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Wine Social Marketing: how to turn customers into explorers

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Andrea Gori - Sommelier informaticoGreat Wine Capitals Conference - 5.11.2012

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Web and Wine twins separated at birthWeb and Wine, twins separated at birth• Web and Wine have an innate similarity in ydifferent aspect of interactions with men, and the web represents the ideal place to p pcommunicate the wine... even if it could be hard to imagineg

• Wine and Web: the relationship has born in specialized forums (6 years ago Gamberospecialized forums (6 years ago GamberoRosso forum ‐ Kelablu)

TODAY

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• Wine is a social object (like the iPhone is) because it’s purchase 

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can be replicable for many and in many places, and it generates consumer experiences that can be shared

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• Web and Wine have a relationship potential really unexploited

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Technology and content in ItalyTechnology and content in Italy

WEBTechnologies and speed often make 

up for the lack of contentPRESS

Th ti i f th i lup for the lack of content

If well understood is a tool that creates talent and focuses attention

The timing of the press is longerStructured content and high 

expertisecreates talent and focuses attention

First in an amateur today in a f i l dd

Traditional  wineguides do not understand and do not want to 

embrace innovationsprofessional manner, addresses issues with increasing depth, in spite of limited resources (from bloggers 

embrace innovationsOften absorbs talent and money and 

disperses attention

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to blogozine Intravino leader in 3 years) ALL THE PRESS IS TIED TO THE 

CONCEPT OF SCHEDULED PRINTED

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EVERYTHING IS ONLINE WILL BE THERE FOREVER

CONCEPT OF SCHEDULED PRINTED EDITION

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the web doesn’t move lots of money for now...the paper alone won’t move lots of money anymore

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WEB Communication e WEB marketing: Italian statusItalian status

W b i t di it b t d t th k t F b k• Web is a recent discovery: it boosted out thanks to Facebookand the mobile web, fundamental channels to share “word of 

th” l b t th b i f i k timouth”  always been at the basis of wine marketing • There is lack of real web‐based business models, but there are lots of best practice.  

• Network Vinix e concessionaria Vinoclic

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• Winenews

• Twitter explosion:  famous and VIP (Renzi, Monti, Chiellini)

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• Too few journalists (De Bortoli, Servegnini, Mentana)

• Business case: South African winery Stormhoek goes Web 2 0

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with blogging, viral marketing, and crowdsourcing

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Social Networks: Data & statistics66%  of online adults are connected to one or more social media platforms

960 million users in the world

(13,5% population)

500 million subscribers 

(225 ml active)

490 million unique visitors

90 million users 

h( , p p )+ 5% every 2 weeks50% of the users

connects to FB everyday

(225 ml active)

175.000.000 tweets are sent each day

92 billion of pages/video 

i

The Google+ botton is 

d 5

2

6h35min per dayIn Italy 

22.829.800 users39 3% f l ti

Every user has an average of 115 

followers

views

Every minute

used 5 million 

times/day

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Every minute (60 sec):510.000 comments2 000 000 likes

Twitter is worldwide and immediate 

(fundraising Jolie‐Pitt)

Every minute are uploaded 35 hours of videos on the 

Each day users 

spend at 

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293.000 status136.000 photos

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# (hashtag) is the future of “tag”

platformp

least 6 min in average

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Pinterest:Pinterest: Ther power of images

Pinterest is retaining and engaging users 2‐3 times better than Twitter was, at a similar time in Twitter’s company history, p y y

80% of Pinterest’s user base are women, 60% have attended at least some college, 25% have a bachelor’s degree or higher

Pinterest accounts for about 3.6% of referral traffic (according to Shareaholic study), compared to 3.61% for Twitter

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Over 80% of Pinterest pins are ‘repins’ (content already pinned being repinned by users)

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30% of Pinterest users are between 25‐34 years, 25% 35‐44 & 17% 18‐24 years old

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on the site

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What shall we do?• Communication is a choice… 1st : Choose to communicate

(implicit in the mission of a vigneron)

• What should we communicate?What should we communicate?Places ‐ History ‐ People ‐Wine

• Today “if you do not know how to communicate it you mightToday  if you do not know how to communicate it, you might as well not do it”

• Choose your audience Communicate! If you do• Choose your audience

• Learn the rules

Communicate!  If you do not know how to do it, 

then make sure that others 

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do it for you. (blogger)

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Turn your consumers into explorersthe geo‐local‐based social newtork has

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exceeded 2 million check‐ins per week

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What are the key questions?What are the key questions?

• What do I want to communicate?

• Which strategy  shall we use?• Which tool should I choose according to my way of working?Which tool should I choose according to my way of working? 

• Facebook• Twitter• Blog

• Identify a person inside the company that takes care of the 

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“social communication” consistently for at least 6 months• Gather feedbacks and monitor the results

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• Facebook Insights• Twitter followers

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TwitterTwitter

“F ll !”“Follow me!”M O t E S t h T Brief updates

WHOM Operators

Blogger EVICE Smartphone

Pc WHAT Brief updates with news on 

the daily work

OR W

Blogger

Press CH DE Pc W y

Links to pages of interestR t f

2

FO Final users(not so W

HIC Requests for 

information from clients and

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from clients and pressContacts with 

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Facebook Personal page or fan page

“Yes we are on facebook”Fi l P T STATUS

Yes, we are on facebook

HOM Final consumers

CustomersHo.Re.Ca EV

ICE Pc

Smartphone

Other integrated WHAT

STATUS

Everyday news about work

OR WH

BloggerCH

 DE Other integrated

devices

(linked and updated

W

Photos

User and Friends 

2

FO

WHIC

( pfrom blog and othersocial media)

Comments (Like)

A personal style ofcommunication

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Direct dialogue

Archive for Link to

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contents and media

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Personal or Institutional BlogPersonal or Institutional Blog

Note to self:  Under constuction? Don’t do it!

Bl P T I i i l

HOM Blogger

Journalists

EVICE Pc

WHAT Institutionalinformations

Stories

OR WH

Enthusiasts

Final customers

CH DE W Stories

“Importantmoments” and

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FO

WHIC moments  and 

Photos (harvest, bottling, etc)

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Tasting notes

Events

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Backstage

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Blog vs Twitter vs FacebookBlog vs Twitter vs FacebookIdeally, you should use all three y, ytogether, but having to choose:• Blogs for people who love to write and• Blogs for people who love to write and to go in depth into things, and above all for people that have a story to tellfor people that have a story to tell

• Facebook for those who love pictures d " h i h f i d " d h hand "chat with friends" and has the 

time to stay in front of the PC/MAC

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• Twitter for those who have less time and usually spend the day with the 

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smartphone in the hands

• Pinterest and flickr if you like photo and 

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y ptry to get to a female audience

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Twitter case studiesTwitter case studiesUSA Blogger ConferenceUSA Blogger Conference

In July, the power of Twitter was put on display by wine bloggers when, over a 4 day period 15 000 tweets carrying the #wbc11 hashtag wereover a 4 day period, 15,000 tweets carrying the #wbc11 hashtag were pushed out in conjunction with the Wine Bloggers Conference in Virginia. g

Those 15,000 tweets represented a potential 43,000,000 impressions. Tourist organizations in Virginia, Oregon and British Columbia have noted the positive impact hosting the bloggers conference would have for regions by noting, among other things, their tweet production in 

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association with the Bloggers Conference. 

In 2011 Twitter and Wine cemented a strong relationship. Wineries, retailers promoters wholesalers and wine associations have all jumped

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on board and are building twitter communities to help them tell their story and sell their goods. If you were paying attention in 2011, you

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noted that 147 characters was just enough to make a wine, winemaking, and wine selling very sexy.