coffee business strategies

I’m not an interior designer and have limited abilities with respect to to furnishings and color (I recently told my painter to “surprise me” when remodeling my house), so you can imagine my surprise to have been contacted back in March on the subject by Specialty Coffee Retailer magazine. Not only was I quoted in [...]

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I was asked to comment for an upcoming article on the topic of how (and why) coffee shop furniture and decor items can be used as retail branding elements, but may have gone a little overboard with my reply. The topic of branding, after all, is a fairly complex one and ties into a number [...]

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Continuing the year-end summary of my business and travels from this year, we look at the second half of 2008. Considering the increase in business activity from June through December, I conjecture that the economic slowdown has had little or no effect on the specialty coffee business, or at least not mine (or not yet, [...]

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While recreating a complete log of my 2006 travel schedule for my friends and yours at the Internal Revenue Service, I thought to myself, “hey, this would be kind of fun, if not for the looming deadline and possible monetary penalties if I make a mistake.” So, in the quiet last days of 2008, I’ve [...]

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