Whether you’re selling wine and spirits, luxury products or other consumer goods, look to see what fashion marketers are doing. If looking for leading indicators to where consumer marketing is headed, pay attention to innovations in fashion marketing. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling wine and spirits, luxury products or other consumer goods. Fashion is often […]
Big Changes in Digital Marketing Are on the Way
This is the year to invest in and revise your digital marketing plan. Why? Two big changes are coming in 2022: These two changes will revolutionize how we interact with consumers over email, text and on the Internet. If you didn’t know, first take a breath. Then, download this excellent article and overview of the changes from McKinsey […]
This year, you may ruin your database – or you could make it a lot better
Here’s how: In 2020, I learned that I’m on a lot of email lists, more than I ever imagined. In 2019, I received an average of 300 emails a day. That went up to 500+ in 2020. In a way I’m not surprised. My company, Oomiji, sends out a lot of email newsletters and promotions for […]
Solving the challenge of marketing foreign wine in the U.S.
(I wrote this with the upcoming VinExpoNY in mind but since it applies to so many industries, I decided to post it here.) With VinExpoNY fast approaching, I’ve been thinking about the challenges in front of thousands of foreign wine producers who are trying to develop and cultivate a market in the U.S. While the challenges […]
New partnership offers an innovative solution to customer engagement
Tempesta Media, a content creation and micro-influencer marketing technology platform, has announced its partnership with Oomiji, a world-class customer relationship management solution. Tempesta Media and Oomiji, a company that makes 1:1 marketing a reality, have come together to solve the challenge of personalized marketing. “Content marketing works best when highly relevant content is targeted to the […]
If the only thing your market research platform does is research, you’re not getting your money’s worth
So, you’ve decided to begin a new market research project. You’ve got your email database that you’ll send the questions to and you’ve opened up your market research provider’s survey builder to create the survey. You may have done it dozens of times before; that is, begun a research project knowing that what you’ll get back is […]
How’s your UK wine business? Time for plan B(rexit)!
With the London Wine Fair arriving in a few weeks, companies that aren’t already re-evaluating their UK sales and marketing strategy will hear plenty at the exposition. As David Williams recently wrote in the Guardian (Wine and the Brexit Effect), “nobody has any idea what’s going to happen next.” So, with that bit of wisdom, you can […]
DTC Wine Shipments are growing at a record pace. How long will it last?
There’s no question that DTC wine sales are growing at a dramatically rapid pace. According to Sovos ShipCompliant’s 2017 DTC Report, shipment volume increased more than 17% last year with similar growth expected this year. The potential seems unlimited with 45 states now allowing direct wine shipments. Three states, California, Texas and New York account for nearly half […]
“We Know Who You Are” is not the best we can do
In a recent blog post on the site Strategy + Business, business journalist, Matt Palmquist, makes the case for personalized emails in his post, “We Know Who You Are” Is a Profitable Pitch. Palmquist writes, “marketers are (similarly) in the dark about sales directly linked to their digital campaigns.” He then goes on to chide marketers […]