Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

Women do buy wine

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

As you probably already know ExcelWines.com is run by three women, myself included in that crowd, and that is probably why ( I mean, being a woman running a wine biz) I have become a little bit obsessed with - Why are 90% of our customers men, where are the women – question. We quite often get comments (from our male customers) such as – my wife tried it and she liked it so she wants me to buy it or even - my wife liked it so I decided to buy the wine again…etc. So we KNOW the girls drink (at least some of the wines that men try to collect..).

So I decided to put it all out for you to help us to turn around the numbers.

I started with putting the question out at the Open Wine Consortium and Twitter. Unfortunately the response was very mild so I decided to investigate a bit further. (more…)