Green tea has seen something of a surge in popularity over the last few years. In fact, studies show that the market size is set to exceed US$26.16 billion by 2028. It’s a given, then, that it’s worth including it in some form as part of your company’s product range. Whether you run a teahouse or offer e-commerce tea sales, it can represent a solid source of income.
That said, reeling in your part of the green tea market presents some challenges. With so many businesses getting in on the action, there’s a significant amount of competition out there. This means that you need to carefully consider how you market your brand in relation to green tea. One option is to not simply market green tea as a product, but as a versatile tool.
Let’s dive into how you can effectively market the many uses of green tea.
Highlighting Beauty Uses
An important part of achieving long-lasting beauty is to maintain regular skin care routines. People are increasingly recognizing that green tea has multiple benefits for skin care. It contains antioxidants that safeguard the skin against free radicals that influence signs of aging. The catechins in green tea are also known to have an antibacterial effect that mitigates issues like acne. Even sunburn can be soothed by green tea’s anti-inflammatory properties.
Therefore, a great way to market green tea is to highlight the practical ways your customers can incorporate it into their beauty regimens. There are many DIY recipes online for making beauty products at home with tea, including face masks. You can research some options and come up with your own ideas.
Social Media Tutorials
Beauty tutorials are a huge part of the social media landscape. Video-based platforms — TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, in particular — are effective spaces to host tutorials focused on the various ways to utilize green tea in cosmetics. You can host these from your own brand accounts, using knowledgeable employees as the face of your company. Alternatively, you can partner with beauty influencers to collaborate on content and reach a wider audience.
In-Store Beauty Sessions
While digital marketing is a great way to reach customers, in-store efforts can encourage more meaningful engagement with your local customers. Hosting beauty sessions can be a good opportunity to guide your consumers in the versatile ways they can use green tea for beauty purposes. You could set up stations to showcase drinks that promote skin care alongside areas where customers can test green tea cosmetics and DIY recipes that can be applied directly to their skin. These types of events generate buzz and forge positive associations with both your brand and your green tea products.
Promoting Health
To paraphrase the well-worn adage, the impact of green tea is not just skin deep. It has long had a reputation for boosting various aspects of holistic wellness, with many of the benefits backed by solid evidence. As a beverage or supplement, it can relieve headaches. Green tea is also among the foods proven to support immune health. This is because it encourages healthy bacteria in the gut to cultivate. Not to mention that its antibacterial properties can be good for fighting common colds and the flu.
Maintaining long-term health is a priority for many people. As a result, focusing on this can be a great addition to your green tea marketing campaigns.
Deep-Dive Blogs
Blogs are still a powerful digital marketing tool. Alongside showing generalized uses of green tea, you can create articles that perform deeper dives on the medical benefits. Make certain that any medical or health claims in your content are backed by credible resources. Firstly, this helps to ensure you’re not spreading misinformation. It can also be crucial for improving the search engine optimization (SEO) impact of your blogs. This is because some search engine algorithms prioritize Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) content that has clear links to reliable evidence.
Podcast Discussions
Podcasts continue to be popular. They also give you the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise in the uses of green tea in a way that is easy to consume. When it comes to discussing the medical benefits, it’s wise to include guest speakers who are experts in medicine or nutrition. On one hand, this supports the credibility of your content. It can also boost your reach if your guests have a following.
Sharing Creative Recipes
Among the beauty and medicinal benefits, it can be easy to overlook the fact that green tea is first and foremost an ingredient. There are obviously a lot of hot and cold beverages you can make from it. In addition, green tea is a popular component of sweet treats and savory meals. Sharing creative recipes that utilize green tea provides ample opportunities for engaging marketing content.
Newsletter Recommendations
Whether you sell tea through an e-commerce site or run a teahouse, an email newsletter should be part of your marketing campaign. It’s an intimate approach that can strengthen connections. Consider including a new green tea recipe recommendation in each newsletter. These could be related to previous purchases your customers have made or reflect seasonal ingredients and celebrations. Make certain that you hyperlink to purchasing green tea from your webstore and encourage customers to share the recipe on social media channels.
Community Tastings
If consumers aren’t familiar with using green tea as an ingredient or its flavor profile, they may be hesitant to commit to buying it for their recipes. Therefore, one great marketing tool is to give them the chance to sample food or beverages made from green tea. This could be at community tastings hosted by your business or offering samples at a local festival. Giving the public something delicious to taste is a great opener to directing them to your store, tea house, or cafe.
Market the Versatile Uses of Green Tea
In the end, by marketing the versatile uses of green tea, you can more effectively engage your target audience. Consider offering beauty tutorials, healthcare insights and recipe ideas. By taking a more multifaceted approach, you provide the buying public with greater value than they’d get from just another product ad. Not to mention that your brand gets to demonstrate its expertise and knowledge in an increasingly competitive field.
Indiana Lee is a freelance writer and occasional contributor to World Tea News, with a wealth of experience in blogging, content marketing and journalism. She writes on a variety of topics across industries, including tea, B2B issues and health and wellness.
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