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Is Your Brand’s Profitability Healthy?
Here is a simple process for organizing your expense chart of accounts so that you can easily measure your brand’s contribution margins, which will make it a breeze to understand and improve your growing brand’s profitability.

Boost Your Scale with the Right Kind of Debt Financing
Incorporating the right kind of debt financing into your growing brand’s capital structure can make or break your ability to scale in such a capital-intensive business.

3 Strategies for Reducing Shipping Costs
You spend a ton on shipping costs. Next to COGS, shipping is the cost category that DTC brands spend the most money on. Some of your biggest margin improvement opportunities lie within your ability to improve shipping costs.

How to Get Quick Insights From a New Financial Model
When it comes to building a financial model for your brand…quickly building something usable is better than having nothing. Don't waste time guessing what the "perfect" set of model drivers is. Instead, just get started and hold fast to this: continuous improvement and iteration is the name of the game.

3 Tips for Increasing Cash As You Scale
As a brand grows, its inventory position also grows, increasing the likelihood of holding idle or slow-moving SKUs. To avoid this common risk, it is essential to learn how to manage inventory.

How Getting Bored Will Grow Your Brand
Getting caught in a constant cycle of “doing” can make scaling your DTC brand harder than it needs to be.

How to Leverage Forecasts and Projections for Scaling
Forecasts and projections are two terms that are often used interchangeably. But in reality, they have distinct meanings and applications. Understanding the difference can make the difference between successful scaling and a scaling disaster.

The Brand Founder’s Guide to Improving Margins
The foundational driver of profitability is your margin. Learn how to measure and optimize your contribution margin so that it doesn’t constrain your business as you scale up.

How to Prepare Your Brand to Sell
The worst time to start preparing for an exit is when you’ve decided to start the selling process. If a potential exit is in your strategic plan, then you should start running your business today with this end in mind.

How to Create the Budget You Need to Scale
Implementing a monthly rolling forecast process is essential for growing DTC brands operating in a fast-changing environment.