What is your coffee ritual? Do you start you day with a robust cafetiere, a carefully brewed stovetop or a meticulous Turkish coffee? Maybe you end it with a gentle, floral, measured chemex. Coffee brewing has been a ritual, both formal and informal, for people around the world for centuries. It’s an important part of […]
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5 Reasons Why Construction Companies Need Social Media
[Tweet “Of those working at managerial level, 68% visit Twitter and 40% visit LinkedIn every day #construction”] Social media is a powerful tool, assisting many businesses in all sectors with customer interaction and lead generation. But did you know that within the construction industry, of those working at managerial level, 65% visit Facebook, 68% visit Twitter […]
The Anniversary Edition! A Year of #BetterOfficeCoffee
“For the love of coffee…” Hello office coffee lovers, and welcome to the special first anniversary edition of Abe’s Coffee Column! I’d like you all to join me in celebrating a whole year of #betterofficecoffee! This month, it’s been twelve months since I started this fortnightly blog of coffee evangelism, campaigning to improve the […]
What’s So Wrong With Instant Coffee?
When I tell you not to drink instant coffee, I’m not just being a snob. Instant coffee is bad on so many levels, not just in the quality stakes. Yet, it’s all that some offices across the country supply for their employees. Instant coffee arose during coffee’s first wave, when shrewd marketing gave birth to […]
A Quick Guide to the 4 Waves of Coffee
If #betterofficecoffee has taken you down the rabbit hole that is the speciality coffee world, then you’ve likely heard talk of the ‘third wave’ or ‘fourth wave’ of coffee. Are you wondering what on earth waves have got to do with coffee? I thought, this week, we’d take an etymological journey into the meaning of […]
Social Media for Recruitment Agencies
“86% of people in the first 10 years of their career are likely to use social media in their job search” – Glassdoor As more and more people turn to online for job hunting, social media provides a new ‘in’ for agencies to find and place candidates, as well as casting the net further. As […]