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7 Steps to Smart Goals: A Guide to Higher Achievements in the New Year

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2020: A new year AND a new decade. It’s inevitable that a fresh calendar brings new energy to your beverage alcohol sales strategies. It may be simple to make a list of goals, but harder to transform them into reality. It takes focus to…
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Foster Growth by Treating Your Dashboards Like a Well-kept Garden

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Veggie gardening has been an interesting road for the Cittadini clan, and in an odd way strangely represents the challenges our customers have in maintaining their analytics Dashboards. We have a small piece of property…
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A Mobile Evolution for GreatVines

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It’s been 15 months since I first introduced Serenity to the GreatVines community. Our newly formed Serenity Task Force has worked with customers and partners to test early releases of the application and help guide the development of our…
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GreatVines’ New Data Infrastructure Technology

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The speed of technology advancement in the data world has been staggering in the last several years. Just as your smartphone can become outdated in a handful of years, the cutting-edge in data processing can quickly become last…
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Maximize Distributor Relationships During OND with These Guiding Principles – Part Two

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Making sure your distributor relationships are solid should be your primary goal this OND. Tim Jones, our Chief Customer Success Officer and Co-founder, has compiled a list of Four Guiding Principles on how to maximize these partnerships.…
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Women’s Leadership Council Conference Follow Up

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Image Courtesy of WSWA Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Women’s Leadership Council Conference put on by the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) in Mount Vernon, Virginia, as a sponsor & exhibitor…
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Maximize Distributor Relationships During OND with These Guiding Principles – Part One

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Navigating the three-tier system during the intense pace of OND as a supplier isn’t easy. It comes with unique challenges: Accounts are busy, buyers are slammed, and reps are trying to earn the lion’s share of their annual…
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Spread Too Thin? Keep Goals Manageable and Simple to Win

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A jack of all trades and master of none is almost always consigned to a subsistence living. To really attain the pinnacles of success, one must be possessed of an almost preternatural ability to focus on the few, critical success…
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Account Call Sequences Help Optimize and Streamline Retail Execution

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We have all had experiences with onboarding at a new company. It can be exhausting, confusing and frustrating to remember all the things we learn in sales training, not to mention acclimating to new systems, processes and procedures. Then…