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Empowering Business Efficiency
Expert contracting for growth and strategic planning.

Expert contracting for growth and strategic planning.
At Quist Contracting my mission is to provide exceptional consulting services that empower my clients to achieve their business goals. I strive to deliver customized solutions that meet the unique needs of each client.

I believe in a collaborative approach to consulting, where I work closely with my clients to understand their needs and develop solutions together. My goal is to build long-lasting relationships with my clients.
I work with business' that do not have the bandwidth to dedicate time to projects that support business efficiency and growth.
Let me take these projects off your hands:
•Business Development: Finding untapped opportunities, creating a business plan with data and analytical insights to back them up.
•Strategic planning: Sales, marketing, product & distribution.
•Project management: Events, demos & trade shows.
Business operations solutions: Build standard operation procedures [SOPs], creative briefs and project outlines.
HI, I’m Kara!
When I am not outdoors skiing, hiking or biking with my family, I have two decades of experience in the outdoor industry as well as, apparel and footwear sports fashion industry.
Most recently I lead the PUMA Kids apparel, accessories, bodywear, legwear & swim teams from artwork retrieval, design, go-to-market product and distribution strategy, all the way to sell-in market meetings and working cross functionally to solve process inefficiencies, through ensuring on time seasonal delivery.
My skills include building distribution & sales strategies, project management, wholesale account marketing and retail experience.
In the past few years, I achieved double digit growth within the kids' apparel, accessories, bodywear & legwear categories by presenting new opportunities and growing existing categories.
I managed a strong team by leading via motivation, transparency, collaboration and praise, to create a happy team environment.
I have a passion for creating efficiencies and creating plans to solve your companies pain points.

I will help you build a plan to grow your team & their skills, by reviewing the current situation, the proposed change, team goal and a plan to get there.

Creating a sales and/or marketing strategy to include the intent, product or service specifics, data analysis and how to get there via a milestone calendar with a clear implementation plan.

Build an event or marketing plan to highlight the purpose of said event, outline all event details, recommend promotions, assist in hiring an agency or additional personal, through to event lead up with specific milestones. I would not act as an event manager but would be available for all event pre-planning.

What is your business goal? I am here to help build your strategy.
For example, the kids apparel goal was to elevate the product assortment and the distribution channel. To do this, I built a strategy that looked at what apparel was successful in men's and women's, as well as trending silhouettes with our target consumer, and the channels we needed to sell in to be successful. The result was selling more kids apparel in new stores, in more cities.

Is there a lack of efficiency in a part of your business and you know it needs improvement, but don't know where to start or have the time?
I had a situation where product shipments were late to the stores. I dug in and worked with various departments to find where the breakdown was. Got everyone together and held a two-day Summit to breakdown the issues, set clear roles and responsibilities and build out a process. The result was improved communication and on time shipments.
I love to connect with business partners, reach out and let me know a good time to meet over the phone, zoom or in person.
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