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Brent Johnson
 
July 20, 2016 | Brent Johnson

Introducing Free Winery Websites From Vin65

We love the wine industry and we love focusing on how to help all wineries sell more wine. So we're happy to announce that as of today any winery can sign up for a free website with Vin65.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
April 25, 2016 | Brent Johnson

Free Support at Vin65. 5 Reasons Why We Made The Change.

Today, there is a big change, we’re excited to offer all of our clients free customer support! Now all of your ‘how to’ questions and troubleshooting that we used to bill for is free.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
April 1, 2016 | Brent Johnson

Artificial Intelligence Now Powers Vin65 Support

Amazon's powerful AI (artificial Intelligence) can now not only order you pizza, tell you the weather, and play your favorite songs, it can also answer your Vin65 support questions.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
April 21, 2015 | Brent Johnson

Shipping: Wineries... Can You Keep Up?

You're not Amazon, Walmart, or Target, and you don’t have the clout to demand killer shipping rates from UPS and FedEx - can you keep up with the large retailers pushing expectations for consumer shipping?  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
February 24, 2015 | Brent Johnson

Email: The Biggest ROI for Wineries

You're busy - there are a million things to do today on top of selling your wine. So, where do you focus? Where should you spend time to get the biggest bang for your buck - or in your case, ROI?  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
January 23, 2015 | Brent Johnson

Observations from an Emerging Wine Market (Colorado)

Last week, I attended the VinCO Conference and Trade Show in Grand Junction, CO. I was able to give two presentations to some of Colorado's most prominent winemakers, winery owners and emerging wineries. There were a lot of questions about selling more wine online - and I thought I'd share some insights.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
January 6, 2014 | Brent Johnson

4 Ways Your Buttons Can Increase Conversion

The ‘Add-To-Cart’ or ‘Buy’ button is essential if you want to sell wine on your website. Things like the colours, size, font, and location of these buttons play a very large factor subconsciously in a website visitor and will dictate whether or not they buy from you.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
September 19, 2013 | Brent Johnson

5 Holiday Preparation Tips For Your Website

Whether you’re ready for it or not, October, November and December (the holiday season) is rapidly approaching. It’s a good time to start planning and executing marketing campaigns on your websites.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
June 4, 2013 | Brent Johnson

Does Mobile POS Really Work?

On May 25th, the Vin65 team set out to eating our own dog food (aka Dogfooding) and drove four hours to the heart of wine country in Canada to see the iPad POS in action, learn from our customers/end consumers, and drink some wine.  Continue »

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Brent Johnson
 
May 21, 2013 | Brent Johnson

Three Tips in Google Analytics

If you're like most people, you glance at Google Analytics once in a while, but if you're not sure what you're looking at, here are three key things to keep an eye out for.  Continue »

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