How To Open a Vape Store
Why Vape Shops Should Be Using Billboards
Vape Is Big Business As of 2014, there were an estimated 35,000 vape shops in the United States and this number is expected to be much larger today. The global vapor product market is estimated to be worth around $22.6 billion as of 2018 compared to just $4.2 billion in 2013. This indicates more than…
Read MoreUltimate Tech Stack For Your Vape Shop
Whether you’re opening a new vape shop or working hard to grow your existing store, there’s no need to do it alone. There are many tech tools on the market to help you manage and improve your business these days, and it doesn’t make sense to just ignore them.
Instead, find out what they are and use them to your advantage so your vape shop is as successful as you want it to be. Here’s what you need to know if you’re ready to use technology to grow your vape shop.
Read MoreHow To Pick The Best Wholesale Company For Your Vape Shop
Purchasing products for your vape shops is one of the most critical elements of running a successful business. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most daunting tasks that you will encounter.
When I took on the responsibility of ordering product for our shop 4 years ago, there were very few wholesale companies serving the market. Today, there are hundreds! So how do you figure out who to do business with, and what to avoid?
To order from US based wholesalers, or directly from China?
Read More5 Starter Kits That Won Customers In 2017
VapingZone, a leading E-Cig store in the USA, provided their list of top starter kits for new vapers from 2017. This article is a great resource for your shop sales staff and should give you good ideas on what new vapers are looking for in a starter kit.
Read MoreDouble Your Vape Shop Revenue With This ONE Proven Concept
As a vape shop owner, you should have passion for what you do, especially since your love of the industry is one factor in your long-term success. But you can’t run your business purely on passion; you need to know how to make money from your shop, too.
Based on our experience with this industry, about 80 percent of the vape shops out there will probably be gone in a few years. If you want your shop to be among the last ones standing, you need to have some inside knowledge on how to ramp up revenue, and we have the information you need.
Read MoreVape Shop Marketing From A Millennial Shop Owner
Alex Boyd is a successful vape shop owner who has “millennial secrets” of the digital marketing age. As a featured guest at our “Vape Shop Master Summit” from June of 2016, he offered tips of the trade for almost every aspect of marketing a successful vape shop.
Read MoreBest Desktop Vaporizers To Stock In Your Vape Shop
Although portable vaporizers have become the focus for many vape shops, there’s still a very dedicated niche market and steady demand for desktop vaporizers.
And with good reason:
Desktop vaporizers are extremely powerful, are more reliable and are more versatile than portable vaporizers.
Anyone who only vapes from the privacy of his/her own home, anyone who vapes mostly in group-/party-settings, or anyone who uses marijuana medically, will be highly interested in a desktop vaporizer.
So even though the portable vaporizer industry is evolving at a faster rate, desktop vaporizers are here to stay.
Therefore, stocking up at least a few popular and high-quality desktop vaporizers, will do wonders for your vape shop.
And today you’re going to learn how to pick which desktop vaporizers to stock up in your shop.
Read MoreThe 5 Minute Vape Industry MBA
Read this if you want to skip MBA school and go right into the vape industry.
Look, I have an MBA. I wish it wasn’t true, but it was a complete waste of money. I’ve actually spent the last 4 years re-programming my brain to be an entrepreneur, not a corporate robot (which is what an MBA trains you to be).
That said, there are SOME things you can learn and apply to vaping.
I ran across this Twitter feed and was absolutely blown away by the value and clarity with which this person explains complex topics.
As I was reading it I immediately connected it to the vaping industry, so I wrote up this post with a “how this applies to vaping”.
Read MoreHow To Pick A Dry Herb Vaporizer For Your Vape Shop
Thinking of carrying dry herb vapes in your shop? This is the ultimate guide on what features and customer pain points to look for when picking a good line to carry.
Read MoreThe 6 Best POS Systems For Vape Shops
Using a good vape shop POS is a fundamental component to running a legitimate and successful business. This guide will direct you to the best vape-friendly POS systems that will supercharge your shop. You must first become aware that Point of Sale Systems are in a new era of never before seen technology and features. We now see tablet-based table units and cloud-based back end management as a fundamental feature for almost all POS systems. The age of POS has never been more advanced, which means interacting with the customer has changed forever.
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