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Cannacurio Podcast Episode 56 with Lisa Buffo of Cannabis Marketing Association

Cannacurio Podcast Episode 56 with Lisa Buffo of Cannabis Marketing Association

On this Cannacurio episode, Ed and Lisa Buffo of the Cannabis Marketing Association discuss how she got her start in marketing, why she decided to start CMA, the benefits of being a member, their awards program, and so much more!

Why Email Marketing is Essential to the Cannabis Industry and How to Leverage It for Profits

Why Email Marketing is Essential to the Cannabis Industry and How to Leverage It for Profits

Email marketing presents a significant opportunity for cannabis and ancillary businesses at a time when many traditional and digital marketing tactics are out of bounds or highly restricted for the cannabis industry. Research has repeatedly shown that email marketing works. According to Litmus, for every $1 spent on email marketing, businesses receive $42 in return, and McKinsey found that email marketing is 40x more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook and Twitter combined. 

How to Write Email Messages that People Actually Read

How to Write Email Messages that People Actually Read

If you’re not sending the right email message to your audience, they won’t read it. Even worse – they could unsubscribe from your email marketing list, which means you’ll lose the chance to engage with them and turn them into paying customers in the future!

Research Finds Marijuana Advertising Prevalent in Oregon - But It's Still Not Easy

Research Finds Marijuana Advertising Prevalent in Oregon - But It's Still Not Easy

While more than half of Americans can access either medical or recreational marijuana (or both) in their home states, that doesn’t mean it’s easy for marijuana companies to spread the word about their products and services.

Marketing Challenges in the Marijuana Industry

Marketing Challenges in the Marijuana Industry

For businesses in the marijuana industry, the list of marketing challenges that have to be overcome in order to raise awareness, recognition, sales, and loyalty for brands and products is very long. As part of a highly regulated industry, ...

Hot Topics in the Cannabis Industry in 2018

Hot Topics in the Cannabis Industry in 2018

For the cannabis industry, 2018 was filled with change. Along with conversations about decriminalization, legalization, taxes, and banking, people were talking about California, Canada, and which states would approve recreational marijuana next.

Big Businesses Force Small Businesses out of the Marijuana Market

Big Businesses Force Small Businesses out of the Marijuana Market

Signs of big businesses taking over the marijuana industry have been visible for quite a while with oligopoly conditions developing in states like Florida and Texas as early as mid-2017. Given the fact that the marijuana market is expected to grow ...

Marijuana Advertising Rules Challenge California Businesses

Marijuana Advertising Rules Challenge California Businesses

Since recreational marijuana became available for purchase in California in January 2018, the number of licensed marijuana businesses in the state has exploded giving more people access to marijuana products than ever before.

5 Email Marketing Messages Marijuana Retailers Should Be Sending

5 Email Marketing Messages Marijuana Retailers Should Be Sending

For marijuana retailers, email marketing is essential. By building your list of email subscribers (and using a tool that allows you to send marijuana-related content to them), you can increase sales and customer loyalty among audiences who want to hear from you.

10 Reasons Your Email Marketing Messages Don’t Get to Your Recipients

10 Reasons Your Email Marketing Messages Don’t Get to Your Recipients

As a marijuana-related business, email marketing can be challenging because most email marketing application providers don’t allow users to send messages related in any way to marijuana. Fortunately, Cannabiz Media solved that problem by ...

The Trouble with Email Marketing for Marijuana Businesses

The Trouble with Email Marketing for Marijuana Businesses

Given the many restrictions that marijuana and marijuana-related businesses face when trying to promote their brands, products, and services, it would seem that email marketing is a great option for these businesses. Every state’s laws are different, ...

5 Proven Marijuana Marketing and Advertising Ideas that Work

5 Proven Marijuana Marketing and Advertising Ideas that Work

Since marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, marijuana companies face a long list of marketing challenges that businesses in other industries don’t have to think about. The good news is that these advertising obstacles aren’t insurmountable.

Marijuana Advertising Rules: Challenging but Not Insurmountable

Marijuana Advertising Rules: Challenging but Not Insurmountable

Marijuana-related businesses have a problem. It’s extremely challenging to market and advertise their products and services because marijuana is still considered a Schedule 1 drug. In other words, advertising products and services ...