Are there too many selections? Sure … And No.
Sure… in case you are involved that many of the present tea occasions, each B2B (business-facing) and B2C (consumer-facing) are struggling to finance their occasions, and also you mistakenly think about that having fewer will enhance the chances! However I feel it is a superficial view – believing that there’s hurt in competitors. There’s proof that this isn’t true.
We see the best progress and success all through the Specialty Tea Business the place there are aggressive and interactive communities. I level to profitable tea retailers and tearooms in communities with a number of companies. That is true for U.S. tea festivals in On the West Coast; California, Oregon, and Washington, organizers are likely to assist one another, and attendees incessantly attend multiple occasion.
So . . . No . . . We don’t but have sufficient occasions to fulfill the wants and wishes of tea lovers. Extra importantly, we don’t at the moment assist small companies. There’s not a robust sufficient community. Specialty Tea within the U.S. doesn’t have an affiliation. The potential is big, however the cooperative construction that would make a significant distinction nationwide. I belong to nationwide associations for herbalists and beekeepers and see what they do for his or her members. Tea doesn’t actually have a listing of enterprise, distributors and providers. Occasions are publicized for the good thing about the organizers and distributors – however particularly for the attendees.
These of us who educate newbie lessons and those that meet clients who’re very new to tea know the way little good info there’s for inexperienced persons; and the way a lot complicated advertising and marketing. We’ve not but created a roadmap to information tea lovers from the consolation zone of tea baggage to the journey of unfastened leaf teas.
The roadmap I’m envisioning will take them to alternatives for that face-to-face private expertise in an area tea store, to festivals, to on-line purchasing, to journey, and presumably to their very own distinctive tea enterprise. As a neighborhood who is aware of how a lot this story is what has constructed the trade to this point, we recognize the advantages of supporting this community. Everybody issues. Organizers know that a minimum of 10% of competition attendees are tea enterprise house owners looking for assist. What we needs to be contemplating is that a few of the kids in our audiences are the following era of specialty tea. Are we welcoming them? Are we thrilling them? Are we constructing a basis for our current and their future?
