In this episode I speak with Dan Mondello the Co-founder and CEO of Rank Really High a Google Partnered, Ecommerce-first technology agency and SAAS provider for Cannabis industry.
We discuss legal and compliance and online business and marketing for cannabis companies of all shapes and sizes.
Some of our key discussion points include
- Why are so many cannabis retail sites so awful?
- Why east coast states starting with the letter M are actually quite good places to start a cannabis business and why that big one starting with the letter N is N for nightmare!
- Looking to start a cannabis business? Frst things first, find a partner with real estate or legal qualifications and background.
- The pitfalls of dealing with internet platforms. There’s too many to mention.
- Delivery licenses, are they worthwhile?
- Building a cannabis retail /sales platform. Should I go Medicinal or Adult use?
Background
Previously Dan Co-Founded and was an executive of Home & Local Services (now Camp Digital) and Dealer Teamwork, both are highly awarded in their industries. Every business Dan Mondello has been a cofounder of, have earned the coveted Google and Microsoft Advertising Partnership Badges and have over 25 employees..
Dan has personally managed nearly $1 Billion dollars in online advertising investments and has been fully certified in all Google, Bing, and Facebook marketing solutions. He was a finalist in the 2018 Google Innovation Awards, in the mobile ads category (one of seven companies to achieve this honor).
Dan is an outspoken ADHD advocate and enthusiast and proud mentor to many entrepreneurs.
https://www.rankreallyhigh.com/about/
Learn About The Rank Really High STORY
Rank Really High was born in the retail automotive industry where all 3 of our CoFounders and most of our staff all met. In 2018 while running their first company that worked directly with Car Dealerships on their digital marketing efforts, our founders watched longingly as recreational cannabis became legal in Massachusetts — they loved everything they saw until they looked at the dispensaries’ websites and thought OH NO. That day (November 20, 2018) the domain RankReallyHigh.com was registered.
For several years RankReallyHigh.com lay dormant as our founders continued to kick ass in automotive and other verticals. Rank Really High was resurrected on April 26, 2021 (we tried so hard to register the LLC on 4/20/2021) to become a digital marketing platform for dispensaries.
Rank Really High signed their first dispensary customer a few weeks later and has grown and pivoted their service offerings and technology stack to support over 100 cannabis businesses. And we’re just getting started!
