Finding New Sales Opportunities If necessity is the mother of invention, then who is the father? Opportunity, perhaps? This is the story of how a small Texas winery is leveraging their newfound skills in digital selling. To take more control of their own destiny. Just
Practically the whole wine industry uses samples to make sales. I mean the logic is simple. How can they commit to buying the wine if they haven’t tried it, right? I’ve always had a bit of a problem with this because it is a stroll
Paul Mabray of Emetry shared an article on LinkedIn the other day about how the direct-to-consumer model is infiltrating the alcohol industry and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. In case you’re not familiar with Paul’s work, I consider him the
The wine business is full of contradictions. But, nowhere are the illogical absurdities more abundant than on the selling end of the game. The tragedy is the beliefs wine sales pros hold most deeply are the very ones in desperate need of some serious myth-busting.
I predictably get strange looks whenever I tell salespeople that “real” selling isn’t necessarily about the product. It’s such a counter-intuitive concept to the untrained, amateurish seller of goods that they convulse involuntarily when I espouse the notion. If you look as closely and as
The modern sales environment has never been more challenging for small wine & spirits brands, and it won’t be improving any time soon. But thriving and surviving IS possible if you’re wielding the right tools for the job at hand which is building high quality
Of all the things you could do to accelerate your sales, this one is by far the most impactful -shift your time, energy, investment and focus away from low value accounts and restrict yourself to only the high value target accounts. Not all accounts are
I call this is a “secret” because, it seems, so few people know about it. I recognize there are a solid number of you reading this who will say, “Duh, I’ve been selling this way my whole career.” And, I for, one salute you for
What makes wine sales a “game” is there are winners and losers. These days, the losers outnumber the winners by a significant margin. And, like all games, there are strategies and tactics to not only increase your chances of winning but decrease your chances of
The “game” of selling wine in the US has changed a great deal in the last 5-10 years but you’d never know it because most wine companies are still operating out of the “old playbook.” What’s changed? Two things, primarily, and then a whole bunch
