This document discusses the importance of social media and blogging for wine marketing. It provides statistics from a Technorati report that found blogs to be the third most influential digital resource when making purchases. The report also found that nearly two-thirds of influencers make money from blogging, though most make less than $10,000 per year. It includes quotes from wine marketer Alfonso Cevola about why he blogs about Italian wine.
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o n b l o g s , a s 86 p e r c e n t s a y t h e y
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t h o s e s a y t h e y b l o g f o r
t h e ms e l v e s . B l o g g i n g i s t h e
p r i ma r y p u b l i s h i n g t o o l , a n d
a b o u t a t h i r d o f i n f l u e n c e r s
s a y t h e y h a v e b e e n b l o g g i n g
f o r f i v e o r mo r e y e a r s . Mo s t
b l o g g e r s (52%) o p e r a t e t w o t o
f i v e b l o g s , w h i l e 43 p e r c e n t
r u n j u s t o n e . On l y 5 p e r c e n t o f
b l o g g e r s o p e r a t e s i x o r mo r e
b l o g s .¡± - -Technorati
Media 2013 Digital Influencer Report
18. ¡°N e a r l y t w o -t h i r d s o f i n f l u e n c e r s
s a y t h e y ma k e mo n e y f r o m b l o g g i n g ,
b u t m o r e t h a n 80 p e r c e n t s a y i t ¡¯s
l e s s t h a n $10,000 p e r y e a r . O n l y 11
p e r c e n t o f b l o g g e r s r e p o r t ma k i n g
m o r e t h a n $30,000 p e r y e a r . M o s t
b l o g g e r s r e p o r t e d i n c o me w a s a
r e s u l t o f a d v e r t i s i n g (61% b a n n e r , 51%
t e x t ). A f f i l i a t e p r o g r a m s (41%),
21. ¡°¡consumers a r e t u r n i n g t o b l o g s w h e n
l o o k i n g t o ma k e a p u r c h a s e . B l o g s
w e r e f o u n d t o b e t h e t h i r d -m o s t
i n f l u e n t i a l d i g i t a l r e s o u r c e (31%)
w h e n ma k i n g o v e r a l l p u r c h a s e s ,
o n l y b e h i n d r e t a i l s i t e s (56%) a n d
b r a n d s i t e s (34%). I n f a c t , b l o g s
w e r e f o u n d t o b e t h e f i f t h -m o s t
t r u s t wo r t h y s o u r c e o v e r a l l f o r
i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e i n t e r n e t .¡±
-Technorati Media 2013 Digital Influencer Report
24. s o me o f t h o s e s t o r i e s a n d
p i c t u r e s a n d t h e c r e a t i v e
p r o c e s s . T h a t i s wh y I b l o g .
Wh y I t a l y ? Wh y w i n e ? B e c a u s e
t h e y a r e p a r t o f my D N A , my
b e i n g , a n d b e c a u s e t h e Wi n e
Go d d e m a n d s i t o f m e .¡±
-Alfonso Cevola
On the Wine Trail in Italy