Tea is a fully open marketplace for the buying and selling of tea combined with some of the most powerful multi-blogging software available. On top of all that, Tea Trade features a robust social network platform to connect users, bloggers, and the online tea community. Since 2007, there has been an explosive amount of growth in online tea writing. New blogs and websites were coming online every month. However, this vastly growing number of blogs is fractured by varying technologies and blogging platforms. Tea Trade seeks to remedy that by providing tea writers and bloggers a hub to host their blogs, connect with each other and most importantly – find good tea. Tea Trade is a classic example of a niche website that allows the conversation about tea, and commerce of tea to combine itself in one place.
Tea Trade Commerce
We have partnered with Tinypay.me to bring a flexible, and open marketplace to the online tea industry. This marketplace is open to individuals and retailer alike, it is beautifully designed and well-featured. It was designed to be easy to implement in a variety of ways on Tea Trade itself, on user’s websites, and across the entire social space of the internet. There is no other commerce platform available that offers the flexibility and potential reach of the Tinypay marketplace. It is considered a low-threshold environment making it simple for users to input a product, build an online shop and market their offerings anywhere on the internet. Most users will be able to input a new product in two minutes or less. The ease of setup is far simpler than any currently existing option.
The Owners
Tea Trade is owned and operated by Leafbox Tea, LLC.
Leafbox Tea was established as an online entity in the fall of 2009. It was established as a brand, but the mission was to explore ways to impact the specialty tea industry. The principals of Leafbox Tea are advocates for better accessibility of loose tea products in America. Having previously experienced the broad availability of tea in the European market and in other places around the world, they sought to explore ideas, business concepts and innovations that would improve accessibility of tea as an everyday product for American consumers. Leafbox Tea believes that real enjoyment of tea comes at the intersection of life, culture, work, and the easy availability of quality loose tea products.
The Tea Trade commerce project is an initiative, by Leafbox Tea, to move online tea commerce forward by expanding the existing models of single retail websites and offering retailers an additional channel of orientation to their customers at the same time providing a way for tea consumers to buy, sell and trade extra teas they would like to share with friends.