Pork and Twitter. A Great Pair!

By April on Jan 25 Filed In Austin, Texas, Food & Beverage, Social Media 1 Comment

Have you discovered the joys of winning contests via social media channels? Well, let me tell you about my latest win and maybe you’ll re-think NOT joining the world of Twitter.

Last week a local restaurant posted this on Twitter:

As a lover of both pork and Asti, I thought I’d reply.

My husband mentioned that he wanted to go have a nice dinner somewhere to celebrate a recent success but I answered sceptically due to our financial situation. Well, I had totally forgotten about the Asti Twitter contest and all of a sudden I received a tweet from them!

How cool is that? There’s the answer for our celebration dinner conundrum! A BOGO date-night that included pork. Does it get any better than that?

Yummm..porchetta from porkbelly!

Saffron risotto w/seafood in a spicy tomato sauce

So back to my original point, if you haven’t tried out the world of Twitter, do so. Follow people based on your own personal interests. I find that following local events/restaurants/entertainment/funny people/bloggers really pays off, not just for our brand but for FUN too!

Give Hope 4 Haiti in Houston

By Alexandra on Jan 21 Filed In Uncategorized 1 Comment

Sweet Leaf Tea will be participating in both of these events. Please do what you can to support the people of Haiti.

Thursday, Jan. 21 6-9 pm

Taft Street Coffee

2115 Taft St., Houston, TX

Live music from Derek Webb, David Gamboa, The 71′s and Finnegan

Friday, Jan. 22 5-9 pm

Market Street

The Woodlands, TX

Live music from Aaron Ivey, Gatlin Elms and Matt McCloskey

Tea’m Sweet Leaf Tea Rides Again!

By April on Jan 21 Filed In Activities, Austin, Texas 1 Comment

It’s that time of year again.

What time of year is THAT you ask? MS 150 time!! We have a tea’m of over 50 that will be riding in the name of CRUSHING multiple sclerosis. We have created a group on Facebook where folks like YOU can go and cheer us on! We’ll need all the love and $ we can get, as our team goal this year is $20,000!!

With the help from Austin Cycle Camp, we had our first training ride last weekend but TX weather got us again and rained it out. Todd and I headed out to ride Saturday once it cleared up and did a nice and easy-paced 21 miles. Sunday we had 4 folks from our team head south and ride about 23 miles. It was awesome but it’s only going to get better and more fun when we ride out with our big group!

Todd, Brian and Cinda resting in Buda before heading back to ATX.

Stay tuned as we’ll be posting all kinds of fun stuff related to Tea’m Sweet Leaf Tea over the next couple of months. For now, it’s time to hop back in the saddle, cus 180 miles on a bike don’t happen by itself. (I sure wish it did!!)
Have a fun training route you’d like to share for Austin or Houston? We’d love to hear about it!!

New Sweet Leaf Tea Cans Chilling at 7-Eleven Stores

By Charla on Jan 20 Filed In Food & Beverage, Sweet Leaf Tea Company News, Sweet Leaf Tea Sightings, Uncategorized 4 Comments

Yes, you might have heard us chatting up the fact that our new cans are available at 7-Eleven stores in Austin and Phoenix. We even had a Twitter contest to see who could find the new cans first. (@sugarrob, you are super quick on the draw!) As the news of these fancy new cans spread, we had several Tweeps and FB fans asking, “Where can I find those cans?”

Sweet Leaf Peach Iced Tea 16 oz. Can

Well, I finally have an answer. At least for some of you…

As of last week, we found out that our cans will now be available in 935 7-Eleven stores in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Las Vegas and Arizona. That’s a whole lot of sweet goodness spreading across the states and a whole lot of opportunities for y’all to get your hands on those cans. Think of all the road trips you’ll now be able to go on knowing that Sweet Leaf Tea will be available along the route to keep you fueled for your journey. Oh, yes. Indeed, thank heaven for 7-Eleven.

Now for the rest of you who are still looking to find Sweet Leaf Tea cans at your local convenience store, I have a pretty good solution. Just click on the request form here and remember cans come in four delicious flavors (Original, Mint & Honey, Peach and Raspberry)…as of right now.

New 16oz. Sweet Leaf Tea Cans Now Chilling at 7-Eleven

449,000 Ounces of Tea & Donations for Haiti

By Charla on Jan 19 Filed In Austin, Texas, Sweet Consumers, Sweet Leaf Tea Company News, Sweet Leaf Tea Sightings, Uncategorized 1 Comment

So how much is 449,000 ounces of tea? Well, enough to fill up an 18-wheeler. And that’s how much we donated to Feed the Children who was looking for food and supplies for Haiti.

Closer to home as Danny mentioned Monday, we were able to set up a table in front of Dominican Joe Coffee Shop along-side the Peace Peddler herself, Jamie Josephs to offer people one of our new 16 oz cans in exchange for a donation of ANY size! The Haiti Disaster Relief Fundraiser was put on by the kind folks at Markarios. Danny and April had the booth set up from before 11AM until around 3:30 and in that amount of time we raised around $350! That’s a lot of cans, I tell you what!

Sweet Leaf Tea 16oz Cans for Haiti Relief Donations

Check out the footage from KXAN (our local NBC affiliate) and Fox 7 News! I think that the people of Austin really came out to show their support and I hope that in 6 months when this issue seems like a distant memory, that we are still sharing much-needed aide with the people of Haiti.