This blog post is just a short reminder that I am hoping together to put together a fun blog post featuring real, and candid photos of Starbucks partners in their stores, and in their green aprons. The idea is just to show off some of the fun that can be had inside a Starbucks.
I announced this idea here:
Seeking faces of Starbucks partners – This is not a beauty contest; it’s about fun and smiles
^ Please read that post if you want to join in. The deadline is August 28, 2010.
I realize now that I created a difficult contest moreso than what I’ve done in the past. In this case, I asked for partners only to reply and asked for face pics. I realize now that I really limited the number of potential responses by doing that because a lot of people reading this are customers, and many people are shy about sending self pics to a blog. So far I’ve had a little more than a dozen people reply, and I’m confident that more are coming!
There are prizes to be had! I had a previous blog post about Starbucks merchandise in Japan, and in the comments everyone universally loved the magic coffee wands. They look like this:
Click here for image of Starbucks coffee stirrer from Starbucks in Japan
The coffee stirrer from Japan appears in this blog post here:
More cool merchandise from Japan (and blog looks at Iced Via in Japan, which is unsweetened in that market).
So the prizes that go with this contest for candid Starbucks pictures are gift cards and rare coffee stirrers that can only be found in Japan!
Please spread the word about this contest. Use the tweet me button or share on facebook, or however you normally share content.
And I should say thank you again to all my readers. It’s a privilege that I have so many readers. Privilege for sure. I started writing this blog on September 9, 2009, not knowing at all what would happen, and it’s almost a year old. In the one year, many people have found me, and I’m ever appreciative. I don’t really feel very deserving. The blog is the ramblings of one customer who happens to be able to type fast.
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“The blog is the ramblings of one cusomer who happens to be able to type fast.”
I think it’s a lot more than that. It’s a work of art. Very few people could produce a blog nearly as informative as a hobby.
Thanks Nathan! Thank you for the kind words! I probably won’t do this kind of blog contest twice because people are shy about face pics (I was intending candid pics where it could even someone working at a distance) but I’ve got enough that I”ll be able to put together something fun. I can wait to put all the pics together in one blog entry.
Contest ends on 8-28! Still time for lots of pics to be sent in! Sbux206@StarbucksMelody,com
I am one of those shy folks about putting up a pic (not a partner), but Melody it would be nice to expand this contest and do one of candid pics of customers! And I so agree with Nathan that is blog is first rate and worth the read! Thanks for taking the time between your crazy work schedule and everything else you do to write it.
Agree with Nathan & purple1. I’m a customer & can type fast, but doubt I could come close to this! You do a great job!
Melody, you have to type warp speed to do what all you do. I love how your energy just seems to flow into others through your connections. @CamSpi says I need to give you a picture to post for the contest, but you know how I hate to have my picture out on the net, LOL I will see about getting you one that is not poised but still shows the true Skooter shining through. Keeps blogging and spreading the joys of coffee. And from your previous comments to me, teaching the newbies about custom blends did bring back a bit of the passion I had in the beginning. Thought that might just put a smile on your face. You should do a blog about custom blending at Starbucks, I wonder how many newer partners have had that experience.
@skooter – Your idea about making custom blends blog post is a good one. One of the hard things is that there are so few single origin coffees in the core line up anymore. In order to have an amazing custom blend, you need some single origins to work with: Guat Antigua + Sumatra = Thanksgiving Blend! I have an old blog post on Verona, which started out as a custom blend for a restaurant. That’s a good read.
And yes I want a pic of you! So far I have about 16 or 17 emails that have come in. So you won’t be alone!
@skooter – Here’s the Verona blog post I was talking about –
http://www.starbucksmelody.com/2010/02/04/starbucks-caffe-verona/
^That’s a good one!
If I worked at Starbucks, I’d definitely participate! Since I don’t, I’ll just eagerly await the blog post.
🙂
I like to see these pictures Melody, you do such a good job…keep it up.