We help busy CEOs get stuff done
- Spend more time on high-value vision
- Remove the CEO from day-to-day operations
- We focus on profitability and operational excellence
- Performance improvement experience across all departments
Real problems we are solving for companies like yours
Demand Forecasting
Tariff economy has put a precedent on managing inventory. We work with factories and freight forwarders to always have critical items in stock, liquidating stagnant inventory, and limiting over-importation of slow-moving SKUs.
Recent win: Identified +$350,000 in stagnant inventory for manufacturer and undergoing active liquidation plan
Warehouse Optimization
Comprehensive understanding of where products are in your warehouse and how quickly you turn over inventory.
Recent win: Optimized 120,000 sft for a Midwest distributor based on SKU velocity. Tracking incoming shipments and forecasting storage space.
Get More Done with
Hats Off Consulting
Strategy
Uncover high-margin, high-volume sales opportunities
- Executive Analyses
- KPI Performance Reports
- Warehouse Analytics
- SKU Profitability
- Category Design
Architecture
Systems that Simplify.
Processes that Work.
- Business Systems
- ERP/POS Implementation
- Process Automation
- SOP Documentation
- Data Architecture
Creative
Growing Your Audience.
Telling Your Story.
- Blogs
- Emails
- Newsletters
- Video Scripts
- Drone Videography
The best financial decision you’ll make all Year
Which business are you?
1. Strategy and Execution without Accountability: You are a CEO with a vision and a team to carry that plan out. But you don’t have time to track the results. This is like having a swing coach, you hit the range every day, but you’re not keeping your score on the course to see if you’re actually getting better.
2. Strategy and Accountability without Execution: You are a CEO with a vision. You know what success looks like. But you only have so many hours in a day to make it happen. This is like having a goal to become a scratch player. You know what you have to do to get there. You just don’t have time to play more than once a week.
3. Execution and Accountability without Strategy: You are a CEO that hits the ground running. You keep score but things aren’t working. This is like hitting a perfect golf shot to the wrong pin on the wrong green
Hats Off Consulting fills the gaps. We think. We do. We hold you accountable. And we do it at half the cost of a FTE.
Full Time Employee
$100k per year
✓ $70,000 salary
✓ Health Insurance
✓ PTO
✓ Time wasted in day to day ops
Hats Off Consulting
✓ Half the price of a traditional employee
✓ Bias towards results and performance improvement
✓ Only focused on actionable ways to make you money
✓ Industry expertise in all of your company departments
What Clients Say When They Take off Their Hats
“Creative. Resourceful. Touches all the points in my marketing endeavors.“
Jeff, Owner and CEO
Pick the Right Plan for You
Tier 0
(Complimentary)
$0.00
✓ Complete sales history audit (last 3 years of available data)
✓ Geographic sales trends
✓ Product profitability
✓ Recommendations on how to find high-volume/high-margin sales opportunities
Tier 1
(3 spots available)
✓Weekly product and customer profitability reports
✓ Weekly business development benchmarking
✓ Weekly inventory flow report
✓ Weekly customer analysis
✓ Weekly geographic breakdown
✓ Weekly marketing ROI report
Tier 2
(Currently not available)
✓ Everything in Tier 1, plus…
Daily Department Interaction
✓ ERP and CRM implementation
✓ SOPs created for every role and future hire
✓ Working directly with your sales leadership team and salesreps
✓ Weekly marketing team calls
✓ Hands-on continuous improvement projects with operations and warehouse
✓ Unlimited bandwidth. If you need it, you get it.
You already have this data available. You just need someone to use it.
Salesrep Behavior Reports
Manufacturing Productivity
Geographic Sales Trends
+$200 Million
Client data analyzed
+500,000 Units
Analyzed every week
+2000 wholesale customers
How it Works
- Initial Conversation: What are 3 things your company needs right now?
- More wholesale customers?
- Inventory burning cash in your warehouse?
- Higher eCommerce conversions?
- Production rates too inefficient?
- Access to data
- The Hats Off difference is we look at everything to give CEOs the full picture
- What ERP are you using? CRM? MRP?
- Free Demo
- Once we have the data, our team will put together recommendations and insights for immediate high-volume/high-margin sales opportunities
- Turnaround Time: 1 Week
FAQs
What size companies do you work with?
Our experience ranges from startups to major distributors. We work with solopreneurs who are wearing too many hats to manufacturers doing +$50 million in revenue per year.
What type of companies do you work with?
Hats Off Consulting specializes in companies that sell physical products with annual revenue ranging from $500,000 – $80M.
We have deep experience in working with food distributors, co-pack manufacturers, and importers of foreign goods.
Do you offer a try before you buy model?
Yes. All Hats Off Consulting projects start with a free demo. This not only lets you see our work risk-free, but it helps make sure we will be good, long-term partners. As consultants, our goal is to provide immediate value while building upon long-term shared growth.
We work with CEOs and owners to:
- Sell more products to the people you want buying them
- Improve production performance and efficiency
- Identify high-margin/high-volume opportunities
- Increase wholesale distribution sales
- Understand customer behavior
- Discover product trends
About the Founder, Michael McGuire
- Chicago-based
- 7.6 Handicap
- $150 Million in client data analyzed
- Over 2000 wholesale customers analyzed every week
- Writer of the Caddie Corner newsletter
- Growing up as a caddie is still the best job I’ve ever had.
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