site Report: Three Questions for Your Winery Web Site – Here are three questions to ask every day about your site:
  1. How many visitors?
  2. How many of those were repeat visitors?
  3. How many of your visitors have purchased your wine in the past year?
• Tablas Creek Vineyard Blog: A Library Wine Club? – An example of how to use your winery blog for customer feedback… one of the reasons Tablas Creek won the Best Winery Blog award this year.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: Wine Drinkers Still Trading Up – Table wine dollar sales grew 5.7% and volume rose 1.5% in the four weeks to May 18, according to IRI scan data, with growth of domestic wines far outpacing imports.
• 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media | chrisbrogan.com – A great list of resources for promoting your brand via social media. A nice companion to my recent post on choosing social media sites.
• KosherWineReport.com: Grapes on the Golan – Newsweek June 16th 2008 – Israel’s boutique wine industry is finally taking off. But now peace talks may threaten their prospects.

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These are my links for June 19th through June 24th:

• Wine Brands: Generation Y: the lost generation? – Interesting post about three market segments from Gen-Y, the “forgotten” generation between Gen-X and Millennials (or are they just “old Millennials”?)
• The Winery Web Site Report: Conversational Marketing for Wineries – Wondering what social media is all about? Take a look at Social Media in Plain English (great video overview of social media)
• 1200 gather to pay tribute to Mondavi – decanter.com – the route to all good wine – Over a thousand guests gathered on what would have been Robert Mondavi’s 95th birthday to pay tribute to the life of the legendary Napa winemaker. Earlier memorials had featured the family and his closest friends, and a huge public gathering is planned…
• Israel’s wine industry reveals its California ties – Once on the fringe of the wine world, Israel’s current generation of winemakers is traveling, studying and working in vineyards throughout the world. The international experience they bring back has created a new generation of Israeli wineries.
• Wine Brands: After women and Millennials, a new target: the gay community? – When writing Wine Brands I was mostly interested in two groups, women and Millennials. I might have missed a third group, the gay community, targeted by wine makers as early as 2003.
• The Winery Web Site Report: Twitter for Wineries – Once a week, tweet (that is, send) a special promotional code to your followers for free shipping, an 10% discount, a limited availability wine, a rubber chicken, whatever… See what happens. If you like the results, do more of it…

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Since I haven’t posted links for a while, there are some older ones in this digest. I’ll be posting these 2-3 times each week depending upon how many I find in my blog reading.

These are my links for June 12th through June 18th:

• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Chasing the Elusive 360 degree View of the Customer – Wine marketers are increasingly finding themselves in the position of working with fragmented pieces of information from several different technology vendors in developing and executing their marketing strategies…
• The Social Customer Manifesto: Get “The Word Of Mouth Manual” For Free – Dave Balter has written a new book, “The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II.” You can get it for 45 bucks at Amazon.Or, you could download it for free here. It’s sized for easy screen reading, and that’s kinda cool.

  Good stuff.

• Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: The Wine Bloggers Conference is Here! – This is the first time that wine bloggers from across the country have had the opportunity to gather together. And this seems odd in a way.
• Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Grape Radio and Wine & Spirits Mag–Big Winner! – Congrats to the Grape Radio team for winning a Beard award for their great wine podcast; well deserved.
• gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: wine as commodity – “We’re not in the wine business. We’re in the decommodification business.”
• Consumers will carry on drinking wine despite recession: survey – decanter.com – the route to all good wine – Good news for wineries that consumers will not immediately cut their wine consumption during current economic times. It will be interesting to see if consumers buy in lower price tiers or constinue to seek out new wine experiences no matter the price pt.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: Industry Says Goodbye to Bob Mondavi – R.I.P. Robert Mondavi. You have inspired many generations of wine lovers and producers.

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These are my links from the past week of blog reading:

• Wine Brands: Wine consumers in the US – Data on U.S. wine consumers presented at the recent Direct to Consumer Symposium in Napa.
• MediaShift . Microblogging Mania::Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News | PBS – Good post about the advantages and disadvantages of Twitter.
• The Fourth Annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium Announces Session Topics – Session topics for July’s Wine Industry Technology Symposium announced.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: SVB Remains Optimistic in ?08 – Summary of Silicon Valley Bank’s annual State of the Wine Industry Report.
• Wine & Spirits Daily: U.S. Getting Tougher for Imports – Sales information about sales for imported wine vs. domestic producers.
• The Cork Board » Blog Archive » Get your (mostly) Napa Valley winery widgets here – A post about how easy it is to create a widget from your blog that can be used to spread the word via social networks like Facebook.
• Twitter 101: Clarifying The Rules For Newbies | SheGeeks – A “Twitter for Newbies” post.
• Where Bloggers Get Their Biggest Levels of Traffic – Chart showing the growth of social media sites as traffic generators for bloggers.
• Social Network Spending to Increase – Interesting statistics about the growth of social network spending based upon a Forrester Research report.
• Blogging connections – OpenWine Consortium – Good blogging overview video posted in the OpenWine Consortium (which everyone in the wine trade should be a member of IMO).
• Project Vino Twitter Wine Tasting – Interesting project in Australia using Twitter to post tasting notes on behalf of a wine brand.

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These are my links for April 29th through May 2nd:

• The Social Customer Manifesto: Hot Links: Social Media, Customers, and Business Models – For intermediate and advanced practioners of wine social media, some links from The Social Customer Manifesto blog.
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Wine Industry People with Strong Kung Foo – Interesting list of wine industry “kung foo” masters from Paul Mabray of IBG.
• Wines & Vines – News Headlines – Who Buys Wine Direct? – Report about customer insights from the Direct to Consumer Symposium being held in Napa this week.
• Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: What Does It All Mean? – Results of Tom Wark’s latest poll of blog readers and their use of the internet; Interesting and surprising results.

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These are my links for April 22nd through April 25th:

• A professional’s view on how to make a wine’s reputation – Jancis Robinson offers wineries some advice on how to present their wines to wine writers and critics.
• I Am Not a Parasite ? But I Do Accept Free Samples · Wine Enthusiast Magazine?s Unreserved – Jim Gordon from Wine Enthusiast responds to Alder’s post.
• Wine Critics are Parasites, But That Doesn’t Mean We Can Be Bought – Vinography: A Wine Blog – Good piece from Alder at Vinography responding to Jancis Robinson’s comments earlier in the week.
• Snooth Blog » Self promotion – A good post about how wineries can promote themselves on sites like Snooth and not appear to be too self-promoting.
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » REthink Compliance: New Webinar Schedule – Schedule for IBG compliance tool webinars.
• The Winery Web Site Report: Sorry, Don, but this is *not* a blog. – Is it a blog if there are no RSS feeds? No, it’s just a webpage.
• A Closer Look at The Wine Trials’ – The Pour – Dining & Wine – New York Times Blog – Eric Asimov returns to “The Wine Trials” in another post… now he’s read the book.

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These are my links for April 19th through April 21st:

• Air Travel Restrictions Changing Wine Lovers’ Buying Habits, BottleWise Poll Finds – Interesting study which points to why wineries should ramp up their direct to consumer shipping program.
• Jancis Robinson: critics should show more humility – decanter.com – the route to all good wine – It’s clear to me that wine criticism is moving towards the blogosphere and away from a few newsletters such as the Wine Advocate. Critic Jancis Robinson certainly understands this from her recent comments in Spain.
• Wines & Vines – News Headlines – New Company Specializes in Wine Shipping – Vin Lux promises ‘concierge level’ service throughout California
• Tastes Great, Less Billing | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com – The Newsweek piece referenced in the previous link.
• Does Taste Have a Price? – The Pour – Dining & Wine – New York Times Blog – Good post from Eric Asimov regarding Newsweek’s recent article about “The Wine Trials” book.

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These are my links for April 18th:

• The Wine Collector: Practical Wine Collecting Advice – Some interesting advice for wine critics from Steve at Vinfolio.
• Wine Brands: Wine critics vs. wine consumers – Good post about consumers sharing their wine picks online and the changing role of the wine critic.
• Does Expensive Wine Taste Better Than Cheap Wine? – Vinography: A Wine Blog – A post from Alder at Vinography pointing to an interesting study from the American Association of Wine Economics. Their findings: “Individuals who are unaware of the price do not derive more enjoyment
  from more expensive wine.”
• AFP: French wines still tops, says critic Parker – French wines still reign supreme, setting the bar for New World and other producers, American wine critic Robert Parker said in an interview Thursday.Not sure if I agree with Mr. Parker but he does taste a lot more wine than I do.

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These are my links for April 17th from 11:57 to 11:58:

• Parker: Bordeaux 2007 ‘disappointing’ – decanter.com – the route to all good wine – Bad vintage for Bordeaux might be good news for domestic producers.
• Wine Spectator | Articles | Wine Spectator Launches Second Annual Video Contest – Wine Spectator is again sponsoring a video contest which is a good way for a winery to get exposure for their brand without paying the normal advertising rates.

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These are my links for April 15th through April 16th:

• Snooth Blog » Snooth Announces International Expansion, Regional Search Capability – Snooth expands Internationally which sets them apart from the rest of the Wine 2.0 pack; for now, anyway.
• Compliance Tools – Home – IBG REthink Compliance tool is released for free.
• Springwise: Wine by the trial-sized tube – A great idea for sampling wine to customers, bloggers, etc.
• Industry Leaders, Technology Experts to Gather at Fourth Annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium on July 14-15, 2008: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance – 4th Wine Industry Tech Symposium, July 14-15, 2008
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Retain your Customers in the face of rising Club Attrition Rates – Some good wine club retention tips from the folks at IBG.
• 75th Anniversary of Prohibition’s Repeal Shows Little Has Changed: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance – The SWRA commemorates the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s repeal comparing gangsters of the earlier era with today’s wine wholesalers.

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These are my links for April 11th through April 14th:

• Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Ignorance & Quality: The Big Wine Question – An excellent post reacting to the new book, “Wine Trials.” Why are less expensive wines preferred by experts and non-experts when tasted blind?
• Tablas Creek Vineyard Blog: Usability Lessons for Winery Web Sites – Some good suggestions on winery website usability from Tablas Creek’s blog.
• Wine Brands: Blogs and Brands – Post about how wine brands should focus on blogs as part of their customer outreach.
• More Events – come join us! – ShipCompliant – Women for WineSense event announcement.
• gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: looks like i’m back drinking the stormhoek kool-aid again – Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com resumes his social marketing work with Stormhoek after a changing of ownership. Watch this space…
• Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto – Jeff draws a comparison with IBM and the wine industry. As usual, he is spot on…

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