Velocity Over Door Count: Win the Shelf Before You Expand It

Pedro Noyola, 7 min read

This lesson is an essay published by Cultivar.

Read the essay

What you'll get

Pedro Noyola of Cultivar, a firm that sells finance and operations help to CPG brands, argues that you should build steady reorders in the stores you already have before adding more, and lists signs that an account costs more than it earns. The essay offers no data and ends with a plug for his firm, so use it as a checklist for judging each store or distributor you are courting, such as whether sales hold after a promotion ends.

Do this week

For each store that carries your product, write down sales in a normal week and in the week after your last promotion, and mark any account where the second number drops sharply.