Get Proven Strategies To Grow Sales And Profits
The 30 Days to Profitable CPG Growth Challenge
With your current resources
Inside this free 30-day challenge, you’ll learn how to:
- Build a retail-ready foundation most brands skip
- Create a clear selling story retailers say yes to
- Eliminate costly execution mistakes that kill velocity
- Maximize promotions without wasting trade dollars
- Turn retailers into partners—and customers into loyal evangelists
No fluff. No theory. Just what works.
This is for founders and brand leaders who want to:
- Grow sales profitably, not just “get on shelf”
- Compete smarter—not spend more
- Build a brand that lasts, not one that burns out
100% free: Built to help you win—whether you ever buy anything or not.
100% free: Built to help you win—whether you ever buy anything or not.The Foundational Step-By Step System to Grow, Scale, and Bulletproof Your CPG Brand
You will learn:
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Official Summary of the 30 Days to Profitable CPG Growth
This Free Course distills every lesson, strategy, and action step from the full challenge into a punchy, high-impact format — designed to help you execute, stay accountable, and build unstoppable momentum.
This is your roadmap to:
- Extend your runway
- Explode sales the right way
- Future-proof your brand
- Become the trusted category leader retailers rely on
Study it. Share it with your team. Revisit it often.
Execution rewards the committed.
SECTION 1 — BUILDING A POWERFUL FOUNDATION
DAY 1 — SUCCESS = STRATEGY + EXECUTION
Your business plan is your compass. It should be so complete that anyone could run your company in your absence.
Your next step: build the plan that removes overwhelm and unlocks clarity.
DAY 2 — KNOW HOW YOUR BUSINESS WORKS
Your sales engine is the heartbeat of your company. You must understand retail, trade spend, logistics, and execution — not just product creation.
DAY 3 — SURROUND YOURSELF WITH EXPERTS
You scale faster when you rely on people who've already climbed the mountain you’re trying to summit.
Mentors collapse time. Masterminds fuel momentum.
DAY 4 — MAKE YOU A PRIORITY
Your brand can’t thrive if the founder is exhausted, overwhelmed, or reactionary.
Your energy fuels your execution.
SECTION 2 — GOAL SETTING & ACCOUNTABILITY
DAY 5 — STRATEGIC GOAL SETTING (SMART GOALS)
Audacious goals are achievable when broken into strategic milestones.
Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Realistic. Timely.
DAY 6 — HIRING TO FILL STRATEGIC GAPS
You can’t — and shouldn’t — do everything.
Focus on your superpower. Hire people who strengthen the team.
DAY 7 — KNOW THE TRUE COST OF YOUR PRODUCTS
You cannot price, forecast, promote, or scale without knowing every cost — down to the penny.
SECTION 3 — STORY, COMMUNITY & CUSTOMER-FOCUSED SELLING
DAY 8 — MASTER YOUR WHY
Your mission differentiates you. Bake it into your messaging, retail story, and team communication.
DAY 9 — TURN DREAM CUSTOMERS INTO EVANGELISTS
Build your own community. Own your audience.
Customer intimacy is your most valuable competitive edge.
DAY 10 — BUILD A THRIVING ENGAGED COMMUNITY
Use your tribe as your R&D department, your sounding board, your accelerant.
When you know your customer deeply, you sell effortlessly.
DAY 11 — BECOME A MASTER STORYTELLER
Facts tell. Stories sell.
Your customer is Luke; you are Yoda.
Guide them to the transformation they seek.
SECTION 4 — RETAIL EXECUTION & SHELF DOMINATION
DAY 12 — MAKE IT EASY FOR SHOPPERS TO BUY YOUR BRAND
Shoppers can't buy what they can't find.
Your job: eliminate friction everywhere.
DAY 13 — USE CLARITY & CONSISTENCY TO AMPLIFY YOUR BRAND
Confusion kills sales. Consistency builds trust.
Every store must look and feel the same.
DAY 14 — IDENTIFY YOUR IDEAL RETAIL PARTNER
Not every retailer deserves your brand.
Choose partners who align with your shopper and strategy.
DAY 15 — BECOME A TRUSTED & RESPECTED RETAIL PARTNER
Brands that elevate the retailer win disproportionate opportunities.
Lead with insights. Overdeliver. Become indispensable.
SECTION 5 — DATA, ANALYTICS & FACT-BASED SELLING
DAY 16 — HOW TO USE DATA FOR A COMPETITIVE EDGE
Data is the roadmap to future sales.
Big brands rely on it. You must too.
DAY 17 — FACT-BASED SELLING: ADVANCED STORYTELLING
This is true category management.
Retailers don’t want reports — they want actionable insights they can’t get anywhere else.
SECTION 6 — INNOVATION, OPERATIONS & SYSTEMS
DAY 18 — MAKE PRODUCTS CUSTOMERS ACTUALLY WANT
Co-create with your community.
Pre-sell your innovation before it even hits the shelf.
DAY 19 — BECOME AN EXPERT IN YOUR RETAIL PARTNER
Know their pains, pressures, goals, systems, constraints.
This is how you become the brand they rely on most.
DAY 20 — KNOWLEDGE IS POWER (BOOK SMARTS VS STREET SMARTS)
Book smarts = rules everyone follows.
Street smarts = competitive advantage.
DAY 21 — PRIORITIZE TRADE MARKETING FOR MAX ROI
25% of your sales go to trade.
70% is wasted.
Fix this and you unlock explosive runway.
DAY 22 — MAXIMIZE PRODUCTIVITY (DELEGATION + TIME BLOCKING)
Protect your focus.
Guard your energy.
Your brand grows when you do.
DAY 23 — SAY NO TO DISTRACTIONS
Distraction is the tax on founders who haven't learned to delegate.
Clarity is your accelerant.
DAY 24 — MBOs: MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVE
Your team can't hit goals they can’t see.
MBOs align every role to the organization’s strategic outcomes.
DAY 25 — SCORECARDS FOR FLAWLESS EXECUTION
What gets measured gets done.
Scorecards translate strategy into execution.
Execution into wins.
Wins into momentum.
DAY 26 — KPI DEVELOPMENT FOR CONSISTENT RETAIL EXECUTION
KPIs = guardrails for your brand.
Without them, execution is luck.
With them, execution is leadership.
SECTION 7 — COMPETITION, CATEGORY LEADERSHIP & ADVANCED RETAIL STRATEGY
DAY 27 — KNOW YOUR COMPETITORS BETTER THAN THEY KNOW THEMSELVES
Their patterns expose opportunities for you to win.
DAY 28 — FIND & CLOSE CATEGORY GAPS
Start with the market basket.
Work backward.
Create value the retailer instantly recognizes.
DAY 29 — HELP RETAILERS UNDERSTAND KEY TRENDS
Brands that educate win.
Brands that elevate win faster.
DAY 30 — YOU ARE NOW A CATEGORY LEADER
A category leader is any brand willing and able to guide their retail partner to sustainable growth by leveraging the strength of their unique customer.
This is your advantage.
This is your power.
This is your future.
Congratulations — you’ve crossed the finish line.
LEARN PROVEN STRATEGIES
Confidently Grow And Scale Your Brand
Maximizing Your Promotion ROI means More Runway For Sales Growth, Higher Brand Valuations, Better Terms When Negotiating With Investors, Fuel For More Innovation, Greater Support For Mission-Based Causes, …
JUST IMAGINE IF YOU COULD....
Quickly level-up your skills without struggling to figure out how to navigate the advanced strategies big brands rely-on.
Get an ”equal seat” at the table with key retailers where the decisions that impact your brand are made.
Level the playing field between you and your most sophisticated competitor.
Remove the overwhelm and anxiety (feel excited and confident) about finally moving your brand in the right direction with the tools and resources you need to succeed and thrive.
Gain a sustainable competitive edge by instantly capitalizing on advanced strategies your competitors overlook or ignore.
Have a concrete action plan and clear roadmap to reach your longterm goals and objectives
Confidently know how to surround yourself with the best and most talented experts to explode sales and stop wasting valuable time and money
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Still have questions? We’ve got answers…
All of my courses are self paced. The course starts now and never ends! You decide when you start and when you finish.
While it’s best to go through all modules in order, you can complete it in one day. To get the most from the course, it’s advisable that your team also go through the course to achieve maximum benefit. Each module has one easy to digest strategy that you can instantly adopt and make your own – one that you can use to grow sustainable sales and compete more effectively. Remember that the goal is to get your product onto more retailer’s shelves and into the hands of more shoppers.
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
Leave comments and questions under each lesson. I will get notified. Here is where you can ask questions, engage with our community, and share resources.
Also, leverage my website. Is dedicated to be a resource to help you profitably grow and scale your brand. It contains all of podcast episodes where I interview the top CEO’s and industry experts that candidly share their insights and expertise, a Free Trade Promotion ROI Calculator, YouTube videos including the replays of the free webinar series I launched to help brands impacted by covid, tips of the week, and much more.
Building a brand in retail is challenging. Wouldn’t it be great if you just had an easy to follow roadmap?
In response to your feedback and requests for training on specific pain points, I am releasing a series of courses addressing one key topic at a time to guide you, and help you avoid the pitfalls. Go to RetailSolved.com/BrandSchool to learn more about and enroll in these online courses specifically designed to solve your most pressing challenges and questions, help grow sales and save you valuable time and money, It’s your roadmap to success. I will be adding additional content based on your feedback – to help give your brand the edge it deserves. So, keep checking back!
My website is dedicated to helping you grow and scale your brand. It’s chocked full of brand-building guides, tips and advice from myself and the leading thought leaders in our industry on the Brand Secrets and Strategies Retail Solved podcast and YouTube channel. Start with the 30 Days To Prosperity Challenge. No matter where you are in your business, it will help you shore up your foundation and give you the edge you deserve. Go to RetailSolved.com/30DayChallenge to get started. Trade marketing is an area that every brand struggles with. Learn ways to cut excessive costs and gain a significant competitive edge by maximizing your trade marketing ROI. There’s even a free Trade Marketing ROI Calculator on my website: RetailSolved.com/PromotionROI.
Like everything in life, your commitment and dedication to mastering these strategies can set you apart from other brands and give you a sustainable competitive edge. Don’t just watch the videos and expect to become an expert. Applying what you learn in real life situations is where you begin to master these concepts. Bake them into your brands DNA and make them your own. Superstars will take these courses in lockstep with your entire team. Discuss and share what you have learned. Then, brainstorm creative ways to adopt and implement your new strategies to give your brand the edge it deserves.
Every business needs a solid foundation to succeed. Sadly, most brands overlook key aspects of building and maintaining that solid foundation – even big brands. This is where cracks can settle in that can derail your business and even cause your foundation to crumble.
Conversely, maintaining a strong healthy foundation will free you up to focus on what matters most – converting occasional customers into loyal shoppers!
This, along with my other courses, start with the basics and then build to give you solid foundation you need to reach the skyline.
These courses are for both new brands and well established brands. They contain the best strategies I’ve used to push around some of the biggest, most iconic, brands on the planet. They’ve worked for my clients and they can work for you.
TESTIMONIALS
Student And Industry Expert Feedback
This course, and all of my content, teach the very best and most impactful strategies used by successful brands today. Here what students and industry experts are saying.
Laura Katleman
Founder BHU Foods
“Dan, Thank you for giving me hope again. I believe that our brand and the mission behind it is important. I know that we provide a unique solution to consumers who really need us because they write to us and tell us so. Listening to your courses over the past two days gives me hope that we can stay on shelf and compete with the big boys even though we are bootstrapped. Before I met you I was growing weary and questioning whether we could survive. Thank you for sharing your incredible guidance with brands like mine so we can help people lead healthier and happier lives. It is an incredible service to humanity.”
Debra St. Claire
CEO, Claire's Organics, Inc.
“Dan, I have to applaud you again, as you are consistently providing the most relevant content that I am seeing in the natural foods industry. Your topics are spot-on, and you feel like some sort of guardian angel that speaks up just at the right time, just as I am starting to formulate the question!”
Scott Jensen
CEO, Rhythm Superfood & Stubbs Legendary BBQ Sauce
“Listening to a half a dozen of your podcasts with the breadth of them being as many as they are, you can listen to half of those and get an MBA in entrepreneurship”
Seth Goldman
Honest Tea, and Beyond Meat
“Scaling mission-based brands takes a specific playbook. Brand Secrets And Strategies podcast shed light on getting to shelf … it’s working for HonestTea and BeyondMeat”
Phil Lempert
CEO Consumer Insight, The Lempert Report, SupermarketGuru
“Dan and I talk about what retailers and shoppers really want, how to get your brand on the shelf, market changes, insights, trends, small brands and the future of the CPG industry!” “Always a great time and discussion with Dan!!!! One of the smartest most intuitive natural food leaders in the industry – thanks for having me on!”
Michael J. O’Donnell
The Belmullet Food and Beverage Group, LLC
“Daniel is the foremost expert in brand building in today’s marketplace. Daniel’s common sense approach to helping all companies from small to large become successful in a sound process. Daniel provides passion and intelligence to ensure your success in every retail format. Daniel provides sound strategies to guide your brand for increasing, profitable sales. I’ve been a follower of Daniel’s for years, I feel his process makes sense in today’s competitive business environment.”
Gordon Wade
Industry Thought Leader And An Original Category Management Creator
“I was one of the three people who created the discipline of Category Management in the early 1990s and subsequently upgraded it to CatMan 2.0 in 2017. During my long association with the category management community, no one has been a more consistent, creative or committed contributor to the discipline than Dan Lohman. His work especially with the natural, organic and heathier foods community has been nothing short of inspirational because he has adapted the principles of category management and its collaborative ethic to a community which does not have all of the data advantages that large conventional manufacturers and retailers have. Dan's lifelong focus on helping companies in this increasingly important and growing segment benefit from the concept of category management has helped more companies succeed than even he realizes”
Doug Brown
CEO Sales Strategies, Former President, Tony Robbins & Chet Holmes Company
“Dan provides his community proven strategies to help them get their products onto more store shelves and into the hands of more shoppers. This is possible by developing a more intimate bond with your ideal customer, much the same as you you would a close friend. Personalization is at the heart of this strategy in a world where most brands talk AT their customers, never really getting to know them. The ability to leverage the unique shopper insights of your ideal customer with your retail partners is how you can gain a sustainable and substantial competitive advantage. It’s selling 101 at the macro level.”
Bill Bishop
Chief Architect, Brick Meets Click, & Williard Bishop Consulting
“Awesome to see BMC Black Belt Dan Lohman in such a great conversation about the importance of remaining relevant at retail and with shoppers. Dan is the go to resource for natural brands – a tremendous resource for entrepreneurial brands.”
Andrew Therrien
Vice President of Business Development at Samplers, Inc
“Dan has a wealth of knowledge and is so generous with his time and passion for the industry! I would not be where I am today without the help and guidance from people like Dan Lohman”
The 30 Days to Profitable CPG Growth Challenge
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About Retail Solved
You don’t need more advice.
You need someone who actually gets it.
If you’re building an emerging CPG brand, you’re carrying a unique kind of pressure:
- Pressure to grow faster
- Pressure to “look big” before you feel ready
- Pressure to fund trade, brokers, promos, and slotting—while protecting your margin
- Pressure to meet retailer expectations you were never taught to navigate
And the worst part?
Most of the “help” in this industry is generic. Cookie-cutter tactics. Surface-level tips. Loud opinions from people who have never carried payroll, stared down a retailer reset, or felt that moment where your runway suddenly looks shorter than you planned.
That confusion is expensive.
Retail Solved exists so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
What Retail Solved stands for
Retail Solved is built for entrepreneurial CPG brands who want an equal seat at the retailer’s table—and the strategic leverage to compete head-to-head with the most sophisticated brands in the industry.
Not by spending more.
By thinking better.
We help you:
- Turn retail relationships into revenue
- Build a multi-channel strategy that future-proofs your brand
- Maximize your trade marketing ROI
- Improve broker performance and accountability
- Convert occasional shoppers into loyal evangelists
In short: extend your runway while you grow sales.
That’s the unfair competitive advantage your brand deserves.
Why you can trust this approach
I’m Dan Lohman, founder of Retail Solved and host of the Bulletproof Your CPG Brand podcast.
Here’s the truth: I don’t fit nicely into any predefined box in this industry—and that’s intentional.
I’ve worked across channels, with all types of retailers, and I’ve seen what’s broken at every level—from early-stage brands to the largest players. I’ve also sat on the founder side of the table, where the consequences are real and the decisions are personal. I've even been a retailer including Grocery Manager and Store Manager.
That combination gives me a very specific lens:
I listen first.
I diagnose the real problem—not just the symptom.
Then we build a strategy that works in the real world.
Because your brand doesn’t need more noise.
It needs clarity and leverage.
How Retail Solved is different
Retail Solved exists because most emerging CPG brands are being taught to rely on cookie-cutter tactics—when what they actually need is creative strategy that creates a unique competitive edge.
I’ve built my reputation by coming up with solutions other people aren’t even looking for.
Think of it like this: most people skate to where the puck is.
I help you skate to where it’s going—long before the play starts.
That’s what creates separation in retail.
And I don’t show up like a “consultant.” I’ve never liked that term.
I partner with the brands I work with—more like a co-founder who has a stake in the outcome. I’m in your corner, telling you the truth (even when it’s uncomfortable), and staying close enough to help you execute.
Because strategy without execution is just a nice idea.
This is bigger than growth
Many of the brands I serve are doing real good on our behalf—cleaner ingredients, healthier communities, better business practices, and missions that actually matter.
If Retail Solved succeeds beyond my financial goals, it means we’re making a transformational impact—doing real good, and creating lasting change for the brands we help.
That mission is personal to me.
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