I don’t know why, but I thought opening my cannabis dispensary was going to be simple.
I thought the parent company was going to do all my hiring, training, and manage the online presence.
As the director, I had to get my training routine completed, hire then train my employees, manage my online presence, and take care of the inventory. I had just walked into this job and I wasn’t sure I could do it. I had many interviews with a director named Kim from the parent company, and he had confidence in me. I told Kim I thought I had bitten off more than I could chew, even though he told me to have faith in myself. I had managed to open, hire, and even train everyone for many fast food restaurants. The cannabis dispensary was no more weird than fast food, except for weird laws and inventory. It was a challenge Kim knew I was up to. Kim showed me where all the information was in questions to ask when hiring, what type and how much inventory I needed, and even the training. Kim also handed me the booklet that talked about which online marketing companies I can call to get my new website up and running and to do my online marketing, however since the parent company paid for all my marketing and web design and development if I used one of the online marketing companies, I knew I was going to be okay. I wished Kim had given me the books before I worked myself into a tizzy about managing a cannabis dispensary. I would already have a lot of the website development underway, and looking at a cannabis dispensary expert to manage all my marketing and pre-marketing to let people know there was a new cannabis dispensary coming to this area.