Wholesale Cannabis Industry News

  • Cannabis Podcast

    How to Steer Clear of Cannabis Founder Burnout With the Right Support System – John Manlove & Rob Fess Join the Silicon Valley Momentum Podcast

    John and Rob we’re excited and delighted to join Roland Siebelink of scaleupallies.com on the Silicon Valley Momentum Podcast. During the conversation, they talked about how far the wholesale cannabis industry has come, and also covered some of the challenges cultivators, extractors and dispensaries alike still face today. Further, John delved into his experiences with

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  • Wild Fires, Freak Snow Storms & More – Mother Nature’s Impact on Cannabis Businesses and the Wholesale Supply Chain

    Let’s face it, 2020 is a year we’d all like to forget. It’s been a challenge for individuals and businesses alike. Within the cannabis industry, we were fortunate enough to be deemed essential during the Covid pandemic and allowed to continue operating, albeit under different working conditions. Yet, Mother Nature has a way of fracturing

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  • Pairing Apex Trading with a Cannabis Accountant for Compliance

    Streamlining operations and establishing a brand are ideal practices for any company. But managing a cannabis business while maintaining compliance are crucial aspects of working in this industry. For day-to-day operations, Apex Trading saves cannabusiness operators hours and helps them stay organized. Between managing orders, clients, and inventory, this software makes a world of difference

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  • wholesale data for the cannabis industry

    Wholesale Cannabis Spotlight Data from Cannabis Benchmarks

    Here’s a look at the latest Wholesale Price by Grow Type for May 2020 from our partners over at Cannabis Benchmarks. “For the month of May, the Cannabis Benchmarks U.S. Spot Index averaged $1,336 per pound. May is the third consecutive month to see a downturn in the national composite price, despite reports of strong demand

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  • Instagram for cannabis

    Cannabis and Instagram – Boosting Your Social Presence

    At Apex Trading, we’ve found that wholesale cannabis businesses can gain quite a bit of exposure and a good following of their content with Instagram. What is Instagram? If you’re not familiar with Instagram it’s a free photo and video sharing app available on Apple iOS, Android and Windows Phone. With it, people and businesses

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  • Wholesale cannabis software buyers guide

    Buyer’s Guide for Selecting Wholesale Cannabis Software from our Friends at Trym

    Our friends over at Trym – a farm management software company that helps improve efficiency and consistency through precise environmental monitoring, customized task management, and data analytics – put together a great guide for selecting the right software for your wholesale cannabis business. In it you’ll find overviews of the various types of software available for

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  • Working from home

    Work-From-Home Tips for Wholesale Cannabis Industry Workers

    You have to admit, it’s kind of crazy out there right now. Yet, it’s awesome to see just how proactive the cannabis industry has been in the face of the Covid19, aka the coronavirus pandemic. Wholesale producers and their dispensary counterparts have been coming up with innovative ideas such as using grow room air filtration

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  • Cannabis Retail

    Pay to Play – The Latest Mainstream Retail Practice to Hit Wholesale Cannabis Producers

    Hot off the digital presses of Marijuana Business Daily from the mind of Margaret Jackson comes this thought-provoking piece around slotting fees for wholesale cannabis producers. We won’t spoil too many of the surprises, but it’s good to start gaining an understanding of how slotting fees work and getting them baked into your B2B cannabis business

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  • B2B cannabis software

    Why We Took a Different Approach to the Tools Needed for the Wholesale Cannabis Industry When we first jumped into the B2B cannabis software space, we were thinking like a lot of folks – build a marketplace. We had backgrounds in wholesale cannabis as well as software development. What better could we do for B2B

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  • Stay Ahead of Cannabis Testing and Win Big When the Market Shifts

    We’ve seen it happen before, in fact, a couple of times. An emerging market is starting to take off. The state hasn’t built out or required adherence to all of its compliance pieces around testing, yet. Products are flowing and it feels like this is how it will be forever, so we’re all good, living

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  • Wholesale Cannabis Insight and Learnings from Cultivators Across Multiple Markets

    Sometimes we come across an article that hits on so many important points, we can’t help but want to share it with you. This is one of those articles. The insights on controlling production costs, selling on value, operations, forming partnerships and key lessons learned for wholesale cannabis producers are worth their weight in A-bud,

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  • One In the Hand or Two In the Bush? Better Retention Adds More to the Bottom Line

    In sales, there is often an understandable drive to get new customers. But, problems arise when that drive becomes an obsession and there is a failure to invest time and resources in nurturing the customers you already have. Growth and success come from more than just landing new clients. Think of that old saying, one

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  • Wholesale Cannabis Marketplaces – The Good, Bad and Ugly

    The theme to Sergio Leone’s classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is almost as irresistible as a hot bath and a shave after weeks of drifting on the high plains. For some, that whistle is practically a siren song. The allure of an open wholesale cannabis marketplace can be just as appealing, with

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