Transforming
Ambitious Boutique
Owners Into 7-Figure Retailers
Let’s Infuse the Secret Growth Strategies from the World’s Largest Retail Brands into your E-commerce, Brick & Mortar or Omni-channel boutique
When you’re ready to scale, you have to start thinking and behaving like a retailer, and not just any old retailer, you’ve got to start playing the game like household names — Target, Gap, Old Navy, just to name a few.. These are now your north stars.
And there’s nothing better to help you master the art of behaving like a big retailer than having your very own INSIDE MAN!
being good at sales is no longer good enough
(technically woman, but we won’t fuss over semantics here)
I’ve spent decades working inside of the largest retailers in the world, and I’ve taken that retail inside knowledge to help ambitious independent retail owners install the same strategies that the big guys use inside of their businesses in order to scale.
I become their retail team, arming them with the strategy, tactics, and support that they need to run a full-fledged retail business without all of the overhead of hiring a full retail team.
So, when you’re ready to scale, I’m ready to help you EMERGE as the retailer you’re meant to be.
Hi, I’m Darlene, your new retail Inside Man
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Here’s How I Can Help you Emerge into the 7-Figure Retailer You’re Meant to Be…
Ready to Scale?
Escalate
When you need a knockout scale strategy to jumpstart your journey along with coaching and support to help you execute, then it’s time for you to give yourself permission to be open to dream…
In this 2 week intensive, I dive deep into your business to give you a turnkey strategy to scale.
EMERGE TO STRATEGY
Expert guidance for your budding retail business
You’ve already mastered sales and marketing, but now it’s time to level up your inventory strategy. The customers are flowing in fast, do you have the inventory needed.
Let's develop a plan for how much to buy, what to buy, when to receive to support your increased sales.
In this intensive mentorship, I act as part mentor/guide and part doer in the in-depth journey to build out the inventory & profit planning & strategies that only the top 1% of retailers have in place in their businesses.
I become your “Inside Man” for activating a full blown strategy and operating model built to sustain your business for the next 5 years and beyond.
EMERGE TO CONSTANT CASH FLOW & 7-FIGURES SALES
Let's build your unique profit & inventory strategy to prepare you to scale
Elevate
Emerge
Tired of vendor not having product in stock or causing you to buy sizes you don't need? Time to take control & execute the key long-term growth strategies that keep big retailers relevant and profitable in any market.
In this intensive mentorship, we expand your brand by developing your very own exclusive products. EMERGE FROM WHITE LABEL TO EXCLUSIVE LABEL
We work through the entire lifecycle of private-label brand development and the go-to-market strategy to bring it to life.
The billion-dollar retail team you never knew you needed
I was really impressed with how quickly Darlene learned our business and developed working relationships with our leaders and team members in the US and UK. Using her retail expertise and footwear experience she helped us develop a strategic approach and tools to roadmap our strategy for all our channels of business.
Lorraine H., President—Top Pick Global
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I have been working with Darlene for almost a year now and she has been instrumental in growing my brand. She’s so much more than an inventory planner! She is a Boutique Coach with knowledge in many areas from inventory & assortment planning, to financial strategy. I love that Darlene has been able to adapt to my style of learning and create a roadmap unique to me.
Jes B., Owner—JBrooks
Darlene keeps me focused on what is most important at the moment. Since I began working with her I have a much clearer picture of my inventory and where we need to focus our efforts in terms of sales and marketing those items. Her planning takes some of the guesswork out of buying and gives me a lot more confidence when making order edits.
Rachel, Owner—Grapevine
Darlene changed everything! She has been a great asset to my business! It has been so nice to have an objective point-of-view for my boutique. Darlene came in and analyzed previous years sales and developed an open-to-buy plan based specifically on my business and the categories I sell. She set monthly sales goals and a plan on how to achieve those goals. It has been so nice transitioning from shopping, with absolutely no plan, to now walking into market with a specific plan of how much to spend per category, per month, and per season. It’s such a relief to have a well thought out, strategic plan, to support the hopes, dreams, and goals I have for my boutique!
Emily S, Owner—GrayBird Boutique
I’ve spent my career working for some of the largest retail brands in the world, and throughout this career, I learned the outs and ins, ups and downs, and nooks and crannies of not only what it takes to build million dollar businesses and brands, but the actions required.
I developed deep expertise in the entire retail life cycle and how it can be applied to both online and brick and mortar stores in order to help them scale, and through this expertise, I’ve helped several boutique brands emerge as real retailers in order to soar to 7-figures.
I don’t focus on the fluffy, surface-level work.
My proven framework goes deep into your business producing business systems that create long-term, sustainable success, not just trends or fads that fade with the next wave of newness that enters into the marketplace.
