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Tea shop giveaway winner thrilled
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Starting Thursday, the Urban Tea Party in Virginia-Highlands will have a new seller — Sherolyn Sellers.
Last month, inspired by Oprah Winfrey’s “Pay It Forward” campaign, local businesswoman and WSB-AM newscaster Lisa Campbell decided to “give away” her business.
After we wrote about it in Buzz and she posted the offer online at urbanteaparty.com, Campbell received 457 one-page business proposals from prospective tea sellers.
But Campbell says Seller’s plan sold her immediately.
“In one page, she successfully conveyed everything I needed to know,” Campbell told Buzz Wednesday. “I mean, this girl had it down to a bar graph charting her monthly expenses. And they were right on target, too!”
Sellers, a Stone Mountain resident who holds an MBA and who is currently employed in corporate America as a project manager, is thrilled at being selected.
“I just asked myself, if this were my baby and I had opened this business, what types of things would I want to say?,” Seller told us of her business plan. “I went into Urban Tea Party and literally drank in the atmosphere. It’s a place that’s educating people on tea and it’s also incredibly community minded.”
This Saturday and Sunday, Sellers will hold a meet-and-greet at the shop (located at 636 North Highland Ave.) to get to know her new customers and neighbors. Campbell has already received an Evite invitation to the soiree.
But she had some shopping to do first.
“I need to find one of those big red bows that folks put on those cars they give as presents,” Campbell said. “I want one to put on the door.”
As for our obvious follow-up, Seller assured us that Campbell will receive a discount when she comes in.
“Are you kidding?!” she said. “This woman has impacted and changed my life. Of course, she’s getting a discount!”
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