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The wine may be more than a hobby
A man who liked the wine was offered some grapes in the desert after dinner. "Thank you" she said, pushing the plate aside: "I'm not used to take my wine in pills." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Wine, alcoholic beverage made from fermentation Grape juice may be much more than a good time and headaches later. If you are a wine buff or just looking for a change of pace, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio can become more than just elements of a wine list.
Gone are the days of the profession of wine is limited to occupations such as winemakers, Vinters, and sommeliers. Today, the Internet offers plenty of ways to capitalize on this old age beverages. The online opportunities are endless, from several million dollars companies to start a blog or run a simple forum. You must decide how much time and money you plan to invest in this company.
Opportunities online where you wine can put to work for you include a Wine Portal News and Information, the auction site, Accessories, Price Comparison, service offerings and blog. No doubt there are more options than just listed, so put on your thinking cap and get to work!
Snooth.com
Snooth, launched in the United States last year, is a social wine recommendation and price comparison site that claims to be the site more Big wine. In the same way that music sites like Last.fm help you discover new music, Snooth recommends wine to users based on bottles that users with similar tastes enjoy. Snooth has a visually appealing and intuitive interface. Users can start your search one came through a simple search box, entering the wine brand, type of grape, and so on.
The site currently has about 300,000 unique users per month, built from about 100,000 earlier this year. Your monthly growth rate is around 25% and expect to reach 600,000 users by the end 2008 and 1.25 million in 2009.
Snooth makes money through its affiliation agreements with many of the merchants and wineries that exhibit their actions on the site. So far, the site has had two rounds of funding. They raised one million of angel funding last year and had a previous round of 300,000 dollars, and are currently looking for a first round of funding to help expand further.
Comparison sites like Snooth wine including wine and Searcher.com WineZap.com.
Pickyourwine.com
Ingram Allen saw the writing on the wall and will soon launch drunk Pickyourwine.com. Pickyourwine.com is a service for wine lovers of all experience levels, from beginners to enthusiasts! In essence, Surfers must fill out a simple questionnaire (supported by the software complex database backend) to help determine what wines that users can enjoy the drink. Once the questionnaire is completed, the user gets their own unique profile of UTP or tasting, then games against two databases, one containing their wines giving profile, and the second to locate stores in your area that sell these wines. The purpose of the site is to empower consumers find wines according to their own profile and not some stranger who taste wines for a living and have no idea of what we like to drink!
Also on the site are food and food pairing suggestions (also matching user profiles) and a mobile version for the wine harvest when you're on the road, in a restaurant or wine shop. The site will be a from autumn to early winter 2008.
Vinography.com
If you're looking to create a site a little more humble than the previous two efforts, you can easily create a blog and talk about anything and everything related to wine, such as large year, which wine goes best with what food, etc. And it is very possible that you can make some extra money by joining wine shops.
However, sometimes a hobby can become time work complete. Vinography (www.vinography.com) is a wine blog, which began on January 15, 2004 as a personal project of founder and editor of Alder Yarrow. Now the site is a respected source for the writing of non-mainstream wines, and one of the most influential wine blogs on the Internet. With wine and love reviews, reviews restaurants, editorials, book reviews, wine news and events coverage of wine, Vinography publishes new content daily audience world. Page collaborators have worked hard to create an alternative to traditional sources and styles of wine journalism, partly through its emphasis on stories, the people and the passion behind wine, all told from a decidedly down to earth.
So sit back, drink a glass of wine and get to work!
About the Author
Mona Sutherland graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Mona moved to the Republic of Panama to pursue certain entrepreneurial endeavors, including graduating valdevictorian from her MBA course at the University of Lousiville. Mona is currently an Internet Marketing Specialist.
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