DISQUS

Marketing Fit: Why Starbucks Coffee Conversations Podcast Failed

  • julien · 3 years ago
    i've been hearing a lot of things about how bad the starbucks thing was, but i gotta say, i didn't have the courage to listen. thanks for venturing where no one else dared. :)
  • Heather Yaxley · 3 years ago
    An authentic voice of a grower in the real environment could make a podcast on coffee beans interesting - and show genuine engagement by Starbucks with those at the sharp end of fairtrade.
  • AJ Cann · 3 years ago
    OK, so it was dire, but at least give them some credit for being web-aware and trying. Let's all learn from this!
  • Leesa · 3 years ago
    If Starbucks focuses on their customers - and not the coffee bean - they'll have a winner. Until then, this strategy makes it into my "Podcasts Gone Bad" book.
  • Mike · 3 years ago
    The music should have been "Busting up a Starbucks" by Mike Doughty :)
  • P Smith · 3 years ago
    Why do you think Starbucks podcast was boring? What do they sell? Exactly, coffee! When do you drink coffee? Right, when you get tired. And when do you get tired? When you get bored! This is just a brilliant marketing strategy from Starbucks!
  • JP Loh · 3 years ago
    I agree that they should've focused on the customers than the coffee bean because their coffee isn't that good anyway. They're like the fast food equivalent of coffee bean.
  • Matt // Le Blog Exuberance · 2 years ago
    Did I ever tell you about the worm in my Starbucks coffee cake?