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How Jay’s Vodka gets featured in Nashville restaurants.

How Jay's vodka gets featured in Nashville restaurants. Jay was curious about the Shared Spirits approach after having been referred to SS by his marketing agency. As we learn more about Jay's brand story, his presence in three states and his distribution, we learn he's knowledgeable about how things work. He was previously a distributor in Texas. He still owns a restaurant in Texas. He knows that the distributor for his brand in a new market needs marketing support that helps his brand stand out. What will provide the distributor's on-premise team the right story to excite them enough to prioritize sharing the brand…

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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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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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We Own Alcohol Industry Digital Activation

We own alcohol industry digital activation. There, I said it. In Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets, the breakout book on category design by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney, it's argued that companies shouldn't just want to compete if they intend to survive. They should instead seek to create an entirely new category. This category can be thoughtfully designed and intentionally dominated. Successful companies end up owning the category they created. By the time others have found out what happened, it's too late for anyone to catch up. One of the…

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In-Store Tastings with Engagement

Suppliers and brands in the spirits and wine business have been settling for less. They deserve in-store tastings with engagement. Engagement from the customers who frequent the retail stores and have the greatest potential to buy their products. The current in-store tasting generally occurs via an agency that sends out a young attractive female who spends more time on her phone than engaging with the consumer and proactively inviting them to the table to experience the brand and its story. A look across other industries is warranted. In Blue Ocean Strategy terms, this look across alternative industries is important because…

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Meet the Distiller. H Clark Distillery

Sherman G. Mohr of Liquid to Lips Marketing and Nextupatthemic.com had an opportunity recently to meet the distiller. Heath Clark of H Clark Distillery shared a few minutes with Sherman to discuss the history of the distillery and much more. Heath Clark is a well respected health care industry lawyer located in Williamson County Tennessee. Over the course of years, his passion for launching a new distillery grew. We found this was the case due to early inspiration. Heath's family members have been employed in Tennessee's distilling business for 40 years. His family's association with one of the globally known brands…

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