On hears people often say, “there is nothing such as a free lunch” meaning one doesn’t get things for free. But what if? What if you could get stuff for free?
What if it happened to be your favorite beverage – Starbucks coffee? Free Starbucks, now that would be a treat! Herewith are some ideas of how to go about getting free coffee, or any other of the Starbucks products on offer.
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There are, of course, the obvious sources of free coffee. Often a new Starbucks location will offer a free coffee to the first group of customers.
That is a good way to get free coffee, or even a free Starbucks frappuccino. But you cannot race around the state looking for opening specials of new Starbucks locations, it is just not sustainable.
Another tactic could e to meet people at the local Starbucks and plead poverty. However, it is quite likely that your circle of friends will diminish at a steady pace and so will your chances of getting free cuppa.
You could of course seek out a Starbucks with an attractive Starbucks barista in the gender of your choice. You could pursue a relationship with this Starbucks barista for the sole purpose of scoring free coffee. Shallow? Perhaps, but is not all fair in love and war in the pursuit of free Starbucks.
Paying attention to promotions could pay off as well. Starbucks offered free coffee to all those who went to vote in the American election last November.
Do your civic duty and get free coffee. In Canada, Starbucks offered free coffee on Earth Day. Another way to score free coffee, without seducing a Starbucks barista, would be to register on the Starbucks website and supply them with your email and postal address.
In return you will receive a coupon for free Starbucks coffee. There have been attempts to make illegal copies of Starbucks coffee coupons. This is against the law. Starbucks baristas are trained to spot counterfeit coupons – this avenue of obtaining free coffee is to be avoided at all costs.
In some communities, volunteers for community service organizations are rewarded with Starbucks coupons. You can do some good for the community and earn yourself free coffee from Starbucks at the same time. Now that must be a bargain.
OCM (OnCoffeeMakers.com) was started in 2007 with the first webpage about coffee machines. And for a number of years, we focused on helping people find their desired coffee machine (we still are helping folks with that! So, if you are looking for coffee machines for office or restaurants - check out the link).
In 2010, we started getting enquiries on restaurant marketing and we start to help food and beverage brands with their marketing. Below are campaigns and events that we have done over the years:
OCM's campaigns: F&B Marketing Ideas by OCM
OCM's Events: F&B Industry events by or with OCM
Check out this restaurant marketing guide to learn more about the many campaigns and companies we have worked with.
Since then, we have also created many marketing workshops and classes for the F&B industry. Many of these modules are still running in tertiary institutions such as Temasek Polytechnic Skillsfuture Academy and also ITE College East COC classes, below are some snippets of our lectures and workshops:
OCM’s F&B workshops: Food and Beverage Marketing Lectures | Workshops - click to watch classes on customer journey map, JTBD and more.
So, if you are looking for industry practitioners to help you scale your coffee or F&B businesses, do drop us a message or book an appointment. Do also check out our various social media platforms on regular F&B and coffee market updates:
For regular coffee (F&B) related videos: OCM Youtube
For Daily Coffee Inspiration (fun coffee content): OCM IG
For insights into the coffee (F&B) industry: OCM LinkedIN
PS: For the coffee lovers, we continue to share coffee articles (and videos) and have also started a free coffee class section (with free online coffee training supported by coffee partners).
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