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Test drive here. Something went wrong. Refresh the page and try again. If a problem persists, please contact support. I don't know, maybe we're live. Hey everybody, we're live. And that's how Drink Up goes. Welcome everybody on Saturday morning. We're live, raw, and real. Obviously I thought I wasn't live and I guess I'll like contact support anyway. Sorry, we're a couple minutes late. Welcome Lisa Fagan, the founder of Promalytics that we're going to talk to today. And Adam, Welcome as well back to Drink Up and Sorry, Everybody. I, I guess I lost my mind there for a second. And full transparency, a few months ago Adam and I were doing a podcast and we wrapped up with our friend at CoolMox, Danielle. Hello, Danielle, if you ever capture one of these podcasts or live raw and real things. But we actually rolled for another 45 minutes and didn't realize it. And our friend Ryan Hellman at Apex 360, which I guess Apex 360 Group's changed its name. Sorry, I'm not supposed No, you're fine.

It's, it's public knowledge. But yeah, they got a— it's a whole other story. Got a demand letter. So yes, the name will be changing. Yeah, he texted me out of the— like, Sam and I were, you know, bullshitting, hanging out, going over business stuff. We hadn't named— thank God we hadn't named any names or, you know, spoken ill of anyone. Not that we're prone to, but—

Not that we ever would.

But yeah, Ryan texts us and is like, hey, just so you know, if people are still watching, you guys are still live.

Yeah. Now I'm waiting, I'm waiting for my demand letter too, because there's all kinds of like, bev this and drink this. I'm like, okay, great.

I know.

I'll just ride the wave. I'll just try to become Promolytics Podcast. Oh, that's right. It's owned by Lisa. So Lisa, welcome. Uh, so why don't you introduce yourself? Tell a little bit about, you know, the founder of Promolytics.

Yes.

Um, just tell us kind of, you know, who you are and, and how you got here and And you don't have to go through a long dissertation, but just maybe a little 411 about you and about your company.

Great, thank you. Thanks for having me on. So I have been in the alcohol beverage industry for the past 25 years. During that time, I was in marketing and sales, in e-commerce, and I noticed something that was sort of trending through all of those. Marketing team was having a hard time tracking consumer engagement with their marketing promotions. You know, digitally that's easy when you're talking about email or social media or your website. That's easy to track. What's hard to track are tastings, events, the print materials that you have at the grocery store or the liquor store. That consumer engagement is sort of one step away from being trackable. And I knew at some point that we had to be able to do that, especially now, right, in this age of AI and all these different things that are going on. So I created Promolytics to do just that, to give the full campaign trackable, measurable engagement with your consumer.

Wow. Wow. So you're here, you and I. I don't even know how did we meet? I'm just Curious, and we'll get into some of the questions, but how did— at least I don't know how we found each other. Did I find you or did you find me?

Or I think you found me and talked to Alex for a little bit, uh, on my sales team, and then we talked, had several Zoom meetings, and you're a very interesting individual and engaging, and it's been great getting to know you, really. So yeah, that's, I think, the way we Well, that was very polite that I'm a very interesting individual.

Um, Elisa— I mean, Alicia, my partner, would probably appreciate that comment because she has to live with me. Um, she's my work wife, so she lives with me all the time. So we have some questions coming up, uh, by the way. Uh, Jeff says that's a nice way to describe Sam. Lots of love. Thanks, Jeff. I appreciate that. Uh, uh, with that, uh, piece, um, Adam, I know you're thinking here, and we were talking earlier, and we were talking a little bit about small companies and the opportunity to be able to grab data. Do you want to go a little bit deeper on that with Lisa in terms of— and then we can drill into like what Promalytics is and how companies can actually tap into this incredible value that they bring?

Yeah, I mean, I think it kind of is a— because I know I'm prone to looping in multiple questions into one, but it's like, I understand what you're saying, Lisa, in terms of the need.

Right.

That absolutely tracks. The logic is there for me. But in terms of, of how and how a small brand, you know, if you talk about a sampling, for example, so like I've got not all, but a handful of my, my brand owners that I work with are, are kind of one-man bands, right? So is that something where, you know, kind of marrying those 2 ideas together, is that something where if they're working with you, you know, do they have like a like a tablet or an app on their phone where they're capturing data and then Promolytics is giving them an analysis of that data and that's kind of how it works? Or I guess the question is, you know, if you could paint me a picture of how like a single person brand or brand owner might be able to make use of Promolytics.

Right, right. So imagine you're a tequila brand and you're launching a new product. And through that tasting that you were talking about, You're in 5 cities, and what you do is, uh, you create— or you take your information that you're trying to gather through and your campaign, and say on the tasting you add a QR code with a couple questions, or maybe a video.

Mm-hmm.

Right? Um, and The consumer scans that QR code and we start gathering that data from there. So the QR code gets geographic location.

Mm-hmm.

Gives you the information on the consumer, the way the consumer best likes to be connected with. So they'll ask for email address or Instagram If it's a non-alcoholic product, it can have text information, that sort of thing. We also cover the different legal ways that— the legalese that needs to be taken care of. You can't just have people scan QR codes and collect information anymore, right? If it is an alcohol beverage, you want to make sure that you're absolutely documenting that You are talking with someone who's 21 or older. You also want to be able to document that you have talked to them about privacy policies and that they are submitting and knowing that they are submitting their information.

You're like an attorney in an app.

Yeah, it's, it's, it's cover your butt.

Cover your bases. That's interesting.

And then also, but you're also getting name information, geolocation information, you're getting. If you, if you put a video on, like a nice engaging video, because you're trying to also engage your customer with this, um, you'll see whether they watch the full video or not.

Oh, we gotta introduce her to China Morrigan over at Vidlo.

I'm also thinking, I mean, China and like Andrea Poe. I'm getting a lot of Andrea Poe conversation type vibes.

Um, yeah.

So those are things that it's all documented, right? But it's all So then from before, but looking at it from where you were before, the way it's sort of happening now is someone, a promotional company walks up to a customer and says, do you want to try our new tequila? And they say yes. And then they, if they're engaging, they actually say, do you like it? And they say, yeah, or meh, or oh no, I love it.

Great.

So that's what you want to hear, right? But, but with Promalytics, you can say to the customer, what do you normally like to drink? In that 2-question link from that QR code, it could be, what do you like to normally drink?

Oh man. Our friends at Even, by the way, Even, I mean, I don't know if he knows it, but he's just, he's like freely sponsoring our podcast. Hey Derek, just a little promo for Even. I know you and Lisa are talking about the 3M Golf Championships. This is one of the hottest brands in North America, by the way. But anyway, that was my advertisement. A question came in here. It's kind of on the same page. So Jeff, thanks for the question. Data collection is so important, especially when there are many parts and touchpoints in the campaign. Do you offer a real-time dashboard for displaying the data in a logical understanding?

Correct. Yes. So the real-time data is created in real time. So within a couple seconds, you will see that. And the next thing that happens is you are able to— so each time a consumer engages with one of your QR codes, what happens on our end is Promalytics creates a unique identifier for that information for that customer. And then they just keep updating each time that the consumer actually engages, say it's With a— they started at events, then they go to the liquor store to purchase the product, but they scan a QR code that's on a shelf talker. Hey, great, we've uploaded that information into that.

So we built— so Promalytics needs all your promotion that you do, build in Promalytics into your QR codes that they scan. And once we capture that consumer, we're going to have them for the lifetime, or as long as they have their, um, their product. And then as a, as an owner I have this dashboard and I can actually see in real time what's happening with those consumers as they start to aggregate that data.

Correct.

Or you start to aggregate the data.

The different touchpoints. And then the— then they go to purchase. And that is what you consider your consumer engagement that you want to document for that particular campaign. You have when they purchased, what, you know, what steps led up to the purchase. It's not an, oh, I wonder if they actually went to the tasting first or if they saw my QR code on the shelf talker first. It's one. This is the day they engaged at the tasting. This is the day they scanned their shelf talker. This is when they bought.

So this is leading to question number 1, because we've gotten to questions before the questions. But so I got to believe this is one of the reasons you launched Promalytics, because you probably saw a problem out in the marketplace. So people have QR codes, they're giving stuff away, they're investing in different apps to do certain things, but you literally can cover the whole—

Gambit.

Gambit. So can you walk through— is that why you founded Promalytics? Or I don't want to put words in your mouth, but is that one of the reasons?

Yes, that was the original reason why I founded Promalytics, was to cover that black hole that's 39% of where the marketing team spends their money every year. So last year, alcohol beverage teams spent $22 billion on marketing.

So 39%, let's go back to that 39% of what gets spent towards marketing.

22, say which part do you want me to read?

So 22% of what you make goes to marketing?

No, no, no, no, no, no. So last year, $22 billion was spent on marketing overall at the alcohol beverage.

Okay.

39% of that is on offline marketing. So the tastings, the events, the shelf talkers, all of those things that are a black hole to the— well, a lot of CPG companies, but we're just talking about that. Those dollar figures are just for alcohol beverage alone.

Yeah. Piñata needs you, by the way. You're right. From our conversation today.

Yeah.

They have hundreds and hundreds of tasting agencies and their app actually helps execute that, but they're aggregating and grabbing data, but not like what you can do at Promalytics.

Right. So what you're doing is you're creating a dashboard that's giving you a living, breathing consumer insight engine, right?

Yeah.

So they're getting all of that information they're not getting now, or they're getting it from Nielsen Or they're getting it from— maybe they bought POS, you know, information from the stores. It takes months to get that data to them.

So you're a differentiator. You're actually— you're different than the traditional marketing. One of the things we wanted to ask is, what is the difference between you and traditional marketing? Traditional marketing takes too long to get the information. Is that one of the differences? You can get it right now?

Yes. Their only hope of getting it is it takes them 3 months or more to get. And we do it in real time, right?

You've already lost the consumers. 90 days ago, this is what happened. I don't know what's happening currently.

Correct. Yes.

Yes.

So we're giving you real-time data. The other thing is, and it's— we're launching AI. So AI, Adam, to your guys, this is going to be just a game changer because the people who have— want to know this data and want to be able to plan. This gives you the data to plan out the next year, 2 years, 3 years down the road. They have that data that they're building their own information on, right? But maybe they don't have time to dig into it.

Mm-hmm.

AI digs into it for them. So they're going in, they're looking at the— and they'll ask questions.

How—

what was my best marketing campaign in June?

That's right.

Where that gives them the roll-up. You know, you had this many QR code scans, you had 100,000 different communications, and we suggest that you don't do billboards anymore because you really didn't get a lot of engagement through your billboards. You got more engagement through your TDS, right?

So some people were coming online. I'm going to interrupt. Sorry, I told you I was like the pitcher or whatever. So first of all, uh, Andy just came online. Adam, you want to read her comment?

Yeah, so she said, uh, could you, could you talk more about the campaign as it relates to these tasting events?

Okay, and I'm—

well, go ahead before I—

I would ask what more Do you— okay, let me run a tasting event.

She said you just answered the question. She said you already answered it.

Andy, bring on some more customers. And then Brett, Brett, I'm going to butcher your name, but Brett, is there a link to the tool? We can— I mean, in terms of Promalytics, can we— we can share everybody. Maybe we can type it in the chat and bring up, and maybe we can show the— maybe, I don't know, I'll put you on the spot, but maybe we can show how people get there as well, if you're comfortable with that. But Brett is an industry pro as well, right? Yeah, that's good.

Yeah, what you would want to do is go to promalytics.net. That will give you our marketing website. Sign up for a demonstration and we will walk you through the platform.

Awesome. Yeah, so how we run live, raw, and real. So, Lisa, so as questions pop in, we like to get them as Soon as possible. And then Jeff came back and he said it would be great if there was a way to use geofencing technology to bring up a QR on a smartphone based on a consumer's location. Example, a liquor store location that is doing a tasting. Any thoughts?

That's a great thought. That's a great thought. And I will—

You're gonna— we're gonna, we're gonna develop the— we're gonna conquer the world. But go ahead. Sorry.

No, yeah, that's great. No, I think that's great. That is a wonderful idea. I'll talk to my team about it. But currently the way it would happen is the QR code would be available through the promoter at the tasting. So yeah.

And so when you're, when you're, when you're at these tastings, or when you're, I guess I should say, when you're setting up a brand for one of these tastings, right?

Yes.

And we'll stick with the alcohol space. because it's a really easy one to understand in the sense of there are some clear rules, right? There have to be some disclaimers read or viewed. There have to be some age confirmations. But once you kind of get beyond the boilerplate checklist, Yes. Are you and the Promolytics team helping? And I'm thinking of some of the brands I work with, helping them understand what information to capture, what questions to ask, what information to not capture, how to understand that information.

Yes, absolutely. All of the above. All of the above. We have provided different, I mean, questions, answers, typical things when you're trying to build that consumer insight database, if that is your goal, because we have that information.

Sure.

Also, our onboarding is a very in-depth So, so, Andy, maybe you answered Andy's question. She said, what type of survey questions do you ask? Is that kind of answered her question, Adam and Lisa?

So whatever you want to know, it is whatever you want to know. We provide you examples. We actually provide you a great— a lot of examples on—

Yeah, I would say we don't know what we don't know, but you probably do know what we Yes.

Yes. Well, that's, that's exactly why I asked the question, because I, you know, I pick on him very lovingly on here a lot. He's a really, really good guy, and I, I've got, you know, high hopes for, for what he's doing. But one of my clients will talk about going to tastings, and he's like, you know, he'll go do sampling in a store, and he's like, well, what should I be doing while I'm there? And again, never once in my life, never once ever, have I ever run a tasting.

Right, right.

I met my wife doing, you know, street team promo radio stuff. And so I'm like, I'm like, dude, when you— okay, like, talk to customers. If somebody wants to buy a product, it's their birthday, make them feel special. Figure out what other— like, look at what people are buying when they're not talking to you. Look at what the store is selling. Look at how many people are coming through the door. Talk to the store owner about what problems are— like, the list just keeps going, right?

Oh yeah.

And so when you— and, you know, and I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but when I, when I think about the way I might use this tool, right? It's exactly that. It's like there are all the questions to ask. How do I call them down into something that's manageable that someone's actually going to respond?

Certainly there's so many business use cases for you, Lisa. So here's another question for you, Lisa, or some statements. First of all, Robert, I owe you a call. You called me earlier this week. I'm calling you today. Pick up the phone. I didn't pick up the phone, but I did respond. And by the way, Lisa, Lisa's taking full advantage of it. She's like, hey, it's Lisa. I'm like, I'm like, hey, thanks for calling me. It's so brilliant. Just pick up the phone. Don't you think, Lisa? Just have the conversation. We don't need an appointment to do that. Let's just talk for 5 minutes and go. But so here's Robert. Robert takes brands into Canada. Okay, Robert, I'm probably doing you a disservice. Somewhere in the Michigan area, Canadian area, but he helps beverage brands get into Canada and so on and so forth. Probably do more than that, Robert, but you can chime in. Motivation. The key factor To everything we do is tasty enough to try and convert. I would need tasting, uh, with a deal somewhat like the Costco sampling model. So I don't know if like you're hitting any of those companies that are in Costco or sampling or whatever, but certainly everybody's into this tasting room. We'll get into other things that you do, but—

Yes, yes. Um, yeah, right now we have a pilot program running that They specifically developed their program around Costco. So, and it's going well.

So.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Wow. So yeah, because it's funny when I would, I would walk my Costco, right? I won't go there this weekend. It's pretty crowded. But when you walk there, I mean, I can probably get a full lunch, right? After I walk the area. And then these poor tasting people, it would be nice if you had something, or then I could buy my phone or someone buy a couch or whatever. And there's all these people, these vendors like hitting you while you're walking around. Right. So it's like Disneyland.

Right.

But you're right, you could have you there like capturing information. Oh, scan this for this, get something free. Now I'm not going to just give my number up for free to you or my scan. How do you get people to actually participate?

Here's the thing. So, okay, I did some, a little bit of research on this, obviously. Um, QR codes, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna read a little bit here just to make sure I do exact The US leads the world in total percentage of QR code scans. Yeah. Okay. 42.2% of the US consumer will scan a QR code. 51% of—

Oh, we lost Lisa. Lisa, you there?

Wait, what's that? Yeah. Can you see, hear me at least?

I can hear you, but we can't see you. But that's when we go live or on reel, we can Yeah, keep on talking though. Keep on going and hopefully you can get your video back.

Okay, yeah. Well, um, let me—

If you want to dial back in, we can, we can hold. We got, we got, we got a full, you know, hour with you.

Yes, one second. I think I got it. Just one sec. Turn off the camera.

Um, so a couple comments coming in while we're waiting. Um, uh, uh, Jim says, once the consumer uses the QR code to opt in Once the consumer uses the QR code to opt into the database, what is the journey from the point? And if you're trying to dial in, I'll just show this on the screen. Jim, we'll get to you momentarily. And then got some other questions coming in.

Actually, say that, the question again.

Yeah. So Jim says, once the consumer uses the QR code to opt into the database, what is the journey from this point?

Go back to— here's the journey that Promalytics— Promalytics will show is an add-on to your campaign. So your marketing campaign, the journey that you want your customer to go on is the journey that Promalytics will take it on. Take them to a video if you want to engage them in video and It will gather questions from the consumer if you want to find out more about your consumer information. It's a way to communicate with your customer. It's also a way to find out more about your customer.

Got it.

So, okay, back to QR codes just quick.

Yeah, we still can't see you, by the way, if you think—

I know. Let me finish this and then I'll dial out and then I'll call you. But QR codes are projected to bring in $3.4 billion alone.

So over 40% of the consumers opt in on a QR code, some form or fashion. And then how much? $3 billion, you said?

$3.4 billion.

$3.4 billion. And you're not— if you're not paying, if you're not with Promalytics in this game, you're leaving a lot of There's a big gap there. There's an opportunity gap.

Absolutely. Because people are looking at— they think that digital is the way to go, correct? Because it's measurable. A lot of CMOs are getting a lot of pressure to use digital more. So it's becoming— the consumer is getting swamped with all this digital information that's coming at them. Right. But digital, a digital success story is 6% of engagement on social media. It's 20% to 30%. 30% is considered outstanding on emails. You're looking at QR codes that millennials and Gen Z are participating— over 50% of them are participating in scanning over once a week.

Wow, did you get those numbers? So 6% social media?

Yes.

30% email?

Yes.

And over 50% with a QR code?

Correct.

Well, that— I mean, the math, uh, that, that's just, just brilliant. Why don't you, uh, we'll pull up these questions and get them aggregated. Why don't you dial back in because I'd love— people can hear you. And I apologize, everybody, this is how we roll at, uh, Drink of this. What makes it fun? We had our friend Samantha Skyring. I don't think you made that one, Adam, but Samantha's out of South Africa and she has a salt and her computer was going awry and she started doing bird calls. Just interesting. What was good is we didn't we didn't lose Lisa. She had every answer question. So a couple things we can gather, Adam. I'm going to read these questions here. Oh, there we go. Lisa's back. Yes, there we go. So I delayed just enough to get you back. So we've got a couple of questions coming in, Lisa. Jim says— I'll screen this on the screen to make it easier for you to read. Once the consumer uses a QR code to opt into the database, what is the journey from this point?

So the consumer's journey is whatever the marketing team creates.

Okay.

So that's why if you don't have a full team, we offer different questions you can ask and why you would ask those questions. So we give you guidance, we walk through that. And then from the other end, we, we talk about what are your opportunities? What are you trying to do? Are you trying to build that consumer insight database or are you trying to Do you want to inform more of a closer engagement with your consumer? Do you want to bring them in? Do you want to build? What are we doing? What are your goals? You want to do probably a little bit of all of that. So there's different touchpoints. You don't want to ask the same question.

So you kind of pre-identify what the journey you want to track. I use the word track. Sorry, consumers, we're not tracking you. We want you to participate, right? We participate, be part of the brand's journey. Uh, okay, interesting. And you help them do that. So that's one of the services you offer. You help the, the client kind of figure out what that looks like.

Yes, yes. And we go, uh, also, and AI is going to then help you find out, um, logically database, not sort of this is how I felt like it went with a regular promotion person at a tasting, usually they'll ask the promotional person, well, what'd you think? And they'll say, well, I had a good— I thought it went well, or it was all right. I had a couple people who liked it, a couple people didn't, especially if you're tasting a Scotch, say. And someone— but what we're gathering is you tasted a Scotch, but this person likes foo-foo drinks, so they didn't like it because they don't like— they're not your customer, right?

Yeah.

There's nothing wrong with your Scotch. It's wonderful, right?

Yeah.

So you've put that aside, but yet you know that down the line, if you're trying to attract that person, you have their information.

So something's still ringing in my mind. 6% social media, 30% email, and over 50% to do a QR code.

Weekly. Weekly. Weekly. So if you're looking at overall 89% of people will engage with a QR code.

So how much?

89%.

Okay. So I was going to throw this being kind of silly here. I was going to say play black or white roulette. It's 50% odds that you're going to get black or white, right? So the odds are better to play Promolytics. So I'm betting on black at Promolytics or red every time to do it. So my friend Mark Bird, Mark Bird's with Retail Cities. So Retail says you absolutely have to meet him. He's head of sales for them. So Mark, thanks for the question. Mark asked, Lisa, are you doing any work in Virginia or in North Carolina?

Not currently. I mean, we are nationwide. We are throughout the US. So wherever you are in the US, we will be available.

Okay.

Yeah. And then Mark has obviously a lot of connections across the globe. Uh, to let you know. So he just happens to be based in Virginia Beach. So hey, Mark, think bigger. If he's still here— some people just kind of come in the chat and they leave the chat, come back. Yeah, or whatever. So, um, you want to take some of the questions, Adam, uh, that we talked about earlier? Did you get that I emailed to you?

Yeah, no, I got it. It's, it's— as you've been talking, Lisa, the, the Again, as an ops guy and as kind of a novice of the marketing world, right, um, like, my mind kind of spins on, on laying in what you're saying to, well, okay, is this, is this top of funnel? Is it middle of funnel? Is it end of, you know, bottom of funnel? And, and, you know, if to your point, like, if, if you have somebody who says, no, I don't like scotch, I more of a mixed drink, you know, a fruitier beverage, that kind of thing. Okay. I mean, I talked to— Sam introduced me to a distillery last week who is a distillery, but now they're looking to do lower ABV canned cocktails.

Right.

So you may have seen, you know, for 2 years data that you were capturing but not, you know, taking any opportunity with because it wasn't your, you know, product, it wasn't your market, it wasn't your customer. But now you've decided, you you've gotten enough of that feedback, you want to get into it, right?

Right.

So that's kind of where my brain's spinning. And the question that we have from our list here that I think I want to tie into that is, it says Promolytics can integrate with over 1,400 platforms. What— I mean, first of all, why is that important? Which I could take a guess on, but I'm more interested to start on what platforms, like social media or—

No, no, no. Well, yes and no. So we integrate through social media through messaging. So yeah, that's—

Do you mean messaging platforms?

Yes. So we utilize the messaging platforms on social media. But what we talk about for integration is data in a silo is not good. It doesn't help anybody. But what happens is that the marketing department has their silo of data and the sales department has theirs and strategy has theirs. And then there's the overreaching, right?

Sure.

And where are we going next? So what we do at Promalytics is we work with another company. We partnered with another company that actually integrates our APIs through To say an ARP— ERP, sorry.

That's the new software coming in by ARP.

Yeah, to your ERP or different platforms so that the data can transfer into a usable, uh, functioning integration. So it's not just data in a silo. That's our goal. You can also download it into an Excel spreadsheet. We give you different options to be able to take a look. And if you want to dump your own data down and start pivot tabling and doing all of those funky Excel processes with it, you can do that too.

Yeah, I love— I do work with Pinata, obviously with our company. And I was meeting with Fred. Fred, if you ever capture this or capture our episode or 2, I'm calling Pinata out. But anyway, they create dashboards for us so we don't have to think about the data. And then they— I was all stressed out because I was trying to take the raw data, dump it into pivot tables, and try to disseminate what it was saying. He said, wait, we can do it for you. And I don't know what their front end they're using, Tableau or Power BI, but they're able to aggregate the data really quick and to get some answers. So I'm assuming y'all will do that as well.

Correct. Yes.

There's a couple of questions coming in on the, on my phone. Our statement. So Jeff says experiential marketing is an underutilized and often lower-cost opportunity for emerging brands to get some momentum going to their brand. Any thoughts on that?

Yes, experiential marketing is amazing. And we are absolutely talking to some, some experiential marketing customers because while they are amazing, they don't necessarily— they don't have the data backing it, right? They have the feelings, which everybody loves good feelings, but they also—

Right.

They're also able to gather data the same way. All of their consumers at the experience, they can scan the QR codes at different parts of the experience or contact in different ways that way so that the data, they can actually say, we brought you 1,000 new consumers through this experience. We brought you this information. This expanded your consumer database or your knowledge or your connection by XYZ amount.

Well, I think, you know, Derek and Laura are listening. I think being at the 3M Golf Championships is going to be game-changing for them to utilize your service.

Right. Absolutely.

They talked to 1,000 consumers and I was at the Valspar Golf Championships with them. They literally talked to 1,000 consumers and everybody wanted a scarf. So that was like, hey, come scan this and get a scarf.

Right. Which is a great consumer interaction, right? Why not add to that and then capture that and the way they want to be communicated to? Because if they aren't going to open an email, why are you sending them an email? Yeah, they want to talk to you via Instagram, right?

Right.

And matter of fact, just that experience too, by the way, because I literally was sitting there and watching Derek talk to this one guy. He's like, I'm going to put this on social media, I'm going to be your ambassador. And everybody's like, in the moment that I'm filming, like this young woman, she's like, thank you so much for having Even here today. I felt like I was an outsider, but now that I can have my Even can, I feel like I'm, I'm part of it. of that experience. And meanwhile, Promalytics is right there capturing this experience. You scanned it, the whole bit, which is absolutely brilliant. Um, Robert made a point. Uh, my point is about, uh, earlier question. I just want to make sure we call everybody out that they're so kind enough to come here. If I get a notification of a tasting for a brand I were— I ordered once, or a brand with a new SKU, I'm not as motivated to alter my day and head over. I need more motivation like a BOGO or a free sample.

Okay, that would be something that the marketing team would be putting together on their end.

Right, so that's something you'd advise them, hey look, if I'm going to, like, if I start to do these outreach— did you do outreaches or are you just basically watching their journey? Is there an opportunity with Promalytics to actually, once you get the consumers in, to actually actively outreach to them and steer them to a location or? Come to a tasting. Hey, Robert, you know, we talked to you at Valspar. Love to have you come down to the 3M Golf Championships.

Right, right. Absolutely. So what you do— so talking about the top of the funnel, the middle of the funnel, the end of the funnel, right? It's the funnel. You can use— you can use Promalytics through the whole funnel. In other words, you create a campaign. You use Promalytics to work with and gather that consumer data. Then you go back for your next campaign and go into Promalytics and say, I want to look at the consumers that are 21 to 30 years old who like this particular product or this particular type of alcohol or whatever.

Whatever.

And I That's how I'm going to reengage with them. And then you build your program around that, the next campaign. And then you have a cohort that you got the information back out of. And everybody knows that once you get a very specific cohort that you're engaging with, that you have so much more success on that next campaign because you're talking to exactly the people you want to talk to.

Right.

Exactly the way they want.

So Robert, you're, you're going to be in the cohort. You're coming back, man. I'm telling you, you're going to be in the cohort. But they gave you— and by the way, you gave permission when you signed up the first time for me to communicate with you. Is that true?

Yes, absolutely. Yep.

That's, uh, um, you want to take Andy's statements there? Um, Andy made it because— call her out, Adam.

Yes, on LinkedIn.

Yeah.

Hold on, let me refresh. My LinkedIn's slow to— oh, I gotta refresh it.

Or I can take it.

Uh, Andy said it sounds like a slam dunk for video ad testing, and you are a gold mine of marketing stats. Very engaging.

Yes, and we will introduce you to Andy, Jeff, Robert, all these great people that came, uh, today. Uh, looking back at the I think we've covered a lot of them.

Uh, I think I'm curious, Lisa, when you talk about, um, the 89% on QR codes, like, I'm still kind of like Sam was. I'm still just gobsmacked by that.

Where, where do we sign up?

Yeah.

Well, so, so I guess, and, and maybe you know this off the top of your head, maybe you don't, but if not, it's something I absolutely intend to Google. But like, if, if I guess I'm just I'm just curious, like, if 89%, if I'm understanding you right, is the number of people that will take out their phone and scan a QR code, how many then— because there has to be some sort of dropping of that percentage— but how many then actually end up completing whatever they've scanned the QR code for?

That is a good question. I don't know. And I think looking at it, I would say it probably depends.

Sure.

On the engagement, you know, if it's, it's a video or a whatever, it would be a certain percentage, or if it's questions, or if it's an engagement where they just want to know more about the product, they're going to read through or whatever and go on.

Well, isn't that why Promalytics was founded though? Because we have all these people that went down QR code land. I got my QR code here, QR code everywhere.

Yeah.

But Promolytics actually is going to help activate that QR code through the journey of the brand with that consumer to make sure that it keeps it going and keeps them engaging. And then also take that information to make sure that they do something with it. I mean, sorry, even they were getting QR codes, but I wonder, you know, if Laura actually did anything with the James Morrison— Morrison or James Madison, I guess what it was. And they All these QR codes you were collecting, like even Aspen Food and Wine. I don't think they're doing anything with it.

Yeah. And are they protected from it? I mean, I don't know. How many of the QR codes do you see privacy policies come up and things like that?

Yeah. So the legalities of it, they can really emphasize that. What type of companies are the best fit for Promalytics?

What type of company?

Yeah, I can't— we can't afford you. I mean, we're small.

small. You don't know if you can afford me or not. I think the way to look at it really is you can't afford not to have us, really. Okay. You know, we're built for the marketing and the brand teams, but even a smaller company that doesn't have a marketing or brand team, now that we have AI and these different things, we can— you can still work with us to gain an effective way to monitor your data and ask AI, how do I do it better next time? So, yeah, who, you know, this— the people who are serious about measuring what works and what doesn't.

Yeah.

If you're running a retail activation, a sponsoring of an event, managing a field team, want to tie that activity to any kind of results, we're a great fit. We give you the interest from, um, wellness brands, all these different types. But if you're running promotions, if you're running campaigns, no matter where— because we will track, um, TV ads. I mean, we're the gamut. It's the whole campaign. Instead of just grabbing a piece of information from social media and a piece of information from your print ads and a piece of information over here, we give you the ability To look at the whole campaign as a whole and each piece. So if you need to connect the data, we are built for you.

Interesting. Now Jim says he can't hear you. Can you— we can hear you. I'm going to go into LinkedIn and see what's going on.

Grabbing a piece of information.

Okay, Jim, it must be on your end because we can hear Lisa and I can hear it on—

A piece of information over here. We give you the ability Interesting.

So it's going live, raw, and real. So Jeff says, can you share what an entry point in terms of monthly ad budget for your service to be effective? I'll put it on the screen so you can see it.

To be effective. That has a lot of— we would need to talk about what your needs are, what you— what your goals are. I can tell you that right now, um, through Sam's company, we are basically running a 10% discount and running a year's program for $3,600. Anyone who signs up and mentions that they saw the podcast or, uh, Bev Assets, then that's what it is for a year, this first year.

Oh wow, thank you. Well, thank you for that. That's, uh, news to To Adam and my ears, the whole bit. So Adam will get you in on that, uh, the deal. I'll give you the code and we can provide that code. Is it like you just put Bev Assets 10%, or how does that work?

Just put Bev Assets in or mention it to me when you talk to me.

Okay, we'll make sure that when we do the actual podcast, we'll include that in there as well, which, uh, thank you for that. That's really wonderful news to hear. That's, uh, that brings— makes— warms my heart. And a lot of ways because we love to bring value to— Adam and I both love to bring value. Adam, you want to take a couple other questions?

Do we have another couple pop through? Otherwise, I've got one.

Yeah, or you can just go to yours. I mean, I think we've covered— I think we've covered a lot of what we wanted to touch base. Lisa, is there anything that— well, go ahead, Adam. Sorry.

I was just gonna say, so, so because it's on, it's on what we wanted to cover and I'm Playing around on the website here a little bit, just kind of clicking through some stuff. This is going to sound maybe moderately redundant, but I'm going to ask it anyway. So again, for a lot of the smaller brands I work with, they'll ask, you know, like, well, what what should I track when it comes to marketing? What should I mean going back to kind of that that idea? What should I track? What should I not track? How much should I track of it? You know, when should I stop? Caring? When is it an outlier, right? That kind of thing. And the answer is, again, as the ops guy, when I get asked those questions, I'm like, I know a little. I can tell you from an operational perspective, like if you have a default in a product, what percentages you should care about or where it kind of requires action or whatever. And so, but what I'm getting at is I'll often, you know, well, okay, like Google's your friend, AI is your friend. You can ask ChatGPT, you ask whoever. But when you talk about your AI, I have to assume if, if a brand owner were to come to someone's platform like yours and say, okay, I want to ask those same questions, but I want to ask it of an AI that's built on the information of real, like, firsthand stuff.

Yes.

And solely that. Like, like, for example, if, if I wanted to log on and, and, you know, I don't have my own brand, I don't have my own set But I want to ask a question of like, hey, what's the most common KPI for a non-alc beverage brand in Tennessee marketing to this age group? Like, could it spit me out a useful answer?

So we were not built for that. I would always suggest that that's something you would want to go to like Chrome, Google, or not Chrome, Yeah, ChatGPT or whatever.

The—

what we are built for is taking your real-time data and also industry— industry information is gathered. And so that's how it's used for analyzing your data so that it can make real-time suggestions and things like that.

Yeah.

It isn't built to be the industry No, no, that's perfect.

That's the distinction that I was looking for because there's a separation obviously between general foundational knowledge and kind of having an AI tool to crawl my own brand data and tell me, give me insights from it in real time, as opposed to me having to look through 6 different spreadsheets and figure it out on my own.

Right. Well, and also taking into consideration, they do We do aggregate and take into consideration industry data.

Sure.

Yes. To use with that.

All right.

So I'm going to, I'm going to transition with the final 10 minutes a little bit. So first of all, I got to call my partner, Alicia Vargo. I don't know. I think you and Alicia have met or you've corresponded.

Yes.

So Alicia is my partner at BevAssist, but she says, best tagline ever. You can't afford not to have us. Thank you, Lisa. So, uh, use that. Yeah, I think that's really good. That might be on there. Uh, I'm gonna look for your LinkedIn, um, you know, your banner, your, your headline. I'm gonna be looking for that today to see if that actually pops up somewhere. I'm gonna give you some pressure, but, uh, it's, uh, good. So a couple— so, um, Jeff, I can hear fine. Awesome. Uh, we're gonna get into a couple of just fun stuff, uh, for the last 10 minutes, and we have always a question, and I'm gonna add them, ask the question. Hopefully you can— the question we ask every founder, you get to ask today. Uh, but, uh, and Lisa's prepared for it because I told her about the question. Okay, uh, what are, what are Lisa's, uh, favorite go-to drink brands when socializing? Oh, you don't have to name brands. Maybe, you know, it's up to you.

I know it gets a little political there, but, uh, yeah, I, um, Maker's Mark, always. I always make it. Love Breckenridge. Breckenridge Distillery. Yeah.

Yeah, I was gonna say I'm familiar with Breckenridge Brewing.

Oh yeah, distillery. The distillery makes them amazing.

Okay, so, so obviously you're, you're a whiskey woman.

Yes, I love whiskey.

So, uh, what type of drink are you? Is it neat, on the rocks? Is Is it, uh, you like a Manhattan? Like, how do you, how do you, how do you consume it?

Mostly neat, but I love Manhattans. Yeah, yeah, I want to be able to, to taste the whiskey. Uh, several Suntory whiskies, uh, Yamazaki always. I have got my hands on a Yamazaki 21-year-old at one point and just—

I had a rare Hibiki bottle, by the way, a rare one. It was probably worth like I don't know, 10 grand. Yeah, it disappeared in my liquor cabinet.

Oh no.

Huh, I know how that works.

Thanks, Madison, my son. Yeah, you know, so you did, uh, anyway, it's, uh, funny. Um, uh, what, uh, how do you wind down your day? Like, so at the end of the day, how do you do— what's your favorite drink to do a wind down? And it doesn't have to be an alcoholic beverage, by the way.

Okay, uh, happens to be, but, um, it depends on the time of year. I will— again, during winter I'm always enjoying a nice whiskey or a really good tequila, but in the summer I like a nice gin and tonic. Yeah, how about you guys?

Adam?

I mean, I tell everybody, my mom was just in town a couple weeks ago, which is who I get it from. I do like whiskey, but I'm— if I have my default, it's definitely a clear liquor and lime.

Wow.

Specifically lime. It can't just be any citrus like an orange. Oranges and lemons are fine. I like lime and either tequila or gin for the most part. If it's alcohol. If it's not alcohol, my wife's got me turned on to Frescas, the sugar-free Frescas.

Yeah.

Oh wow, that's funny. It's a Fresca. I haven't heard that term.

Uh, someone did that.

It might have been Jeff, actually. Someone did— someone was talking to me about Tab. I don't know, maybe it was, uh, Jay Williams. Someone— I think it was Jay Williams did a post.

He had a post about it the other day.

Yeah, talking about like Tabs being open. Uh, for me, uh, I'm on a like I'm on a non-alcoholic beer kick, and my— and it seems like every time I go out in a restaurant, the only one you can find is Heineken 0.0. That seems to be the number one item out there. Matter of fact, we celebrated our 38th year anniversary yesterday. So Susan, happy belated anniversary. But we did celebrate. We forgot our anniversary last year. We forgot 37 years, but we remembered 38. Anyway, but, uh— NA beers. I just, you know, I like, I like that. And obviously I've worked for Brown-Forman for 10 years, so I'm a big Jack and Coke person. College was Jack and Coke and never really stopped enjoying a nice Jack and Coke. Quite frankly, it's easy, it's sessionable and easy to consume. And then always with experimenting with all these NA beverages from like, you know, Even, Remix.

Yeah.

Casa Cobre, a little brand called Amethyst, which is, uh, from Burnt Church Distillery here.

Okay.

Uh, it's— it kind of behaves like a gin. It's, uh, real, real fun. They're actually, um, you know, expanding out nationwide. Really kind of cool. So there's a lot of cool brands like this coming out that you can experiment with.

Right.

Where are they based at upstate?

Uh, South Carolina.

Okay.

That's where they're at. They have, uh, they have a brand called Anita's Choice. A lot of whiskeys and stuff that they make a little bit. And obviously, Lisa, I'll introduce you to the Burnt Church folks as well because they definitely could use your services. All right, Adam, you get to ask her the big question that we ask every founder. So hopefully you remember what that is. You've been on a lot of these podcasts.

Oh, it's— I got you. I feel like we need a drum roll. So, Lisa, it's very straightforward. And again, it sounds like Sam prepped you with it before, but it's It's in your experience, or for you, what's the difference, or what's been the difference between success and failure?

For me, success is always helping the next person be successful. It's always, it's always what can I do, or what can the company provide that will help you be successful. We will— we need to be there for for you. I've always been very foresightful. When COVID hit and I was still selling for RNDC, I thought right, right at the beginning, you know, we had all of those terrible, awful supply chain issues where you just couldn't get product and people were running out left and right. And I thought, what, what is the way I get this? Because it's been 100 years since we've had a pandemic, right? But how can I help my, my customer in this situation? What's the best opportunity for them? And it turned out barrels. If they own that, if they purchase a barrel from any one of the distilleries that sell a private barrel to a, to a different retailer, they own the product. The consumer can't buy it anywhere else, and they have 40 cases of it sitting in their inventory. They don't have to worry about the distributor being able to get it. It's something that differentiates themselves almost. It was 87% of my retailers bought their own personal barrels and it got them through that winter. It was a go-to for them.

And I've got to introduce you to my Drinksify friends, Lisa. So get ready for another introduction. Your team's going to be like, Sam, like, you know, he's just really an interesting individual. He's like booked like 10 appointments for me this week. Guys, I can't meet with you because I'm meeting with Sam.

Yeah, but yeah, you know, you think about those things, that's the— that to me is success. And you know what, they, they also, um, I think 68% of them reordered, kept ordering those barrels because they were things that, that were working for them. It was something that helped them be successful and have product when a lot of other people were struggling, and that made me very happy for them.

So very interesting. Well, as we wrap up, uh, I, I gotta, you know, every time a question comes, I want to do the, the actually call them out. I don't, uh, we can just— well, Robert, we'll bring Robert's question here. Uh, macro question: have you felt the tariff politics with alcohol companies who depend on exports to Canada any word of sales drops? Have you heard any like, like, hey, I can't— I guess, Robert, I don't know what you're asking this, like maybe they don't have the funds to actually use?

I'm not sure of the Well, the industry is such a planning industry. I haven't heard anything in particular, but what I would say is, in just thinking about it briefly, is that, uh, it takes 2 years to make a whiskey, right? So it takes those things— there, there's a pipeline to maybe ride out some of the storm a little bit and be able to look at those types of situations on a case-by-case basis. basis. But tariffs, I don't think they're good for anybody personally here.

But yeah, interesting. And then Zachary, thanks for— so he wanted to say hello to everyone. He's the CEO and founder of Global Giving. Do you do work with nonprofits? So he helps actually with education of clean water, economic empowerment, and environment conservation in Uganda. I mean, is that something— is that something where Promalytics could help with that?

Absolutely. Let's talk. I'm not sure. I would need to know more about what you want help with and where you want to go with it. But yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Let's talk.

Yeah. He said, yes, Lisa, helping the next person achieve is a thing.

Yeah. Yeah.

I also love the— Lisa, you just did something that I do all the time, and I know Sam does. And I don't even know if there's a question on it, but I just love calling it out because everybody in the comments section I know is the exact same way. But, uh, you'll get that, and it happens to me every week. Sometimes it comes from an introduction with Sam, sometimes it comes from somebody out of the blue, and they'll be like, hey— I mean, I got one the other day. One of the brand owners I work with was like, hey, um, could I introduce you to another brand owner friend of mine? I'm like, sure, what do they do? They go, dill pickles. Yeah, you know, you know my world's beverage, right? They're like, yeah, no, I know, but would you be willing to talk to them? Yeah, I'll talk to anybody. I might not be able to help, but I'll talk to anybody, right?

There's a brand called Pickle Shots, I think. It's, uh, there you go. Pickle juice is a— pickle juice is a beverage, Jeff says. And then Jeff calls out Athletic Brewing Mexican is unreal good. So So that's his drink. So thanks for sharing, Jeff. So we'll wrap up. So I want to give you some closing thoughts as well as Adam, and then I'll close it down and ask you both to remain on the line when we hang up. And hopefully we won't go live while we're rolling.

Yeah. Well, again, thank you for having me on, and I hope that I was clear in letting everybody know that we are definitely engaging with the alcohol beverage industry, but also CPG, and we're willing to talk to whoever. If, if you think it makes sense, let's figure out if it does make sense.

For sure.

We want to help people be more successful in a specific way to— so that you can catalog your wins and your losses so that next time you can plan better and operate better, more efficiently. You know, now the world, the way it's talking about tariffs, you have to be as efficient as possible in today's world, and that's what we hope to help you do.

Yeah, you, you take the unpredictability and put predictability in the world.

Yeah. Yes, thank you. Perfect. I might turn my tagline to that.

Okay.

Yeah, absolutely. Uh, I think my closing comment— and Lisa, it's been great getting to know you, thank you for coming on— um, I'm gonna pull out a percentage from the website because again, I've been clicking around as we've been talking, and I, I, I'm both shocked at this number and I'm surprised it's not higher. 43% of this is straight from one of your pages on the website. 43% of marketing dollars are spent without measurable results. Like, as an ops person, if 43% of anything was spent, period, somebody's coming to ruin my day, right?

I'm a founder, by the way, and cash burn is real, and I can't, I can't see what I spent my money on. Stop spending the money and go talk to Lisa.

Um, yeah, I just, and I, again, I both I do believe it, and I can't believe it's not higher based on some of the experiences I've had with certain brands. And so I think, you know, I'll just echo your point of, you know, even if— let's play perfect world scenario— even if, you know, working with Promolytics doesn't drop that number from 43% to 0%, even if it drops it to 20%, you still just had a 23%, you know, return on your investment, which by any financial standard is good money.

Right.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Those are amazing. Those are amazing stats, Lisa. I mean, the stats that are ringing with me in closing is the 6% social media and the millions of people that spend— the millions of dollars that people spend on social media, 6%, and then 30% for email. And then it goes up to over 50%, you know, for the QR code. Talk about bringing predictability to unpredictability to your investment. Right. At the end of the day, look, at the end of the day, best tagline ever is you can't afford not to have us.

Yeah.

Is— I will leave everybody with this, is that if you're not taking advantage— and by the way, there's another 10% on the line if you actually use Bev Assets or mention us for that. And this is not a commercial, by the way, but it is— we bring people like, uh, Promalytics on the line weekly. And these are, these are tools that you can invest in as a brand without breaking your bank. And I, look, I would say we'll give you the information to get in contact with Lisa one more time as we close. How do they get in touch with you?

Uh, promalytics.net, or you can reach me on LinkedIn and connect.

Okay.

Lisa Fagan.

Okay. Well, thank you everybody for joining us Saturday. Sorry for the technical difficulties, but that's how we roll. That's what makes it fun, right, at the end of the day. And we really appreciate you, Lisa. Really appreciate you coming on. And as always, Adam, thank you for a great partnership on Drink Up.

Ditto.

Super fun. Thanks, everybody.

Thanks.