Coffee Marketing via Time Tested Tips

Target peeping from mug with MCP logo All entrepreneurs and small business owners have to learn this marketing mantra: “Everything is Marketing and Marketing is Everything.”

Marketing can be summed up as the art of figuring out the best combination of graphics, headlines, offers and delivery methods to get the highest response rates. A marketing plan must be part of every business’ operational foundations, but it is often overlooked in the coffee industry.

Whether you’re just starting out in the coffee industry or you’ve been established for a while and just need to increase sales, you’ll find this list of coffee marketing tips an indispensable value. Don’t miss the BONUS IDEA at the end of this article.

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Coffee-carts promotion -Scavenger Hunt

Blank Treasure Map Do you have multiple coffee cafes, coffee carts, or are you part of a bigger coffee franchise?

I recently had a client with multiple coffee carts needing an inexpensive marketing promotion to get her customers to visit those other locations.

We were looking into custom printed paper coffee cups (or cup sleeves) with scratch-off or pull-off pieces for an “instant win” effect. As you can imagine, this type of promotion is cost-prohibitive and didn’t fit into her marketing budget.

My AimItMedia.com creative solution was to develop a Scavenger Hunt game using branded printed cards, where a customer has to visit each location, purchase a drink, and find the scavenger item.

Here’s a break-down of how we created our game:

1. Decide upon the dates, duration, and rules for running your game. For this client, we chose to run the game during the month of August, starting on the 1st and running through to the end of the month. This worked well for this client because most of her customers are daily visitors and all of her locations are within driving distance of each other.

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