If you aren’t growing, you are dying, but the hardest part about growing is maintaining quality. As you hire more folks, expand to new locations, industries, etc. it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the high quality you provided to your clients when you first started. It’s an incredibly difficult problem and so we reached out to some phenomenal entrepreneurs and asked them to share their stories, experiences and insights on the topic with us below.

Alicia Perry

Quality control comes from within, and should be a part of a businesses culture. Both management and staff should take ownership of a space and be very well connected to this. I often create open dialogue with staff about the process, to ensure we as a collective are actively and consistently participating in the process. Read more>>

Kristen McCormick

Industry-wide, Coconut substrates are becoming more are more popular to work with amongst growers and cultivators. There are numerous reasons, the foremost reason being that “Coco” tends to promote higher fruit and flower yields than regular soil. However, historically, Coconut coir is cumbersome to work with. Naturally, coconut is full of salt, and not great for plants, but once processed, an expert grower can dial in their specific parameters (pH, EC, PPM) and see tremendous growth. Read more>>

Molly Buffham

Without question, the most important aspect of my business we need in order to stay on top, is to have stand out employees. Employees that believe in the business and the concept like I do. When I talk to potential Donutologists (our hosts and hostesses), I always tell them I can train you and educate you on the operation of the donut machine and you can learn how to set up and tear down our equipment. Read more>>