This has been a business of sorts. I was working with several friends going to market and doing things with the jewelry but between their apathy and everyone's schedules the business folded and I was left with the tea supplies, so I have a few of the things you're suggesting.
I have lots of tea-sacs and 3x4 and 4x4 plastic bags, as well as even some actual mesh tea balls, though not too many of those left.
We had about ten flavors that we were selling at market, but now that I'm not going to market I've been jarring the blends to preserve freshness and was figuring I would bag as needed should people order, and had been wondering about blending to order I have a LOT of different herbs that we'd gotten to try in blends and see what would be tastiest. So, there's quite a bit of various mints, catnip, red clover, lavender, rose petals...I could go on, and I still have a lot of the contacts to get the herbs and teas from, thankfully.
At market we would sell 1-2 cup servings of each of the green teas as a sampler pack and each of the black teas as a sampler pack, along with tea bags and the like, so I could definitely see that being something to do.
And I really like the idea of blending to order. It's something I had wanted to try but it was met with, well, apathy; but now it's just me so BRING IT ON LOL.
I had more success with tea than tarot in person because in our area the tarot is considered the evil by a lot of people, plus I'd been feeling that the tea was harder to sell online because people like to taste and there was always a bit of tension between me and the others about how best to tackle the whole sample thing online without "losing money" etc.
I'll definitely check out the resources you speak of and some of the other things in the community when I have a bit more time tomorrow. Today's been a crazy one :/ but thank you so much for replying and giving so many things to think about.
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Date: 2012-01-11 11:29 pm (UTC)I have lots of tea-sacs and 3x4 and 4x4 plastic bags, as well as even some actual mesh tea balls, though not too many of those left.
We had about ten flavors that we were selling at market, but now that I'm not going to market I've been jarring the blends to preserve freshness and was figuring I would bag as needed should people order, and had been wondering about blending to order I have a LOT of different herbs that we'd gotten to try in blends and see what would be tastiest. So, there's quite a bit of various mints, catnip, red clover, lavender, rose petals...I could go on, and I still have a lot of the contacts to get the herbs and teas from, thankfully.
At market we would sell 1-2 cup servings of each of the green teas as a sampler pack and each of the black teas as a sampler pack, along with tea bags and the like, so I could definitely see that being something to do.
And I really like the idea of blending to order. It's something I had wanted to try but it was met with, well, apathy; but now it's just me so BRING IT ON LOL.
I had more success with tea than tarot in person because in our area the tarot is considered the evil by a lot of people, plus I'd been feeling that the tea was harder to sell online because people like to taste and there was always a bit of tension between me and the others about how best to tackle the whole sample thing online without "losing money" etc.
I'll definitely check out the resources you speak of and some of the other things in the community when I have a bit more time tomorrow. Today's been a crazy one :/ but thank you so much for replying and giving so many things to think about.