How Persephone Bakery Turned Holiday Giving Into an Incentive Program At first glance, Jackson, Wyoming, may seem like a quiet, quaint town with fewer than 8,000 residents. But take another look: Each year, more than 2 million tourists and outdoor enthusiasts visit Jackson and the 43-mile valley of Jackson Hole. Ali and Kevin Cohane, a […]
North Idaho’s Coffee and Bakery Gathering Place Gabe and Mandy Booher love a good adventure. So, after five moves within the first three years of marriage, they were ready to embark on a new career—one they could enjoy together. While scanning Craigslist one evening, Gabe came across a listing for a coffee shop in Idaho […]
Sweet Cow Ice Cream’s Sweetest Gift Card Ever! “We truly love our logo,” says Maureen (Mo) O’Neill, the Sweet Cow Ice Cream ambassador, field agent and official logo lover-in-chief. “It represents sheer bovine happiness!” With such logo love, it’s no surprise that the Sweet Cow mascot—a blue, smiling cow—appears on the gift cards for the […]
Blackberry Market A space for community to connect through food. Anna Davidson remembers when her passion for cooking began. As a child, she spent summers at her grandmother’s home in Arkansas. It was there that she first picked wild blackberries from among the brambles where the tasty fruit hides. But the real magic came when […]
Customer Profile: Elevate Coffee Certified public accountant (CPA) Troy Hailpern didn’t set out to run a coffee business, but an entrepreneurial spirit compelled him to take the leap when the opportunity presented itself in 2009 when Halipern was consulting for some friends who were launching Elevate Coffee Co., in Phoenix, Arizona. During the following year, […]
Three Rivers College Small School, Big Ideas At first glance, you may think The College Store at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is your standard campus bookstore serving a small community college. But take a closer look. The College Store may be small, but it has big ideas. One of those big ideas […]
If you’re new to gift cards, here’s what you need to know to create the foundation for a successful program to keep your registers ringing. In addition to bringing in new customers, studies show an overwhelming majority of gift card users spend more than the original value of the card. That’s called uplift and it […]
Pre-Holiday Season Check List for Gift & Loyalty Card Programs We know. The holiday rush is months away, and you’ve got a hundred and ten things that need your attention right now. But before you know it, spring and summer will pass in the blink of an eye, and the holiday rush will return! Here […]
