Craft & Cluster

By now, you've probably gathered that Instagram is my personal favorite social media platform. It's the place I have the most experience in and it's also the platform I think is best suited to marketing wine. However, there are a number of other social media platforms that I think are worth talking about, so that you can decide where your social media marketing energy is best spent.On this episode we touch briefly on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Clubhouse as well as Pinterest and YouTube an...

You've heard me mention often my deep unrestrained love for Building a StoryBrand the marketing framework by Donald Miller, but we've never gone deep into it before, until now, today I've invited my awesome StoryBrand guide, Christy Kern onto the podcast to walk us through the seven-part framework that makes marketing easy.Christy Kern is a Business Made Simple & StoryBrand Certified Guide, who works with purpose-driven leaders to help them clarify their vision, sharpen their message, and...

Today I had the privilege of talking with Alisha Sommer about incorporating diversity and inclusion messaging into your marketing. Particularly on social media. This topic is something we should be talking about regularly and all the time and revisiting often. But it's particularly timely as this month, we will be celebrating the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth. Alisha gives us a brief history of what Juneteenth is and talks about how to incorporated DEI messaging into your business int...

You've heard me say it often enough on this podcast: the first place to start when creating a marketing strategy is to know your audience. But what does that mean? How do you identify your audience? How do you market to them once you do know them? Well, that's precisely what I asked my new friend Zoë Dove-Many of Helloë Creative on this episode of the podcast. Zoë is a Brand Strategist and Designer based in LA who serves women & BIPOC owned and run brands that prioritize...

As restrictions surrounding the pandemic are easing and we are moving towards reopening, I wanted to invite my friend Chelsea Boss of SeaBoss Marketing back on the podcast to talk about how to market your wine brand in a post-pandemic world.It's no secret that the way we marketed changed drastically during the pandemic. Wholesale marketing was largely put on pause, while e-commerce boomed for many wine brands. In this episode, Chelsea and I discuss how to market on social media, via you...

One of the complaints I get most when I'm taking on a new social media management client is that they simply do not have the time to plan their marketing content and don't know what to post in the first place.Before they come to me, I see one of two things happening: they either posting something on the fly (which rarely delivers results or meets their marketing goals) or they don't post anything at all (which DEFINITELY doesn't deliver results of help meet their marketing needs).I was there ...

I am currently recovering from getting my second Covid-19 vaccine and though I am extremely excited about it, it really knocked me on my ass. So, in an effort to preserve my energy, and work smarter not harder, I have decided to pull some audio from one of my more popular Instagram Lives I did back in March.Appropriately enough, in this live, we talked about why "going viral" is not a strategy, and what you can do to grow in a more sustainable and predictable way in the future.If you would li...

Nathan and Courtney Marton (known as Winery Reflections on Instagram) don't consider themselves "wine influencers" in the traditional sense. In fact, they consider themselves more along the lines of wine writers, penning thoughtful tasting notes and reviews and interesting wines crafted by unique wineries across the globe. In today's interview, I talk with them not only about what wineries can and should expect from influencer partnerships but also how burgeoning wine influencers/communicator...

Today I was joined by guest co-hose Chelsea Boss of SeaBoss Marketing a chat all about wine branding! We interviewed Lindsay Regan and Byron Hoffman of Offset Partners, a brand design and technology company serving the wine industry all about what branding even is, how it's different from marketing, and how to discover your own brand's identity. Important linksOffset Partners Website: https://offsetpartners.com/Offset Partners Instagram: @offsetpartnersConnect with Chelsea boss of Seaboss Mar...

At the start of every good marketing strategy is a goal or goals that you are reaching towards. But how do you know if the content you're putting out is actually helping you meet those goals?Today we talk about how you can use Instagram Insights and Analytics to determine whether or not your content is working for you OR if you're going to need to course correct!Resources mentioned in this episode:Instagram Insights Tracking Tool:www.craftandcluster.com/016PlannThat Instagram PlannerFollow me...