[April 23, 2024 – Sandra Beals] In today’s competitive direct wine space, successful wine brands must have a laser-focused sales and marketing strategy in place to remain relevant. It pains me to hear winery leadership teams share that they simply don’t need a direct sales strategic plan. That sentiment may […]
[March 28, 2024 – Sandra Beals] In 2023, I shared a “Good to Great Blog Series” to showcase how our top-performing winery clients leverage the ideal blends of talent, tools, and technologies to grow their direct business. In today’s blog article, I share “Direct Wine Sales – Top 10 Mistakes […]
[February 29, 2024 – Sandra Beals] How do high-performing winery teams across the nation, increase visitation, grow consumer contact lists and build brand loyalists year after year? At DTC Wine Workshops, we teach every member of the direct to consumer team to focus on the second sale and beyond to […]
[January 24, 2024 – Sandra Beals] A group of Direct Wine Sales Specialists with the DTC Consultant Network have teamed up to provide live web training sessions in 2024. Winery owners, stakeholders, managers, and frontline staff will obtain much needed skills to remain relevant and grow consumer contact lists. Winery […]
[December 27, 2023 – Sandra Beals] Our clients have much to celebrate as we wind down a year focused on strengthening and building in the direct wine space. I am pleased to share these 2023 Direct Wine Sales Key Learnings. We worked together to build “Wine Consumer Journey Maps” in […]
Join Heidi Dittloff , Small Winery Sales & Marketing Consultant, for this hands-on web training. Get hands-on instruction and top tools! Heidi has helped a variety of small businesses thrive and currently supports Longboard Vineyards in Healdsburg. This workshop is perfect for event, hospitality and tasting room managers responsible for […]
The Tasting Room Sales Webinar “Connect-Qualify-Convert” is ideal for any winery manager responsible for direct wine sales and consumer engagement success. Proven models and tools. In this hands-on webinar, DTC Wine Workshops founder, Sandra Beals, will reveal lessons learned while teaching tasting room teams of all sizes across the nation. […]
Join Barbara Gorder, Brand Strategist & Founder of Undisclosed Location, for this hands-on webinar – “Step by Step Guide to Winery Branding”. Get hands-on instruction and top tools from the best! Barbara supports notable consumer package goods and luxury businesses in and outside of the wine industry. REGISTER HERE Branding: […]
Small Winery Sales Success – “The Five Funnels Webinar”. Join Heidi Dittloff , Small Winery Sales & Marketing Consultant, for this hands-on web training. REGISTER HERE Get hands-on instruction and top tools! Heidi has helped a variety of small businesses thrive and currently supports Longboard Vineyards in Healdsburg. This workshop […]
[November 29, 2023 – Sandra Beals] As our clients prepare for 2024 visitation, now is the time to rethink the WHY behind winery events. Today, most wine brands don’t have the luxury of hosting the same event five years in a row as loyalists want to be intrigued and inspired […]
[October 26, 2023 – Sandra Beals] The luxury market is undergoing a significant transformation as it adapts to the growing spending power of Gen Z consumers. Along with Millennials, these individuals accounted for “the entire growth of the luxury market in 2022,” according to Bain & Company, and are predicted to […]
[September 28, 2023 – Sandra Beals (NOT AI)] As the direct to consumer wine space has evolved over the past 10-12 years, we have helped leadership teams develop organizational structures, customized training programs, training manuals, hospitality service standards, and standard operating procedures. In doing this work, we walk business stakeholders […]
[August 29, 2023 – Sandra Beals] Now is the time to leverage smart data sources and measures of success to shape 2024 direct sales and marketing plans. In today’s Good to Great Series #5, I provide the top five tools for how to leverage authoritative data sources to develop winning […]
[July 31, 2023 – Sandra Beals – 20 to 30 minute read] 2013-2023 A Decade of Direct Wine Sales Success Stories “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin Ten years ago this month, I founded DTC Wine Workshops Consulting Agency. […]
“DTC Wine Sales Training: Developing All-Star Teams” is ideal for winery managers responsible for direct wine sales, hospitality management, membership, events, and/or training programs. With over 11,000 US wine brands competing for the attention of wine enthusiasts today, time is now the #1 commodity of most luxury wine consumers. How […]
