Kaya Cast

As a dispensary owner, you need different technology and softwares to help you with all your daily operations, like your sales and your inventory management, and even your security.

Cannabis Technology helps you manage your people and streamline operations, which saves you time and money.

Today, we want to talk about the top six dispensary technologies that you need to run a growing cannabis store.

Our top 6 Cannabis Technologies are:

Haley Glover is the Senior Security Consultant at Sapphire Risk Advisory Group and has over a decade of experience in the security industry.

Haley shares her insights into everything SECURITY and CANNABIS. From setting up security when you first apply for your application to ongoing security training with your employees and really working as a team to make sure that your cannabis retail location is secure.

Cannabis security risks also include cybersecurity and internal theft protection cameras. She goes through all of it today on the show, and we're so excited to talk to Haley and really just learn from their expertise in this field.

If you wanna find out more about Sapphire and the work they're doing, or maybe you want Sapphire to come and help you as you either launch or grow your dispensary visit:

In today's episode, we're gonna talk about five ways dispensary owners can retain great employees and keep them engaged.

Engaged employees are going to be happy employees and happy employees don't want to leave.  They will be committed to the business. But it's not just finding good employees because that's only half the battle. It's keeping them. That's what the dispensaries are struggling with.

Our 5 tips for retaining great employees are:

David Thomas is the CEO & Founder of Budsense and the Co-Founder of Douglasdale Cannabis in Calgary, AB Canada.

In this episode of podcast we talk with David Thomas about infusing joy and delight into the customer experience of buying cannabis. This means helping your cannabis retail business sell the experience with knowledge and insights into the industry. Through training, digital and analog signage, and the overall layout of your store, you can tell a story to every customer that walks into your store.

Budsense makes selling weed easy. Build Better Menus and Sell More Weed. BudSense is a paper and digital Cannabis menu and marketing platform for retail cannabis store operators. To find out more about Budsense check out:

In today's episode, we're gonna look at five tips that dispensary owners can use today, to make your profits go up and through the roof.

The growth and sustainability of a cannabis dispensary depends on a delicate balance of revenue vs. expenses. Turning a healthy profit can be difficult with all of the costs in launch and scaling a cannabis business.

Our 5 tips for increasing your profits are:

Naomi Granger, is the only CPA to have been featured in The Wall Street Journal for her unique approach to helping accounting professionals expand their practice to support the legal Cannabis industry.   She’s provided her support, consulting, and business development skills to over 600 accounting professionals across the United States.

In this episode of the podcast Naomi helps cannabis retailers decode the confusing world of accounting, taxes, and cash when it comes to running a successful cannabis retail operation. Knowing your product, knowing the industry, and surrounding yourself with experts in the cannabis industry are essential to growth of your cannabis retail location. 

Feel free to reach out to Naomi and anyone at NACAT about what they're doing and to make sure that your business is compliant and going on the right track.

Find out more about Naomi Granger and the National Association of Cannabis Accounting and Tax Professionals:

We all know that marketing is an essential aspect of business, but when it comes to marketing and cannabis you need to learn how to be a Ninja Marketer 🥷  

From social media to email marketing we give you some inside tips to help you improve your marketing and grow your business.

Mike Wilson is the Founder and President of Temeka Group. He utilizes his strong leadership and management skills to oversee the job, from design to installation.

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Today, we have an amazing in depth conversation with Mike Wilson, the founder of Temeka Group and AnamiTech. Mike has been in the business for 31 years working to build everything from the Lakers fan store to huge cannabis retail stores. And Mike shares some insights for someone that might be wanting to create their own cannabis dispensary or retail store. He talks about how important the layout of your store is to customer experience, customer service, security.

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He gives some insights on how you can use technology to really leverage your brand. And some creative things that Temeka Group is doing to help with compliance and give that customer experience a whole new level of just fun and delight, really for a customer, walking into a cannabis retail store to interact with the product in a brand new way.

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Find out more at:

• Mike Wilson
• Temeka Group
• Anamitech

How do you get started opening your dream dispensary? It takes hard work, money, and a dream. 

In this episode of the Kaya Cast Podcast we discuss some of the basics in opening a dispensary including costs, franchising and more. We also share insights into how much money you can make as a dispensary owner. 

Plus, we dive into software solutions to help you launch and grow your thriving cannabis retail store. 

Chris Lara heads up the Product and Business Development at GreenSpace Pro and is a Strategic Advisor to the Temeka Group.   

In this episode of the podcast we chat with Chris Lara from GreenSpacePro about what it takes to start an efficient and compliant dispensary. We also chat about the challenges facing cannabis retailers and how implementing a project management solution from the beginning of your business will help you grow and succeed in the cannabiz!   

Find out more about GreenSpacePro at: https://www.greenspacepro.com