3 Women, 6 Months, and a Growing List of Wine Clients Pt. 1

2026-10-06 · 5 min · episode 403 · 16 entities

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Guest: Samantha McClure — Head of Marketing and AI Innovations, Meridian Advisory Partners Meridian is a boutique digital marketing agency serving wineries, nonprofits, and midsize direct-to-consumer companies The agency is roughly six months old , though the founders had been consulting for wineries for years at other agencies first Samantha has been in marketing over 15 years , most recently at Chrometrix , a digital agency running testing and experimentation for Fortune 100 enterprise clients On being the smartest person in the room: she'd rather not be — that's how she keeps learning What clients actually get: consumer testing, lifecycle marketing, digital marketing, conversion testing , and recovering abandoned carts — everything from the ad to the checkout Meridian was born out of consultants who kept calling each other for coworking sessions and strategy talks , then decided to combine into one firm The agency is female-founded by design — the founders wanted to bring a group of highly intelligent women together deliberately Samantha on the stereotype: women can be incredibly logical, strategic, and tactical — she calls it the opposite of the usual narrative @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.