One Man's Journey in The Coffee Industry and Life

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! I want to wish everyone a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. If you have been following this blog lately, you will know that I have found my way back into the coffee business recently. I had been in the business for 27 years and for a little over three years I had little to do with coffee. Except to consult on a bunch of related projects. I am still going to continue my consulting business, because I have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy sharing my business experiences with small businesses, entrepreneurs and just people who dream of working for themselves one day. However,,,,, I am the distributor for these amazing single serve Espresso Machines designed in Belgium. I think they are a fantastic machine and I am quite sure, you will agree if you decide to buy one! I have 9 machines left until I receive my next shipment which won't be arriving until the beginning of February. So I have decided to run an End of The Year Blowout Sale! T...

By Joe Leary/Principal/Lead Source Digital Marketer's & KYC Consulting on LinkedIn Today I would like to explain just how much the roasting process effects the coffee we consume on a daily basis. I sincerely hope you find this article enjoyable, interesting and informative. I am going to attempt to explain the 4 major roasting processes and what it does and doesn't do to the world's second most popularly traded commodity. Before I get started, there is something you need to know about coffee. When coffee is roasted it goes through a process, within that process the beans are altered by temperature and generally gas, LNG, electricity and even wood. During this process the beans reach levels within that process that makes the beans, "crack". Depending on how light or dark they are being roasting they "crack either once or twice. This alters the flavor profile tremendously, so please keep that in mind while reading this article. I have included some...

 Joe Leary Founder - Lead Source Digital Maketer's/KYC Consulting/ Former Owner of Araban Coffee Co., Inc & Beacon Hill Coffee Roaster's Why Businesses Make The Mistake 82% Of The Time Hiring Managers I have been in 100's of businesses. Mostly small to medium sized privately held businesses. One of the most glaring shortcomings many of them have, is believe it or not, their management team. I was reading a Gallup poll that was performed about 3 months ago. It was studying 7500 businesses. The purpose of the poll was to find out, based on a very exhaustive criteria, if the businesses were hiring the right people to be managers. Now this wasn't just lower level managers, it was all managers within an organization. What it found was that businesses make the mistake 82% of the time hiring managers! The more I thought about it, it really does make sense. This also goes hand in hand with the fact that 52% of employees leave their jobs, not because of the pay,...

Does The Decimal Point Really Matter? That is exactly what I wanted to ask a headhunter during a phone interview/introduction, quite awhile ago!#entrepreneur I mean I was certainly more than, a Qualified Applicant From A Small Business background. I kept hearing this, I guess I'd call it,  uncertainty in his voice. I am sure he sensed a growing frustration in my responses, as the conversation went down this path to nonsense!#businessadvice Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. You see there was a thrilling opportunity, one that I wasn't anticipating or really even searching for. Let's just say, it kind of was initiated by a casual conversation with a couple of very close friends. I heard and then verified that a dream position in the coffee industry was up for grabs, and I hastily threw together a resume and cover letter. I almost didn't believe I was this excited about any opportunity, but I had befriended this company's President/CEO, and followed what...