The leadership team at 5forests are trailblazers in drinks marketing. They spend their days exploring, identifying, and creating the trends that drive drinks marketing forward. Read what they're thinking about now.
They say speed kills. In this case, a lack of speed kills. I’m talking about the speed of your website. So, what is speed? What exactly is speed relative to? Simply put, website speed refers to the time it takes for your visitors to see your website in their browser, from the moment they click…
Continue reading Mike’s Don’t Be a Dick Series, Part 1: Site Speed
Technology, data, and the interwebs gave us an ability to “personalize” content, which many businesses took at face value: add a name here or there, automate emails based on what someone’s bought or visited, remarket elsewhere to the same people; but, for the vast majority, it simply meant adding someone’s first name to an email…
Continue reading “Hi Virginia” or “Does your marketing personalization suck?”
Lately, I’ve been pondering my GenX husband’s secret guilty pleasure: MMORPGs, huge multiplayer online games with complex story plots that often rely on community-building to master. Dear Hubby has been a gamer for as long as we’ve been married, and before life got busy with kids and businesses and mortgages, I spent many an evening…
Continue reading Built for Play. What the wine industry can learn from Video Game design.
I’ve decided to eschew the crappy list-ification that you’ll find littering Google when you search Customer Delight, because while those lists might give you some very middle-of-the-road places to start, they don’t help you shift your thinking. Delight is a way of looking at communication and marketing that needs to be embraced by everyone on…
Continue reading Creating delight and building connections
Today, let’s talk about something near and dear to my heart as a wine, beer, and spirits marketer…the single piece of content that sends even the bravest of business people running for the hills: the About Us web copy. I can’t begin to tell you the number of times that I have seen sites stall for lack…
Continue reading Kanye & Blind Dates: Tackling the About Us Page
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