There continues to be a lot positive feedback on the outcome of the European Wine Bloggers Conference from all those who participated, for which we are very grateful.
Today we’ve had a very positive review from a participant from TodoVino who listened in on our roundtables and considers the potential impact of blogging, and is supportive [...]

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Our first roundtable video! Thanks to VinusTV for getting this up and making it look so good. Please tell us your thoughts in the comments.

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We appreciate the support we had from bloggers, readers, sponsors and others in the media to make the European Wine Blogger Conference 2008 a great success.
We feel particularly honoured to have been able to meet an amazing group of bloggers and enthusiasts, and trust that in the coming months we will have created an even [...]

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A very quick post this morning, before we kick off with the final day of this first EWBC conference:

There was so much discussed and tasted yesterday, it will take us weeks to post it all up. However, you can take a sneak preview by looking at the archive from the live feed here. Not sure [...]

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This is not a wrap up post.
We have just finished day 1 of the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference. FAR too tired to think about giving you a wrap up of the things we have discussed and done, but if you have been following us you know:

We’ve spent a long time trying to get all the [...]

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Part 3 – Micro … CONSULTANT
The revenue generation schemes discussed so far ([part 1] [part 2]) are reasonably direct, but one the greatest potential developments of blogging is the creation of a ‘personal brand’ – i.e. YOU.
Who has the most influence in this market?
Selling YOURSELF is what you do every day anyway, and you also [...]

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Part 2 – Micro … RETAILER
Maybe we could answer the question: Why should wine bloggers all be “journalists”, worrying about objectivity, even-handedness, transparency and so on?
I believe I first saw this point on pinotblogger, but we are at risk of limiting ourselves too much if wine bloggers are ALL to be considered [...]

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1. Micro … PUBLISHER
We CAN make money blogging about wine, but as with all business ventures it is very difficult to be successful without having a clear idea of what your business IS, and how you are going to achieve that success.
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Most bloggers have little plan of what they [...]

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Having done similar research, two women sit down to write.
One writes a 500 word article, reads it over, sends it by email and turns off the computer.
The other, writes a similar 500 word article, reads it over, inserts it into a content management system, adds a series of supporting reference material through links, inserts a [...]

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The consumption of wine has a pyramidal shape. On the wide part you find the large producers, who make commercial, appealing wines at good prices, since they can reduce their costs with their buying potential. We are attending at a strong concentration of brands in this segment, with many wineries being bought by a few [...]

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