Magic Hat: Put the bong down and get some original ideas!

I just got the most recent Magic Hat Brewery newsletter. Overall, I think their newsletter design is pretty slick, and their promotions are pretty solid – centered around music mostly. They also celebrate their #9 Apricot beer on 9/9 every year. I can’t say that #9 is my favorite brew, but I know they sell [...]

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Written by on Thu, July 29 2010 » Marketing

Do you subscribe to and read email newsletters?

Most craft brewers send out an email newsletter.  Craftbeer.us subscribes to quite a few of them and reads some of them – but we’re wondering if we’re the only ones.  Please take our poll below and let us know if/how you use them.  We’ll report the results in a week.

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Written by on Tue, June 29 2010 » Marketing

How NOT to Execute a Sponsorship

I was in an unnamed city last night and went to a “open-mic-style” show that was sponsored by an unnamed craft brewer.  I have been to this show, which happens once a month a few times now and it’s been sponsored by the same craft brewer every time.  And unfortunately, executed the same way every [...]

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Written by on Tue, June 29 2010 » events, Marketing

Zane Lamprey wants to buy the entire Travel Channel craft beer

Zane Lamprey likes to drink. A lot. He had this HD show called Three Sheets (it’s a travel show about the World’s drinking customs) on the MOJO HD station until it shut down a while back and he’s been shopping it to various networks ever since. Zane posted on his website last week that the [...]

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Written by on Tue, June 22 2010 » Marketing, social media