Bula

[Johny]

Bula guys just recently joined this forum since everyone here talking about kava. I have been farming kava at a young age so I thought this would be a better opportunity to expand the business and try to market my produce to offshore vendors who are willing to share and empower each other on this new venture. Feel free to drop a message. Cheers!
P.S - below is just an overview of the farm up in the Sigatoka Valley Highlands

 

[kavamehameha]

Bula, Johny! Welcome to the forums. Tell us a bit about yourself and your kava, do you have a homepage?

 

[The Kap'n]

Welcome aboard, and Bula!

Glad to have another kava lover with us.

 

[hightides42]

stunning photo, your lands are beautiful Johny! i see the call to offshore vendors for your supply, have you considered direct to consumer sales?

you might also reach out to Dua Na Bilo on forums, who gets his supply direct from a farmer in Fiji to US and sells on amazon. see his intro here: https://kavaforums.com/forum/threads/dua-na-bilo.10475/ might also pick his brain for help on setting somesuch relationship up in general, he's got some lessons learned from it all i'm sure, like FDA disclaimer for website (which i think is down) and his sales page on amazon, and other hurdles to making such a desire come true.

perhaps also consider providing samples, perhaps in the members only subforum to get your product out there earning some reviews and better build a loyal support base: https://kavaforums.com/forum/forums/members-only-kava-deals.93/

ps. and Welcome to Kava Forums!

 

[Johny]

Bula, Johny! Welcome to the forums. Tell us a bit about yourself and your kava, do you have a homepage?

Bula I don't have a homepage just a young kava farmer trying to market my produce.

 

[Johny]

Welcome aboard, and Bula!

Glad to have another kava lover with us.

I'm deeply hounored thank you

 

[Johny]

stunning photo, your lands are beautiful Johny! i see the call to offshore vendors for your supply, have you considered direct to consumer sales?

you might also reach out to Dua Na Bilo on forums, who gets his supply direct from a farmer in Fiji to US and sells on amazon. see his intro here: https://kavaforums.com/forum/threads/dua-na-bilo.10475/ might also pick his brain for help on setting somesuch relationship up in general, he's got some lessons learned from it all i'm sure, like FDA disclaimer for website (which i think is down) and his sales page on amazon, and other hurdles to making such a desire come true.

perhaps also consider providing samples, perhaps in the members only subforum to get your product out there earning some reviews and better build a loyal support base: https://kavaforums.com/forum/forums/members-only-kava-deals.93/

ps. and Welcome to Kava Forums!

This is an eye opener sorry for the late reply. I'm grateful this a start to a great business perspective.

 

[hightides42]

hey Johny! had another thought that may prove even better opportunity than Amazon after reading some recent articles about Shopify, really an eye-opener that Amzn charges much bigger fees (not sure about paypal, which a few vendors on this forum rely on, like GHK. or Square like Kava Society (NZ) uses)

anyways, thought these articles might help you determine if shopify is a good online shop front for consideration.

Shopify – the good shop to Amazon's bad shop

Shopify is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that?

www.theguardian.com

"Whether or not Shop is an online marketplace is a moot point. It’s worth pointing out that, unlike with other online marketplaces, brands using Shop won’t get short shrift: apart from Shopify’s payment transaction fee (which is between 2.4 and 2.9%), Shop won’t charge brands commission to rent space on the platform. By comparison, Amazon charges 75p per item, plus fees of between 7% and 45%."

and setting it up:

A step-by-step guide to creating a Shopify store so you're prepared for the online holiday surge

This holiday season provides the perfect opportunity to pivot your business online or upgrade your previous site.

www.businessinsider.com

Everything you need to know about e-commerce and Shopify

If you are going to launch an e-commerce project and strive to pick a platform that will help you implement aspects of your business in full

www.bmmagazine.co.uk