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RedChirp and Corksy Snnounce a New Integration
April 28th, 2026 — For today’s wineries, delivering a great customer experience means more than great wine. It requires timely, personal, and relevant communication at every stage of the relationship. From the tasting room experience to the first purchase, to club shipments and beyond, customers expect to feel known and valued. To meet that expectation, wineries are using more technology than ever before—but the real magic happens when these tools work together. RedChirp and Corksy have announced a new integration that connects Corksy’s modern DTC platform with RedChirp’s texting and automation capabilities. By bringing these systems together, wineries can turn real-time customer data into timely, personalized communication, driving more revenue while delivering a more seamless, high-touch experience. Turning Data Into Action: Instead of toggling between systems or piecing together customer context, winery teams can now work more fluidly, moving from
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Wine Club Scorecard

For Winery Owners, GMs & Wine Club Managers


Your Wine Club Deserves Better Than a Best Guess


Talk to enough wine club managers and a pattern starts to emerge. The club is running. Shipments are going out. Members are renewing, mostly. And yet there is this persistent, low-grade frustration that things could be doing so much more, and nobody can quite agree on what better actually looks like or where to start.


That is not a people problem. It is not even really a strategy problem. It is what happens when you are managing something genuinely complex without a clear baseline to work from.


Wine clubs are one of the most valuable revenue channels a winery can have. Done well, they create reliable recurring income, deepen customer loyalty, and turn occasional buyers into genuine advocates. But they are also difficult to manage well. You are balancing member experience, logistics, pricing, retention, acquisition, and brand storytelling all at once. And most teams are doing it without any real benchmark for how they are performing relative to what is possible.


You fix what is loudest, not necessarily what matters most.

So decisions get made on feel. Churn ticks up and the instinct is to throw a discount at it. Acquisition slows and suddenly everyone is debating whether to restructure the club tiers. Revenue per shipment plateaus and nobody is quite sure if that is a pricing issue, a product issue, or just the market.


What the best clubs do differently

The wineries that run their clubs well tend to have one thing in common: they have taken the time to actually understand where they stand. Not in a vague, gut-check kind of way, but specifically. They know their retention rate and what is driving it. They know which member segments are most valuable and why. They know where their acquisition funnel leaks and what a realistic cost per new member should look like. That clarity changes how they make decisions.

Most clubs do not have that clarity. Not because the people running them are not capable, but because nobody ever gave them a framework to build it from. That is the gap the Wine Club Scorecard was designed to fill.


What you actually get

The Wine Club Scorecard is a free assessment built specifically for winery owners, GMs, and wine club managers who want an honest read on how their club is performing. It covers the areas that actually drive club health: member retention, acquisition strategy, engagement, revenue per shipment, and overall club structure.


You answer a series of questions about how your club operates today, and what comes back is a genuine report with benchmarks, clear data on where you stand, and specific steps you can take to improve. Whether your club has 200 members or 2,000, the output is the same: real information you can act on.


The whole thing takes about five minutes. And the conversations it tends to start, with your team, with ownership, with whoever makes decisions about where to invest, are usually long overdue.


If you have had that nagging sense that your club is running but not quite performing, this is a good place to start. Not because it will hand you a magic fix, but because you cannot fix what you have not clearly identified. A lot of wine clubs are leaving real money and real member relationships on the table, not out of negligence, but simply because no one has stepped back to look at the full picture.


Now is a good time to look.

Free report. Benchmarked data. Clear next steps. Takes five minutes.

Take the Free Scorecard wineclubscorecard.com



© 2026 WineClubScorecard.com  ·  Built for the wine industry.

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Why Wait to Automate? A Wine Industry Mystery
Imagine your VP of Sales announcing they’ve ditched CRM for a Rolodex. Or your finance director saying Excel is too modern, so they’re switching to chalkboard.  And yet, here we are — 2025 — squinting at billbacks for hours on end and sending reps to visit every retail account like the entire industry is running for sheriff. Automation isn’t new, but for the wine & spirits world, it might as well be black magic. We love to talk about efficiency, scaling, and modernizing — right up until someone proposes replacing busywork with bots. Suddenly, it’s “But our rep relationships!” or “This is how we’ve always done it.” As if nostalgia for manual labor is part of our brand identity. Let’s get one thing straight: no one’s asking you to hand your label design to Midjourney or let ChatGPT pick your clones. We’re talking about automating the parts of your business that drain time, w
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Collaboration for the Win: The Smartest Play In The Wine Industry Right Now
Marketing budgets may be getting leaner but visitor expectations sure are not. One of the smartest moves a winery can make isn't a bigger spend: it's a shared one. Pooling resources with neighboring wineries doesn't dilute your brand. It amplifies it, elevates your entire area as a destination, and gives visitors a richer experience that keeps them coming back. At HipMaps we create custom-designed maps with an app that help wineries amplify their marketing, enhance the visitor experience, and easily refer business to each other in a unique and engaging way. Here's how it works: a group of wineries — whether a formal association like Alexander Valley Winegrowers or an informal collection of neighbors — pools together to create one beautiful, branded map featuring all of their locations, in the style and branding that reflects their area. Hear from HipMaps Founder Rachel LeRoy, see examples of how Alexander Valley Winegrowers and others are utilizing their Hip
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How to Spot A Good Workplace Leader?
Trying to run an effective and efficient business without strong leadership is a practice in futility, but spotting leadership qualities isn’t exactly easy either. Even with lots of on-paper qualifications and potential experience, at the end of the day it’s the actions, mindset, and impact they leave that determines a leader. If you’re a business owner or manager, you might be wondering: How do I know if someone on my team has what it takes to lead? Well, that’s exactly what we’ll cover here! At The Personnel Perspective, we’ve spent decades helping companies build confident, effective leaders through coaching and leadership development training in Sonoma County. Here’s what to look for when identifying the people who could shape your organization’s future. They’ve Got People Skills, Not Just Job Skills Being good at a job is important, but leadership requires something more: emotional intelligence. The best leaders know how t
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January 7, 2026
Winter WINEland

Event Type: Tasting

Location: Sonoma County, CA

Date: 1/17/2026

Winter WINEland
Step into the magic of Winter Wineland, where the Wine Road transforms into a true wonderland. Imagine cozying up with friends and family, your favorite wines in hand, as you breathe in the crisp winter air and take in the vineyard views—nature’s perfect art, with neatly pruned vines resting peacefully under the season’s charm. Celebrate the start of a new year surrounded by warm hospitality, stunning landscapes, and the joyful clinking of glasses. Every stop along the Wine Road invites you to sip, savor, and bask in the moment. It’s not just wine tasting; it’s an unforgettable experience—rich with connection, beauty, and that irresistible winter glow. Make memories. Share laughter. Discover your next favorite vintage. Winter Wineland is waiting to welcome you with open arms and endless cheers. Get tickets here. $95 Weekend Ticket, $75 Sunday Only, $10 Designated Driver  January 17-18, 2026 ~ 11am - 4pm each day 
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Holiday Marketplace Fun Awaits - This Saturday!
The countdown is on, our Holiday Open House & Marketplace is less than 1 week away, happening Saturday, November 22nd from 11AM to 3PM! We’re thrilled to welcome back some of your favorite Grand Cru member wineries and craft artisans, along with a few new faces you won’t want to miss. Returning Favorites + Exciting First-Timers What’s waiting for you:  Taste 40+ wines from our family of small producers  Discover one-of-a-kind gifts and treats from local craft artisans  Kids crafts table for little hands  We’re dog friendly — bring your furry friends along  Sip coffee samples from Bella Rosa Coffee  Delicious bites from Benny's Smash Burgers and Three's a Platter Mobile Charcuterie (available for purchase)  Complimentary valet parking Featured Wineries: Bienvenue • Black Kite • Bucher • Boars' View • Copper Six • Cormorant • Jeff Cohn Cellars • Morét-Brealynn
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What's a Facilitator, Anyway? Your FAQ Guide
Team meetings don’t always go the way we want. People talk over each other, others stay silent, and decisions somehow don’t get made. That’s where a skilled facilitator comes in. At The Personnel Perspective, we’ve been helping businesses like yours run smoother, more productive meetings for nearly 40 years. And if you’re based in or near Boise, we’ve got just the thing: expert facilitation training Boise teams trust to get things moving. Not sure what a facilitator actually does or when you’d need one? You’re in the right place. So, What Is a Facilitator? A facilitator is like a meeting coach. They guide the conversation, keep things on track, and make sure everyone has a voice. But here’s the key: they stay neutral. They’re not there to take sides or push their own ideas. Their whole job is to help your team work as one and come to decisions, together. When Would I Need One? Here are a few situations where bringing
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Meta Ads, Miracle Results: Targeting Holiday Gifting Intenders Without Wasting Budget
Meta Ads, Miracle Results If your holiday Meta ads felt like lighting money on fire in a festive candle, that’s not because social is dead. It’s because your targeting and flighting were built for wishful thinking, not gifting intent. The fix isn’t magic. It’s method. You can absolutely turn Meta into a gift-selling machine between Thanksgiving and New Year—if you understand what actually drives intent and how to spend wisely when every other brand on earth is screaming for attention. What follows is a ruthless, winery-specific playbook for the six-week window between Thanksgiving and New Year that prioritizes intent, protects margin, and leans on real benchmarks instead of folklore. First, reality: volume is there, but it clusters Holiday ecommerce keeps breaking records, with online spend hitting roughly $241.4B from Nov 1 to Dec 31 and mobile responsible for the majority of transactions. (Adobe Newsroom) Translation: your customers are buying on their
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“The Good Stuff” - Charles M. Schultz and the Great Pumpkin
The Sonoma County airport is named for him, so is a museum and ice rink. Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz spent 42 years living and working in Sonoma County, with “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” one of his most famous works. Schultz, during his lifetime, kept an airplane at the airport and was an avid aviator. Snoopy, of course, loved flying too. Schultz was born in 1922 in Minnesota and given the nickname Sparky at a young age. In 1929 the family moved west to Needles, California. The move was said to be prompted by a young cousin’s tuberculosis, which would fare better in a desert climate. Schultz later incorporated Needles into many of his comic strips, particularly those built around Snoopy’s brother Spike, who lived alone in the desert with coyotes and cactus. Their time in the desert was alas short-lived, and Schultz moved back to Minnesota in time for elementary school. This is also where he developed his lifelong passion for ice hockey.
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