What if I was a Budtender at your dispensary?

Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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You have to have some form of presence in your town besides your actual location. First, posters, go to Kinko's and print out a hundred copies of posters with your dispensary logo, name, and some deals that you will have going on for at least a month, if not longer. Because people may see these posters WAY late. So, put them on light poles, telephone poles, and on boards where people leave business cards at Wal-Mart, Gas stations or Government buildings such as the post office, library or town hall. If you can afford more advertising, make t-shirts, it doesn't matter how many, just hand them out to a few family members and friends. I'm sure they would love to brag about how their friend works for a dispensary. And if you have enough money, lighters, that is the best tool for Marijuana advertising. Everyone is willing to accept a free one, and if you don't want to give to many away, just give them away with purchases of $50+
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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We all get them (the lower buds that don't quite get as dense as you'd like) , and if you're a dispensary, I'm sure you have trouble getting rid of them. A good way to increase customer satisfaction, as well as membership is to offer your popcorn buds (in a mix, so call it a "salad" of mixed strains) at a discounted rate in comparison to your nice buds. Between $20-75 less depending on the quality of the batch. That way no one is disappointed when they get popcorn buds, and people will actually come in for more.
 
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minnesmoker

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I've pondered this question since you first posted it... I am not going to read 9 pages of you being ... well, you. Instead, I'll answer your question.

I'd be happily unaware, until such time as you made it known. Then, I'd avoid you, if that became an impossibility, I'd bring you a "sample" from a competitor, and offer to smoke with you. It would actually be a bud lightly seasoned with arsenic, and water cured for a few hours in anti-freeze. I'd personally beg off, after you took 2 or 3 rips, telling you that I had to drive, and asking you what you thought. I'd take my pipe, leave, and come back again, to deal with your replacement, a much more amicable and knowledgeable budsmith.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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You NEED to have clones, and you need your patients to not only know you have those clones, but they need to SEE those clones. You need a T5 bulb outside, on a bookshelf or some kind of rack, with clones growing, each marked with a strain, or each shelf marked with a strain. People are more likely to buy a clone they can see. And honestly, clones should be no more than $10, $15 if you REALLY can't go lower.
 
Metasynth

Metasynth

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Balzac89 said:
Meta is it cool to tell people you would choke them out?
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Might not be 'cool', but the truth hurts. You think it's cool to censor honesty? It wasn't a personal threat, it was a response to a hypothetical question.

I didn't insult the op, I simply answered the question posted in the title of this thread.
 
ClaytonBigsby

ClaytonBigsby

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Is finspammy's much anticipated (sarcasm) update simply his ideas for marketing for a dispensary? THAT'S it?!?!?!? Basic concepts in marketing are his brainstorm?

I think dispensaries are pretty simple. If you build it, THEY will come.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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This is my first real post. If you want to get more members, you have to make a fine line between members and non-members. Pricing and a daily special are a good start, but that's not what is going to make or break someone's decision about signing over their plant count. You need CLEAR members benefits.

(1) Trim should be offered to members $25 an oz.

(2) When you are almost out of buds in a jar, and it's starting to look flaky with tiny nugs, take that jar and dumb it into some trim from the plant it came from, call it "strain specific trim" and sell it to members for $50-$100 per oz, depending on trim to nug ratio.

(3) Popcorn should be something members can buy, for a discounted price in comparison to your regular buds.

(4) Pre-weighed 8ths. Every dispensary loses money after harvest during the curing process, when the bud dries. So to save some money, take 1oz from every strain, and but it into "pre-weighed" 8th bags, or jars. If you have enough bud, take another oz of ea strain and make pre-weighed g's. Now, you sell those for cheaper, BUT as they lose weight, they do not lose value. You just tell them, "This was weighed 3 weeks ago, and weed dries out"

(5) Member appreciation day, this is important. Once a month, or at least 2 times a year, you need a day where your members can come in and get $20 eighths, or $150 ozs along with a free edible with any purchase. This is the BEST way to get members.

(6) People who sign over their plants to you NEED compensation when they put pen to paper. Most acceptable would be an edible, or at the very least a pre-roll, if not store credit. Some dispensaries even offer an 8th for $5 one time every month for people who sign over, meaning some people may sign over for the $5 8th, then never come back till they come for another 8th, but you get to grow 6 more plants.

(7) Holiday specials are a MUST for members.

(8) "Happy hour" (x$ off, or buy 2 get one) for drinks is the BEST way to get people to try your sodas. Especially people who never have had a medical soda before

(9) A Prize wheel is not a must, but it definitely helps. And allowing members to spin it upon sign up is a good gimmick, plus if you do something like "After 8 visits" or "After $100 spent" you get to spin it again, people would be more inclined to visit. Or a hole punch card or stamp can work to the same effect
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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This doesn't even seem like a big deal, but when a patient sees you chop a stem off of their nug, and set it aside, THEN weigh out their bag, they feel like you are looking out for them. Plus you can use them stems to make butter or oil for edibles.
 
Figong

Figong

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Shouldn't need to be chopped, if you can't break it off with your hands.. whoever did the curing fucked it up immensely... which begs the question, why not hang the whole plant upside down, cut the roots off.. then fake it? When it's time, put the plant into a planter, cover the base w/dirt.. and act like you're picking right off the plant.. for that 'fresh off the branch' taste? .. seriously.
 
ClaytonBigsby

ClaytonBigsby

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Talk about anticlimactic....


Oh well, dance MFers!!!

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