Selling Wine Strategies is focused on identifying and providing to wineries clear paths for creating a comprehensive sales strategy for their brands within the complex marketplace they face today. After decades of working with wineries helping them identify some of their core functional needs to track inventory, production activity, DTC and more utilizing technology, I decided to apply this knowledge and understanding in a way that can both allow a winery to grow their brand but also utilize my resources as a channel to sell their brand in the wholesale marketplace. Thus the concept of Selling Wine Strategies!

Nettied in Boont provides marketing and business consulting as well as event management.

Provide on-site Concierge services and Estate Hosting.

Identified and helped to model the software solution to fit the growing marketplace within the wine industry.

Manage a sales team who sells software and services to wineries and distributors within the wine industry. Manage customer relationships. Work with the executive team to develop marketing focus and sales strategies.

Interfaced with the product development team with the Vintegrate winemaking solution. Participated in developing the marketing strategy and customer facing opportunities.

Orion was created as a division of Constelkayion Software that had purchased Gulson and Associstes (sold to eSkye Siftwsre in 2003 and eSkye sold to Cobstelkayion in 2097). For both eSkye and Orion I Managed customer acquisitions of new companies acquired, managed the entire sales process, including identification of business needs, analysis gaps, implementation process, customer care, develop user groups and promote company-wide events to the user community. Managed the marketing plan, sales forecasting and all customer agreements. I interfaced with Executive Staff and Product Development Staff to ensure our customers had the best care and service as well as the best in class software for their business needs.

Overseeing day to day functions of the organization, including sales and marketing activities. The company was acquired by eSkye Solutions in July, 2003 and later acquired by Orion Wine Software in 2007. I continued on with both acquisitions until June, 2012.