Another “new” item you may or may not have noticed…we are on Facebook. You can find us by clicking the link here, or by searching for ThirsTea Beverages. As of today, we have 606 “likes”. I’m hoping to get to 1000, and am putting together a little contest to help achieve that goal. I’ll have more information posted here (on the site) and on our Facebook page within the next few days.

For those of you visiting the site from the foodservice industry, especially for those operators who do event catering (either on-site or off), if you don’t already subscribe, please check out Catersource Magazine. We’ve been advertising there for about a year, and besides being nice people, their magazine actually ROCKS. There is always some useful trade information, but some of the recipes they print are actually worth the cost of a subscription. I just got the most recent issue, and there is a recipe for Roasted Vegetable Cheesecake. It looks even better than it sounds, and I can’t wait to make it.

For those individuals who are visiting the site because of our sugar-free products and the work we’ve done with the American Diabetes Association, we welcome you too. Many of you have heard (or read) me tell of the “at-home” product line…well guess what? We’ve done it. The production run was completed. The product was bottled, labeled and packed. It’s in transit to our Florida offices, where we will fulfill your order and sample requests. We will be adding these items to our online store and sending our sales force out to secure retailers across the country.

Send us an email and let us know where you think we should be sold in your neighborhood, or click on our coupon and bring it in to your local retailer and ask them to carry the ThirsTea™ line of sugar-free products.

Thanks to everyone who has reached out to us electronically and/or verbally over the last few months. We appreciate your support and your VERY kind words regarding our products.

If you’ve got a flavor you would like us to try…no matter how exotic…let us know. Just drop us a quick email.

Thanks!
-Ray

Now that we’ve got your attention! For all those who stopped by our booth at Catersource in Las Vegas, “Thank you!”  Your comments and feedback are very much appreciated, and we’ll work on some of the flavors you suggested.

Speaking of “new”…our new iced tea labels are printed and headed to our production facility.  Obviously it is going to take us some time to work the new label into distribution, but our next production run will be under the new label.  We are VERY excited (if you couldn’t tell).  And, in case you missed it previously, here is the link to view our new label design.

We have just finalized our annual participation with the American Diabetes Association.  We will be attending several of the regional expo’s they conduct throughout the year.  We are exhibiting at the following locations, where we will be serving our iced tea and sugar-free beverages: Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Arkansas, and Minneapolis.  For more information on the ADA, or the regional expos, click here to get to their website.

Besides the new look for our 4oz bottles, we are also getting ready to launch an “at-home” version of our product.  Instead of a 3-gallon yield, we have developed a product that will yield 64oz…easily made in any half-gallon container.  Our hope is to make it easier for customers to enjoy our great tasting flavors at home.  Look for more information on our “at-home” products a little later this month.

The “content” for our new website is nearly finished.  We will be beta-testing the site over the next few weeks.  We hope to be “live” starting next month.  There will be more useful information, and it should be an easier site to navigate.

BTW…FREE SHIPPING…if you are ordering from our on-line store, our prices include shipping costs.  We typically ship by UPS ground, unless you provide us only a PO box (then we ship USPS).  We clarify this in the new site, but have had several questions over the last few weeks and wanted to clear it up.

As always, if you have any questions feel free to contact us.  You can get us by phone or email…here’s all our contact info.  Follow us on Twitter @ThirsTeaCorp.  And look for us VERY soon on Facebook.