DL: The Starbucks Cycle of Life

Good morning! I'm sitting on my made up bed (I'm kind of a Type A like that...i sleep on top of the covers) watching Alanis Morisette on Today Show. By the way, Al Roker is the shiznit! But i digress. So today feels good in Nashville, working out the kinks on my website with a code guy. I just wrote up a sponsorship letter for the Starbucks tour, that I'm sending out to tons of companies Monday. I figure somebody's gotta help me. Let's look at the companies just within Starbucks. Starbucks Corp. which owns Hear Music or Starbucks Entertainment label is run by Concord Music Group which is distributed by Universal Music Group (which is the home of 50 Cent...i couldn't stop there cuz he's my hero, but i digress). Now AT&T just inked a new deal to take over internet service at all Starbucks (whichi T-Mobile did have. Now you will still have to pay to play but it's cheaper and you can get 2 hours free a day when u get a starbucks punch card). ATT is also the service provider of the Apple iPhone. Apple of course runs iTunes, which has a special deal with Starbucks where when you walk into a Starbucks and hear a song playing, you can look on your iPhone/iPod/Laptop and it will pull up what song is playing right then for you to buy! Nuts! It'll be in most stores by the end of 2008. So I digress again...Starbucks...iTunes...which has a Hear Music page. Now Starbucks Hear Music also has an XM Starbucks Cafe radio station, which is also available on DirectTV channel 832. BREATH!! NEED I CONTINUE!!!????? So here I go, sending my letters off, hoping i'll get financial support or some product endorsements b/c hey, i'm an un-tapped resources. WE are untapped resources. This isn't a tour for just me, but for ALL OF US. So you blog about it too...start the buzz, get the word out. And soon we will make history!! There's some other deals to go along with the tour that I'm going to tell you about soon.

Talk again Monday...make the most of the weekend, BBQ TIME BABY!!
DL www.darnelllevine.com