• Lots to Report!
  
  
• POS Comes to Winery Pro!
  
  
• QuickBooks Link
  
  
• News for Northwest Wineries
  
  
• User Group Report
  
  
• Colorado Wineries
  
  
• Winery Pro™ Features Re-Cap

QuickBooks Link

Yes we've been busy lately because we now also have available QBWine - a direct link from Winery Pro to QuickBooks. Button clicks now add Winery Pro Customers to the QuickBooks Customer List, post Invoices, Sales Receipts and link products. If cutting your workload in half sounds good - give us a call to find out details about QBWine.

User Group Report

Our first user group meeting held in May 2003 was phenomenal! Guest speaker Rebecca Germolus of Maximum Value Marketing suggested many effective direct sales tips to our group of 7 participants. Winery Pro users also shared thoughts on increasing the efficiency of their own marketing programs. A heartfelt thanks to Rebecca for giving us so many easy and effective promotional ideas. A recap of Rebecca's presentation will be posted on the web site in early August.

Our next Winery Pro User Group is scheduled for Wednesday September 27, 2003 at 7:00 pm. Elizabeth Slater, owner of InShort Direct Marketing will show us how to take the pain out of telemarketing. More information about this topic will be posted in next month's news.

Dates
August 1 & 2 - Western Slope - Colorado regional wineries, contact TCA for time
October 2003 - Walla Walla Washington with Conetto Winery Services Northwest
September 18, 2003 9:00 am - TCA office Santa Rosa
September 24, 2003 7:00 pm - User Group with InShort Direct Marketing

Try a Demo?
You may obtain a working demonstration Winery Pro CD by contacting our office at 707 544-1559

Winery Pro™ Features Re-Cap

Here's a recap of the key sales and administrative features of Winery Pro™:

• At a Glance - Customer Sales, Invoice History, Last Purchase and Sales Rank
• Computer(s) as ultra-smart cash register(s)
• Batch invoicing of Wine Club shipments or any group you define
• Full Wine Club membership reporting and evaluation
• Complete management of Futures sales and delivery
• Credit card charges processed from Winery Pro™
• Multi-level pricing, quantity and Wine Club discounting applied automatically
• Immediate inventory On Hand Amounts as you sell

Lots to Report!

We welcome new readers in the Pacific Northwest Wine region as well as the Western Slope of Colorado to the Winery Pro News update.

POS Comes to Winery Pro!

POS is now available - offering users more great options to take advantage of Winery Pro's in-depth customer profiling and marketing capabilities. Now you can expand the functionality of Winery Pro at an incredibly effective price point! Introductory Package Pricing is being offered on the POS system until September 15, 2003. You will want to take advantage of this if your winery has a public tasting room.

Basic features of the new Winery Pro POS system include:
• Optional use of credit card readers, bar code scanners, and receipt driven cash drawers
• Multiple payment methods
• Rapid Credit Card processing
• Daily Cash Drawer Balancing
• Allows winery to have both front end and back office systems running
• Runs on both Macs and PC's (Yes you can still have that great Mac for your graphics work)

Great News for Northwest Wineries

TCA is extremely proud to now be working with Conetto Winery Services to represent unique wineries in the NorthWest region. Read Al and Melody's profile to see why we are so excited:

Conetto Winery Services Northwest
Co-founders Al and Melody Conetto discovered a strong need for local representation of industry products to the rapidly expanding Northwest wine industry. With a passion for wine and more than 40 years combined sales, marketing and management experience, they left the corporate rat race to establish Conetto Winery Services Northwest, as an independent reseller of innovative and affordable products for small to medium sized Northwest wineries.

Headquartered in Walla Walla, Washington, Al and Melody service the more than 600 wineries in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. They are readily available to meet with the area wineries and take pride in representing Northwest needs to product vendors in distant geographies.

Conetto Winery Services Northwest is currently representing the following products:
• Winery Pro, innovative marketing, sales and wine club software from Technology Consulting Alliance
• Blend Small Winery Edition, proven wine production tool from Blend Winery Software
• Custom designed Ozone Systems from Piper Environmental Group
• Astro Cooler Tank Wrap, the efficient and affordable alternative for temperature control from Innovative Energy

Colorado Wineries

Wineries of the Western Slope region in Colorado will have an opportunity to learn about Winery Pro! We will be staying in the Grand Junction area from July 29 - August 3, 2003. If your winery is interested in Customer Relationship software that promotes the direct sales and marketing process - send us an email at winerypro@tcalliance.com so we can place you on our visit schedule.

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