- All right, so it's Damian from Marketing Food Online.
So in this video, I'm actually gonna show you
and walk you through
how you could actually start an organic tea business online
without having any inventory,
shipping any product, and taking care of any customers.
And I'm gonna show you a company
that could build the website for you in less than a week,
and you could be up and running
with an organic tea business,
and I wanna get to that right now.
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All right.
So like I mentioned in the introduction,
I'm now here at my desk, I've got my laptop open.
I'm going to walk you through this website building company
that actually is called Dropship For Sale.com.
I recently purchased a website from them
and they built out a merchant website for me,
which turned out to be fantastic.
And it actually does through Shopify.
So if you're familiar with Shopify,
this would be a great addition
to any other additional e-commerce businesses.
Or if you're looking to just add on to an existing business,
or even just start a tea business from scratch,
this is gonna give you an opportunity
to have a website built out for you,
and of course, you can always add on to this
and I'll explain how that works.
All of the products that you're going to see
in their demo store and I'm actually going to show you
and walk you through their demo store.
Those are products that are built in from suppliers
they already have set up.
There is a ton of other stuff that you could add to this
and keep adding on
if you want to add additional drop shipping for you.
So, if this is your first video of Marketing Food Online,
welcome, my name is Damian Roberti.
I'm the founder and CEO of Marketing Food Online.
I am a food entrepreneur.
I have over six businesses online.
My wife and I have been doing this.
My wife, Sylvia, and I
have been doing the food business e-commerce
for over 12 years, so I have a lot of experience
with e-commerce food businesses and selling food online.
So when I came across this,
I have a lot of you that watch my,
"How to start a tea business video."
And you ask questions on,
"Hey, are there any companies that do drop shipping for tea?
"Have you ever heard of such a thing?"
So when I found this,
I definitely wanted to make a video and show you guys.
So let's hop right into it.
So the company is Dropship For Sale.com.
Now, anything I'd mentioned in this video,
also check down below the video in the description section,
there'll be links to everything I'm talking about here.
So you can see for yourself and you can test it out.
Now, the cost for the website,
they actually will build it for you.
It comes with everything you need,
as far as the inventory integrated into it,
your actual payment information so you can take payments.
You do need to obviously sign up and add on
whether you have Stripe, PayPal, or Shopify payments.
All the payment information you'd have to add on yourself
because obviously they don't have access
to your payments information.
So that is one thing you'll have to do when you go onto it.
Now it's $199, so as I mentioned before,
you can literally start this business for less than 300.
Well, Damian, why is it 199 and you're saying 300?
Let me show you exactly what I mean.
Now, the first thing you'll need to do
is make sure you get a domain name.
If you don't have one, you can then have them do it for you,
but they're going to charge you for that as well.
I just recommend you check on the link down below.
You can go to Marketing Food Online services.
We have a full-blown services website up and running
for everything from domain names.
You can register with us as well,
and through us, you can check that out down below.
So create yourself a domain name first.
So if it's like, Terry's Teas.com or Organic Tea World,
whatever it is that you decide to do,
create your domain first,
and then that way you could send it to them,
and you'll be able to attach it directly to the store
when they build it for you.
Now, the store really quick,
how fast does it take Damian for them to build a store?
If you were to purchase this today, the store that I bought,
the merge store costs me 199.
I got it about, I think it was three days later,
three or four days later.
So, you can add on additional thing.
If you don't have a logo, they can create a logo for you.
I highly recommend you check our links down below.
Fiverr has some really inexpensive logos.
You can definitely have made for you a lot cheaper.
You don't need to spend 20 bucks even
you can get one better at a better price.
Domain name and all that, you get that as well.
Now, if you want it faster within,
I think it's about a day or so or less,
you can actually get that on here.
You can add additional $80, do I recommend that?
You can do that if you wanted to,
it's not necessary because these guys are super quick.
So here it is, this is gonna give you an example.
Organic Teas, when I show you the walkthrough website,
the demo one, it's just gonna give you an example
of how to look, okay?
So yours will have a little bit of a different twist
if you wanna design a little bit different.
So drop on going down here,
let me show you really quick about this.
This is the important part.
So as I mentioned in the introduction
doing this for under $300, right?
So what you're going to understand
is that this is a store built through Shopify.
So that platform is gonna have a monthly fee
involved with it like anyone would have,
like our websites, all six of our websites,
there's a fee involved somehow, okay?
Even on Amazon, they charge us $40 a month.
So you're gonna have a $29 subscription fee, okay?
So that will go into effect
until after the two week free open window,
you're gonna have a lot of 14 day window, okay?
You won't be charged until that goes into effect, okay?
So you have a $29 monthly fee,
and then the supplier integration, that's $49 a month.
That's actually going to be the companies
that they're going to integrate
directly onto your site, okay?
So you do have to pay a fee for them
to have that every month, but of course, $49 a month,
you could sell 10 or 12 items and make that a backup
as far as your profits are concerned, okay?
So remember, it's gonna be $78 a month.
So that's where I mentioned under 300.
So it's $199 for the actual build-out
and then $78 after that trial period,
of course, every month.
So that's around 300 bucks, okay?
A little bit less.
Now, the other thing I wanted to tell you,
this is a business, take it as a business, okay?
And then we're gonna hop over to the demo.
Let me click over to the demo real quick.
Here we go, all right.
This is a business, so here is my advice.
Like I mentioned in the opening,
you need to make sure you follow all the local city
and county guidelines for running a business.
Now, even though you're from home,
you're not actually physically moving any boxes.
You're not storing anything
because it's being shipped for you.
Make sure that you're incorporated.
And if that happens to be your home address
you're gonna incorporate, so be it,
make sure you have a food business policy, okay?
You are actually dealing in the realm of food business.
You're distributing a product that can be eaten,
drink, digested, that is a food product.
So you need to be careful,
you gonna make sure you cover yourself, okay?
Definitely recommend.
I've been doing this for a long time.
I (giggles) even recommend don't play this as a hobby.
Not incorporate yourself, or don't get an LLC,
or don't follow the business license and all that.
You need to make sure because as you sell here too,
this income is gonna be reported to the IRS.
You're going to have it as a business.
So you've gotta account for your expenses
and all of that too.
Okay.
So here is the demo.
This is how, of course, this is a sample of how it'll look.
You can check out through here.
This is a top header, some information, then it shows you
this is great because they have box teas.
They even have open-leaf teas, okay?
They have open-leaf teas,
a whole leaf teas as they call them.
This is fantastic.
This is some samples here, right?
And again, these are organic.
This is not a non-organic.
So the Shop By Packaging.
So here's what as mentioned
you can get it in the jar pouch.
Here's the loose leaf teas, and it's a huge variety.
This is not like one or two different teas
and some cheesy build-out website,
let's say full-blown website.
And again, once you have this up and running,
if you start getting into the tea business,
you start making your own teas
or wanna create your own brand,
you can just integrate that directly onto the store
'cause you already have it built.
Everything from green teas, red teas, honeybush organic.
It just goes on and on.
And these are all open and loose leaf teas.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful website.
Okay?
So then you have loose leaf.
You have the pouches as well,
(inhales loudly)
and that's gonna be on page two, let me hop over.
And this is just a sample, okay?
So again, this is a demo store,
a sample of what you'll have on your store.
Okay?
And you can do it alphabetically.
You'll be able to price it.
Now, this is how it will look in general
when your website goes up.
Now, let me tell you this, what's really cool.
Once you see these prices on here,
you have the ability to go in and adjust this, okay?
Now these are just sample prices.
You can adjust the actual margins that you would prefer.
So if the prices are a little too high, you think?
You can simply adjust them on the backend of your website.
Okay?
But this is a totally built-out,
completely ready to go integrated website.
And it even gives other information about where it's from
or it's naturally from.
And also what's great
it's built in with the social media icons.
So these can be shared on social media
very quick and easy as well.
So that brings me to my next step.
When you start this online tea business,
even though you're not shipping it,
once you have this up and running,
you need to build out social media presence.
You need to be on Facebook, you need to be on Instagram.
You need to be on LinkedIn, everywhere that you can be.
Also on Pinterest, I highly recommend it.
We are now up to over two and a half million monthly views
on our Pinterest page.
We leverage that now to sell our candies and snacks,
even leverage it for our Marketing Food Online
on our YouTube channels.
And it is a huge way to get exposure to a lot of customers.
So Pinterest, you need to have a platform built out
for your organic tea business.
Once you start linking this and posting images
of the products and pinning it out,
you're going to be exposing yourself
to a lot of potential customers, okay?
So the next step, as I mentioned,
make sure social media is a big part of the marketing aspect
of having your drop shipping tea business, okay?
So, recap, just hop back over here really quick.
And I'll wrap up the video.
I'll keep it short and sweet to the point,
Organic Tea Business.
You can get one built out at 199 bucks, okay?
You're gonna have about $80 a month in fees for those two
for the Shopify and the integration of your suppliers.
But outside of that, you're ready to rock and roll.
That is all you do.
And once you get on there,
you'll notice these suppliers by the way.
And this is what I noticed from our store
when we had the merge store built out.
They integrated about 150 to 160 items on our store.
But the actual vendor that we work with
has hundreds of other products
that we simply just add to our store
and they drop ship for us.
So very familiar with this, as far as the tea's concerned,
you're gonna find out
there's probably hundreds of other teas
or different brands that you can integrate on this.
You're going to get set up with an initial set
of different products.
And then from there you can build it out
as much as you want.
So I hope this helps you out, and I hope it motivates you,
and inspires you to start your e-commerce business.
And definitely, when you get a company to build one for you,
makes it much easier and faster to get to the marketplace.
But definitely let me know down below,
if you've got comments about this in the comments section,
or if you've dealt with this company
and you've had a great experience, let us know,
and I'll see you guys on our next video.
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