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
Production Floor Optimization
Oversight of production floor layout to launch a new product. Hands-on equipment training and implemented QC and MRP software
Recent win: Successfully launched new retail product, managing project from R&D through first production
Warehouse Optimization
Comprehensive understanding of where products are and how quickly you turn over inventory.
Recent win: Optimized 120,000 sf 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
FP&A
Financial Analytics.
Operations-Driven.
- Budgets
- Utilization Reports
- Executive/Board Presentations
- Operational Efficiency Metrics
- Variance Reporting
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
The best financial decision you’ll make all Year
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.
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
✓ $100,000 salary
✓ Health Insurance
✓ PTO
✓ Time wasted in day to day ops
Hats Off Consulting
✓ Bias towards results and performance improvement
✓ Only focused on actionable ways to make you money
✓ Industry expertise in all of your company departments
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 operations meetings
✓ Hands-on continuous improvement projects with operations and finance
✓ Unlimited bandwidth. If you need it, you get it.
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.
