{"id":20745,"date":"2017-11-01T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/focus-on-marijuanas-future-not-the-future-of-your-mj-company-qa-with-marketing-guru-george-blankenship\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:46:29","slug":"focus-on-marijuanas-future-not-the-future-of-your-mj-company-qa-with-marketing-guru-george-blankenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/focus-on-marijuanas-future-not-the-future-of-your-mj-company-qa-with-marketing-guru-george-blankenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on marijuana\u2019s future, not the future of your MJ company: Q&amp;A with marketing guru George Blankenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kristen Nichols<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The marijuana business has a lot to learn from Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>Ever heard of Tesla? Of course you have, though you\u2019ve never seen a TV commercial for its electric cars or seen a promotion from a local dealer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Tesla used innovative showroom experiences to get people talking about its cars.<span id=\"more-78019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By focusing on showroom experiences and building personal connections with question-filled shoppers, the fledgling automaker became a household name with a years-long waitlist.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla can thank George Blankenship, a retired marketing maven who led the carmaker\u2019s retail strategy after creating the Apple Store concept and<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/focus-marijuanas-future-not-future-mj-company-qa-marketing-guru-george-blankenship\/\">Focus on marijuana\u2019s future, not the future of your MJ company: Q&amp;A with marketing guru George Blankenship<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/focus-marijuanas-future-not-future-mj-company-qa-marketing-guru-george-blankenship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Focus on marijuana\u2019s future, not the future of your MJ company: Q&amp;A with marketing guru George Blankenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kristen Nichols The marijuana business has a lot to learn from Tesla. Ever heard of Tesla? Of course you have, though you\u2019ve never seen a TV commercial for its electric cars or seen a promotion from a local dealer. That\u2019s because Tesla used innovative showroom experiences to get people<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/focus-on-marijuanas-future-not-the-future-of-your-mj-company-qa-with-marketing-guru-george-blankenship\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2213,172,18,2214,2215,19,2216],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20746,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20745\/revisions\/20746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}