All posts of Guillermo Bravo

The dispensary business plan is the single most important foundational document for your enterprise, and it’s one we spend a lot of time focusing on here at Foottraffik. When you’re laying out your business blueprint for partners, investors, financial officers, and other important stakeholders and collaborators, it’s your first and best opportunity to demonstrate your […]

For years, one of the biggest bogeymen hanging over the legal cannabis industry was the lack of access to basic banking services. Because lenders and financial institutions were leery of running afoul of federal anti-drug laws—so went the wisdom—dispensaries and other cannabis businesses were forced to operate on a cash-only basis. To an extent, this […]

Brutal though last year was, in retrospect 2020 will be seen as a watershed moment for the legal cannabis industry. At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, cannabis dispensaries were deemed “essential businesses,” allowing millions of Americans to retain access to their medicine (and in the process, helping cement dispensaries’ place in the retail landscape). […]

Are you experiencing abandonment issues? No, we’re not talking about the ones that compel your puppy to eat your slippers every time you leave the house. We’re talking about abandoned shopping carts on your dispensary’s ecommerce platform. They’re one of the most frustrating issues retailers can face. They’re also one of the most common—some sources […]

For those of us in the cannabis business, few topics spark more outrage and dread than an innocent-sounding string of letters and numbers: Code 280e. But the code—an ‘80s-era addition to United States tax law—is anything but innocuous. It’s the section of law that prohibits those profiting from federally scheduled substances from deducting nearly all […]