Dan Berman joins a who's who list of cannabis industry executives who have been interviewed on the Elevate Your Grind, a cannabis podcast presented by Cannabis LAB. Dan Berman recently joined Elevate Your Grind host, Todd Rosales, for a conversation around the National and Global cannabis industry. View the full video podcast here. https://youtu.be/XLWak9z8Bx4
By Peter Pitts, CannabisBPO Advisory Board Member Last week the FDA issued its most recent thinking on CBD: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-advances-work-related-cannabidiol-products-focus-protecting-public-health-providing-market Under the title, “FDA Advances Work Related to Cannabidiol Products with Focus on Protecting Public Health, Providing Market Clarity,” it was, to anyone paying attention, a regulatory finger-wag to a still-nascent industry that still just doesn’t [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO Post originally featured as a GUEST BLOG for CannaTech: https://www.canna-tech.co/cannatech-sponsors-take-to-the-page/guest-blog-cannabis-bpo-2/ "Think globally, act locally" rings very true for the cannabis industry as cannabis expands online across the globe, a vast number of products are not allowed to be sourced or sold outside of their growing [...]
By Dan Berman, CEO and Founder at CannabisBPO "Here is your prescription for Percocet, now fill it as often as you like, but don’t exceed this number of milligrams in a given month." Can you imagine a pain doctor giving a patient such alarming advice? Of course not, this would never happen in the majority [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO Iwas recently having dinner with a group of friends at an industry conference. Somehow, we began discussing currency, specifically about people who draw or write on dollars. It sounds boring, but actually, what happened next was far from it. I had no idea about the [...]
This week marks the release of the world's first data science textbook for the hemp and cannabis industry -- an essential reference for anyone in our quickly evolving market. Markets with Memory, written by business strategist, data scientist and economic historian Nima Veiseh, guides the reader through a riveting narrative that demonstrates how data touches [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO "Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” (Seth Godin) The cannabis industry must continually anticipate, and advance our customers' needs. We need to design products that serve all of our customers. Although not exploited by Hollywood’s fiction machine, cannabis consumers vary [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." (Confucius) In 2007, Colgate-Palmolive Co. warned counterfeit “Colgate” toothpaste that may contain a toxic chemical, diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze, had been found in stores in the United [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO The cannabis industry started as the inverse of normal business sectors. Cannabis was not a product that the industry needed to “sell” the benefits to potential consumers, it had an existing customer base already served by the illicit market. With expanded legalization, there are now [...]
By Marshall Ogen, Vice President of Business Strategy at CannabisBPO I had an interesting conversation the other day regarding the differences between adult-use and medicinal use of cannabis. An acquaintance was relaying their story of going to a concert with a friend and how cannabis played a role. One of the concert goers had a [...]
