Bear with the long post, teahearts. This is important.
It's summer slow season and June did not save us this year (we had no Pride rush this year, it's usually the only thing that gets us through the season), not to mention a few major invoices haven't been paid to us on deadline.
We would really love to keep our doors open and we have some big ol bills (now late) to pay that usually the last weekend of June handles.
Note: horrifyingly, this is what "successful" actually looks like for indies right now: simply staying in business at all. Between operating expenses getting spendier and Pride being pretty much nonexistent this year, we're about $10k shy of where we need to be this week (and ASAP to avoid accruing late fees).
Some great options if you want to help your fave tea shop survive the summer:
🍵 Don't need more tea and just want to spread the queer nerd cash cache around? We do have a shop financial health fund donation link!
🍵 We can handle regular orders out the wazoo. Bulk tea is non-taxable in the US, so that's better for us than a donation, plus is great to stock your cupboard, gift to loved ones, etc. Bonus: tea doesn't even think about staling for at least a year, so you can do your holiday shopping NOW!
🍵 Gift cards are a great way to give indies a cash infusion while spreading out the actual fulfillment workload! Always a lovely choice.
🍵 See also: reserving custom blend appointments to redeem later!
We don't want to burden already-stretched pockets. If $$$ is a stress for you, consider FREE ways to support us:
🍵 Share share share! Word of mouth, link-shares, socials posts about your faves, etc!
🍵 Ask your local cafe/retail store to ping us about wholesale!
🍵 Ask your office to stock your favorites of our teas!
🍵 Ask your team lead to use us for corporate gifts!
🍵 Leave us reviews! Google, Yelp, product pages on our website...reviews help so much!
🍵 Engage with our posts on socials! Share them around, comment, like, save, etc. This helps the robots see us as valuable and pushes our content out to new audiences significantly. Makes a huge difference!
