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	<title>Spilling the Beans &#187; reasons to buy pollards</title>
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		<title>What a Great Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A square peg in a square hole.  Simon realises what a great job he has.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As many will know I am studying for an MBA.  The course is hard but extremely regarding and not without its funny moments.</p>
<p>For instance, last week we were discussing efficiency.  Process efficiency, product efficiency and personal efficiency.  Having started with a &#8220;Knowlege Audit&#8221; aka what do you know abou the subject, the lecturer, who always tries to to bring the concepts alive with personal illustrations, asked  &#8220;Who works at 100% all the time&#8221; .  The answer of course was no one.  She went on to explore ways of improving efficiency and used the start of the work day to illustrate her point.  &#8220;Who arrives at work, wonders into their office and spends 15 minutes by the coffee machine&#8221;  Actually I do&#8230; sometimes more, much more and I get paid for it!</p>
<p><strong>Wow, what a wonderful job!</strong></p>
<p>Simon<strong><br />
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		<title>One Post and Ten Reasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A call from one of our competitor's sales managers pretending to be a new customer spurred us on to start this blog and to give 10 reasons you should choose Pollards Coffee.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well this was going to be one of those &#8220;welcome to our blog&#8221; type posts. You know the ones, boring and dull beyond belief!  That was until the other day when we fell foul of a bit of a dirty trick by one of our competitors.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, their sales manager telephoned, pretending to be a potential customer and asked for our price list and bullet points about why he should buy from us.  So we sent them to him (Jason, I hope you got it!) and then called him back on the mobile he had given us.  well, I nearly fell off my chair.  This is Jason from C**pers coffee, please leave a message and I will call you back&#8221;!</p>
<p>Well actually it got us thinking.  Not withstanding the dirty trick, maybe we should tell you 10 reasons to buy coffee from us and not a box shifter.  So here they are:-</p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">1.)  <strong>We only sell our own, hand roasted coffee</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">2.)<strong> All coffee is hand roasted by Artisans</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">3.)<strong> Slow roasting in small batches</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">4.) <strong>Air cooled after roasting not water quenched</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">5.) <strong>Roast to order &#8211; not to stock.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">6.) <strong>130 years of practice makes perfect. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">7.) <strong>52 origins, 75 standard blends, 2.8 million potential blends. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">8.) <strong>The right grind not the &#8220;nearly right&#8221; one</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">9.) <strong>A wide range of coffee equipment. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;">10) <strong>Coffee with a conscience.</strong></span></p>
<p>Over the next few posts I will expand on these and hopefully include some photos.  Now wasnt that more interesting than &#8220;Welcome to our blog&#8221;.</p>
<p>Speak soon</p>
<p>Simon</p>
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