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We had the pleasure of reprising the U.S. Drinks Conference for a trade delegation from Eastern Europe this week. The U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration invited us to present a distilled (or should I say fermented) version of the conference...

Having visited the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul the week before Christmas, I’ve got myself convinced that these are the best salespeople on the planet. Granted they’ve had over 500 years to hone their craft, but these guys are GOOD. They’ve got the basics of good...

E-marketer just issued a report showing continued declines in Twitter "numbers" and a whole lot of folks are mistakenly saying "I told you so." But dig a little deeper and the real insight appears. Twitter users are continuing to grow rapidly to an estimated 26...

Great speech by Ryan Opaz at the Winefuture conference taking place right now in Rioja. I couldn't agree more with everything he says. Here's the link to Catavino: www.catavino.comWhen Robert Parker first started his newsletter in 1978, no one believed that an amateur...

I was invited to Santiago to address about 60 wineries on Social Media Marketing in the U.S. Wine industry in a seminar put on by Wines of Chile. WoC were kind enough to assign me a driver to visit seven wineries over the next two days, most of which hadn’t been able...

I was invited to reprise my Social Media Marketing presentation from the USDC at two upcoming seminars being held by Nixon Peabody, the industry’s top law firm whose bev alc. practice is headed up by Vince O’Brien. The seminars are Nov. 17 in NY and Dec. 2 in San...

No sooner did we leave our post conference meetings in NY, than I’m on an airplane again winging my way across the equator to Chile. I was invited by Lori Tieszen, Exec. Dir. of Wines of Chile USA to give a presentation on social media marketing to a bunch of...

Wow! After months of planning and endless detail the U.S. Drinks Conference 2009 was a great success that exceeded even my optimistic hopes. We had SRO both days with some 151 attendees from 11 countries, 32 speakers on nine separate panel discussions. We’re still...