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Sep 17

How Starbucks almost ran their business into the ground

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In an excellent post in Fortune, Kevin Maney talks about the 'almost' undoing of Starbucks in his new book Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't (Broadway Books). In one of his comments he says,"After a decade of stupendous success, S… more »

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Sep 15

Wild Bean Cafe grinds Starbucks in coffee loyalty card wars

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Wild Bean has taken a big leap ahead of Starbucks with the recent launch of their upgraded coffee loyalty scheme. Whilst Starbucks is years behind the New Zealand coffee market having only recently introduced a miserly 10 for 1 coffee card scheme, Wild B… more »

Tags: coffee cards, crm, customer relationship management, loyalty schemes, permission marketing, starbucks, wild bean