- Reduce labor costs: Identifying, hiring, training and management of franchise sales staff can be very expensive. Often, when the inexperienced franchisor attempts to hire their franchise sales staff, they don’t have the requisite skills to properly manage these people, and for this reason, sales executives don’t always meet expectations. Outsourcing lets you focus your human resources on the development of your franchisees, where you need to focus your resources the most.
- Control capital costs: Cost-cutting may not be the only reason to outsource, but it’s certainly a major factor. Outsourcing converts fixed costs into variable costs, freeing capital for investment elsewhere in your business. As a by-product, franchise sales outsourcing can make your firm more attractive to investors, since the franchisor can invest more capital directly into revenue-producing activities.
- Focus on your business: Every franchisor has limited resources and every executive and manager has limited time and attention. Outsourcing can help you focus on activities that serve the customer, and it can help managers set their priorities more clearly.
- Start new franchises or development initiatives quickly. A good outsourcing firm has the resources to start a project right away. Handling the same project in house might involve taking weeks or months to hire the right people, train them and provide the support they need.
- Level the playing field: Most franchisors simply can’t afford to match the in-house franchise sales staff and services that larger companies maintain. Many of these larger firms employ franchise sales “superstars” who command huge salaries for their experience. Outsourcing can help small firms act "big" by giving them access to the same caliber of sales talent, scale, efficiency and expertise that large franchise companies enjoy.
- Reduce risk: Our service offering combines a modest monthly service fees and a “pay-for-performance” structure.
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Ten Reasons Why Franchise Sales Outsourcing Works:
1. Minimize your initial investment in franchise sales staff, facilities and technology
2. Access to top quality representation that you cannot afford or match with internal staff
3. Improved lead generation handling and more effective sales activity
4. Daily franchise sales management tasks eliminated
5. More accurate forecasting
6. Eliminate non-buyers earlier in the process, resulting in a shorter selling cycle—more deals, faster
7. More effective selling with higher sale averages from your lead flow – stretching your marketing dollars further
8. Creates stronger franchisee base and improves company image
9. Paying for performance reduces risk
10. Better results, higher growth, at a lower cost per sale |