Monthly Archives: November 2011

Cyber Monday Specials Newsletter Sent

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Our Coffee Barn

Nov 25 2011

Cyber Monday Special

How does $5 off your next $50 order sound?  But wait, that’s not all!  On Monday only. For every order of fresh roasted coffee, we will throw in an 8oz bag of fresh roasted coffee free!

Use the coupon code V9BXAP for $5 off any order over $50. Valid through November 28 20011, limit 2 uses per customer.

Free 8oz bag of Fresh Roasted Coffee valid just for Cyber Monday’s Roasting.

I have been getting all kinds of Black Friday email deals from a lot of the business’s I buy online from, like Newegg.  I look at Black Friday sales as a brick and mortar stores chance to get more customers in the door with super low prices as bait.  Cyber Monday is the online retailers chance to get more customers online.

If we were a bigger company I would be able to offer larger sales, but we are just a Mom and Pop biz with no big warehouse and no employees.  I just have a passion for coffee and turned that passion into a home based business.

Referral Coupon Code

If you refer someone to us and they order, you can get a $5 coupon code! Just have them mention you in the comments box during checkout.

Quantity Wanted A Choice Now

Just a reminder that the bag size wanted is an option that you choose near the bottom of the listing.

Live Help

Our Live Help Sessions are proving a VERY useful tool for both you the customer and us!  If you have a question ask!  The Live Help will be open a lot more now.  Even when I am in the office doing web site work I will keep it open, it may take a little time for a reply, if I have stepped away for a coffee break or something.

Web Site News

Everything is now moved to the new store so I guess I can stop calling it the new store, and just Our Store now. Check out the blogs Coupon Codes page for more screen shots. And here on our blog for the options available choices explanation.

To see all of the latest videos visit our YouTube Channel.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving  Everyone!

We will be sending an email for Cyber Monday and Small Biz day special soon, maybe a $ amount off when total sales hits a couple different levels. Have yet to decide.

 

Pete

Newsletter Sent Sunday Nov 20 2011

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In the newsletter,( towards the bottom) I was trying to explain why deer hunting posts may show up in my business Social Networks, Twitter and Facebook.  I guess I explained too much to too many people!  I am sorry if the deer hunting mentions offended you.  Enough said.  For those of you who did not get to read the Newsletter I am posting it below.  I am allowing comments on this post.  What do you think?

Pete

Our Coffee Barn

Nov 20 2011

Fresh Roasted Coffee For Thanksgiving Dinner

I know our family Thanksgiving Dinner is not complete without a few pots brewed before dinner as well as a couple pots to have with all the Pie after dinner! Not to mention my early morning before going deer hunting coffee.  Since you are getting this email, would I be safe to assume your house is similar?  Going to Grandmas?  Have coffee sent to Grandmas! Unless she already orders Our Coffee Barn coffee.  You can store up to 100 or more address’s in your account on Our Coffee Barn, more on this in a later email.

Fast Delivery

Our Midwest customers who use Spee Dee know it is usually just 1 day in transit, roasted Monday delivered Tuesday! The USPS is also pretty fast nation wide, roasted and shipped Monday, delivered Wed or Thursday.  So the closer you are to Wisconsin the faster you get your Fresh Roasted Coffee!

For your best chance to have the very best fresh roasted coffee for Thanksgiving Dinner order today or as early as possible Monday morning, before 7:00AM better if before 6:00AM on a roasting day, like Monday is.

Quantity Wanted A Choice Now

Just a reminder that the bag size wanted is an option that you choose near the bottom of the listing.

Live Help

Our Live Help Sessions are proving a VERY useful tool for both you the customer and us!  If you have a question ask!  The Live Help will be open a lot more now.  Even when I am in the office doing web site work I will keep it open, it may take a little time for a reply, if I have stepped away for a coffee break or something.

Deer Hunting

I have found myself posting to Twitter and on Facebook about deer hunting.  I do not intend to shy away from a very deep rich tradition of deer hunting in my family and really the entire state of Wisconsin.  I just have so much of what I do online inter connected that my personal and business life kind of merge into one on the Social networks.  If you are a deer hunter you understand and good luck to you.  If you are not a hunter, please try to understand my point as best you can.

It would be kinda neat to get some pictures from Deer Camp, or like us, home. We hunt within walking distance of the house, with some of Our Coffee Barn coffee in the picture!  If I get some I will post them on the blog!  I might even post some deer pictures on a separate page of the blog.

Coffee Availability

I just checked our Importers offerings and they have 300 bags of Tanzania Peaberry scheduled to leave Africa in January 2012.  For now, they do have some Tanzania Coffee, but it is NOT Peaberry.  I do have a VERY limited supply, I was kinda hording for family members, if they don’t want it I may list it for sale after Thanksgiving.

Wholesale Quantities

I also have large sized wholesale listings as separate listings.  I needed to do this for inventory level control when inventory gets low. They are separated into Green and Roasted sections.

Web Site News

Everything is now moved to the new store so I guess I can stop calling it the new store, and just Our Store now. Check out the blogs Coupon Codes page for more screen shots. And here on our blog for the options available choices explanation.

To see all of the latest videos visit our YouTube Channel.

 

Back To Work

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We are back and getting into our normal schedule might take a few days.  We have a lot to try and get out today and tomorrow!  I think it will all go out by tomorrow.  We are going to give it our best shot anyway!

Pete and Barb

Vacation Time Sponsored By Lois

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This vacation is Sponsored By Lois Anderson, my Mother In Law.

As most regular customers know we are going on vacation Nov 7 through the 16th.  It has been planned for over a year and we are sure looking forward to it!  Being a small home based business meant no days off, except for National Holidays.  Even sick days when you really are sick are hard to take off completely.

We are going to Disney World!   A close friend who was planning a trip rented a house, that though small, would fit our family too and invited us along.  So we get free lodging!  A thank you for what we do for their kids.  Now we just needed to pay for the really expensive stuff.

Now here is a message to all of you guys that don’t treat your Mother In Law the way she deserves.  My wife’s mother had some money from property she had sold, and she wanted to see her kids enjoy the money.  The money she gave my wife Barb, all went into the vacation fund.  This vacation truly is a gift!  So treat your Mother In Law nice fellas!

Not that I needed to explain to anyone where the money came from.  I just know that I have been sending emails out and blog posts about our worst summer of sales yet.  A couple lines here about the Bank Of My Mother In Law seemed the thing to do. Here is a picture of her dressed up as a Gypsy, at the Assisted Living Apartments the Valley Villas, Halloween Party this year, from Facebook.

My Favorite Mother In Law Lois

So that’s what’s going on here at Our Coffee Barn.  I am debating if I should post a few pictures here when we are in Florida, what do you think?  I am allowing comments on this post, no Spammers! I will mark as spam, delete and blacklist you if you spam.

Pete

Our Coffee Barn

Custom Roast Levels Are Gone

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We decided to concentrate on roasting the best cupping and drinking coffee we can, by me, the coffee roaster deciding what is the best roast level for each variety or blend.  We had been doing a custom roast level for 5 lb orders but I found I was roasting multiple batches of the same coffee and the Perfect Point that I roasted always cupped the best in my Quality Control cupping of every batch I roast.  If a dark roast is wanted try either the Raging Bull or Latte Style Espresso Blends.  If you want a french roast Our Dianes French Roast is the coffee for you, it can take the heat and still come through in the cup!  If you want 25 lbs of 1 coffee custom roasted we can do that, but no more 5 lb custom roasting levels.

 

Thanks for Trusting the Roaster

Pete

Blog Links To Old Stores

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Any blog traffic coming here needs to be aware that I had a LOT of posts going back a couple years with links to the old stores.  I am not doing a redirect yet so those links will be going to the old stores that have no items listed for sale.  The new store is found at our index page http://ourcoffeebarn.com