Read on for some important reminders that will help you navigate all things Brand Standards as you look to the future for your business and your teams. Thank you for all you do to help us protect the goodwill and integrity of our brand out there in the world.

- Jennifer Knott, VP of Field Communications

“Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do.”

― Roy T. Bennett

🍷 Target Confidentiality Reminder🍷

We want to take the time to thank you for your continued support and remind you that our exciting Target news must remain confidential. We hope that you have had the opportunity to share this news with your teams, but please refrain from posting about this next venture publicly on all social media platforms or in texts or emails.

As stated in June's Brand Standards Bulletin, there are many alcohol and beverage regulations that govern how we can speak about our products being available in retail stores. Please know that our Winery Team is working tirelessly to ensure that we are following any and all regulatory guidelines so that we are able to enter the Target marketplace in a compliant manner. We need your continued help to get there. We know that you want to shout this news from the rooftops, but it is important that our Winery Team leads the way so that your independent businesses and our great name are protected.

We have more coming on all things Target later this summer, and want to encourage you to check out our Target FAQs in the meantime!

Click Here for Target FAQs!

💳 Updates to Unpaid Renewal Fee Process 💳

Is your Renewal Fee membership up to date? Are you unsure of a team member's Renewal status? With everything going on this year we've re-assessed our Unpaid Renewal Fee communication process to better serve you and will be reaching out soon to all Consultants who have outstanding Renewal Fees!

If your Anniversary Date occurs between Jan 1 and Apr 30 (or Aug 1 and Dec 31) and we have been unable to process your most recent Renewal Fee, you (and your upline) will receive an email notification before the end of this month with an updated timeline indicating that we have extended a grace period into September. Along with this message, we will include some best practices and instructions to make sure your account is fully up to date before the deadline. Because we want to do everything we can for our Consultant family, we'll be reaching out via phone to the most-engaged Consultants whose Renewal Fees are still outstanding, between now and the September deadline.

Notification Timeline:
July 21-30:Email notification to all unpaid Renewal Fees from Jan-Apr and Aug-Dec

Beginning July 21, continuing through August:Phone calls to most-engaged Consultants (determined by Personal Volume) // add'l comms will occur for certain consultants, depending on level of engagement
Late August:Email reminder to all Consultants whose Renewals are still outstanding

September 1:First due date for unpaid Renewal Fees

September 6:Account Cancellations begin for accounts with unpaid Renewal Fees

🥂 All Things Tastings 🥂

There are so many ways to share about the opportunity and our products, but one of the best ways is through tastings! We've shared some great resources about our 3-2-10 tasting method, but we understand that there are other ways to host tastings and events. As a reminder, all tastings should follow the tasting guidelines in our Policies & Procedures. We have included our helpful Tastings Guidelines Knowledge Center Article as a great summary of what is included in this section of our P&P.

A common question our team receives is about Consultants having joint tastings with local fitness studios. These types of tastings/parties with companies are okay but must be fully free to attend and private invite-only. We also want to add a reminder here that providing customers with bottles or glasses of wine during an event in exchange for cash, a Venmo transaction, etc. is a violation of our Cash & Carry policies and violates most local and state laws regarding the resale of alcohol.

If you have any questions about tastings, please fill out our Contact Form, and someone from our team will get back to you ASAP!

🗓️ Upcoming Events 🗓️

Join us for our Policies & Procedures Webinars! We are back to our monthly schedule, so register for August's webinar or any of our upcoming webinars in 2022 here.

Should you have any feedback for the team or questions about our Policies and Procedures, please consult our Policies and Procedures FAQ and/or reach out to our Brand Standards team via the Knowledge Center. We'll get back to you as soon as we can!