Word & Mouth Blog
Where food, hospitality, branding, and human behavior all crash into each other. I write about restaurants, wine, placemaking, customer experience, and the small details that make people talk about a business long after they leave.
For even more snarky takes on marketing, pop culture, branding, and the internet, visit my Substack, Burnt Popcorn & Branding: Substack
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A mix of hospitality, branding, customer psychology, hospitality culture, and internet behavior from someone who’s worked behind the scenes in marketing long enough to know what feels authentic and what feels painfully forced.
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Yes. Especially if your marketing currently sounds like ChatGPT wrote it.
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No LinkedIn thought leadership energy here. Just strategy, storytelling, and occasional side-eye toward trends, Chat-GPT written branding advice, and “disruptive” ideas that all look the same.
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People in marketing, hospitality, branding, retail, wine, or anyone who secretly judges restaurants by their menu design before reading the food list.
Wine Brands Can Appeal to Younger Generations While Maintaining Their Legacy- Here's How.
Discover how wine brands can attract younger consumers while preserving their core identity. Learn strategies on experiences, psychographics, authentic innovation, and strategic partnerships to engage diverse audiences.
Embracing Your Worth: Transforming Personal Challenges into Professional Confidence
Discover how overcoming personal challenges, such as a health battle, can transform your professional outlook. Learn actionable steps for marketers to build resilience, set boundaries, and foster supportive work environments that value and respect individual worth. Gain insights into creating a positive, empathetic workplace culture and embracing your professional capabilities.
Quick Updates to Grow Your Instagram Business Page
Here are some quick and actionable tips to grow your Instagram Business Page right away.
Unlocking Success: AI Marketing for Small Businesses
I'm on this wild adventure exploring AI, marketing, and business, and you know what? Things aren't always what they seem. Come along as we challenge the status quo and uncover some unexpected twists and turns that'll leave you rethinking everything you thought you knew!
Social Media's Comeback: Debunking Myths and Seizing Opportunities - like Marketing & AI
Discover how AI and marketing are transforming the industry, from generative AI tools and social media strategies to content creation and audience engagement. Embrace the future and unlock new opportunities for success.
How to Create a Healthy "TikTok Salad Recipe" Inspired by the 5 Foods you Should Eat Everyday
Get creative in the kitchen with this easy and healthy TikTok Salad recipe. Incorporate spinach, apple, broccoli, garlic, flax seeds, and an apple cider vinaigrette dressing. Plus, you can customize it to your liking. Don't forget to post on TikTok and share with friends, and learn about the 5 foods you should eat every day for a balanced diet.
Achieve Your New Year's Resolutions - Tips for Lasting Success
As we enter the New Year, it's important for wine marketers and small business owners to set realistic goals and develop sustainable habits for success. Our tips for making your New Year's resolutions successful include understanding the difference between short-term and long-term goals, creating an action plan, and adjusting your goals as needed to remain flexible. By following these guidelines, you can stay motivated and on track to reach your goals in 2023 and beyond.
Choose Your Word of the Year for Motivation & Focus in 2023
Looking to stay motivated and focused on your 2023 goals? Consider choosing a word of the year – here are some tips for selecting one that resonates with you, setting goals, and incorporating it into your daily routine.
10 Ways to Optimize Social Media for SEO
How can you make sure that your social media content is seen by the people who are interested in it? By following these 10 tips, you can optimize your social media for SEO and ensure that your content reaches your target audience AND helps you grow and connect with new people within your niche.
Struggling to Achieve Your Goals? Here's How to Overcome Common Excuses
We all have common excuses we tell ourselves when it comes to not achieving goals. With a little bit of effort, you can overcome excuses, change your habits and start achieving your goals.
Whether it's a lack of time, motivation, or energy, there are plenty of ways we can overcome the excuses that are holding us back from achieving our goals.
Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter is Dangerous - Especially for Fake News On Social Media Platforms
The rise of misinformation and disinformation on social media is a major threat to our society and democracy. With Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, the problem is only getting worse. This blog post explores various strategies for fighting against the spread of “Fake news” on social media, including advocating for stronger policies from social media platforms and holding our leaders accountable for their roles in the public narrative.
6 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health
It's important to take care of your mental health. Here are 6 ways you can do that.
5 Best Paid Social Media Tools I Use to Run My Content Marketing Business
If you're feeling overwhelmed by running a social media marketing business, these five paid tools will help make life easier. From content creation to organizing everything to email marketing, check out my top picks for best social media marketing tools!
A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Instagram Transitions in Reels (with 5 examples)
Learn how to create EASY Instagram Reels transitions between your videos for an even more engaging Instagram reel. This guide provides simple tips and tricks to help you create professional looking short-form videos for Instagram (and TikTok) in no time!
5 Content Marketing Tips For Your Wine Business, With A Bonus Tip…Which Is My Favorite, TBH
Wine Country small business owners and marketers are always looking for ways to get more bang for their marketing buck. Check out these five content marketing tips to drive traffic to your site and convert those visitors into paying customers — and if you DIY, your content marketing can be a pretty cheap way to build your brand online.
Why social media marketing won't work for your business without a social media plan
Social media marketing won't work for your business without a social media plan to ensure you’re creating content with a purpose; this is how you can quickly create a social media plan.
Top California Wineries Using Instagram Reels to Share Short-Form Videos
As video becomes an increasingly important part of social media marketing, more and more wineries are using short-form videos about wine on Instagram Reels to connect with potential customers. Find out which California wineries are doing it well!
The reason why Instagram prioritizes Reels: short-form videos are search engines.
The REAL reason why Instagram is focused on Reels is that short-form videos (IMO) are the best search engines. Teenagers use videos within Tiktok to search for the things they care about, and Instagram wants those viewers. Short-form videos provide that information in easy-to-understand, quick bites versus longer YouTube videos or blog posts - so more viewers mean more $$ for digital ads.
Link Tree - Wait, Is It Better Than a Website Landing Page?
Is linktree actually better for SEO than a website landing page?
8 proven steps to take one idea and turn it into ten social media posts
Being able to quickly take your most important ideas and turn them into content is important for any social media marketer. Especially those looking for content creation for beginners, or small business owners who have a lack of time, or resources (I understand because that's me also).