How To Sell Green Tea Online, Budget Free (I)

In this post, I will be sharing a few strategies for people interested in starting a small business of selling green teas online, using digital marketing. This post may prove particularly helpful for those interested in how to start a small business. And have particularly identified their small business idea – A green tea store. This can be started as a side business or a full fledged career. And can be done without having to learn any software, technical tools, marketing strategies or any form of investment. In other words, a strategy to start own business with no money – one that is completely organic, natural and as healthy as the green teas.

Total wholesale tea sales were estimated to amount to 12.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. The global tea market was valued at over 52 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, and is expected to rise to over 81 billion dollars by 2026.

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How To Sell Green Tea Online Without Any Digital Marketing Experience & Budget-Free.

Starting a small business of green teas using digital marketing

For anyone who wants to start their own business, the seemingly unlimited growth possibilities can make the idea quite exciting. Where, as a new business promoter, keen to jump on the entrepreneurial bandwagon, a passion for green teas and wellness can be turned into a truly rewarding career. One, because green tea is today a globally much sought after beverage and two, because it doesn’t need any investment to get started! Let’s see how. However, as the promoter, the process will require loads of perseverance and a strong strategic direction. Plus if this professional marketing support can be added, the results are definitely expected to be better.

Steps for green teas marketing

1. Awareness – Get known
2. Interest – Build attraction
3. Desire – Engage to buy
4. Action – Make it easy
5. Satisfaction – Build loyalty

How to build a strong and bountiful sales funnel using digital marketing strategies.

As more and more people start sipping in green tea for its multiple health benefits, starting a small business with green teas will require the following elements.

Step 1. Connect with green tea suppliers

For this, one way is to visit the green tea manufacturers and distributors in the country or abroad. And discuss the quality and quantity of supplies estimated for the new business. The challenge here for many people starting a small business is – How much capital to invest in stocks? Is it better to purchase and stock at wholesale prices or simply signup for a drop-shipping contract? Or maybe,

Start a green tea store without making any investment in stocks. Simply sign up as an affiliate marketer. An negotiate directly with suppliers for better profit margins once a well structured online sales funnel is ready.

Affiliate Marketing Stores

Top 5 Dropship Sources And Affiliate Networks

There are other popular affiliate programs that offer more products than shades of tea, like ShareASale.com, Amazon Associates, eBay Partners and Shopify Affiliate Program.

Step 2. Setup the online store

Once ready with the supply side, it’s time to setup the green tea store online. Here one can research on the green tea market demand in a given region or across wider number of locations, depending on the contract with the suppliers. One can visit the online stores selling green tea and check how they are doing in their business.

To assist in conducting a personal research, I have listed the top green tea brand websites (section A) in the US and in India. This comparative analysis can help connect with suppliers and plan the digital marketing strategy. And that can help setup a website with online store using any of the free resources listed in section B below.

Section A. Top 10 Green Tea Brands In USA And India

Section B. Professional Free Website Resources

Picking up a reference from an earlier blog on this topic, there are many free website hosting and free website builders out there. And some of the best website platforms offer unlimited free to use features, like WordPress. So to setup a website for green tea marketing online, any one of these resources can help get stared.

Step 3. Marketing Strategy

For online and/or offline stores

1. Search engine marketing
2. Social media marketing
3. Email database marketing
4. Referral network marketing
5. Conversion optimization

Coming soon in the next post…

With the online store for green tea sales now ready, it’s time to get good quality visitors to buy the ware. This is also applicable to offline stores that want to attract more buyers, irrespective of their physical locations. With the right digital marketing strategy for green teas marketing, it is possible to reach the right audiences. And convert website visitors to customers.

I will discuss more of this and more in the next post soon.

*Please Note: The listed websites have been ranked as per their online popularity, derived from the estimated number of visitors their websites receive per month and average social media fan following as per publicly available data on Google. If you believe there is a better website that needs to be mentioned in the above lists, please send the website url to mail(@)aidasinc.in.