Are there too many decisions? Sure … And No.
Sure… in case you are involved that a lot 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 percentages! 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 development 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 regularly attend a couple of occasion.
So . . . No . . . We don’t but have sufficient occasions to fulfill the wants and needs of tea lovers. Extra importantly, we don’t at present assist small companies. There’s not a robust sufficient community. Specialty Tea within the U.S. doesn’t have an affiliation. The potential is gigantic, however the cooperative construction that might 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 companies. Occasions are publicized for the good thing about the organizers and distributors – however particularly for the attendees.
These of us who educate newbie courses and those that meet prospects who’re very new to tea know the way little good data there may be for newcomers; and the way a lot complicated advertising. Now we have not but created a roadmap to information tea lovers from the consolation zone of tea baggage to the journey of free 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 procuring, 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 not less than 10% of pageant attendees are tea enterprise house owners trying to find assist. What we must be contemplating is that a number of the youngsters in our audiences are the following technology of specialty tea. Are we welcoming them? Are we thrilling them? Are we constructing a basis for our current and their future?