Arbiters of the Online Wine World or Just a Bunch of Well-funded Marketers?
Monday, March 02, 2009 2:00:00 AM
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Fermentation has brought to the attention of the wine blogosphere the social media project by VinTank. A potentially useful matrix of online properties that wineries may want to engage in an online marketing strategy is being compiled through the use of surveys and metrics. It has caused a bit of a tempest in a wine glass, upsetting some and intriguing others.
Personally, I am intrigued. As a marketer trying to sell services to small wineries it would be useful to have a comprehensive matrix of wine related online properties in one place to assist wineries in making decisions about their online marketing budget. I, as a small company, have undertaken a review of properties but I do not have the kind of money or resources available to me to attempt the kind of scope that VinTank is proposing. The founders of VinTank come from InertiaBev and The Open Wine Consortium. Needless to say, they are well funded.
It remains to be seen how useful the final product will be to the market. The first survey should prove to be interesting as a lesson in what is currently available. The second survey will be more interesting to see the delta in performance metrics. If being recommended by VinTank causes a property to become much more popular and trafficked from one year to another it will establish VinTank as the “Gartner” of the wine industry.
It is a bold and expensive sales tool for VinTank. I imagine their clients will pay for the privilege.
Wino marketers – What are you really paying for?