Tagged: Winery tasting room tips

Managing the Tasting Room Experience

In many cases, customers form perceptions about a winery based on their experience in the tasting room.  Generally, these attitudes are based on both the interactions with the server and their perception of wine...

Six Ways to Reach and Retain Customers

How do you attract customers and keep them coming back? In this mobile, socially connected world, wineries need to be at the top of their marketing game because making great wines isn’t enough. Successful...

Six Steps for Increasing Tasting Room Sales

During this weak economy, lack of sales seems to be a common complaint from wineries across the country. Wineries need to sharpen their selling skills and brush up on customer engagement techniques to make...

Six Steps to Great Winery Customer Service

One of the student projects I assign for my Viticulture Enology Science Technology Alliance (VESTA) Tasting Room Management class is an evaluation of a winery tasting room.  The number one area my students say needs improvement in wineries...

License To Steal: Wine Marketing Summit in Ohio

Creating a buzz about wine was on every participant’s mind at ‘License to Steal 2012,” a national wine marketing conference in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio. More than 100 winemakers, distributors, and promoters came to this wine-country...