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How to Increase Repeat Customers at Your Dispensary (Retention Audit Guide)

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In this on-demand webinar, MediaJel CEO Jake Litke and retention strategist Steph Vrona discuss how dispensaries can improve customer retention without relying heavily on discounts. The conversation covers the biggest mistakes dispensaries make with loyalty and customer communication, including over-messaging, lack of segmentation, and poor onboarding experiences.

They also break down how retention systems, welcome sequences, win-back campaigns, customer journey mapping, and better data tracking can help increase repeat purchases and reduce churn. The webinar explores practical ways to improve customer lifetime value, build stronger loyalty programs, and create more personalized dispensary marketing experiences.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to increase repeat customers
    Steph talks about why dispensaries should focus more on retention systems instead of constantly chasing new customer acquisition.
  • Why most dispensary loyalty programs fail
    Jake and Steph discuss how many loyalty programs rely too heavily on discounts instead of building real customer relationships.
  • The dangers of over-messaging customers
    Steph explains how excessive text and email campaigns can lead to customer fatigue, unsubscribes, and lower engagement.
  • How to build better win-back campaigns
    The webinar covers how dispensaries can re-engage inactive customers with smarter timing and more personalized offers.
  • Customer segmentation strategies that improve retention
    Steph shares how segmenting customers by shopping behavior and product preferences can improve messaging performance.
  • Ways to reduce churn and improve loyalty
    Jake discusses how personalized marketing and better customer experiences can help reduce churn over time.
  • How to create smarter customer journeys
    Steph walks through how welcome sequences, onboarding flows, and automated touchpoints improve long-term retention.
  • Retention metrics dispensaries should actually track
    The conversation highlights why dispensaries should focus on metrics like click-to-visit rates, repeat purchases, and customer lifetime value.

Speakers

Steph Vrona
Founder of HighDef Studio

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How to Increase Repeat Customers at Your Dispensary (Retention Audit Guide)

05/14 | 11am PST | 2pm EST

Why your best retention tool isn't your loyalty program β€” it's what happens between purchase one and purchase two

In ten years of working with dispensaries, Steph Vrona has seen the same gap show up almost every time.

It's not the loyalty program. It's not the email list. It's not even the promotions.

It's what happens in the 48 hours after a customer's first visit, and most operators have no visibility into what that experience actually looks like, or whether it's working at all.

Here's what the data tells us: only 16% of first-time dispensary customers continue shopping at the same store after their initial visit. Medium

Not 45%. Not 60%. Sixteen percent.

That means for every 100 new customers who walked through your door this month, 84 of them are already gone, and most dispensaries have no system in place to know why or what to do about it.

This webinar is about fixing that. Not with a bigger ad budget. Not with deeper discounts. With a clear-eyed audit of what's actually happening inside your customer journey and a practical framework for closing the gaps.

Last month, we talked about theΒ 420 spike. This month is about the system.

If you attended our 420 retention webinar, you heard the macro case: why post-event traffic doesn't convert to repeat revenue, and what the best operators do differently in the 30 days after a major sales moment.

This session goes one level deeper. It's the operational layer,Β  the one that determines whether any retention strategy, loyalty program, or marketing effort you run actually sticks.

Because here's what most retention content misses: 88% of cannabis shoppers say budtenders shape their purchase decisions, and 85% say they'd return for knowledgeable staff. Sweedpos

The biggest retention lever in your business isn't in your CRM. It's on your floor. And most dispensaries have never audited it.

The audit most operators have never run.

Steph will walk us through:

  • The 5-point post-purchase audit you need to run on your store this week
  • A map of the most common customer journey breakdowns, and the fix for each one
  • How to segment your existing customer base into retention priority tiers using data you already have
  • The specific communication cadence that moves a first-time buyer toward a second visit β€” without discounting

If you've never formally audited your customer journey, this session will show you what you've been missing. If you have, Steph will show you where most audits stop short and what the next layer looks like.

Speakers

Steph Vrona
Steph Vrona
Founder of HighDef Studio