From plans to products

Later tonight, after the regular Starbucks session, all of The Coffee Consultants are getting together to talk about how we can turn some of our ideas and arm-wavings into products. A few weeks ago we did a presentation / workshop for the local Chamber of Commerce. Besides putting ourselves in their shop-window, we also wanted to use the opportunity of doing a little bit of market research into what the local business people thought of "Consultants". Besides the usual cliches like "they borrow my watch, tell me the time and then charge me" there were a few common themes from their feedback 1) What, exactly do consultants do? 2) Can they prove their effectiveness before I sign-up? and 3) What accountability is there if things don't work out? All very vaild and reasonable points.

Our repsonse to this feedback is to try and develop some "products" that define how we work that should be able to address many, if not all, of their concerns.

I am also on Starbucks duty tonight and looking forward to this as well. You never know what type of business may turn up or what their questions may be.

Here is a picture from the opening night of The Coffee Consultants at Starbucks:


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