Comments on: The Dead Zone: What’s Your Perspective? http://www.viralvines.com/2009/09/09/the-dead-zone-whats-your-perspective-on-wine/ Talkin' up the Grapes! Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: marktnorman http://www.viralvines.com/2009/09/09/the-dead-zone-whats-your-perspective-on-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-79 marktnorman Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:08:52 +0000 http://www.viralvines.com/?p=795#comment-79 Richard, very nice assimilation of very news sources into a good solid story. I have been passing copies of the link to that Press Democrat article to a lot of people. If you think about the lack of real action not taken after the paper published by Rob McMillian of the Silicon Valley Bank (2009-2010 State of the Wine Industry) is it any surprise that we are now reading about the possible demise of some truly wonderful small wineries? Yesterday I read that a CA wineries was one step away from foreclosure. As I wrote not long ago, its like trying to catch a wave while surfing...you better start paddling now if you hope to avoid getting wiped out. As you have already stated (my repeating the same mantra is a vain hope to reach a few), using social media is only 1 TOOL in what should be an arsenal of marketing weapons that "work together". Hopefully we are not too far from being able to help at least a few.<br><br>Again...Richard...great article! Richard, very nice assimilation of very news sources into a good solid story. I have been passing copies of the link to that Press Democrat article to a lot of people. If you think about the lack of real action not taken after the paper published by Rob McMillian of the Silicon Valley Bank (2009-2010 State of the Wine Industry) is it any surprise that we are now reading about the possible demise of some truly wonderful small wineries? Yesterday I read that a CA wineries was one step away from foreclosure. As I wrote not long ago, its like trying to catch a wave while surfing…you better start paddling now if you hope to avoid getting wiped out. As you have already stated (my repeating the same mantra is a vain hope to reach a few), using social media is only 1 TOOL in what should be an arsenal of marketing weapons that “work together”. Hopefully we are not too far from being able to help at least a few.

Again…Richard…great article!

]]> By: marktnorman http://www.viralvines.com/2009/09/09/the-dead-zone-whats-your-perspective-on-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-53 marktnorman Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:08:52 +0000 http://www.viralvines.com/?p=795#comment-53 Richard, very nice assimilation of very news sources into a good solid story. I have been passing copies of the link to that Press Democrat article to a lot of people. If you think about the lack of real action not taken after the paper published by Rob McMillian of the Silicon Valley Bank (2009-2010 State of the Wine Industry) is it any surprise that we are now reading about the possible demise of some truly wonderful small wineries? Yesterday I read that a CA wineries was one step away from foreclosure. As I wrote not long ago, its like trying to catch a wave while surfing...you better start paddling now if you hope to avoid getting wiped out. As you have already stated (my repeating the same mantra is a vain hope to reach a few), using social media is only 1 TOOL in what should be an arsenal of marketing weapons that "work together". Hopefully we are not too far from being able to help at least a few.<br><br>Again...Richard...great article! Richard, very nice assimilation of very news sources into a good solid story. I have been passing copies of the link to that Press Democrat article to a lot of people. If you think about the lack of real action not taken after the paper published by Rob McMillian of the Silicon Valley Bank (2009-2010 State of the Wine Industry) is it any surprise that we are now reading about the possible demise of some truly wonderful small wineries? Yesterday I read that a CA wineries was one step away from foreclosure. As I wrote not long ago, its like trying to catch a wave while surfing…you better start paddling now if you hope to avoid getting wiped out. As you have already stated (my repeating the same mantra is a vain hope to reach a few), using social media is only 1 TOOL in what should be an arsenal of marketing weapons that “work together”. Hopefully we are not too far from being able to help at least a few.

Again…Richard…great article!

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