Anabolic Steroids Consulting.
Strategic engagements, founder advisory, twelve-month growth roadmaps, and quarterly intensives for steroid retailers. The work that decides what your retainer should be doing — and what it should stop doing.
Get in touch→- Service code
- SVC-008
- Industry
- Anabolic Steroids
- Methodology steps
- 7
- Engagement timeline
- 6-18 months typical
- Cadence
- Twice-monthly advisory · quarterly intensive
- Delivered by
- Firm principal · head of strategy
- Engagement modes
- Advisory only · Combined with retainer
- 01
Strategic engagement
Full review of business posture: revenue mix, channel dependencies, payment infrastructure, content depth, brand position, contingency posture, and operational risk surface. Three weeks. Document delivered regardless of whether retainer follows.
- 02
Channel mix recommendation
What you should be doing more of, what you should stop, and what you have not tried. Calibrated to your operating geography, AOV, repeat-rate, and risk appetite. Specific tactical recommendations, not generic advice.
- 03
Risk assessment
Legal, regulatory, platform, processor, and reputational exposure mapped per category. Likelihood, impact, and mitigation cost for each. Prioritised remediation roadmap.
- 04
Twelve-month growth roadmap
Quarterly milestones, channel investments, infrastructure builds, and team additions sequenced for compounding. Includes the order of operations — most operators try to scale paid before SEO is right; we identify the actual sequence.
- 05
Founder advisory
Direct one-on-one strategic sessions with the founder. Frequency: typically twice monthly, sometimes weekly during transition periods. Topics covered range from channel strategy to processor relationships to exit positioning.
- 06
Quarterly strategy intensives
Day-long working session every 90 days: progress against roadmap, what changed in the market, what to pivot. Output: refreshed roadmap and the next quarter's execution priorities.
- 07
Optional: M&A or exit positioning
For operators considering acquisition or exit. Brand-asset documentation, multiple-defensibility analysis, buyer-pool mapping, and engagement with adjacent advisors (M&A counsel, transaction tax). Engaged on case-by-case basis.
| Engagement type | We do | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Founder one-on-one advisory | Yes | Direct strategic conversation, not deck-driven workshops. Twice-monthly default cadence. |
| Fractional CMO engagement | Yes | For operators without an in-house CMO. We sit in your team meetings, not just review decks. |
| Strategic engagements (standalone) | Yes | Document delivered regardless of whether retainer follows. |
| Quarterly strategy intensives | Yes | Day-long working sessions. In-person where possible; remote where it makes sense. |
| M&A advisory | Sparingly | Only for clients we have worked with for 12+ months. Engaged alongside transaction counsel and accountants, not in place of. |
| Hands-on execution | No | Consulting is strategy and advisory. Execution sits in the retainer service line; engagements that need both run as a combined retainer + advisory. |
| Operational management | No | We do not manage your team day-to-day. Hands-off Mode (separate Signature offering) covers that. |
| Generic-business consulting | No | Our value is category fluency. We do not engage on consulting briefs that any general-purpose firm could deliver. |
- Strategic engagement document
- Channel mix recommendation with tactical specifics
- Risk assessment with prioritised mitigation roadmap
- Twelve-month growth roadmap with quarterly milestones
- Founder one-on-one advisory sessions (default twice-monthly)
- Quarterly strategy intensives with refreshed roadmap output
- On-demand strategic input via Signal/Telegram (within reasonable bounds)
- M&A or exit-positioning support where applicable (case by case)
01How is this different from a retainer?
Retainer is execution: SEO, ads, content, payments. Consulting is strategy and advisory: what to do, in what order, with what risk envelope. Most operators benefit from both — many engagements run as combined retainer + advisory; some run consulting only.
02Who actually delivers it?
Founder-level advisory comes from the firm principal. Strategic engagements are co-delivered by the principal and the head of strategy. Quarterly intensives are run by the principal directly.
03What is the engagement timeline?
Most consulting engagements run 6 to 18 months. The first 90 days are scoping-and-roadmap-heavy; subsequent quarters are advisory-and-intensive cadence. Some operators continue indefinitely as an outside-CMO arrangement.
04Can we add hands-on execution?
Yes — that is the retainer track. Combined retainer + advisory engagements are common. The advisory side stays focused on strategy; the retainer side handles execution. Both reported separately.
05Will you sign an NDA before the scoping conversation?
Yes — standard mutual NDA. We can also operate under your NDA template. Consulting engagements involve genuinely sensitive operational detail; the NDA is the floor, not the ceiling, of confidentiality posture.
Send a brief.
Reach out and we will scope. Or write directly: contacts@despitemarketing.com.