Digital Marketing is an ever-changing landscape and can create significant positive impacts on wine businesses that are looking to reach a larger audience and increase sales. Across our team of Marketing Experts at Smile Marketing, we have compiled a list of tips to enhance your digital marketing strategies. We recommend focusing on 3-5 strategies at a time:

• Stay Across the Latest Digital Marketing Trends: Always keep learning about the latest digital marketing tactics and technologies. Review what’s new and whether it can help you drive sales and build your brand.
• Review and Use Your Data to Drive Decisions: On a monthly basis, review website and campaign analytics to better understand what’s working and what isn’t.
• Create Video Content: Record videos of all parts of your wine business, including wine tastings, tours, vintage and educational content. We suggest filming both content on an iPhone and investing in a professional videographer.
• Utilise Email Marketing: Build an email list and send consistent emails (newsletters) with wine tips, special offers and news about your vineyard and winery.
• Run Targeted Ad Campaigns: Use paid Google ads and social media advertising to reach targeted audiences who are interested in wine.
• Engage with Storytelling: Share the story behind your vineyard, the winemaking process, and the people who make it happen to create a connection with customers. Content about people always wins.
• Focus on Quality Content: Create engaging and educational content on your website and socials that adds value to your audience and showcases your expertise.
• E-commerce experience: Ensure the eCommerce experience to purchase wine is streamlined and has between 3-5 clicks to finish the buying process. This will increase your wine sales.
• Optimise Your Website for Mobile: It’s essential that your website and email campaigns are mobile-friendly and create a positive user experience.
• Develop a Strong Brand Personality: Create an authentic and memorable brand for your wine business that consumers identify with.
• Leverage Social Media Platforms: Use visually-driven platforms like Facebook and Instagram to share imagery and behind-the-scenes content. Whilst all wine businesses do this, your vineyard and winery are unique.
• Optimise Your Website by Following Some Basic SEO Tactics: Use wine-related keywords strategically throughout your website to improve your search engine ranking and drive organic traffic.
• Invest in Local SEO: Use platforms like Google My Business to target local wine consumers or tourists travelling through your wine region.
• Drive Positive Online Reviews: When a customer is happy with a recent experience, immediately encourage them to leave a review online. This will enhance your reputation and assist with your SEO goals.
• Host Virtual Wine Tastings: Set up virtual wine tasting events to engage customers and provide a unique online experience.
• Reward Customer Loyalty: Reward high value customers with special offers, exclusive discounts, access to small releases or other benefits that your customers value.
• Customer Service Response Time Online: Quickly respond to customer enquiries and respond to your audience on socials as soon as possible. Set service level agreements with yourself and your team to ensure a high level of customer service is always achieved.
• Host Interactive Workshops: Create workshops that educate your customers about wine pairing, the winemaking process, and how to taste wine tips online. 
• Collaborate with Local Businesses: Look for partnerships with local businesses who specialise in food, other beverages, tours or workshops to create and enhance your marketing campaigns.
• Partner with Food and Wine Influencers: Work with influencers who are focused on the food, wine and lifestyle industry. This is a good way of tapping into their audiences to increase your brand’s awareness.

Above we have shared 20 digital marketing strategies that will help you build a strong online presence that connects with your current and potential customers. Our best advice is to focus on mastering 3 to 5 of these strategies at a time and constantly test and learn what works best for your business.