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Peter Andres
 
May 17, 2011 | Peter Andres

Website Design 101

We spend a lot of time working with wineries and wine stores crafting and directing the creative for their website. Here are three things to consider when tackling a wine website design.  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
February 22, 2010 | Peter Andres

Bridging Marketing Channels - Converting Tasting Room Visitors into Profitable Mailing List Members

One of the powerful things a winery can do with tasting room traffic is convert them from casual visitors to members of your winery's mailing list.  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
October 2, 2009 | Peter Andres

Connecting to your wine website visitors

In my last blog post "The Experience" I talked about how winery websites face the challenge of sharing a persuasive experience on their website, or sharing the essence of the winery and wine. Here is another great way...  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
September 8, 2009 | Peter Andres

The Experience

As an owner of a wine web site one of the biggest challenges you will face is conveying "The Experience" of your winery, facility, vineyard, and wines.   Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
August 24, 2009 | Peter Andres

Fine Tune Your Newsletter Sign Up

For the most part winery websites simply put up a form to capture email addresses in the hopes that people will sign up. This strategy or lack there of isn't effective and doesn't create a valuable business resource. So how can we make this better?  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
July 24, 2009 | Peter Andres

The boring old newsletter signup - what's the point?

These days it is all about the social media. Let me just say that you should start with the email list and then move onto the other stuff.   Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
July 7, 2009 | Peter Andres

New promotional tools on the Vin 65 platform

This week we enhanced our List BuilderĀ® tool to include two new features that we think are very cool. These were features requested by clients and we liked their thinking.  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
February 4, 2009 | Peter Andres

You Are Expected To Do It All!

As a small winery owner you are expected to do it all. You are running the big show. You are on the hook for the results.  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
October 21, 2008 | Peter Andres

Great Label Implementation

What part of your organization gets the most exposure? Your label. So how do you get the most out of it? Here's how.  Continue »

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Peter Andres
 
October 8, 2008 | Peter Andres

Profiling Customers Based On Their Emotional Profile

You can profile your customers in a couple of ways. For this post I am going to talk about how customers make buying decisions based on their emotional profile.   Continue »

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