Archive for May, 2008
Coffee Blog goes global
In the coming months we will be bringing you coffee commentary about cafe’s that we have visited around the world in the past 12 months in search of both traditional and revolutionary coffee. Next week we intend to spend many hours sampling the cafe scene in Budapest. We have been given a shortlist of 3 [...]
Getting your Coffee Blog noticed
Blogging about Coffee is a way of introducing more people to the specialty coffee industry and the taste sensations that await them. Your blog may be for fun or as a log of your exploits to date – when you achieved the perfect grind, how you taught yourself latte art, or for commercial reasons – [...]
Caffe Culture 2008 – The UK’s premier Coffee Industry event
At 0930 the doors were flung open and hundreds of buyers filed into Kensington Olympia for the start of 2 days of networking, tasting, buying, viewing, smelling, touching and feeling. By 1030 when we arrived the event was in full swing with most companies already onto their 5th or 6th (or more!) sales pitch of [...]
Attending Coffee Industry Events
Attending Coffee Industry Events is a great way to get your business noticed. Tomorrow sees the start of Caffe Culture 2008, an annual industry event held in London (Kensington Olympia) With over 220 exhibitors this show has grown from it’s humble beginnings just a few years ago. I’ll post a review and a list of [...]
Choosing relevant keywords for your business
As this blog is intended to help you start and grow a coffee business I’ll be showcasing sites that can help you to develop your marketing both on and offline. One of the best sites I have come across is the Seed Keywords Engine from RedEvolution The Seed Keywords Engine allows you to pose a [...]
The first draft of the 5M Coffee Company website is almost complete
Our window to the world is nearing completion with the first draft delivered by our development team today. I was impressed with the look and feel of the site and have lots of work to do now to ensure all the copy on the site is easy to understand and inviting to read. Interactive and [...]
Volatile Coffee Beans
Today I received an order from my current roaster and just had to try some of a new batch of a Honduran COE coffee. The flavours were almost as described but should become more prominent after another day of rest. The beans were only roasted yesterday so they have not yet settled, resulting in an [...]
Coffee – an elusive substance in parts of Malaysia
I stopped in Penang on the way back to the UK after visiting New Zealand and was surprised to find that espresso based coffee drinks did not exist in many cafes on the island. The Coffee Bean and Starbucks have the monopoly in this market and the only other establishment that we found a decent [...]
