James Walker, founder of CRM for Wineries, and me, Chris Towt, founder of VineSpring, will host a 15-minute presentation on the advantages of pushing customer and order data to Salesforce, enabling:
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With wineries, breweries, and other craft producers across the nation closing their doors to help stop the spread of COVID-19, many are now figuring out how to open their doors to online sales. We’ve helped hundreds of craft producers launch online storefronts and roll out successful club models since 2006. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way.
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VineSpring co-founder, Chris Towt, and I are back with another 3-Minute Challenge and this time we are explaining allocations and how you can use VineSpring tools to manage them.
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The VineSpring team has spent the last couple of weeks joining some key industry events—the DTC Symposium in Concord and the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium in Sacramento. Aku Desai, VineSpring’s Director of Sales, shares his experience and the trends he observed after attending this year’s events.
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MailChimp delivers more than just email. It has become a world-class marketing automation platform and VineSpring’s direct integration empowers craft producers to use their innovative features and connect with customers. In this 3-Minute Challenge, we show you how to use the abandoned cart feature.
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We LOVE Thursdays at VineSpring. Why? Because Thursdays are RELEASE DAYS. Meaning that it’s the day each week when our Product and Dev teams release new features into VineSpring.
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In this Three Minute Challenge video, we want to show you how easy it is to set up custom clubs and allow your customers to engage. See how to set default items, customizable items, date parameters, batch notifications, and more.
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The beauty of using a connected platform is that you get to fine-tune your systems and create a unique system that satisfies your winery’s needs. An example of this is the ability to customize your website. Vin, a digital and brand design agency for the wine world, created an easy-to-use plugin for integrating VineSpring into WordPress websites.
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WineGlass Marking developed an incredible integration between VineSpring and Quickbooks. With this integration, VineSpring clients have automatic transfers of orders and payments to Quickbooks Desktop for easy, accurate, and always up-to-date accounting.
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Craft industry technology is historically behind-the-times, leaving producers on their heels in their attempts to grow their business and improve the customer experience. The new VineSpring platform fixes that.
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When you only release once or twice a year, it can be challenging to remember all of the pieces that go into the launch. We are here to help! Watch our recorded webinar and learn best practices for creating and testing releases.
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Customers are the center of your world and each of you has your own, special formula to make customers feel valued. Highly-allocated wineries seem to represent the pinnacle of this focus. Why mess with this seeming perfection? It’s stunningly inefficient.
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The key to the hub-and-spoke model is that all of our systems are talking to one another, and each of those systems is contributing their industry best to the overall experience.
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I'm excited to announce that the new and improved VineSpring is here. The team has worked hard and in close collaboration with our clients to create a new and improved version of the platform to power the future of the craft beverage business.
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With direct-to-consumer wine shipping, wineries are able to expand their reach far beyond the tasting room. That’s why we provide a direct integration with MailChimp, a world-renowned email marketing platform. Watch a recording of the webinar to get started.
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In this week’s roundup, Vin Agency creates a custom VineSpring WordPress plugin and VineSpring is hiring a Senior Account Executive. ShipCompliant announces their new Carrier Compliance Portal in collaboration with FedEx and recent data shows what types of wine Americans are buying. We explore the current state of TTB and and review how wineries can become ADA compliant.
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In this week’s roundup, learn how technology can assist with complex allocations and the barriers around direct-to-consumer (DTC) wine shipping continue for Alabama. Rob McMillan uses data to devise ways to attract millennials and MailChimp expands their offerings beyond email. Lastly, Wine-Searcher reveals which states are the most curious about wine.
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In this week’s roundup, learn how to grow your winery with integrated email marketing and get a glimpse into how one winery used Artificial Intelligence to save their business. Organic growing becomes a marketing opportunity for the Pacific Northwest and Oklahoma Governor signs a new bill that changes liquor distribution rules. Lastly, learn six tips for updating your website to make it more likely to get media coverage.
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In this week’s roundup, learn the benefits of using hub-and-spoke technology to power your winery’s DTC channel and see how retailers have made online wine more affordable in California. Augmented reality opens up engaging possibilities for wine marketers. TTB has ramped up their enforcement and Free the Grapes is encouraging wine-shipping advocates to contact legislators with their support for Alabama DTC shipping.
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In this week’s roundup, we map out ways wineries can leverage their data to delight customers and review a study that looks into what wineries could be doing to attract more customers online. Colorado simplifies its sales tax requirements and we learn ten tactics for retaining existing customers. An in-depth analysis shows how much people spend on booze across America and the Oregon Senate passed bills that supporters hope will protect the region’s brand identity.
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