This might sound strange but here in this message I’ll share a few of my business ideas that I hope one of you takes and brings to life. Reason being, I am a big on sharing knowledge and ideas because the goal is to lift up the status quo and common people. In all aspects. You’ll notice that the business ideas are somewhere intersected within the child community. This is because in these business ideas there is the opportunity for helping kids frame the way they look at this plant and what it can do for the planet.
Who doesn’t want a better environment for their children and better people in the world for them? Our kids will be servicing each other in the future and serving with each other in whatever capacity, hopefully aiming to preserve the human race and keep it thriving. Sick people and a sick planet will lead to desperation and depravity and people can do awful and terrible things in times like those just for the sake of survival. Let’s please not get there. Hemp can feed us, clothe us, house us, serve as medicine to us and more amazing things that we continue to learn about. I’d like to see more stigma changing business ideas launched before 2020 so feel free to use mine but just please keep in mind why it’s so important we do this. For the kids.
A tent made from 100% hemp to put them on play grounds to protect from the hot sun.
To me, this is solving a huge problem on playgrounds here in the hot state of Texas, where in November it can still settle into the 90’s. There are many school and public playgrounds with no shading making it difficult for kids to play on the playground after the sun has beat down on the plastic making it practically melt the skin on contact. This isn’t that big of a concept and yes those of you that are thinking, “a manufacturing company can come swoop in and do this no problem faster than I ever could” you are right. But they aren’t crowdsourcing and engaging the community and they wont have the communities support like you would, which we know can really help a business sustain. All leading to more education for the schools, faculty and students included. Then maybe once you are in the door and if you raise enough money you can look to supply new schools with a playground made out of hemp that can be a unique brown and green color!
CBD Baby wipes
I am still shocked that I don’t see more of this or any of this at all. CBD baby wipes, to me, were a no brainer. Companies have already infused aloe vera with baby wipes and all other ingredients within wipes. The technology is there, it’s just bringing CBD to the wipes to help with diaper rashes. I, along with other parents I know, have used CBD salves and creams to help with diaper rashes on our children, why haven’t we put this in baby wipes!? After a few manufacturing rounds you could even roll with wipes that are made out of hemp AND infused with CBD! This could also be a product you tap into the parent community with and get support behind you for this product ahead of product development. Do it in the form of crowdfunding, that way you can design your business model where you have customers buying your product before you have even started production. This is a way to compete with the “big guys”. Don’t forget that this will require and should induce more education around CBD and how parents can feel safe using it with their children, breaking down that stigma barrier.
Writing children’s books that can carefully and thoughtfully educate about cannabis as medicine or hemp as food.
Personally, I cannot wait for more authors and creatives to target this market. Adding to what I said earlier, this too can be an opportunity to frame how children choose to look at this plant and what it can do for the planet/people. Writing books can share the information in easily digestible bits and illustrate a future world where we help reduce the risks to the planet we call home, start to reverse some of the damage we have caused it and healing the people physically and mentally. This to me, illustrates a world that we could feel safer in, one that we can be more certain of and one that our kids can have a better chance in. Even illustrating how hemp is a super food with omegas, good fats and plenty of protein can impact the health and wealth of our children so that they can feel and be their best for the big world to come. There are so many meaningful things I feel that one could do in collaboration with schools and its children. Plus, think of how much fun it could be in the process of creating stories and characters all related to cannabis, it’s history and the movement forward with it. Sometimes being in the cannabis industry could lead you down paths like this one where you can interview unique people and collaborate with them on altering the course of cannabis/hemp education to children who ultimately will be the future adults that’ll continue to build the future.
The words crowdsourcing and crowdfunding were both used in this article for a reason. Crowd sourcing gathers information, input or participation from a large group of people and crowdfunding is gathering financial support or just capital from a large group. These can both be achieved on crowdfunding platforms such as CannFundr, The Cannabis Capital Group and Fundanna. The concept is you drive your social media traffic (friends, followers) to the crowdfunding platform and participants make micro donations to support your overall capital goal. It is hard and long work to engage with the community and get their support to rally behind your ideas but when it works, you can compete in a mature landscape because you captured market share early on. This isn’t the only way to engage the community but it is utilizing what you have available to you and virtually anyone connected to the internet could do this and do it quickly with strategy.
Attaching your product to a story that parents or people in general can resonate with, is how you will differentiate your business offering from a sea of green. But be authentic in your offering because if not, it isn’t hard for consumers to sniff out a phony nowadays and once your reputation is smeared in the cannabis industry, it’s impossible to be welcomed back in. I believe more projects should be launched in efforts to educate parents, service the children’s market and help parents and young minds see that talking about this plant and the impact it can have are critical for our future. In these times, too many young lives have been lost indicating that we could lose a generation if we don’t start changing things. The cannabis industry is more than an adequate opportunity to change things for them.
