When my cannabis dispensary was faltering a friend of mine highly recommended hiring a marijuana business consultant.
Apparently cannabis consultants can come into a business and identify what areas are a problem; they can help save a dispensary money by trimming unnecessary costs and expanding in needed areas.
Well I didn’t hunt very far for a cannabis consultant. I just hired the first name I saw on google. He was cheap and available the right way. Well you get what you pay for. The guy turned out to be just a total leech. He collected his money and really wasn’t worth anything. He mainly walked around my store and chatted with budtenders. His big advice was just to move my products around the store. What was that going to do? I only ended up using him for a month. I debated on trying a new marijuand consultant for sometime. I finally caved and actually read reviews on each one. I found a cannabis consultant that had actual experience in the industry, is native to the area and works with a whole team of marijuana business experts. This cannabis consulting service was so much better. My marijuana consultant wanted to see my books. He then checked out all my paperwork, operating systems and even looked at the company website. He told me my issue was the marketing side of my business. He got in touch with an SEO company and got my website ranking higher on google. After that, I started getting more orders and customers coming in. He really knew his stuff.