Coffee Marketing ideas... In case you haven't heard the following about Starbucks...

Keep an Eye on Starbucks...

Bet we'll be Seeing some interesting Marketing & Business ideas that can be “twisted" and Applied to a variety of businesses...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/bu...e&e i=5087%0A

Also on Wednesday, Starbucks introduced a new online community, mystarbucksidea.com, where Mr. Schultz and other managers will contribute to a corporate blog. Customers will also be encouraged to visit the site to make suggestions and interact with employees. The site opens on Thursday....
http://mystarbucksidea.com
http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/ideas/ideaList.apexp

Starbucks...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&cl...-8&sa=N&tab=wn

Also Judge Orders Starbucks to Pay More Than $100 Million in Back Tips... Interesting...

Phil

A fantastic idea! Right along the lines of Dell's Ideastorm. It's nice to see leaders start to understand that there are oceans of intelligent, creative customrs happy to help them find their next big innovation if they'll just reach out to them.

Success,
Erik

We'll be seeing a Trend where smart companies and Brands will be developing their own Social networking communities...

One more example...

Segway...
http://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8...nG=Search+News

Keep in mind...

A few Creative entrepreneurs have developed some very profitable Segway Rental and consulting concepts...

Which can be re-worked into other Green opportunities...

Think about investing in Electric bicycle companies and business ideas...
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20878

Phil

Well new business ideas need be well financed at this current time. The economic crunch is really slowing down a lot of businesses. But for those who are good in finding opportunities, like in the Real estate market, there shouldn't be any obstacle worth crying over.