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Sampling Spirits and Wine. A Guide.

Sampling spirits and wine. A guide. I recently ask a simple question to a marketer of bourbon. "Does the brand care whether or not it has a relationship with the customer who actually drinks its product?" He immediately said yes. They had set aside a boat load of money to work the direct to consumer market. The way this is currently done is via legal shippers and delivery companies. Examples may include Drizzly or some other company that has built methods to compliantly ship. In other conversations I have been asking, how much do you spend to get someone to…

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Marketing attribution for spirits, wine, and beer brands.

Marketing attribution for spirits, wine, and beer brands is considerably far behind other businesses. I am a fan of Sudipto Ghosh's definition of marketing attribution. The following definition is found this MartechSeries.com article. "Marketing Attribution is defined as the process of attributing the source and their outcomes in terms of ROI of conversions across multiple campaigns at different customer touch-points. Before getting started with attribution, marketers need to identify these touch points. Each touch point will have its marketing attribution model. These models determine how the organization endorses leads generated from campaign touch points."https://martechseries.com/mts-insights/staff-writers/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-marketing-attribution/ Seems fairly clear doesn't it? In most cases, the…

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Angel’s Share will apply to alcohol related investments not just distiller’s barrels.

Angel's Share will apply to alcohol related investments not just distiller's barrels. 4% to 10% of unfinished bourbon in the barrel evaporates away. This is known as the angel's share. $1.25 billion has been invested in alcohol related startups up to October 31st, 2021. Why would I suggest that these investments may not perform as expected or hoped? Let's take a look at some details. Online alcohol sales jumped 234 percent year over year in the early weeks of the pandemic, global data analytics company Nielsen Corp. reported in 2020. Months later, many Americans said they were imbibing 14 percent more…

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Spirits and wine sampling should deliver relationships

Spirits and wine sampling should deliver relationships. If it doesn't, why not? Over the course of writing this post, we are asking ourselves, and you, some tough questions. As a spirits brand, are you building relationships that do not require distributor personnel? Are you doing anything differently from the competition to enhance relationships with your key on-premise accounts? Doing things better or leading on price is a non-starter. What are you doing that is different? When the marketing people say they know who buys your product, how do they really know? Sure they know the distributors who buy. They know…

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Sampling as a Service ROI

A wine supplier recently asked us about our Sampling as a Service ROI. We thought it an odd question given the ROI of any supplier spend is largely unmeasured. Ultimately, case counts are the only measure being considered by the spirits and wine industry. However, when you're launching a new category, in our case digital activation, you have to educate people to new language. We're using this post to layout an example of sampling as a service ROI. In the graphic below, you see a table featuring hard metrics, these are measurable metrics. Soft metrics are important and in this…

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Marketing Your Beverage Program with Sampling as a Service Software

Marketing your beverage program with Sampling as a Service Software is fun, easy, and nearly free! Nearly means, it costs you nothing but a little time. This isn't meant to be an all inclusive list of how to leverage our system. We know the best ideas and implementations are yet to come! Here are some suggested ways to leverage the platform. 1) Knowing that many of your customers would "gift" cocktail, wine, and beer experiences with friends, colleagues, and consider a "Flight". Flights are terrific ways for customers to experience your environment in new and exciting ways. If you're a cocktail…

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How Jim used beverage marketing software.

Jim used beverage marketing software. We'll find out how but first a question. What is beverage marketing software? Shared Spirits conceived and built a mobile app and underlying software system that allows spirits, wine, and beer brands to leverage marketing spends in new ways. Software becomes exponentially more valuable when it is used by multiple parties. The more people in a supply chain use the tool, the more valuable it becomes for all users. Shared Spirits software compliantly converts marketing dollars from restaurants, bars, and brands to digital drink credits. What's a digital drink credit? A digital drink credit represented…

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Spirits and Wine Brands Support On-Premise Accounts While Growing Depletion

Spirits and wine brands support on-premise accounts while growing depletion. How so? I've been doing considerable research on the state of the industry lately. Workforce issues lead the list as the biggest issue facing operators. Margins remain razor thin and some hours have had to be modified to account for staffing issues. Here at Shared Spirits, our focus for the year is the restaurant or bar operator that's been killed via covid-19 hurdles. We have some thoughts on how the spirits, wine, and beer industries may support these key on-premise partners and still win in ways never before imagined. It…

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Sales Feedback is so Valuable

Sales feedback is so valuable. It is not always fun. I recently approached a local hospitality group on Facebook that had a section for Mentors. I approached a few people feeling I could have a short conversation. I wanted to talk about what Shared Spirits had built. During this period, approached 10 mentors with a quick request. Have a conversation with me. The request included my offer to pay for their time. My goal? Share our new beverage marketing software pricing plan. As a CEO, it's my job to be able to sell our product, our company, our investment potential,…

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Moving the adult beverage business to digital activation.

Utilizing the Buyer Utility Map framework from Blue Ocean Strategy, found in the breakout business text Blue Ocean Shift, I'll demonstrate why we are moving the adult beverage business to digital activation. In this case, the buyers of sampling and tasting programs are spirits and wine brands and occasionally, the distributors that have agreed to rep their products. Be mindful that in today's spirits and wine business in the US, the distributor has literally purchased the products from distilleries and vineyards or "suppliers". There is a LOT of money at stake. Diageo, the world's largest spirits and wine conglomerate with…

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