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This is not my Starbucks!

James Walsh, Coldstream Capital Management tells the Seattle Post- Intelligencer: “Once you start making your customers cost-conscious it’s ingrained in the brand.

It’s only drip coffee and in test areas, but it’s a risky strategy.”

Brand consultant Robert Passikoff tells USA Today: “This cheapens the brand. It says they’re scared as hell about the 14,000 McDonald’s coffee bars about to open up. It’s hard to be a price leader and then turn around and discount. It’s a panic move.”
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Knocking on Olympia's Door
Whether you’re a one -person business, a mid-level manager looking to increase your company’s foothold in an industry, or a CEO overseeing millions of dollars in sales, chances are you don’t have a lot of time to e-mail, call and visit your representatives in state government in Olympia.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
Just before Thanksgiving, I spent most of a day with Saeed Amidi. In 1998, his family rented cheap space next to their rug shop on University Avenue in Palo Alto, California, to a little startup with six employees. Six months later the company had grown by a factor of ten. Not even ten years later, they have 16,000 employees, an annual revenue of $16 billion, and a market cap of $222 billion. The company is, of course, Google.
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