Connecting the Colorado Medical Cannabis Industry
Greetings!
As discussed in an earlier post, Irvin and I had many discussions with many of you over the past week.
We have made six small videos outlining Irvin’s support of Colorado Connect, and why it is important we need your support too. They are all under 2 minutes….easy viewing.
We sincerely hope you will take the time to view, and provide feedback, or any concerns you may have. We value your opinion.
Irv Rosenfeld introduces Colorado Connect
We hope to hear from you soon!
and Happy Holidays to all!
Just got the tree up...it's gonna be a COLD one!
It’s been a great three weeks. I am SO happy to welcome new Charter advertisers! I will be announcing all Charter advertisers on January 1 – with a Happy New Year Welcome.
We hope to see many of you grace our pages with your presence. The back cover is GONE….has been for months. There is one inside cover left – and the rest of it will be filled nicely – with some pretty decent providers I am very proud to know.
There’s still time to get in! You can reserve your space TODAY and through December 31 for 50% down, and the balance by January 10, right before we go to print.
Start the new year setting a standard in a politically driven trade publication. How can you possibly go wrong?
In addition – Irvin Rosenfeld will be returning to state. We have confirmed dates for January 25-29 and plan on attending MMAPA’s Ganja Gala. http://www.ganjagala.com
See you there!
If there are any events going on those 5 days you think we should be at – or if you would like to have Irvin for a book tour in your shop – please call me at 720-326-6577
We have some GREAT content lined up – and pretty amazing contributing writers. Some you would never find in another “culture” publication – as they felt it might threaten their careers. We are so excited to introduce everybody in the first issue – and move on to empowering women in the second. We can’t WAIT for that issue! We’re going to knock your socks off!
In the spirit of the holidays – we are also offering free subscriptions valued at $24.95/year. Colorado Connect will be mailed under private cover – to protect the recipients privacy. This is a great tool for you to reach out to those you want to educate and get it into their hands privately, and respectfully, to educate, and showcase what we do, and who we are. We want to take the fear factor out of medical cannabis – and bring new patients across your thresholds. Increase our red card numbers in state by educating the people to our alternative health choice.
New patients are scared to walk in your doors folks, that’s just a FACT, and a group we need to reach out to. I took a 61 year old patient to Robin Hackett at BotanaCare as I knew she would feel comfortable there and honestly, she needed the personalized care she was given. We will have a new patient coming into the ranks in January when I take her to her Dr appointment. MANY folks are curious and DESPERATE for help, and without the proper education model we can deliver to their hands – we’ll never get to them, or get them in your doors unless we represent professionally, decrease fear, and promote integrity and credibility.
We can have that market folks, we just have to approach them correctly, and responsibly. We NEED that market!
By the way – I introduce new patients to our industry all the time – and connect them to providers where they’re needs can be met. Please be sure to contact me sometime – so we can talk about your shop – I can visit and get a feel of your atmosphere – and refer accordingly. The larger base I have to refer to – the better for the patient. Many of you have wonderful skills and all approach things with their own methodology. Patients do too – and when they find the right match – I rejoice for all. It is so very important that patients feel safe, and comfortable.
I have started a contest for advertisers. I am copying the e-mail content here:
I just updated my contact list – so many of you may be new to my e-mails.
Let’s just do a brief re-cap for everybody. Colorado Connect is a sister publication to Montana Connect, our professional cannabis industry magazine. My team and I have been involved in Colorado for over a year now building and watching regulation settle in. Why wait and watch? Well….we needed to see who made it through regulation – and who, quite honestly, didn’t. We are here to set a standard. To pioneer and industry and SHOWCASE medical cannabis in Colorado educating folks in a responsible manner. I’ve brought Irvin Rosenfeld, a federal medical cannabis patient, on board as co-editor and as a stockbroker in his day to day life, we cannot compromise his integrity when he’s lending it to our cause. Please be sure to visit my site,
Http://CoConnect.Me
and meet Irv and see what the new Colorado Connect is all about.
Colorado Connect was designed for the medical cannabis industry in particular, and will represent in the most professional manner. Colorado Connect will be distributed outside of the medical cannabis community and will be mailed under private cover to protect patient privacy. It will be mailed to every member of the Colorado Legislative session and all town council members we can get addresses for. We aim to get it on newsstands in the health and wellness section. We’ll be sending it to representatives in DC, as well, to be used as a tool to educate politicians. You folks get to show them what we do – and how compassionately and passionately we do it! You’ll get to showcase the medicine, and the science.
Ok…so I have blathered on for the new e-mail folks I added….where’s the “Merry Christmas” part, right?
Well – each and every person who responds to this e-mail with their mailing address and phone number will get a free subscription mailed to you directly (a $24.95 a year value). Merry Christmas! Can’t wait ‘til you see it and I look forward to your feedback and participation.
In addition – I have a contest to offer. This is for business owners only – and will run through 12/31/2011 with the Charter advertising rates.
There’s another way you win. You get our message directly into the hands of the people who you want and need to see it at no cost to you. You can get it to your town council, prospective legislators and senators, and outside your current market. We are taking medical cannabis to a very professional level.
Our message is VERY important to us….and we need to increase support for this wonderful plant. Colorado Connect is a professional way we can achieve that. This is a publication. You’ll feel confident displaying it in your store, and sharing with family and friends who “may not be sure” about what it is you do.
So – here’s what you do if you wish to participate and win some credits – and change some opinions. You can win credit towards advertising in the second issue of Colorado Connect.
· 1st Prize: $300
· 2nd Prize: $200
. 3rd Prize: $100
Reply to this e-mail and ask me for the form. I will send them out every night. I will also be out in field through Thursday. If you call me at 720-326-6577 or 406-594-7932 and I am close or free – I will drop a form by.
PUT YOUR BUSINESS NAME ON IT – then make photocopies – and start collecting. Have your office staff collect as they sell and conduct business. Use the subscription as a gift for your patients.
This is the time to add your local town council, committee members, or school organizations. Yes….I said school organizations. We are educating educators too. Decreasing fear about our industry.
As you fill a page – please e-mail it in to me. To eliminate duplicates of entries I will be tracking them by when I received what sheet from whom.
Just be aware, I am the lone Mohican performing data entry and if all y’all flood me over New Year’s – I will be swamped, and maybe slightly crabby about it. It will also eliminate any addresses you collected that were duplicates that someone else close to you may have submitted previously.
Yup – it’s a competition!
So…get your office staff on it – call or e-mail with questions. Get your form from me or Randy Good. You can call him at 720-840-5028 or e-mail him at rg.coloradoconnect@gmail.com
Irvin has sweetened the deal too! Many of you may know this – many may not – but we bring Irvin Rosenfeld to Colorado for book tours – and we just confirmed dates for the next tour!
Irvin Rosenfeld will be in Colorado January 25-29 working on Colorado Connect and conducting book tours in Colorado.
If you want to book Irvin (there is a 5 book purchase requirement), he has agreed to waive that fee for the top three winners!
So you can win advertising credit and a free booking of a Federal Patient in your shop! That’s $100 value right there.
For those of you who are interested in booking Irvin during those dates, please contact me at CoConnectMe@gmail.com or
call 720-326-6577.
I will be starting a patient contest after the new year – so you folks get to collecting!
Don’t forget – Charter rates EXPIRE – DEAD – FINITO 12/31/2011. We go to print on the 15th. After the first issue is printed – rates will be going up 20%.
LOCK yours today folks – NO WHINERS if you miss the low rates.
Merry Christmas – and may each of you have wonderful SAFE Holidays!
Walk Proud Warriors!
Hiedi
Thank You!
So sorry for the delay in this post folks….it’s been a MADHOUSE! Irvin and I were rear-ended on the 19th as we started our day for the book tour that day. We were on our way to a 10am appointment – and were at the corner of Colorado and 40th……waiting for the red light to change. Well…..out of nowhere – WHAM! We were nailed as we sat there by a gal in a Dodge Stratus. She didn’t even leave a skid mark – and the speed limit was 40mph…..yikes!
We are both ok…..so no worries. Irvin went directly to the hospital that day from the scene, and I got checked out when I got there. We don’t mess around with Irvin’s bone disorder, something like that wreck could really mess him up. We both feel very fortunate to have been in my GMC Safari van and surrounded by all that American Steel to protect us. My side took most of the impact, and I have a pretty severe case of whiplash. Irv got a touch too – and his hip has been bothering him.
I have since been to Montana, and returned. I will be traveling between both states, and working in both. The woman who hit us was insured (Thank heavens!) so we have both been dealing with the insurance company, and treatment for our injuries. For me, computer work has been murdersome, and I am finally getting to where I can sit and type some. My range of motion in my neck and shoulders has been greatly reduced, and I look forward to the day I can change lanes on these crazy Denver highways with no pain.
Back to book tour thank yous!
We would like to extend a sincere apology to the two shops we missed that morning. Kind Love, and The Giving Tree – so sorry we missed your stops that day. I called the shops from the crash and told them, and we hope to make their places next time Irv is in town. I will be calling to book them when we plan the next tour. We are looking at January – so please folks – if any of you want Irvin in your shop – contact us as soon as possible! 406-594-7932 or 720-326-6577 or 954-536-9011. I can start the list and will book you folks first when we figure out dates.
It still amazes me how many folks don’t know we have Federal Patients……we have to change that! I’m hoping to get over to the Western Slope soon……and want to book a tour that direction as well.
When Irvin landed on the 15th – we hit the floor running! We attended a MMIG meeting that night, as well as attending meetings with Act 4 Co and the Cannabis Business Alliance throughout the week. The CSMCC – Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council – threw a mixer on Friday night, where we met a LOT of folks, hung out with Dr. Bob and company, and just had a great time. It was great to meet all the different folks from the trade groups, and see their different missions and roles in medical cannabis in Colorado. We look forward to meeting more, and being involved with each and every one of them at one level or another. Through Colorado Connect we hope to introduce each and every one of you to the different groups, and encourage you to pick the one or select more than one if you choose, that fits your mindset and goals for your future in this great new industry. Each group has it’s own strengths, and they ALL need your support to do the best job we can. We are all fighting toward the same end result here, and there is a LOT of passion in and about this industry. It is so exciting to witness and be a part of!
Thank you again to each and every one of you who hosted us in your shops. There were quite a few who had us a second time….and we loved seeing you again! We hope to develop long lasting relationships with all of you, and we are here to help any way we can.
Please, feel free to call us anytime. The numbers are listed above. Let’s plan another tour for January – and get Irvin scheduled into the key places we may need him. Think we might need him for session? We might be able to arrange that, with the right planning. He is a great voice to have speak on behalf of patient rights.
There will be another post coming directly – as today – we go to Eagle Colorado to chase down John Suthers…….stay tuned.
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