Become a Tea Dropshipper: Selling Black Tea Online

Recent data shows that black tea is the most popular tea product in the world. Most importantly, the demand for black tea is still growing. There are many advantages that come with selling black tea online with the dropshipping method. In this article, you can learn more about becoming a tea dropshipper to create a successful home business.

Introduction to Black Tea

You might be a coffee person. Perhaps, most of the people around you prefer coffee over tea. However, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world, excluding water. Black tea is one of the most popular types of tea around the world.  In the United States, black tea makes up a staggering %86 percent of all tea consumption.

In many countries, black tea has a significant role in social life. For example, in Turkey, wherever there is a conversation, there is black tea.

Black tea comes from the leaves of the plant Camellia Sinensis and its four different varieties.

Black tea is the most oxidized type of tea. As a result, it has a stronger flavor that many people love. Black tea contains about 45-70 mg of caffeine in a cup as opposed to 95mg in a cup of standard coffee.

A picture of Camellia Sinensic
Camellia Sinensis

Selling Black Tea Online

Tea has a good presence in e-commerce. Many consumers buy their tea online. Selling tea online comes with certain advantages. For example, it is easier to ship because of its lightweight. Besides, it has a longer shelf life than coffee.

Tea consumption is a continuous habit for many people. This is especially true for black tea. Many consumers turn to e-commerce for their supply of black tea.  If you have the right black tea product with the right price and shipping conditions, you can become their favorite online tea store. This means a lot of repeat business, high volume of sales, and a good amount of profit.

The tea industry is enormous. Demand for tea is very high. Most importantly, it is still increasing rapidly. According to a market review by Tea Association of the U.S.A., Inc., tea industry will reach the annual growth rate of %6 by 2020. The market review also reports that in the year if 2017:

“The overall market is healthy and continued to grow in the U.S., with a 1% increase in total tea imports. Black tea imports rose 2.3%, but green tea imports are down.”

This shows that black tea is still rising in popularity with no signs of slowing down. It is never too late to start selling black tea to meet this incredible demand.

Dropshipping Method for Selling Tea Online

What if I told you that you can sell black tea online without having to keep an inventory? With the dropshipping method, you can resell black tea products without purchasing an inventory in advance. All you need to do is signing up for a membership with a drop shipping supplier for their services. Then, you can list the products in their inventory for sale in an e-commerce marketplace or your very own online store.

Greendropship.com carries many natural, organic, and gourmet tea products. Make sure to request our free catalog to see all the tea products that we carry.


 

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Greendropship.com is a supplier of 20.000 natural, organic, specialty products, including various gourmet tea products. As a member of greendropship.com, you can take advantage of our fast shipping, blind shipping, up-to-date inventory data, and high-resolution images. Whenever you receive an order from customers, we will fulfill the order. Your customers receive the order within 3-5 days wherever they are in the United States.

Thinking about becoming a tea dropshipper? Learn more about drop shipping or join us if you are ready to dropship natural black tea products at true wholesale prices.

Author: Ugur Ozturk
Ugur Ozturk is a 23-year-old Penn State graduate, who is a Content Writer at GreenDropShip.com. Multiple futile interventions from his friends could not stop his hopeless addiction to writing and drinking coffee. He has a long-held passion for writing short stories or blogs, watching soccer, and having cold brew coffee in a hot day. His biggest fears are trypophobia, having to drink decaf coffee or non-alcaholic beer!