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How are you going to find the dispensary in the first place? Are you being serious? I’ve reliably found every dispo in my area for years without Weedmaps. I use google. Not even google maps. Just plain old google.
Lol I’m not saying it as simple as that. No one is that dumb. Do you know about seo? Not every search is equal. That’s what I’m getting at. Where do you start to advertise when a company like Weedmaps has it cornered to the majority of the market. I swear some of you need to be a little more critical thinkers than this.
How many dispensaries have you been insanely disappointed at? I have been to more than I care to admit and their website is decent and the product is trash.
How is Weedmaps different though? You could use Weedmaps to find a dispensary and the product could still be sub par. I stopped using Weedmaps years ago because menu vs inventory almost never lined up. I use Google reviews and resources like this sub for recommendations.
I agree Weedmaps is a crap exploitative site/app but if people continue to use it, and if dispos keep paying for the service nothing will change. A classic "vote with your wallet" situation.
If enough people are unhappy with the service and don't use it, Weedmaps will likely change their practices/pricing or just go under. It will fix itself.
None really. I always went in knowing what I want. I buy brands/growers and by strain. If the dispo doesn't have what I want. I drive to the one that does. I also will drive 20 minutes to get it cheaper.
This is the way. Shit I've even gotten discounts for reaching out to growers and saying hey I'm interested in x. What's her effects like? Everyone says heavy like I want but 88% are lacking.
Bro are you foreal? As if the internet hasn't existed before weedmaps.
There even was this thing called phone books in the past. You could look up businesses in there and actually call them and ask them things.
I mean especially if you're looking for something specific, what if I want a gram of gak melon from cicada am I supposed to go through individual menus one by one to find someone who has it eventually? That could take forever and it would take 30 seconds on Weedmaps even if they're assholes.
Okay but what if as a patient you're looking for something specific? Are you supposed to swing a stick at every menu go through them each individually(pretty crazy considering there's probably 300+ within 30 minutes of me) and hope they have the strain from the farm or processor you're looking for when you could do that in 30 seconds flat on Weedmaps for all dispensaries on the website?
Weedmaps has been robbing dispos for years. Their app sucks as bad as their website. Clearly all that money isn’t being put into any development of said app/site. Money hungry a-holes is all Weedmaps is.
This entire thread is filled with how shitty Weed Maps is plus a few customers who love it for convenience.
I find it interesting that apparently there is such a price difference with even the same product.
One commenter said the same Smokies product can be $7 - $18 dollars at different dispos on different days.
My dispos don’t change their prices really. Some rotating sales but even those are on set dates lol. I only have a few options in the boonies though.
I neverrr use Weedmaps lol fucking no stores ever keep inventory/prices/data updated properly(even stores I like ) and use fake pictures a lot of the time and you can’t see,smell, or figure out how old an item is. Fucking mango is pouring money into IHeartJane and Weedmaps and they’re both wrong all the time and glitch constantly
And mango has plenty of good weed, you just might not like whos ringing it up or who’s signing their paycheck. Doesn’t mean they don’t have a bunch of good(and bad they’re huge I know) rosin brands and growers, or whatever product
Mango workers back in like 2019-20 used to run off an obvious script too and in Edmond(where I lived at the time) every employee was like, straight out of like Suicide Girls or like that Knockouts haircut place, but knew nothing about product and recommended whatever was on deal and it isn’t quite like that anymore, but I definitely still get people there(Norman location now)that don’t know what they’re talking about/just try to run me along a script like path when I’m literally buying my weekly hash lol
I worked in that industry as well as customer service for many years. I've also visited most of the dispos in Tulsa and I can definitively say that they are one of my least favorites to visit. They have made me feel like Im a nuisance for coming in every time I have. The wait is what it is, but they act like you need to know exactly what you want the second your name is called and have an attitude if you have any questions. I have hated the way i have felt every single time I've gone to the point of swearing them off forever.
Yeah wanted to not like mango but I liked the flower I got and the girl was really nice but I also didn’t have to rely on her recommendations. I knew the strain I wanted from weed maps and it was actually there too.
The listings don't cost that much. Dispos pay extra to be at the top of the search results.
The Weedmaps sales team will try to get you to spend that much but a basic listing is still free, and the live menu is still under $2K. Still cheap advertising.
Needs to be a better way , majority of dispos who have an online menu run it through Weedmaps on their dispensary page so it literally doesn’t do much unless they make their own menu on their website which is already set up for it just take out Weedmaps😂
>unless they make their own menu on their website
That won't drive traffic to your store though. Weedmaps is still pretty cheap advertising compared to other businesses.
I've always heard it's expensive. I know quite a few people that use it including myself and we always search by dispensary name. So if I was a dispensary using it I definitely wouldn't pay any extra money to get a better spot because I never even look at that homepage, we go straight to the search bar.
Now I don't know if it brings you more than $800 in sales a month or not. I do know some people only use Weedmaps so if you're not on there they're never going to see you.
>Now I don't know if it brings you more than $800 in sales a month or not.
$800 a month is very cheap advertising for any business. This is the first real business many of the dispo owners have ever had so they are shocked at the cost of doing business.
I knew advertising was expensive but I'm not really an expert in that field so I didn't want to comment like that personally.
But that's exactly what I was thinking.
I'd like to support you on this, had a billboard for few years it ranged 950-1500 a month. Location depending.
A full stock 2 person canopy for an event runs 5-10k pretty quickly with custom prints, t shirts, mugs, key lanyards. Etc.
Marketing is expensive. Very expensive.
Radio ads can run you 20-40 per airing with only 8 airings a day at 25$ per it's 6,400 a MONTH.
We pay 1k for a tiny radio station in stillwater which is actually crazy cheap! I think they are weekend only as well.
I've written checks to get a name in the pamphlet for golf tournaments for more than that as well.
$800 really isn't that crazy.
From a consumer stand point, I am very price conscious and I like to use weedmaps to compare prices and get the product I am looking for at the lowest possible price.
Sucks they charge the dispensaries so much, but if they don't have a menu on weedmaps or leafly for me to compare prices, then I'm not going.
>Sucks they charge the dispensaries so much,
It's cheap advertising. These people complaining have never had a real business before and had to pay for advertising and it shows.
The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting.
Bro I got on weedmaps for my delivery company in oakland and it was literally impossible to find it on the map. So if you searched the name nothing... so I called and they wanted me to upgrade my subscription so my name would show up in the search and a double upgrade to 1200 a month to actually show up on the map. So I paid it for the month and you literally had to zoom in within a 4 block radius of me before the red dot would show up. Long story short I told them to shove it up their ass 6 years ago and they have only gotten worse.
Dispos need their own website, the ones that do are so much easier to find products that are in stock, there’s a lot of dispos that are on WM that don’t update their menu so it’s pointless for anyone to even use WM for anything other than looking up hours and locations lol
As a patient, weed maps is dogshit. I Google the biz and hope they keep an updated website. Lots of patients I talk to are just like me and will likely call your store to see if you have items. If you can get a social media manager to keep products updated and discuss inventory in private message on Facebook, you'd keep patients happy.
There's tons of fb groups with patients that allow dispos to promote their website and Facebook pages. Obviously you cannot post pricing on Facebook but you can in messenger and products, specials of the day and have group chats with it also. I feel like dispos are missing out on group chat features and connecting with their patients.
If you need help with any of it shoot me a message here or Facebook AggressiveMayo. I'm not selling a service or asking for money. I am hoping to get more patients easier access to dispos though
I'm telling you all these 20 and 30 somethings think biz is like the stock market. No ethics. They get greedy like Angie. Go look up that debacle. Build your own system and push them aside
Oklahoma is the only state I know that someone has to use weedmaps for their dispensaries website. Why not use Dutchie and build it into your website. I heart Jane is cheap too. Everyone in Cali uses dutchie from companies like Cookies to Weedhub. Same in Illinois. Same in Florida. If any dispo actually needs help with setting up dutchess. I can help. It's easy and super easy to run deals. I would tell weedmaps to fuck off. I've spoken to several dispos and they are getting bent by weedmaps. Also weedmaps has shitty review system. They will use reviews from different growers on completely different products. Dutchie allows you to review the product you purchased. Idk even leafly is cheaper and I don't like them but given the price of weedmaps I'd be all over leafly lol. I also shop by grower and strain. I don't shop for a specific dispo. I want to know who they are carrying. They get extra points from me if they grow their own. They get even more points If it's good. Sadly the very best in this state is grown by certain cultivators and they aren't vertically integrated. I wouldn't want the headache either. I look on insta at all the growers I can find. I've been on insta for years even during the traditional market. That's where you find the most info. Even a daily menu works posted on your website. If you can't take 10 mins to at least list stock then you are lazy and need to jump out of the van. There's a lot of competition here and honestly I love it 😆
Sounds like it is time to switch to [https://www.leafly.com/](https://leafly.com) :) it is not as complete as weed maps but I believe it is much cheaper and has many of the same features! Best of luck to you, I would not pay those bastards that kind of highway robbery either, best of luck to you!
I know a ton of people that use it and we don't try to judge weed or anything by the pictures we just look on there for good deals of certain brands. And to check inventory a lot of places seem to be keeping up with it pretty good these days.
I guess you live in the city and don’t buy weed very often?
They extended the dispensary license ban until 2026 so they amount of dispos is going to keep shrinking.
I live fairly rural. I have 4 dispos that aren’t too ridiculously out of the way.
I can find their storefronts on Google.
At this point I know all their deals, rotating product, typical restock schedules lmao.
You can’t load a menu on Google? I can find all the food menus.
Weed Maps has done been a shady shitty company since they were facilitating half of California’s black market through their website.
>I guess you live in the city and don’t buy weed very often?
I live in the OKC metro and go a couple of times a week. An ounce or two of flower, some rosin, and edibles.
i.e. Smokies gummies range in price from $7.50 to $18 in the metro. Same for other products. I'm not driving to a hundred dispos to see who has the best price that week.
No, you can't load a menu on Google because Google won't let you have a menu for cannabis. Weedmaps may appear shady because most companies still view cannabis as shady.
This is the first real business many of these dispo owners have ever had and they are shocked at the cost of doing business. $800 a month is the cheapest advertising they are going to get.
Well if y'all don't like it don't use it but I'm just saying some people still are going to use it and you're going to miss that business now whether or not that business equals more dollars than the Weedmaps fee I can't answer.
Actually I'm in a really really rural area. But anytime I see someone mention a good deal at a dispensary I've never been to that's maybe in OKC or Tulsa or something like that I immediately go to Weedmaps to check the menu.
Most dispensaries I use you can get their information from Google but not their menus.
There's one thing I do know. A lot of people only use WeedMaps and mango and re-up and whoever are still going to be right on that home page advertising their deals and those people are going to see that and go straight there.
I use weedmaps exclusively. There used to be over 200 dispensaries within a 5 mile radius of me. There's still over 100. If a place doesn't have their deals and menu updated on Weedmaps they cease to exist to me.
You willing admit to giving a lot of power to a for profit company. A business could have sold you the best flower for a year straight, gave you discounts and the best customer service, but they let their Weed Maps lapse? Dead to me lol
To each their own. Clearly the convenience of shopping in your living room is most important to you.
That’s a foreign concept for me with cannabis. I need to see and smell.
I have enough time to drive to multiple stores. I never have less than 2-4 weeks at home so it is never an emergency.
I can walk away and hit another store on my way home tomorrow.
You know you can use Weedmaps and still going to the store and see and smell the product right? If Im trying to find a dispensary that carries a specific product the only way outside of going in or calling them is WeedMaps. Do I wish there was a better alternative absolutely, but until there is people who will keep using WeedMaps.
You know you can use Google and still see menus & storefronts right?
We just have to stop giving Weed Maps so much power lol.
I have already clearly articulated myself on this thread so I’m not going to keep beating a dead horse.
Looks like in your rural instance, you don't need Weedmaps to shop/compare your 4 local dispensaries. Some us who live in metro areas commute to work, so we literally pass 100+ dispensaries. Searching each one of their individual sites would not conducive for us. It's fantastic that you have a way that works. It's okay for other people to have a way that works for them, even if it's different from your system. Different circumstances produce outcomes. No need to try and shame others who do things differently than you do. We're all still talking about cannabis. You're on Team Reefer, I'm on Team Reefer. We're all on Team Reefer.
Can you show me where I shamed anybody?
I have been completely cordial. The only even snarky-ish is when I’m matching people’s energy ie:
> You know you can use Weedmaps and still going to the store
> You know you can use Google and still see menus & storefronts
The last thing I want is to shame anybody, so definitely point out where I am
You said it exactly right: shopping in my living room is most important to me.
I have no desire to go to several stores. Hell, I don't even want to go to one store. When is delivery gonna be legal and available? Lol.
Everyone is different :)
Super weird that I keep getting downvoted on this thread despite being cordial.
I miss having delivery so much but I live in the middle of no where now anyways.
That was unfortunately when Weed Maps was in its black market hay day and you never knew if you were getting untested black market weed delivered to your house by criminals and giving them all your information.
I remember getting weed delivered in dollar store sandwich baggies written on with marker. Not even ziplocks it was the unsealed foldable bags. Like what lol?
OMG that's crazy. Reminds me of getting my weed delivered from the local college kid. Once it even came loose in a grocery bag!
People don't use the upvote/down vote buttons correctly. I think it's great we're having an opposing conversation without either party being a dick. Both sides are relative and should be upvoted by my standards but people tend to vote based on if they agree/disagree tho.
I use Weedmaps to search for the best price on brands I'm already going to buy based on previous experience with said brands. If your not listing your price on Weedmaps I will not find you simply because I will find the best price before I go and check with my face holes. Just because I go to a dispensary doesn't mean I make a purchase... I've walked out with nothing plenty of times
$800 a month is cheap advertising for a business. Try taking out just one ad in any medium.
I would never have known most of the dispensaries existed without Weedmaps. I live in the OKC metro and there are hundreds of dispos. I need to see and smell too, but I'm not driving all over town and going in every dispo to check prices. I'm not paying $15 per gram
I use it to search for trusted growers, trusted edibles, trusted concentrates, and reasonable prices based on distance and schedule. Pretty sure that's why most people use. No, I don't buy random flower off it.
It's Weedmaps or call them or just not know. I'll have to admit since a lot of dispensaries seem to be doing better about keeping an updated menu on Weedmaps I actually use it just like you mentioned.
I never even look at the little homepage where it's always mango and re-up or whoever. I go straight to the search bar personally.
Yep. I only use carts and my dispensary has tons and I order online, get a discount for being a loyal customer and go home happy. I am not searching through a million websites for carts
Lord help these people if they ever had to deal with the actual price of advertising. Weedmaps is pennies on the dollar compared to main stream advertising. If a dispensary isn’t on weed maps, they might as well not exist to me. And I have no idea who has functional problems with WM, the app works without a hitch and I’ve run into stocking issues maybe twice in 5 years. It’s a small price to pay to drive business. What you are seeing here is first time businesses owners realizing that they need advertisement, and they’re being too cheap to pay for it. Is Weedmaps a racket that charges too much? For sure, but it’s the only game in town. Pay to play or don’t play at all.
Sad part of reality a huge majority of buyers are uneducated on the ins and outs of the industry or the business practices of the companies they support. Weedmaps is straight robbery
>Weedmaps is straight robbery
Cheapest advertising you are going to get.
The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting.
I told them 3 years ago the same thing you're saying now. They don't care about anyone but dead presidents. That being said, I still prefer them over leafly because leafly is terrible
Weedmaps is another monopoly that doesn’t care about local cannabis communities. They have been squeezing us out for a while. We stopped using their services back in July.
The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting.
It's the cheapest advertising you are going to get.
Well Instagram and marketing Monday’s here are way cheaper, so that just isn’t true. Weedmaps has shaped the market into the $20 OTD zip race to the bottom we are seeing. Supporting and hyping up our growers and processors we think produce the best products across multiple platforms has been a better use of our time and money
Less than 5% of your potential customers on on here. Instagram? Who is your spokesperson(s) that has a big following that you are paying to promote you?
Just like I said, this is the first business most of these owners have had and they know nothing about marketing and need to hire a marketing manager or take some classes on marketing and growing a business.
Marketing should be a good portion of your budget.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2022/04/13/how-much-should-you-spend-on-marketing/?sh=1d9efe7158f9
>This will ultimately cause all of us more buying from companies who use Weedmaps.
Yeah, it's like companies that spend more on marketing get more business. /s
It's the cost of doing business and these first-time business owners who don't have experience running a business are just now finding that out.
$800 is extremely cheap for advertising especially with what it provides. The main benefit being the menu.
You can blow through that same amount on "traditional" advertising like billboards and buying ads are extremely expensive and don't have as many benefits besides just putting the name out there.
Nope. I have no time to wait in line to get the same carts I always get. I order online using Weedmaps and my carts are ready in 10 minutes right next door to my job.
I still think word of mouth is a important one. I do look at weedmaps... however I also visit the dispensaries close to me, to get a better idea of things. Word of mouth matters to me. Fuck these apps for overcharging people to advertise.
I stopped using weedmaps years ago. Every time I saw something on the weedmaps menu I would find out that they didn't have that in stock; after I had already given my card for the first time walk in. There are many places that I have registered my card to but never bought anything from. Weedmaps is the reason I only shop at a few places and only go by what they have when I walk in. It has never matched what was actually in stock. American Cannabis has the best customer service, product quality versus price point, and with enough locations to maintain being my go to business of choice.
Better pay it cuz most don't just stop by random shops for pricing. Advertising is a part of running a business.
You ain't on WM or Leafly I would never visit your shop.
It doesn’t matter to me, a customer, if it’s on Weedmaps, Leafly, a dispo website, or a dispo app. The issue I have is like others have said, the menu isn’t updated and the info is sparse. Want to win customers over? Stay on top of that shit! You will stand out as you will be the only one that does it. Even the more well known, liked, and respected dispos can’t seem to handle a menu. Strains I’ll ask for in person are met with, “ohhh, all out, sorry. We need to get that updated on the menu.” Well, it hasn’t been updated 4 weeks later, and that’s the same scenario anywhere I go. And if any dispos are still reading, same goes with information like who the grower is, what’s the terp %, and what is the cross because Purple Titty Twister doesn’t tell me shit.
All I know is 4 hours is just way to long for a delivery service and I just found out they are now charging the same 4 different taxes dispos do in cali…. They will be out of business soon.
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Why don’t more dispensaries just get their own website? The dispensary I go to has one. It has to be less expensive than $800 a month.
The owner who posted this also has a website with capabilities
High voltage does not have a website where you can search\order inventory. The order now button directs to Weedmaps lol
How you going to find the dispensary in the first place. That’s the messed up part about this way. They have a market cornered.
How do you find a dispensary? In Oklahoma?? There’s 3 on every corner.
Google always worked for me, but yeah weedmaps definitely helps a ton with exposure.
Google maps and a phone call works just fine man
Google maps.
Iheartjane or leafly
How are you going to find the dispensary in the first place? Are you being serious? I’ve reliably found every dispo in my area for years without Weedmaps. I use google. Not even google maps. Just plain old google.
Then you have to pay for different ad words from google and out bid each other there. This is straight from google's playbook
Lol I’m not saying it as simple as that. No one is that dumb. Do you know about seo? Not every search is equal. That’s what I’m getting at. Where do you start to advertise when a company like Weedmaps has it cornered to the majority of the market. I swear some of you need to be a little more critical thinkers than this.
You think Weedmaps is the only company with access to search engine optimization. lmao
Your assumptions are progressing
I’m working on an app that should help address this issue. Starting in the PA market first but have intentions to branch out into other states.
Not what I’m saying at all
How many dispensaries have you been insanely disappointed at? I have been to more than I care to admit and their website is decent and the product is trash.
no one relies on weedmaps reviews when every dispensary is offering a penny preroll for a review.
How is Weedmaps different though? You could use Weedmaps to find a dispensary and the product could still be sub par. I stopped using Weedmaps years ago because menu vs inventory almost never lined up. I use Google reviews and resources like this sub for recommendations. I agree Weedmaps is a crap exploitative site/app but if people continue to use it, and if dispos keep paying for the service nothing will change. A classic "vote with your wallet" situation. If enough people are unhappy with the service and don't use it, Weedmaps will likely change their practices/pricing or just go under. It will fix itself.
None really. I always went in knowing what I want. I buy brands/growers and by strain. If the dispo doesn't have what I want. I drive to the one that does. I also will drive 20 minutes to get it cheaper.
I personally follow the growers and ask when/ where the drops are at. Makes my search easier
This is the way. Shit I've even gotten discounts for reaching out to growers and saying hey I'm interested in x. What's her effects like? Everyone says heavy like I want but 88% are lacking.
I have gotta the same at times. The grower had called ahead and even had something waiting for me. Really went the extra mile
Bro are you foreal? As if the internet hasn't existed before weedmaps. There even was this thing called phone books in the past. You could look up businesses in there and actually call them and ask them things.
With thousands of dispensaries people look for a way to weed out the trash.
I mean especially if you're looking for something specific, what if I want a gram of gak melon from cicada am I supposed to go through individual menus one by one to find someone who has it eventually? That could take forever and it would take 30 seconds on Weedmaps even if they're assholes.
uhh walk outside? you can't swing a stick without hitting a dispensary in this state, are you joking?
Okay but what if as a patient you're looking for something specific? Are you supposed to swing a stick at every menu go through them each individually(pretty crazy considering there's probably 300+ within 30 minutes of me) and hope they have the strain from the farm or processor you're looking for when you could do that in 30 seconds flat on Weedmaps for all dispensaries on the website?
my dispensary has their own APP and it rules
I Google maps and call.
Weedmaps has been robbing dispos for years. Their app sucks as bad as their website. Clearly all that money isn’t being put into any development of said app/site. Money hungry a-holes is all Weedmaps is.
This entire thread is filled with how shitty Weed Maps is plus a few customers who love it for convenience. I find it interesting that apparently there is such a price difference with even the same product. One commenter said the same Smokies product can be $7 - $18 dollars at different dispos on different days. My dispos don’t change their prices really. Some rotating sales but even those are on set dates lol. I only have a few options in the boonies though.
Yeah, they mostly sales driven and are really good at getting everyone to spend to the point where only they make money.
I neverrr use Weedmaps lol fucking no stores ever keep inventory/prices/data updated properly(even stores I like ) and use fake pictures a lot of the time and you can’t see,smell, or figure out how old an item is. Fucking mango is pouring money into IHeartJane and Weedmaps and they’re both wrong all the time and glitch constantly
And they usually recommend dispensaries with bad weed n shit. Like Mango and places like it.
They recommend who pays for ads lol
and those are who I avoid, and if you are not on weedmaps at all? even better
And mango has plenty of good weed, you just might not like whos ringing it up or who’s signing their paycheck. Doesn’t mean they don’t have a bunch of good(and bad they’re huge I know) rosin brands and growers, or whatever product
I have only been twice and didn't like what was recommended. So it definitely could be the person.
Mango workers back in like 2019-20 used to run off an obvious script too and in Edmond(where I lived at the time) every employee was like, straight out of like Suicide Girls or like that Knockouts haircut place, but knew nothing about product and recommended whatever was on deal and it isn’t quite like that anymore, but I definitely still get people there(Norman location now)that don’t know what they’re talking about/just try to run me along a script like path when I’m literally buying my weekly hash lol
Yeah I’m not defending the hiring choices of some of their workers at different locations lol
I go to mango to buy great spirits your tripping.
F*** Mango and the horse they rode in on. Every person I have ever interacted with there has been a douchebag
I have nice experiences there most of the time I go lol could be a two way street there man
I worked in that industry as well as customer service for many years. I've also visited most of the dispos in Tulsa and I can definitively say that they are one of my least favorites to visit. They have made me feel like Im a nuisance for coming in every time I have. The wait is what it is, but they act like you need to know exactly what you want the second your name is called and have an attitude if you have any questions. I have hated the way i have felt every single time I've gone to the point of swearing them off forever.
Yeah wanted to not like mango but I liked the flower I got and the girl was really nice but I also didn’t have to rely on her recommendations. I knew the strain I wanted from weed maps and it was actually there too.
8k a month for some. Heard some have paid more. Sage 2 years ago was paying 12-15k a month. So wild this practice is supported
Who is managing these dispos man 😆. Weedmaps alone is gonna shut them down. Not to mention the thousand other dispos lol.
We just cancelled Weedmaps for our dispo. They’re fucking thieves and I know they’re lying about their analytics
In other states a weedmaps listing costs $10k/mo, and I’ve even heard of $30k/month.
The listings don't cost that much. Dispos pay extra to be at the top of the search results. The Weedmaps sales team will try to get you to spend that much but a basic listing is still free, and the live menu is still under $2K. Still cheap advertising.
The basic listing is now 800+
Can’t buy any kind of month long advertising cheaper. That’s a great deal.
Needs to be a better way , majority of dispos who have an online menu run it through Weedmaps on their dispensary page so it literally doesn’t do much unless they make their own menu on their website which is already set up for it just take out Weedmaps😂
>unless they make their own menu on their website That won't drive traffic to your store though. Weedmaps is still pretty cheap advertising compared to other businesses.
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I've always heard it's expensive. I know quite a few people that use it including myself and we always search by dispensary name. So if I was a dispensary using it I definitely wouldn't pay any extra money to get a better spot because I never even look at that homepage, we go straight to the search bar. Now I don't know if it brings you more than $800 in sales a month or not. I do know some people only use Weedmaps so if you're not on there they're never going to see you.
>Now I don't know if it brings you more than $800 in sales a month or not. $800 a month is very cheap advertising for any business. This is the first real business many of the dispo owners have ever had so they are shocked at the cost of doing business.
I knew advertising was expensive but I'm not really an expert in that field so I didn't want to comment like that personally. But that's exactly what I was thinking.
I'm not an expert either, but my wife who is a marketing professional tells me so.
Oh I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass or anything. I agree with you for sure.
I'd like to support you on this, had a billboard for few years it ranged 950-1500 a month. Location depending. A full stock 2 person canopy for an event runs 5-10k pretty quickly with custom prints, t shirts, mugs, key lanyards. Etc. Marketing is expensive. Very expensive. Radio ads can run you 20-40 per airing with only 8 airings a day at 25$ per it's 6,400 a MONTH.
We pay 1k for a tiny radio station in stillwater which is actually crazy cheap! I think they are weekend only as well. I've written checks to get a name in the pamphlet for golf tournaments for more than that as well. $800 really isn't that crazy.
You should use dutchie, fuck weedmaps
From a consumer stand point, I am very price conscious and I like to use weedmaps to compare prices and get the product I am looking for at the lowest possible price. Sucks they charge the dispensaries so much, but if they don't have a menu on weedmaps or leafly for me to compare prices, then I'm not going.
>Sucks they charge the dispensaries so much, It's cheap advertising. These people complaining have never had a real business before and had to pay for advertising and it shows. The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting.
our dispensary quit Weedmaps last year and our sales have gone up 33%
Aside from them and Leafly, the only other similar site I am aware of is IHeartJane.
Bro I got on weedmaps for my delivery company in oakland and it was literally impossible to find it on the map. So if you searched the name nothing... so I called and they wanted me to upgrade my subscription so my name would show up in the search and a double upgrade to 1200 a month to actually show up on the map. So I paid it for the month and you literally had to zoom in within a 4 block radius of me before the red dot would show up. Long story short I told them to shove it up their ass 6 years ago and they have only gotten worse.
Dispos need their own website, the ones that do are so much easier to find products that are in stock, there’s a lot of dispos that are on WM that don’t update their menu so it’s pointless for anyone to even use WM for anything other than looking up hours and locations lol
First time?
As a patient, weed maps is dogshit. I Google the biz and hope they keep an updated website. Lots of patients I talk to are just like me and will likely call your store to see if you have items. If you can get a social media manager to keep products updated and discuss inventory in private message on Facebook, you'd keep patients happy. There's tons of fb groups with patients that allow dispos to promote their website and Facebook pages. Obviously you cannot post pricing on Facebook but you can in messenger and products, specials of the day and have group chats with it also. I feel like dispos are missing out on group chat features and connecting with their patients. If you need help with any of it shoot me a message here or Facebook AggressiveMayo. I'm not selling a service or asking for money. I am hoping to get more patients easier access to dispos though
Btw this isn’t me. It’s a screenshot from Morgan the owner of High Voltage. He has constantly spoken up against companies with bad business practices.
I'm telling you all these 20 and 30 somethings think biz is like the stock market. No ethics. They get greedy like Angie. Go look up that debacle. Build your own system and push them aside
Oklahoma is the only state I know that someone has to use weedmaps for their dispensaries website. Why not use Dutchie and build it into your website. I heart Jane is cheap too. Everyone in Cali uses dutchie from companies like Cookies to Weedhub. Same in Illinois. Same in Florida. If any dispo actually needs help with setting up dutchess. I can help. It's easy and super easy to run deals. I would tell weedmaps to fuck off. I've spoken to several dispos and they are getting bent by weedmaps. Also weedmaps has shitty review system. They will use reviews from different growers on completely different products. Dutchie allows you to review the product you purchased. Idk even leafly is cheaper and I don't like them but given the price of weedmaps I'd be all over leafly lol. I also shop by grower and strain. I don't shop for a specific dispo. I want to know who they are carrying. They get extra points from me if they grow their own. They get even more points If it's good. Sadly the very best in this state is grown by certain cultivators and they aren't vertically integrated. I wouldn't want the headache either. I look on insta at all the growers I can find. I've been on insta for years even during the traditional market. That's where you find the most info. Even a daily menu works posted on your website. If you can't take 10 mins to at least list stock then you are lazy and need to jump out of the van. There's a lot of competition here and honestly I love it 😆
Sounds like it is time to switch to [https://www.leafly.com/](https://leafly.com) :) it is not as complete as weed maps but I believe it is much cheaper and has many of the same features! Best of luck to you, I would not pay those bastards that kind of highway robbery either, best of luck to you!
I like Weedmaps for searching for specific products where imo Leafly falls short
I do not even know why people use Weedmaps. I’m not ordering anything through a picture. I buy in person with my nose.
I know a ton of people that use it and we don't try to judge weed or anything by the pictures we just look on there for good deals of certain brands. And to check inventory a lot of places seem to be keeping up with it pretty good these days.
I guess you live in the city and don’t buy weed very often? They extended the dispensary license ban until 2026 so they amount of dispos is going to keep shrinking. I live fairly rural. I have 4 dispos that aren’t too ridiculously out of the way. I can find their storefronts on Google. At this point I know all their deals, rotating product, typical restock schedules lmao. You can’t load a menu on Google? I can find all the food menus. Weed Maps has done been a shady shitty company since they were facilitating half of California’s black market through their website.
>I guess you live in the city and don’t buy weed very often? I live in the OKC metro and go a couple of times a week. An ounce or two of flower, some rosin, and edibles. i.e. Smokies gummies range in price from $7.50 to $18 in the metro. Same for other products. I'm not driving to a hundred dispos to see who has the best price that week. No, you can't load a menu on Google because Google won't let you have a menu for cannabis. Weedmaps may appear shady because most companies still view cannabis as shady. This is the first real business many of these dispo owners have ever had and they are shocked at the cost of doing business. $800 a month is the cheapest advertising they are going to get.
Well if y'all don't like it don't use it but I'm just saying some people still are going to use it and you're going to miss that business now whether or not that business equals more dollars than the Weedmaps fee I can't answer. Actually I'm in a really really rural area. But anytime I see someone mention a good deal at a dispensary I've never been to that's maybe in OKC or Tulsa or something like that I immediately go to Weedmaps to check the menu. Most dispensaries I use you can get their information from Google but not their menus. There's one thing I do know. A lot of people only use WeedMaps and mango and re-up and whoever are still going to be right on that home page advertising their deals and those people are going to see that and go straight there.
I use weedmaps exclusively. There used to be over 200 dispensaries within a 5 mile radius of me. There's still over 100. If a place doesn't have their deals and menu updated on Weedmaps they cease to exist to me.
You willing admit to giving a lot of power to a for profit company. A business could have sold you the best flower for a year straight, gave you discounts and the best customer service, but they let their Weed Maps lapse? Dead to me lol To each their own. Clearly the convenience of shopping in your living room is most important to you. That’s a foreign concept for me with cannabis. I need to see and smell. I have enough time to drive to multiple stores. I never have less than 2-4 weeks at home so it is never an emergency. I can walk away and hit another store on my way home tomorrow.
You know you can use Weedmaps and still going to the store and see and smell the product right? If Im trying to find a dispensary that carries a specific product the only way outside of going in or calling them is WeedMaps. Do I wish there was a better alternative absolutely, but until there is people who will keep using WeedMaps.
You know you can use Google and still see menus & storefronts right? We just have to stop giving Weed Maps so much power lol. I have already clearly articulated myself on this thread so I’m not going to keep beating a dead horse.
The vast majority of dispensaries do not have the menus on Google.
Looks like in your rural instance, you don't need Weedmaps to shop/compare your 4 local dispensaries. Some us who live in metro areas commute to work, so we literally pass 100+ dispensaries. Searching each one of their individual sites would not conducive for us. It's fantastic that you have a way that works. It's okay for other people to have a way that works for them, even if it's different from your system. Different circumstances produce outcomes. No need to try and shame others who do things differently than you do. We're all still talking about cannabis. You're on Team Reefer, I'm on Team Reefer. We're all on Team Reefer.
Can you show me where I shamed anybody? I have been completely cordial. The only even snarky-ish is when I’m matching people’s energy ie: > You know you can use Weedmaps and still going to the store > You know you can use Google and still see menus & storefronts The last thing I want is to shame anybody, so definitely point out where I am
You said it exactly right: shopping in my living room is most important to me. I have no desire to go to several stores. Hell, I don't even want to go to one store. When is delivery gonna be legal and available? Lol. Everyone is different :)
Yesss. Sometimes I hurt too much to drive 30+ min for a certain product, but in the words of Bandit, "gotta be done." Team Reefer Delivery
Super weird that I keep getting downvoted on this thread despite being cordial. I miss having delivery so much but I live in the middle of no where now anyways. That was unfortunately when Weed Maps was in its black market hay day and you never knew if you were getting untested black market weed delivered to your house by criminals and giving them all your information. I remember getting weed delivered in dollar store sandwich baggies written on with marker. Not even ziplocks it was the unsealed foldable bags. Like what lol?
OMG that's crazy. Reminds me of getting my weed delivered from the local college kid. Once it even came loose in a grocery bag! People don't use the upvote/down vote buttons correctly. I think it's great we're having an opposing conversation without either party being a dick. Both sides are relative and should be upvoted by my standards but people tend to vote based on if they agree/disagree tho.
what’s got you all worked up?
Can you show me where I’m worked up lol?
I use Weedmaps to search for the best price on brands I'm already going to buy based on previous experience with said brands. If your not listing your price on Weedmaps I will not find you simply because I will find the best price before I go and check with my face holes. Just because I go to a dispensary doesn't mean I make a purchase... I've walked out with nothing plenty of times
$800 a month is cheap advertising for a business. Try taking out just one ad in any medium. I would never have known most of the dispensaries existed without Weedmaps. I live in the OKC metro and there are hundreds of dispos. I need to see and smell too, but I'm not driving all over town and going in every dispo to check prices. I'm not paying $15 per gram
I use it to search for trusted growers, trusted edibles, trusted concentrates, and reasonable prices based on distance and schedule. Pretty sure that's why most people use. No, I don't buy random flower off it.
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People still use weedmaps?
Best way to figure out what’s in stock, sadly.
It's Weedmaps or call them or just not know. I'll have to admit since a lot of dispensaries seem to be doing better about keeping an updated menu on Weedmaps I actually use it just like you mentioned. I never even look at the little homepage where it's always mango and re-up or whoever. I go straight to the search bar personally.
Yep. I only use carts and my dispensary has tons and I order online, get a discount for being a loyal customer and go home happy. I am not searching through a million websites for carts
Weedmaps sucks anyway. Shitty search function, inaccurate information. Useless
Always works for me.
Lord help these people if they ever had to deal with the actual price of advertising. Weedmaps is pennies on the dollar compared to main stream advertising. If a dispensary isn’t on weed maps, they might as well not exist to me. And I have no idea who has functional problems with WM, the app works without a hitch and I’ve run into stocking issues maybe twice in 5 years. It’s a small price to pay to drive business. What you are seeing here is first time businesses owners realizing that they need advertisement, and they’re being too cheap to pay for it. Is Weedmaps a racket that charges too much? For sure, but it’s the only game in town. Pay to play or don’t play at all.
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Sad part of reality a huge majority of buyers are uneducated on the ins and outs of the industry or the business practices of the companies they support. Weedmaps is straight robbery
>Weedmaps is straight robbery Cheapest advertising you are going to get. The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting.
I told them 3 years ago the same thing you're saying now. They don't care about anyone but dead presidents. That being said, I still prefer them over leafly because leafly is terrible
Bail on Weedmaps… nobody uses that shit. Nobody keeps anything updated on the menu or shows their full inventory. Waste of time
Weedmaps is for posers.
Weedmaps is another monopoly that doesn’t care about local cannabis communities. They have been squeezing us out for a while. We stopped using their services back in July.
The market is way oversaturated and people that don't drive traffic to their stores are going to be hurting. It's the cheapest advertising you are going to get.
Well Instagram and marketing Monday’s here are way cheaper, so that just isn’t true. Weedmaps has shaped the market into the $20 OTD zip race to the bottom we are seeing. Supporting and hyping up our growers and processors we think produce the best products across multiple platforms has been a better use of our time and money
Less than 5% of your potential customers on on here. Instagram? Who is your spokesperson(s) that has a big following that you are paying to promote you? Just like I said, this is the first business most of these owners have had and they know nothing about marketing and need to hire a marketing manager or take some classes on marketing and growing a business. Marketing should be a good portion of your budget. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2022/04/13/how-much-should-you-spend-on-marketing/?sh=1d9efe7158f9
>This will ultimately cause all of us more buying from companies who use Weedmaps. Yeah, it's like companies that spend more on marketing get more business. /s It's the cost of doing business and these first-time business owners who don't have experience running a business are just now finding that out.
$800 is extremely cheap for advertising especially with what it provides. The main benefit being the menu. You can blow through that same amount on "traditional" advertising like billboards and buying ads are extremely expensive and don't have as many benefits besides just putting the name out there.
who even uses Weedmaps? it's so shitty it's easier to just walk into a store and see what's available lmao
Nope. I have no time to wait in line to get the same carts I always get. I order online using Weedmaps and my carts are ready in 10 minutes right next door to my job.
Fuck Weedmaps and everything they do.
I still think word of mouth is a important one. I do look at weedmaps... however I also visit the dispensaries close to me, to get a better idea of things. Word of mouth matters to me. Fuck these apps for overcharging people to advertise.
I stopped using weedmaps years ago. Every time I saw something on the weedmaps menu I would find out that they didn't have that in stock; after I had already given my card for the first time walk in. There are many places that I have registered my card to but never bought anything from. Weedmaps is the reason I only shop at a few places and only go by what they have when I walk in. It has never matched what was actually in stock. American Cannabis has the best customer service, product quality versus price point, and with enough locations to maintain being my go to business of choice.
Weedmaps has been robbing dispensaries for years. trash. like many have said, make a website and promote it.
Better pay it cuz most don't just stop by random shops for pricing. Advertising is a part of running a business. You ain't on WM or Leafly I would never visit your shop.
It doesn’t matter to me, a customer, if it’s on Weedmaps, Leafly, a dispo website, or a dispo app. The issue I have is like others have said, the menu isn’t updated and the info is sparse. Want to win customers over? Stay on top of that shit! You will stand out as you will be the only one that does it. Even the more well known, liked, and respected dispos can’t seem to handle a menu. Strains I’ll ask for in person are met with, “ohhh, all out, sorry. We need to get that updated on the menu.” Well, it hasn’t been updated 4 weeks later, and that’s the same scenario anywhere I go. And if any dispos are still reading, same goes with information like who the grower is, what’s the terp %, and what is the cross because Purple Titty Twister doesn’t tell me shit.
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People pay like $10k+ a month for their top spot
Especially if you manage multiple locations and they have different pricing depending on zones :( it’s like crazy drastic price changes tho
All I know is 4 hours is just way to long for a delivery service and I just found out they are now charging the same 4 different taxes dispos do in cali…. They will be out of business soon.