He Transformed Starbucks From A Café To A Data Technology Company. Here's Howard Schultz's Secret To Increasing Every Businesses Earnings
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Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, he’s a man with a super interesting story. He didn’t always intend to run the largest coffee company in the world.
In fact, Schultz’s early work experiences were very different from what he does today. He had a vision for Starbucks, that transformed it into the data technology company it is today.
It happened after a company crisis that occurred following the financial meltdown of 2008. It transformed a problem into a new way of doing business.
His success is thanks to the fundamental rules for activities of all kinds. He coded them for us and at the end, I’ll explain how he figured out how to make money in any restaurant, bar, shop, newsstand, bakery, delivery service, make-up salon, gym, craft, or manufacturing company, and industry. It applies to everyone.
YOUTH OF POVERTY IN BROOKLYN
Howard Schultz was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953. From a young age, he did odd jobs to help support his family. He delivered newspapers, sold encyclopedias door to door, and even cleaned cars.
His father had suffered a serious injury at work and could no longer work.
The low pay, health problems due to constant stress, and the lack of security or certainty for his future led him to want to get out as soon as possible.
“He wanted to leave Brooklyn because he lived in one of the poorest and most violent areas of the city, a sports scholarship could be a great opportunity to leave.”
He went to Northern Michigan University, though he was talented in football he didn’t want to pursue it as a profession, after graduation he had to take a job offered by Xerox.
Here is where his luck begins.
He started as a sales representative and went on to become a director of marketing for the entire eastern region of the United States.
He then lands at Hammarplast, a Swedish company that had its headquarters in New York City. Hammarplast made European products for the American coffee market.
In 1982, Schultz went to Seattle on a business trip and fell in love with the city’s coffee culture. In 1985, Schultz visited a Seattle coffee shop called Starbucks.
THE LOVE BETWEEN HOWARD AND THAT BOHEMIAN COFFEE
He was so impressed by the popularity of the shop and the quality of the coffee that decided to partner with owners, Gerald Baldwin and Gordon Bowker, to bring Starbucks to Seattle.
The Starbucks of that time is not what we know today. Howard has upset it ever since he became CEO.
One of Schultz’s first changes was to start importing coffee directly from farmers in countries like Sumatra and Kenya.
“Schultz made several changes to the coffee, including adding espresso and whipped cream to the menu. This transformed Starbucks into the company it is today – a global coffee powerhouse ”.
Schultz joined Starbucks and helped transform it from a small coffee shop into a global chain of stores. He made a number of changes to the coffee that was exported from around the world, including increasing quality and adding new flavors.
The company quickly grew in popularity, and today Starbucks is a major player in the data technology industry. The company makes extensive use of data for marketing purposes
HOW DOES STARBUCKS USE DATA TODAY?
Today Starbucks is a data technology company. Using the data for marketing strategies and to understand customer behavior.
For example, Starbucks tracks the number of visits a customer makes to their stores, what time of day they visit, and what items they buy.
“This information is used to create targeted marketing campaigns and to understand which products are most popular with customers.”
Starbucks isn’t the only company using data in this way. In fact, many companies now use data to understand their customers and to create targeted marketing campaigns. The use of data is becoming increasingly important for businesses of all sizes.
Starbucks learned how to do this after the 2008 financial crisis. During this time the company had a hard time and was forced to modernize its internal processes.
“Here he turned that difficulty into an increase”
This is in fact the first lesson. All businesses can experience phases of difficulty and a decrease in turnover. Here you can take advantage of these moments to grow.
That is precisely the other lesson: if you track everything in your business and manage to transform these tracks into data, you have the situation under control and you can make really important and targeted choices.
Choices that will soon translate into earnings.
For example, Starbucks does personalized promotions
Starbucks isn’t the only company that uses consumer data this classic way.
Customizing the product to a specific customer’s preferences is standard practice, and Starbucks is no exception. Starbucks’ loyalty program, which has over 16 million members in the United States alone, accounts for nearly half of all retail transactions in the country.
Starbucks uses AI to anticipate potential offers tailored to customer preferences and purchasing trends. Since 2017, Starbucks has used AI in its “Digital Flywheel” campaign, which employs AI to drive such campaigns.
A key goal of this type of work is to suggest new products to the consumer that they might like, based on what they have previously purchased.
It’s not limited to personalized marketing. Much of it consists of standard mass advertising, but they are targeted to every customer in the target segment. Cold drinks on hot days, product introductions, and seasonal menus are all examples of this.
Starbucks has more than 27,000 stores in 77 countries. In fiscal 2017, the company had revenues of $22.4 billion. The company also has more than 150 million customers around the world. In the United States, Starbucks is the most popular coffee chain, with over 50% of the market share.
So this extraordinary coffee that has become the world’s best-known coffee and the most loved thanks to the hero of our story is a model to use for anyone who wants to grow their company
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