For the first case study I chose Starbucks. Starbucks similar to Zappos is known for having excellent customer service. They’ve built their company based on the reputation of having great coffee served quickly and with a smile. Some may say it’s over priced, even so they must be doing something right because Starbucks is still continuing to thrive even in a downward spiraling economy. Starbucks uses a lot of different means of social media marketing such as facebook, youtube and twitter.

On the facebook site it even has a count for how many people like, are talking about starbucks and even how many have visited their page this way they can acuratly measure the effectivenesss of the page.

About

Follow Starbucks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Starbucks Buy Starbucks Co...

26,120,051

like this

300,235

talking about this

3,574,239

were here

Starbucks also has a presence on youtube with its own channel.

Starbucks

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Profile

Name:

Starbucks

Channel Views:

629,489

Total Upload Views:

7,328,393

Joined:

Nov 30, 2005

Latest Activity:

6 months ago

Subscribers:

12,024

Website:

http://www.starbucks.com

About Me:

We were founded in 1971, opening the first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Starbucks, named after the first mate in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," is the world's leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee with millions of customer visits per week at stores in North America, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the Pacific Rim.

Hometown:

Seattle, WA

Country:

United States

Interests:

Coffee

They also use their twitter page to announce current promotions including the one they have now with their bogo holiday coffee drinks from 2-5. Their twitter pages also tracks the number of tweets and followers.

About @Starbucks

Out of all of their social media marketing campaigns, I think the best one the have is my starbucks idea, it’s a place where customers can come and post ideas about what they think starbucks should do next.

MyStarbucksIdea.com

Share. Vote. Discuss. See.

You know better than anyone else what you want from Starbucks. So tell us. What's your Starbucks Idea? Revolutionary or simple – we want to hear it. Share your ideas, tell us what you think of other people's ideas and join the discussion. We're here, and we're ready to make ideas happen. Let's get started.

Ideas In Action

What are we doing to make your Starbucks experience better? These are some of the things you've asked for.

Share a Holiday Beverage with a Friend 11/17/2011 by Joshua F

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Case Study Homework 10