The Business of Vaping
How to Position Your Vape Shop for Success After the Vape Mail Ban
The vape mail ban represents an enormous potential opportunity for brick-and-mortar vape shops in 2021. Here’s why.
Read MoreOpening a Vape Shop in New Zealand? Serve Your Australian Customers Well
Are you a prospective vape shop owner in New Zealand? If you are, there are two very important things that you must understand before you begin doing business. The first thing is that the New Zealand government is likely to introduce new vaping regulations very soon, and those regulations – for better or worse –…
Read MoreHow to Introduce Your Customers to Shortfill E-Liquids
Market shortfill e-liquids more effectively in your vape shop with 6 helpful and super actionable tips.
Read MoreAge Verification For Vape Shops – The Definitive Guide
Subscribe To VapeMentors on Youtube Age verification is profoundly important for the survival of the brick and mortar vape shop. Every vape shop owner, manager and employee needs to make an effort to educate sales reps on proper age verification. The FDA has certain rules that a vape shop must follow, but your local…
Read MoreProp E San Francisco 2018 Results
In a demoralizing blow to the San Francisco tobacco harm reduction fight, the San Francisco flavored tobacco ban known as Proposition E passes with almost 70% in favor. San Francisco has chosen to let their small businesses fail and leave their cigarette addicted citizens with fewer options.
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 MoreCan Your Juice Brand Continue To Grow In A Challenged Market?
How do we stay competitive and ahead of the market as we face a new business environment like none we have ever seen? As little as a year or two ago it was easy to capture some market share. The only requirement…Just show up! Those days are gone. Some predict as much as 80% of the vape businesses in existence today will be gone in the next two years. Whatever the actual number, will you be one of them?
Read MoreIs the Vape Industry Running Out of Juice?
For years we’ve believed the abundance and variety of our supply chain would never change. Now, everything is in question. The Vape Industry Business Exchange will help the industry survive.
Read MoreThe 7 Dynamics Of A Successful Shop Owner
Why are some shops making $20,000 a month and easily hitting their sales goals while others are wondering when their doors will close?
The question is loaded, and perhaps there is not an easy answer, but there is a straightforward solution brought to you by the E-Myth Method of business management.
In 1986, Michael Gerber’s wrote a book called “The E-Myth”. Its concepts dealt with the differences between so-called “technicians” and actual business owners.There is a HUGE difference, and the ideas are just as accurate today as they were back then.
The vape industry is crawling with “technicians”
Read MoreSo What Exactly is a Vape Lounge?
And why the hell does my city care so much? NOTE: This report is updated in May 2015 since this issue is has become significant after attending city council meetings for clients to overcome that designation. Some of those results are modified in this updated report. We’ve identified four “watchdogs” or entities that you need to be…
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