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Discover business basics 101.

This area of the Tea Business Network provides you with suggestions, tips, tricks and checklists to help your tea business succeed.

Business building is a great place for beginning tea entrepreneuers and fabulous "refreshers" for the long time business owner.  

Customer, Clients, and Guest
Margo Bury
Customer, Clients, and Guests. The people who are in this category are the life blood of every single business, period. No patrons, no exchange, no business, period. But sooner or later we will encounter an unhappy customer. So what are you going to do about it? . . . keep reading
Tea Trends - 2010 and Beyond
Dawnya Sasse
|Here are the top 12 trends featured on the January 2010 training cd. Tea Trend 2010 and Beyond. . . . keep reading
Introducing and Serving Teas
By Debra Grace
Introducing & Serving Teas: Part 1 The Teas-To-Taste Experience "Seeing . . . keep reading
Easy and Inexpensive Improvements that will Bring Customers Back
Jenny Wells - TeaPartyGirl.com
Good communication needs to be a high priority for the successful tea business. Consider how your customers primarily contact you and the first impression it creates. This includes, but is not limited to phone communications, email, your website and the greeting your customer first receives when they walk in the door. . . . keep reading
Relationship Selling Demands Consistent Follow Through
Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Relationship selling is truly about the behaviors needed to establish and maintain the personal connection between your prospect and yourself. To maintain your connection, your behaviors must be consi . . . keep reading
Starting a New Online Business?
Jim Edwards
Starting a New Online Business? It seems everybody has a "can't miss" idea for starting a new web- based business, despite innumerable news accounts of most web businesses going belly-up in a short time. Here's what you need to do to survive.... . . . keep reading
The Successful Tea Kitchen
Debra Grace
Our guests begin to arrive. The atmosphere and tables we have created are inviting and pleasing to the eye. The pleasant blending of aromas from our teas and delicacies fills the room. We have prepared our guests' senses for a satisfying and palate-pleasing adventure. The menu captures their thoughts for several minutes as they sigh with delight over the variety of tantalizing choices. Our guests anxiously await their first sip of tea. Before the first teacup is lifted from its saucer, we are well on our way to a successful tea day! . . . keep reading
Quick and Easy Ways To Create Your Own Private Label Tea Company
Tea Business Network
Quick and Easy Ways To Create 
Your Own Private Label Tea Company There are two basic ways to create a private label tea company. This article will simplify both scenarios to help you decide which one is right for you.To begin you must decide whether or not you intend to own/lease a commercial kitchen. This is key. Without a commercial kitchen you cannot private label and package tea in most states. (there are a few rare exceptions.) If you wish to create your own private label tea without the expense . . . keep reading
PLMA'S Private Label Trade Show 2008
Dawnya Sasse
Private label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company's brand. Private label goods and services are available in a wide range of industries from food to cosmetics to web hosting. They are often positioned as lower cost alternatives to regional, national or international brands, although recently some private label brands have been positioned as "premium" brands to compete with existing "name" brands. . . . keep reading
What Essential Marketing Models Are Within Your Strategic Plan?
Leanne Hoagland-Smith
What Essential Marketing Models Are Within Your Strategic Plan? An executable strategic plan contains a marketing plan that is directly aligned to the sales plan. This essential marketing plan should be based upon proven marketing models. . . . keep reading
Professional Fundraiser
Dawnya Sasse
Professional Fundraiser Becoming a professional fundraiser using tea as your main medium. Listen to this 3 part series and download the extra information needed to make your fundraising event successful. . . . keep reading
Relationship Selling Demands Consistent Follow Through
Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Relationship Selling Demands Consistent Follow Through Relationship selling is truly about the behaviors needed to establish and maintain the personal connection between your prospect and yourself. To maintain your connection, your behaviors must be consistent especially regarding follow through. There is an old proverb or quotation that states: . . . keep reading
How to Succeed in Small Business: Training New Employees
Training new employees and training them well is key to developing a productive office. . . . keep reading
Is Follow Up A Waste of Time?
Tim Conner
Is Follow Up A Waste of Time? Follow-up in today's world can be a waste of time and energy or it can guarantee a closed sale. Sound like a paradox? Read on. . . . keep reading
Virtuali-TEA
Lady Dawnya Sasse
Virtuali-TEA These days, it is almost unheard of to not have a website. While it may seem obvious for a retail business to have an online store, all types of businesses do well to own and operate a website. Why? Even if you are not selling goods, such as tea purchases, you are still selling yourself and your services. . . . keep reading
Make Your Tea Dream Happen
Lady Dawnya Sasse
Make Your Tea Dream Happen Beginning a new business venture is exciting, scary, and comes with the occasional setback. How do you keep going when things feel frightening, overwhelming, or challenging? Here are some tips to keep you and your dream moving forward. . . . keep reading
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