No problem. CrowdCampaign is certainly one of the stronger solutions for the type of promotion I described in this post. I appreciate the offer and good luck with Monday’s launch.

Thanks.

Thanks for mentioning our new product in your post. We’re launching on Monday and if you’d like me to give you some CrowdCampaign discount codes for your readers, please let me know. I would love to help your local coffee shop set up their own CrowdCampaign, too — please let me know if they want to do that.

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Chris Bucchere
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Thanks. I certainly agree that there are so many different ways businesses could leverage crowdsourcing and social media. One of the things I wanted to get across in this post, which you touched on, is that most of them don’t require a significant investment of time or money to be successful. One creative idea, like the coffee bean jar (which is my favorite too), could grow beyond anything originally imagined.

I did think about FourSquare during my initial “coffee breaks” but the coffee shop, like so many others, is filled with a variety of customers – students, young families, older professionals, senior citizens, etc. My intention was to create a promotion that utilized crowdsourcing and social media without making it seem like a “social media promotion”, which could add some hesitation, confusion or disinterest to a percentage of their customer base.

Thanks, as always, for your readership and great comments.

My favorite suggestion you made was suggestion 3. And it was elevated with your integrated webcam idea. I could see that simple idea becoming very competitive and really catching on with the regulars. It’s amazing how the smallest things can evolve to develop a personal connection, and I think this idea has that potential.

Along those lines, did you consider the up-and-coming social networking site “FourSquare” for any of these ideas? Another seemingly mindless network that is transformed with a small dose of competitive atmosphere.