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• Currently CEO Astra Digital Marketing Services and
FlyWithWine.com
• Instructor, SSU Wine Business Institute – 4 Years
• Previously COO - Chatterbox Wine Marketing/VinoVisit.com
• Previously President/Owner - eWinery Solutions(Granbury)
• Previously COO - New Vine Logistics (Now Wine Direct)
• Previously CEO - Morrell Wine Group
• 15 years as a specialty retailer
• MBA Cornell University Johnson School of Management
• Lover of all things food & wine
• Passionate about direct to consumer wine marketing
• More info on LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/2cRRL5C
Who am I and Why am I here?
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Looked at Another Way
The faithful gather in 2005 near St. Peter's to witness Pope John
Paul II's body being carried into the Basilica for public viewing.
St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on March 13, 2013
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Latest Stats February 2017
• 234 Million Adults in U.S.
• 14% High Frequency Drinkers
• = 33 Million HF Drinkers
• 24% Occasional Drinker
• = 56 Million Occasional Drinkers
• Total = 89 Million Prospects
*Wine Market Council – 2016 High Frequency Wine Consumer Study
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*Wine Market Council – 2016 High Frequency Wine Consumer Study
234 Million Adults in U.S.
14% High Frequency Drinkers
= 33 Million HF Drinkers
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DTC Best Practice: 360 Degree Customer View
eCommerce
Wine Club
Allocations
Tasting Room
Recipe Engine
Social Media
(Social Commerce)
Mobile
Telesales (inbound &
outbound)
SMS (Text)
Email Marketing
Visitor
Reservations
Newsletter
Mobile POS
Search Engine
Optimization (SEO)
Fax
Winery
DTC/CRM
Ecosystem
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The Science of Discovery
DISCOVERY
• Events/Restaurant/Retail
•Search engine
•Word of mouth
•Advertisement
• Social Media
•Location
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Discovery: Content Marketing
1. Create useful, usable content that adds value
to the customer experience with your brand.
2. Perform outreach, and determine the best
outlets to publish (high-profile guest blogging,
social networks, your own website).
3. Identify influencers who will share your
content and further discussion.
4. Pay attention to the responses, and engage
your audience.
5. Analyze the results, measure the impact (new
links to your website, new visitors, increased
social media activity, more sales).
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People To People
• People are already writing reviews
• Opportunities to connect directly with
customers
• Helps search engines find you and
increases ranking
• 90% of local searches = purchase or visit
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Heavy Traffic
• More than 179 million visitors to the Yelp
website each month.
• 55% of the visits are on a mobile device
• 42% of users are in the 18 -34 age group
and 20% over 55.
• 34% have household income less than
$59k and 39% over $100K.
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Heavy Traffic
• TripAdvisor has more than 84 million
members, and more than 350 million
reviews
• More than 340 million travelers visit
TripAdvisor each month
• TripAdvisor offers a wide range of
marketing opportunities, advertising and
content solutions
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Heaviest Traffic
• Google has 2.3 Million searches per
second worldwide
• Put another way, it’s at 100 Billion per
month, 1.17 Billion unique users per
month
• 75.2% of all searches in U.S. on Google
• 89.2% of all mobile search in U.S. on
Google
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Advertising Options
• Targeted local advertising
• Premium placement on search and
competitor business pages
• Displays on mobile devices too
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Consumers are on-the-go and want quick
and easy access to basic information.
99% of the time, they want to do one of
five things:
Call Winery
Find Tasting Room
Locate Wine
Buy Wine
Join Wine Club
Go Mobile!
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• 6,000 + wineries
• 100,000+ Downloads
• Social Media
• Ratings System
• User Created Content
• Sharing
• Ambassadors created and
rewarded
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Other Drivers
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Wine, food, travel forums
Existing customers
Referrals from local
businesses
Social media channels
Friends and family
Special events
Wine publications and
blogs?
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Marketing
Ratings and Reviews
Getting Found
Building Advocates
Discovery: Socializing Bricks & Mortar
Source: www.tripadvisor.com, Ram’s Gate Winery
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Geo-Targeting the Wine Traveler
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What is Geo-Targeting?
Geo Targeting is active response to Geo-Location:
Having identified the visitor’s location according to the IP,
and/or WiFi / GPS data (=”geolocation”), content specific to
that location is served (=”geotargeting”). This location can
be a country, state, city and more.
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Geo-Fencing
Making Digital Connections with Local Consumers
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What is Geo-Fencing? A geo-fence is a
virtual perimeter
that puts a border
around specific
geographic areas
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To Do List – Top 5 Things
1. Get Mobile
2. Get Social
3. Get Discovered
4. Get “App-ed”
5. Get “Edu-Taining”
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The Heart of the Matter
AT THE CORE OF DIGITAL RETENTION:
CONSUMERS CAN LEAVE YOUR BRAND
FOR
SOMEONE ELSE.
ALWAYS REMIND CUSTOMERS WHY THEY
FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU
IN THE FIRST PLACE
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Contact Info
Ron Scharman
CEO/Astra Digital Marketing Services
ron@astradms.com
707-681- 5392
Find Me on LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/1WyFHpA
Editor's Notes
At the broadest level, we create content to drive brand awareness within our target market. Your videos, blog content, social media presence represent most trustworthy outlets in customer’s eyes.
At the broadest level, we create content to drive brand awareness within our target market. Your videos, blog content, social media presence represent most trustworthy outlets in customer’s eyes.
At the broadest level, we create content to drive brand awareness within our target market. Your videos, blog content, social media presence represent most trustworthy outlets in customer’s eyes.
The crowd is here: Facebook reportedly is nearing the 700 million-user mark. Every month, according to Facebook, its members spend 700 billion minutes on the network. The average user clicks the Like button nine times a month, and three-quarters of users have “liked” a brand.
Consumers’ comfort level has tipped: People have been buying virtual goods within Facebook since it introduced the (now defunct) Gift Shop in 2007; the practice exploded with the introduction of FarmVille virtual currency in 2009. Analysts believe virtual goods could bring in around $12.5 billion worldwide this year, almost double 2009 sales, according to Adweek. If people are paying real money for virtual goods, it’s not much of a leap to start paying for tangible items.
And, of course, e-commerce has become second nature for many consumers, who are by now quite comfortable with the idea of feeding their credit card information into e-commerce sites. Internet retailing is expected to take in $197 billion in 2011 and grow to $279 billion by 2015, according to Forrester Research. Purchasing an item with a few clicks has become a habit for many people.