Wifi and Coffee and Customers...oh my
Hello Baristas and others listening in;
I am working on the launch of a new online community dedicated to professionals who choose to work from the comfort of coffee shops like yours.
As someone who does work from a coffee shop on a regular basis, I'm hoping to be able to create a community of mutual respect between the owners/managers and the people who use your resources to further their own businesses.
I believe the best way to do so is to include stories/blog posts from your side of the coffee bar. I want to include your stories on the new website as guest blog posts.
I want to include things like the following:
1. Who are your favorite customers who work from your coffee shops? Why are they your favorites? What do they do (for a living)?
2. Write about an incident involving your not-so-favorite customers who work from your coffee shop.
3. Tips, advice, help for other coffee shop owners/managers on ways to better work with regular customers who use the coffee shop as their places of business.
4. Tips, advice, help for regular customers on how to work with you as fellow business owners.
5. Anything else you feel needs saying.
The current blog is at www.TheCoffice.biz; but it's a placeholder until the new site goes live.
If you would like to submit a guest blog post, please send an email to sam@thecoffice.biz. In the meantime, please check out @TheCoffice and Facebook.com/TheCoffice to learn more.
I thank everyone for their submissions. If you don't get an immediate response, please don't take that negatively.
Thanks,
Sam Title
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Permalink Reply by Brady on
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Hi Sam. Hopefully you've taken a minute to search past discussions we've had on this topic. There have been some very active ones that you might find interesting (though I wouldn't re-post them over on your site - different audience). Just try different terms in the search box in the upper right. (Wifi, campers, camping, freeloader, ought to yield something).
The cafe+office can be a symbiotic relationship when done correctly (some of my favorite customers used to do this). Sadly it usually isn't. Here's to communities like yours that look to help the situation. If I get time later I may share some stories.
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Permalink Reply by Sam Title on
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Hey Brady;
Thanks for replying! Admittedly, I didn't search through past discussions about my content request. But I appreciate the suggestion! There could be some good tidbits and contacts to glean from those areas. I'll put that on my to-do list!
I agree with you on the "sadly" part. Even sadder is it can be a reflection of general human interaction beyond the coffee shop walls.
I'm hoping my community will contribute to alleviating the frustrations often felt by both sides.
If you have any other ideas, I'm all ear (and eyes).
Cheers!
Sam
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Permalink Reply by Kathy Fadorsen on
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I don't mind anyone using my coffee shop for any reason as long as they purchase something. I find it disrespectful to go to a coffee shop or anywhere for that matter and have no intention of supporting that business. I have had people bring coffee from home and think this is ok. On the other side I have a few customers who use my internet and make it a point to purchase someting every half hour or so. My point is respect goes a long way.
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