On www.ROASTe.com we feature to consumers some of the best coffee roasters in the U.S. Why spend money on building and promoting an ecommerce web site? Use our platform to sell your products and develop brand recognition and followers. Join us in promoting the coffee roasters online.
It would create competition for me to sell my coffee on this website along with everyone else's roast. How would you control the quality of the coffee being sold?
We hand pick our roasters. This is not on a first come first served basis of course.
As for competition, this is not different than selling in any other online/offline marketplace. The rule of thumb is that aggregation of similar businesses typically benefits everyone (e.g. the mall concept). The basic idea is to create an online presence that would challenge the giant brands and would present consumers with a real trustable source, from which they can safely try out many new coffees. At the end of the day, we try to bring coffee roasters to the front stage. We hope, that many consumers who buy e.g. Lavazza or Starbucks out of a habit, would come in, and give the great coffees, offered by the smaller players, the chance they deserve.
There are no fees involved. When we get an order from a customer to one of your products, we place a back-to-back order with the roaster (at wholesale price), who then ships to the customer directly. Simple. We use a roaster’s-direct process to ensure the ultimate freshness of the coffee. In a way, we act as your online sales and marketing representatives.
To set up your store, you will need good descriptions and photo/s of your products. You can either manage your store online yourself, or if you wish, we are happy to do it for you (as I said, no fees). It’s very easy.
We only carry the best roasters. If you believe, your place is in that group, do shoot me an email with your contact information and we will take it from there. My email is eyal@roaste.com
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Still getting used to this forum's layout! :p
+1!! Absolutely quoted for truth!!!
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