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Selling Merch and Packaging Online: Pages and Photos
Your mugs, totes, and tins sit next to your coffee like an afterthought, dark photos and a vague product name included. Here is a fixed pattern that gives merch pages the same care your coffee gets.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read


Cold Brew and Ready to Drink Product Pages and Schema
Your cold brew cans deserve their own product page, not a copy of your coffee bag template. Here is how to answer the real buying questions and mark the page up correctly.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Where to Buy Page: Help Customers Find Your Coffee
A roaster whose bags sit on grocery shelves and gift shop counters needs one clear page telling customers where to find them. Here is how to build it as a service first and a search page second.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Wholesale Portal SEO: What to Index and What to Hide
A wholesale portal is not either fully public or fully hidden. A public landing page should be indexed, account and order pages should be kept out of search, and price lists sit in between.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Speed Up a Photo Heavy Roaster Site: Images and Apps
Full size hero photos and one script heavy app can slow a roaster site more than everything else combined. Measure first, then fix in that order.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Moving a Roaster Site to Shopify Without Losing Search: Steps
You have already decided to move your bag store to Shopify for the shipping and subscription tools. The real risk is not the decision. It is losing the pages Google already knows through broken redirects and changed URLs.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Certification Pages for Organic, Fair Trade and B Corp: Proof
A row of logos with no explanation tells a customer nothing. A certification page should say who certifies, what exactly is covered, and where anyone can go check, so the claim stands up to a second look.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read


Equipment on a Roaster Site: Affiliate Links or Your Own?
Customers keep asking what grinder or kettle to buy. Before stocking equipment yourself, there is a simpler first step most small roasters skip straight past.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Seasonal Gift Guide Pages That Return Each Year
A lot of roasters build a gift guide every holiday season and then let it quietly vanish once January hits. Keeping one page alive year after year, instead of starting over, is the simpler and steadier choice.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read


What Emails Should a Roaster Send? Restock to Win Back
One newsletter a month, or none, misses the messages that actually matter. Coffee is a repeat purchase with a natural rhythm, and a few automated flows do more work than another campaign.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Should a Roaster Sell on Amazon? Marketplace Pros and Cons
A marketplace hands you shoppers who already start there, and takes the customer relationship in exchange. Here is a five minute decision rule and a comparison covering brand control, customer data, freshness and effort.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


What a Shipping Page Should Say to Cut Cart Drop Off
A shopper adds a bag of beans to the cart, then leaves. Most of the time the reason is unanswered questions about shipping. Here is exactly what a shipping page needs to say, and where.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Wholesale Sample Program for a Roaster: Offer and Follow Up
Sample requests either get answered with too much free coffee or answered too slowly, and nobody follows up either way. Here is how to build a small, planned program instead.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Common Roaster Website Mistakes and How to Fix Them
What roaster websites actually get wrong, measured from a national census of more than 1,000 shops, not guessed at. Every pattern here comes with a denominator and a fix.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Partner Cafe Pages: Where Customers Can Drink Your Coffee
Customers keep asking where they can actually drink your coffee, and today the answer lives in an Instagram story or nowhere. A partner cafe page is a local landing page that helps customers, partners, and search all at once.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


What Should a Roaster Blog About? Fifty Topics and Priorities
Fifty topics for a roaster's blog, grouped by purpose, with the three to write first. Start with the pages that answer buying questions, not brewing trivia.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read


How Local Roasters Compete With National Brands
A local roaster does not beat a national brand on reach or price. It wins on things a national brand cannot copy: a place, a roast date, a named person and proof anyone can check.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Brew Guides That Sell the Bag: Linking Guides to Products
You wrote a good pour over guide. People read it. Almost nobody buys the bag it was actually written for. Here is how to fix that without turning the guide into a sales pitch.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read


Collecting and Showing Reviews for Coffee Bags
A roaster with no reviews on a bag page, or a single lonely import from an old app, has a fixable problem. Here is how to ask for reviews honestly, display them where they help, and mark them up correctly.

Thomas Garner
Oct 711 min read


Should You Show Roast Dates on Bags and Product Pages?
A roast date is not a risk to hide. It is proof you stand behind freshness, and showing it alongside a resting note handles the fact that coffee is not always best the day it ships.

Jacob Mishalanie
Oct 711 min read
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