Meet the Franchisor

Meet the Franchisor

After absorption your choices, it is time to sit bottomward with the franchisor

and get all of your questions answered.

■ Real Life Example

What affectionate of training do assorted franchisors offer? Here’s a sampling.

Alphagraphics. Alphagraphics provides four weeks new franchisee training,

one anniversary in-store training, and avant-garde franchisee training; a tollfree

technical abutment hotline; business and announcement programs

including automatic absolute mail programs and bi-weekly and radio ads;

ongoing training includes conferences and abundance visits by acreage reps.

Martinizing Dry Cleaning. Martinizing Dry Cleaning provides comprehensive

managerial and abstruse training in the classroom as able-bodied as at

franchisee’s store; accessories attack and advancing account hotline; a

grand aperture business package, and advancing bounded abundance and marketwide

promotional programs; acreage and operations assistance; ongoing

support agents that is alone a toll-free alarm away.

Fastsigns. Fastsigns provides antecedent armpit alternative and accounts assistance;

four-week new buyer training program; two-week on-site abutment during

store opening; a admirable aperture business campaign; advancing abutment includes

marketing, operational, technical, and business administration training

as able-bodied as a absolutely chip Internet system.

Petland. Petland provides a five-week training academy, which includes

three weeks of on-site training above-mentioned to and afterward the admirable opening;

video and audio tapes backed up by operations manuals as assets for

ongoing, in-store training; acreage operations managers to analysis account financial

performance and accommodate consultations.

Tinderbox. Tinderbox provides complete turnkey, start-up assistance,

which includes location, armpit alternative negotiations, demographics, store

layout, classroom training, on-site abutment operations manual, proprietary

computerized operating system, and continuing operational support.

TEAMFLY

The important affair is that you get a actual bright account of the amount of

purchasing the franchise—both start-up and advancing costs. Once you have

gathered all of this information, you will be able to accomplish an abreast decision.

Carefully appraise aggregate with your attorney, accountant, or business

advisor. You appetite to be abiding that every account of accent is addressed

in the authorization contract.