Business Growth Game Plan

Buyer behavior has changed dramatically. Has your business changed?

You know where you want to go, but old techniques are not delivering the same results.

Let Hill & Co. show you how to get there.

In our signature service, the experts at Hill & Co. conduct a comprehensive audit of your business, then deliver a comprehensive BUSINESS GROWTH GAME PLAN to grow your business, including an execution timeline you can follow, all in under 12 weeks.

What will Hill & Co.’s custom-created Business Growth Plan enable you to do?

  • Identify and address your weaknesses
  • Increase return on your strengths
  • Amplify the output of your team through technology
  • Leverage proven tactics and technology to execute your strategy
  • March to the execution plan we create, a road map for the coming year
  • Get real-time proof of your progress by monitoring KPIs we set
  • Execute on the robust business plan to increase revenue

Who are we?
and why are we so confident we can build successful growth strategies for jewelry business?

Meet the Hill & Co. Team of Experts

Our strength is in the deep industry expertise of our team, who have been in the industry up to 35 years each and have the wealth of experience to show for it.

CEO & Founder of Hill & Co.

E-commerce & Operations Lead

Merchandising Lead

Business Operations Lead

Retail Lead, Data & Operations

Chief Digital Officer

Brand Strategist

Our Experts Will:

The Business Growth Game Plan is our signature service.

The experts at Hill & Co. will show you where to focus your team, time and money to grow your business in the new industry landscape.

THE MARKET & COMPETITION

  • Uncover the competitions’ tactics
  • Identify what you should avoid or embrace

DEFINING THE CUSTOMER

  • Detailed identification of who you serve to allow you to address them effectively
  • Whose problem are you solving and how do you let them know?

BUSINESS PLAN & MODEL

  • How to execute your plan to achieve your business goals
  • Innovative ways to use capital to generate revenue

BRANDING

  • Reveal how your business is perceived
  • Identify what you must  do to instantly convey that you are the right business for your desired customer

MERCHANDISING

  • Analyze and recommend the merchandising /product strategy
  • Ensure every SKU carries its weight in ROI

MARKETING & TECHNOLOGY

  • Determine digital infrastructure needs
  • Plan the highway that delivers your message and drives revenue

STAFFING & OPERATIONS

  • Identify skill-set and role gaps
  • Determine technology stack that will support business operations

DIGITAL STRATEGY

  • Create overarching digital strategy to deliver business goals
  • Recommend software to enable efficiency, automation in workflows

Let’s work together to create a robust business plan and strategy that you and your team will be able to march to and execute.

We will allow our deep jewelry industry insight to take a deep dive into your business to ensure each aspect is running at its highest level to create growth and increase your bottom line.

Our plan is to:

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Create a robust business plan and strategy

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Give you the tools necessary to put the plan into action

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Elle Hill

CEO & Founder of Hill & Co.

Brought her own jewelry retailer public with an IPO in under 5 years, it won the Innovator of the Year Award 2013, E-commerce of the Year Award 2012.

Hill began at the largest US manufactures selling major jewelry retailers. She has now been behind the scenes consulting for the largest retailers, diamond houses and manufacturers in our industry. Her three decades in jewelry were split working in first the USA, then China & Europe. She sits on the CIBJO Technology Committee and has certifications from Oxford and Harvard in Disruptive Digital Marketing and Global Leadership.

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Hayley Norton (G.G.)

ESG Lead

With an MBA in luxury goods business management, Hayley has helmed $50M businesses from Blue Nile to Ben Bridge and brings over a decade of experience to bear on her ESG focus. She is a member of the CIBJO Responsible Sourcing Nomenclature Committee and Climate Committee

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Andrea Lucille Pooler

E-commerce & Operations Lead

With more than 20 years’ experience growing businesses in the jewelry industry, Andrea helped lead what was Timeless Designs, into R2Net and on to what we now know as Signet e-commerce giant, James Allen. She understands how to scale an e-commerce business and manage high-growth global jewelry companies.

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YUN YANG

Merchandising Lead

Yun brings over two decades of transforming inefficient merchandise plans into forward-looking strategies that influence the market and deliver financial results.

Yun has been the Merchandising lead and force behind such successful business as DeBeer’s Lightbox Jewelry, David Yurman,John Hardy, Diane von Furstenberg, Robert Lee Morris and Ippolita.

           

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Amy Curran

Business Operations Lead

Over three decades, Amy brought her success helming Fortunoff Fine Jewelry’s diamond and bridal jewelry buying to trais teams and develop processes for our clients that embed positive change needed to achieve short, medium and long term goals. Amy is an expert in helping manufacturers, sightholders, wholesalers, designers, retailers and industry organizations improve bottom-line profit.

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Pamela Bernstein-Gulla

Retail Lead, Data & Operations

Pamela brings three decades of launching and growing companies in USA, Hong Kong and Europe including over two decades as Vice GM of Fortunoff Fine Jewelry’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in NYC.

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Jennifer Shaheen

Chief Digital Officer

Over two decades Jennifer has been a digital transformation expert, user experience enthusiast, and data insights specialist and recognized authority in planning, implementing, and leveraging digital marketing and technology to drive traffic, increase revenue and online sales and networks in today’s competitive environment.

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Caroline Vermeulen

Brand Strategist

Caroline used her deep understanding of color and brand psychology that differentiates branding as Hill & Co. overhauled the brands of iconic industry leading retailers, international organizations, and ground-breaking industry start-ups with +$100M seed capital, all to high-performing effect.