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One of Our Readers Will Get Free Coffee for the Next Six Months as Coffee.club Celebrates The Launch of Their New Subscription Service

Three weeks ago I told you about Bill McClure's decision to spend $100,000 (over 10 years) to buy the rights to the Coffee.club domain name from the .CLUB Registry. Bill, already a big player in the coffee business via his Coffee.org, wanted the new name to serve as the foundation for a new coffee subscription service. He said the new venture would launch by the end of the month and true to his word Coffee.club has gone live, just in time for the long Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.

 

To suit the deep discount theme prevailing throughout the retail world over the next four days, Coffee.club is celebrating their launch by offering a 40% discount on all subscription orders placed from Friday, November 28th through Monday, December 1st. Subscribers choose their favorite roast, pick a plan (determining how often they receive two 13-ounce bags of fresh coffee, then brew and enjoy when they arrive. 

Bill McClure
Coffee.club Founder

Coffee.club is the first company incubated under Startup.Club, a .CLUB Registry program that gives entrepreneurs an easy, more affordable way to fund the purchase of a category-killing .CLUB domain and build a company around it. McClure has taken the ball and run with it. Under his direction Coffee.club promises to deliver "some of the freshest organic, ethically sourced roasted beans on the market today." 

With more than 54% of Americans drinking coffee on a daily basis he certainly has a vast market to tap into - and it will be a lot easier for Bill because he already knows the ropes in the coffee business.

McClure told me that one of the primary reasons he made the deal was .CLUB's commitment to help him market Coffee.club far and wide. They have already started doing that and, believing that the best way to build the business is to have people experience it first hand so 

they will tell their friends and neighbors about it, they are giving away some free 6-month memberships (valued at over $300 each). They offered us two of those, one for me to try and another for one of our readers to enjoy. If you want to enter the free drawing and your name is pulled from the hat, Coffee.club will send you two 13-ounce  bags of fresh roasted Arabica coffee, twice a month (four bags a month) for six months. That is just under 20 pounds of free gourmet coffee delivered to your door. Please note that only U.S. addresses are eligible for the drawing.

Image from Coffee.club

To give everyone an equal change to win you can send one entry from now through 11:59pm U.S. Eastern time on Monday night (December 1). All I will need is your email address to give Coffee.club to contact you for your delivery information and your coffee selection. Other than sending the winner's email address to Coffee.club, I will delete all other email addresses sent in once the entry period has ended in order to protect your privacy. 

To send an entry just send the words Coffee.club in an email to editor at dnjournal.com. We will put all of the addresses in a spreadsheet that will have a number next to each name. We will then use Random.org to generate a random number (from 1 to whatever the total number of entries is) and the free coffee will go to the number corresponding with the same numbered line in the spreadsheet. 

The coffee you receive will be small-batch, hand-roasted Third Wave Coffee Arabica beans delivered just days from being roasted (the Third Wave Coffee movement claims the highest form of culinary appreciation of coffee, allowing customers to taste the subtleties of flavor, varietal and growing region). McClure said, "Coffee connoisseurs have a passion for freshness and taste, and that passion deserves a club of its own." 

.CLUB officials and buyer Bill McClure the night they announced a $100,000 deal for McClure to acquire Coffee.club during the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Miami Beach November 1. Left to right are .CLUB CEO Colin Campbell, McClure, .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass and .CLUB VP, Business Development Michele Van Tilborg.

McClure also had kind words for .CLUB saying, "The Coffee.club domain name is incredibly brandable, memorable and marketable, and Startup.CLUB made it easy for us to acquire the name, and leverage marketing and business support from the .CLUB team.”

(Posted Nov. 27, 2014)  


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