Dr. Horowitz's Business Review of Wine, Marketing, and Technology Media

Wine

• VIDEO: Ask the Pinotblogger #1 – Brett | Pinotblogger: the Capozzi Winery blog: Sweet web page redesign and video podcast #1 from the pinotblogger!
• How the Internet has democratized drinking. – By Mike Steinberger – Slate Magazine: Fun to see this in slate.
• The Winery Web Site Report: Oh, Dear!:  I got to help pick 4 tons of pinot noir grapes this week in the Russian River AVA after a contract fell though.  The vineyard managers said that the same pinot noir grapes sold for $5,000 a ton a few years ago.  This year–free.
• Guide to BYO-Friendly Restaurants : Serious About Wine: I hope this app is successful. $2.99 though :(
• Balance Sheet Marketing – Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto: I guess some people might use balance sheet rationales to justify their purchase of expensive wine—and the more rationales a company can provide a consumer the better (ipod’s scroll wheel, sleek design, high capacity, white ear buds, etc.)—but I think that the future rock stars who can create a community/groupies (Steve Jobs, Apple Fan Boys, etc.) in the wine industry will have an easier time selling expensive wine.

Marketing

• What happened this week in marketing that was important?

Technology

• 50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs
• 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine: good webdesign layout tips
• 10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers – Daily SEO blog:
• #72: Building a Website (2 of 3): HTML/CSS Conversion: awesome
• HOW TO: Set Up a Winning Facebook Fan Page
• Integrating Fading Button Navigation | Digging into WordPress: This takes the old button tutorial I like to another level.  I really want to learn/practice jQuery.
• Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials « Smashing Magazine:
• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload: I’ve never tried Vizu or PollDaddy
• 18 Impressive Tutorials on Creating Vector Illustrations

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