{"id":1312,"date":"2008-04-19T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/04\/19\/suggested-auto-twitters-for-joscoffee\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T15:58:50","slug":"suggested-auto-twitters-for-joscoffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/04\/19\/suggested-auto-twitters-for-joscoffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Auto-Twitters for @joscoffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/1393144862\/\" title=\"Afternoon coffee by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1243\/1393144862_3706b85374.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Afternoon coffee\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually don&#8217;t go to <a href=\"http:\/\/joscoffee.com\/blog\/\">Jo&#8217;s Coffee<\/a> much at all. They&#8217;re way down in South Austin, where-as I&#8217;m in &#8220;North Central.&#8221; But, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\">a Twitter account<\/a> which was used a bit at first, but has since died down (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\/statuses\/156276212\">no posts since nine months ago<\/a>). My thinking is that they should just hook-up a Twitter bot to post 2-3 things every day, maybe pre-load it (use an auto-posting bot) each week with a bunch of silly comments like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just got a new shipment of onion buns for our burgers. Cooking up rare patty now for breakfast burger. So good.<\/li>\n<li>Print out this Twitter and bring it by Jo&#8217;s south for a free refill on coffee. Bet in the first 10, and get a free cup!<\/li>\n<li>I think those Amy&#8217;s Ice-cream people across the street are up to something. Coffee melts ice-cream, boy-o.<\/li>\n<li>Thinking about introducing coffee line for dogs.<\/li>\n<li>In the summer, how can we get the coffee just hot enough to taste good, but not so hot that you don&#8217;t want to drink it in the Austin heat?<\/li>\n<li>A little embarrassed that we have a shop in something called 2nd street district. &#8220;District&#8221; is just one friggin&#8217; block!<\/li>\n<li>[Assuming some ERP\/back-office integration] Just sold 300 cups of coffee today. It&#8217;s only 10AM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the customers could think of better things to say. Indeed, Jo&#8217;s could put up a little sign that said, &#8220;write down 140 character thing for Jo to say: get a free re-fill&#8221; and then use those &#8220;user-submitted&#8221; Tweats. A free re-fill is certainly better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/sharecropping_t.php\">digital sharecropping for nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point here, of course, is to sell more coffee eventually. More so, it&#8217;s to keep me and other <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\">@joscoffee<\/a> people entertained and eye-balling Jo&#8217;s even when they&#8217;re not there drinking coffee of enjoying those delicious onion-bunned burgers. Sure, you could think of it as annoying spam-junk, but then you can just not follow and even block them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you had <i>the actual employees<\/i> manning the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\">@joscoffee<\/a> account, well, that&#8217;d be a whole new thing of excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I&#8217;m sure people following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\">@joscoffee<\/a> would often see a Twit, think they want a coffee, and then next thing you know end up at Jo&#8217;s, where they&#8217;d probably be going already if someone would just ask. I mean, it&#8217;s the internet man: that&#8217;s the kind of crap we do if people opt-in to it.<\/p>\n<p>As always, this general train of thought applies to more than just <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joscoffee\">@joscoffee<\/a>, or even coffee shops. It&#8217;d be rad if my neighborhood coffee shop &#8211; which I do frequent, mostly for coffee on the go &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thunderbirdcoffee.com\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> had it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/twitter\" rel=\"tag\">twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/austin\" rel=\"tag\">austin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/coffee\" rel=\"tag\">coffee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for using Twitter for a local coffee house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-marketing","category-the-new-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}