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Instagram Marketing for Cannabis Businesses and Cannabis-Related Businesses

Instagram Marketing for Cannabis Businesses and Cannabis-Related Businesses

Content published by businesses on Instagram can directly lead to increased brand awareness, word-of-mouth marketing, and sales. In fact, Audience Project’s 2020 Insights report revealed that Instagram is now the most popular social media platform for people to follow brands.

10 Skills Your B2B Trade Show Exhibit Team Needs to Be Successful

10 Skills Your B2B Trade Show Exhibit Team Needs to Be Successful

To generate a positive return on your trade show investments and maximize sales from your exhibit, you need to have the right people at your exhibit booth. Not everyone has the right personality or skills to excel working a trade show booth. While you can’t change a person’s personality, you can help your team learn the skills they need to be successful at every trade show.

5 Hacks to Maximize Sales from Your B2B Trade Show Exhibit

5 Hacks to Maximize Sales from Your B2B Trade Show Exhibit

To maximize sales from your trade show exhibit at business-to-business (B2B) cannabis industry events, you need to know the tricks that are effective today. The five “hacks” discussed in this article can make the difference between just collecting business cards and actually attracting viable leads for your company that drive a positive return on your investment. 

Facebook Marketing for Cannabis Businesses and Cannabis-Related Businesses

Facebook Marketing for Cannabis Businesses and Cannabis-Related Businesses

Is it worth the time and effort to publish content on Facebook when the rules are so murky and seem to vary from one cannabis business to another or one post to another? The answer for most businesses in the marijuana industry is yes, but with a great deal of caution.

Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Industry B2B Event Lead Follow-up for Sales

Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Industry B2B Event Lead Follow-up for Sales

Trade shows, conferences, and events offer excellent opportunities for business-to-business (B2B) companies operating in and with the cannabis industry to generate new leads. But what do you do with those leads when you get back to the office? 

Social Media Sales Tactics for B2B Audiences in the Cannabis Industry

Social Media Sales Tactics for B2B Audiences in the Cannabis Industry

Today, social media is a valuable channel for sales outreach and lead nurturing – to generate brand awareness and build relationships that lead to sales. Here are some of the key ways to integrate social media into your B2B sales tactics.

B2B Social Selling in the Cannabis Industry – Tips and Best Practices

B2B Social Selling in the Cannabis Industry – Tips and Best Practices

Social selling is critical for companies to reach their sales and revenue goals. According to LinkedIn, social selling leaders generate 45% more sales opportunities and are 51% more likely to reach their sales quotas. In fact, 78% of companies that use social selling outperform companies that do not use social selling.

Twitter Cannabis Advertising for B2B and B2C

Twitter Cannabis Advertising for B2B and B2C

On February 14, 2023, Twitter became the first major social media platform to allow cannabis advertising for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) brands and companies. In an announcement published on the Twitter website, the company said it had relaxed its cannabis ads policy in certain U.S. states to create more opportunities for responsible cannabis marketing.

How to Create a B2B Sales Strategy in the Cannabis Industry and Measure Your Success

How to Create a B2B Sales Strategy in the Cannabis Industry and Measure Your Success

Creating a B2B sales strategy in the cannabis industry, developing a plan to execute the strategy, and measuring success can be challenging. The factors and tips discussed in this article will help you create a strategy that works for your business.

How to Use the Cannabiz Media License Database as a One-Person Sales Team

How to Use the Cannabiz Media License Database as a One-Person Sales Team

The Cannabiz Media License Database is filled with cannabis and hemp industry leads to fill your sales pipeline, but if you’re a one-person sales team, it can be challenging to prioritize your efforts and get the best results. If that describes you, then you’re in luck because this article introduces you to tips to use the Cannabiz Media License Database effectively when you don’t have a team to help you.

Proven Ways to Segment Your Email List and Boost Results

Proven Ways to Segment Your Email List and Boost Results

Email marketing is one of the best ways to connect with cannabis and hemp license holders and businesses. However, if you’re not effectively segmenting your email list in order to send the most relevant marketing messages and offers, your results will suffer.

Building an Email Marketing Funnel for Sales

Building an Email Marketing Funnel for Sales

Not everyone is ready to buy from you at the moment they receive your email marketing message. That’s a fundamental truth that you need to accept or your email marketing initiatives will never deliver the results your business wants and needs. It’s also why creating email marketing funnels designed to move prospects from being unaware of your brand to being ready to buy are critical to your success.

How to Use Lead Scoring to Increase Sales

How to Use Lead Scoring to Increase Sales

For a business to maximize revenue and profits, the sales team has to use its time strategically. Lead scoring is one of the most effective ways to enable every salesperson to optimize their time and focus on the leads that are most likely to convert into sales. 

How to Find and Sell to Your Hottest Leads with Email Marketing

How to Find and Sell to Your Hottest Leads with Email Marketing

Research shows at least 50% of your leads are not a good fit for the product or service you’re selling. In fact, only 25% of your leads are good enough to actually advance to a sale. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean your lead generation process is broken.

Ultimate Guide to B2B Email Marketing in the Cannabis Industry

Ultimate Guide to B2B Email Marketing in the Cannabis Industry

To help you improve your email marketing results, this article provides a compilation of tips and links that – when read completely – gives you a comprehensive guide to B2B email marketing in the cannabis industry. If you want to up your email marketing game, everything you need to get started is included in this ultimate guide.

How B2B Email Marketing is Different for the Cannabis Industry

How B2B Email Marketing is Different for the Cannabis Industry

While there are many fundamentals of B2B email marketing that don’t differ from one industry to another, there are some nuances that you need to know to successfully promote your cannabis or cannabis-related business. 

How to Write a Business Plan for the Cannabis Industry

How to Write a Business Plan for the Cannabis Industry

If you want to get a cannabis license or money to fund a business working in or with the cannabis industry, then you need a business plan. But not just any plan will do. You need an amazing business plan to stand out in the cannabis industry.

10 Factors that Determine a Cannabis Entrepreneur’s Success or Failure

10 Factors that Determine a Cannabis Entrepreneur’s Success or Failure

The cannabis industry in the United States may be facing challenges, but it’s still growing. That means there are many opportunities to join the industry either as a plant-touching or ancillary business, and savvy entrepreneurs continue to seek ways to cash in on that growth. 

B2B Email Marketing Trends for the Cannabis Industry in 2023

B2B Email Marketing Trends for the Cannabis Industry in 2023

The secret to successful B2B email marketing in 2023 will come down to strategy and adding value. This is true in the cannabis industry just as it is in other industries. Email users receive so many messages each day that the days of sending one sales message after another are over. In 2023, successful email marketing will require a more strategic approach that meets recipients where they are in the buyer journey. 

Sales and Marketing Strategies to Boost End-of-Year Sales in a Declining Market

Sales and Marketing Strategies to Boost End-of-Year Sales in a Declining Market

Businesses operating in and with the cannabis industry face a long list of challenges as the industry and the economy struggle, but consecutive years of declining cannabis sales shouldn’t mean your business can’t close sales before the year ends. There are marketing strategies you can use right now to boost end-of-year sales in a declining market.