Our latest thoughts on marketing strategy, case studies, consumer insights, social media platforms and thoughts on content marketing.
Top Social Media Trends and Digital Insights for 2016
The marketing landscape is a moveable feast. As much as we love working in an industry that constantly changes, it’s often hard to keep abreast of the latest digital and social media trends. So to kick off 2016, the Mastermind team has summarised the [...]
Open that Bottle Night: The perfect excuse to open memorable wines!
Waiting for a rainy day to open those wines you’ve been saving? That day is the last Saturday in February each year. Great wine is made to be shared, wouldn’t you agree? And it’s not always about cracking open the oldest bottle in your cellar (altho [...]
Australia’s First Winery InstaMeet
Instagram has grown by more than 30% in the last year, with more than five million active accounts in Australia alone. With this rapid growth comes the invention of new ways to embrace these users. Say hello to the InstaMeet. The first early adaptor [...]
Top 5 Tips to Create User Generated Content around your brand
User-generated content (UGC) is defined as "any form of content such as blogs, wikis, discussion forums, posts, chats, tweets, podcasting, pins, digital images, video, audio files, advertisements and other forms of media that was created by users of [...]
Brand Storytelling 101
Let me tell you a story. There are three characters in this tale – The Brand, The Product and The Consumer. One balmy summer’s evening, The Brand and The Consumer had a one-night stand. Their dalliance was fun, intriguing and left The Consumer hoping [...]
Leveraging the Power of Trigger Emails in your marketing
Often email marketing strategies focus on communicating to your existing database, but there’s an opportunity to capitalise on automated emails that send a targeted message based on a specific event or website behaviour. These emails are called trigg [...]
Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing
Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing How alarming is this fact? IBM research found that 17% of all emails never see the inside of a recipient’s inbox. From defunct emails and SPAM traps to uninteresting subject lines, there’s a multitude of re [...]
Why email marketing is more important than ever
As technology evolves and shiny new platforms are introduced into the marketing mix, the role of email in marketing strategy can often be neglected. And yet, when done properly, email is still one of the most powerful tools in a company’s marketing a [...]
Content Marketing 101
Everyone’s talking about a particular buzzword in the marketing industry: Content. This buzzword embodies a powerful tool that’s pushing standard advertising to the back of the queue. It’s nudging traditional marketing methods off the platform, and, [...]
5 pro tips and your best source of information on Instagram for Business
Did you catch our recent webinar: “Social success: How to leverage Instagram to grow wine brand awareness” by Trish Barry? If you were, you’ll know the social platform once deemed “hipsters-and fashion bloggers only” is now as widespread and mainstre [...]