Franchise Planning
We give you everything you need to get your franchise up and running, including guidance with FDDs, market and competitor analysis, and brand growth assessments.
The SMB Franchise Advisors team provides ongoing support and executive coaching to franchisors and their leadership teams.
Since 2009, SMB has helped over 500 small and medium business founders prepare, launch and grow their brand in the franchise industry. As a top rated franchise consulting company that encourages the growth of clients through connections, proven process and industry expertise. Working with small to medium business owners, our mission is to educate, support and launch brands into the franchise industry. The SMB Franchise Advisors team gives each new franchisor the head start needed on their franchising journey to compete with established industry brands. Established franchise brands “re-emerge” with better processes, financial metrics, brand positioning, and the confidence needed to compete in their category.
Brand founders who are ready to franchise their growing and successful business have the expert resources to navigate the landscape from concept to franchise brand. Each client is guided through the entire process from beginning to end including teaching the essentials of finance, operations, marketing and franchise sales needed to establish and develop their franchise brand.
It’s All About the Relationship™ when you join the SMB Franchise Family of brands.
OUR SERVICES
We give you everything you need to get your franchise up and running, including guidance with FDDs, market and competitor analysis, and brand growth assessments.
Our results-driven marketing strategies include preparation of engaging website content, tri-fold brochures, franchise brand presentations for candidate discovery, basic brand standards & logo guidelines, and trade show material design & support.
We offer franchise-focused financial guidance. We will help you conduct economic performance assessments, create guidelines for Liquidity and Net Worth requirements, and prepare and monitor your budget.
As your business operations consultant, we will ensure you are partnering with the right people and implementing the best systems to efficiently grow your franchise without sacrificing your brand’s quality and standards.
Our Strategy
SMB is proud to be a full service franchise development consultancy, supporting your franchising journey at any stage. From consultation to implementation, we will provide the insights and support you need to effectively scale your business.
We will discuss your goals, current business operations, and a plan of action for preparing your franchise for launch.
We will help you develop your franchise disclosure document and entity structure, operations manual and establish a go-to-market strategy; the essentials of being a franchisor.
We will help you update existing manuals, assess budgets and financial performance, and connect you to the industry leaders to support your success.
A few hours a week in the early stages for most owners. It depends on how fast you want to move and how hands-on you want to be, but we’ll work around your schedule rather than the other way around. Over time, the balance shifts. The hours you spend running the original business move across to running the franchise company, and eventually that becomes the full-time job. How much time you can give it is one of the biggest factors in how quickly you grow. You will not, however, need to hire a team to get started.
Yes, and it happens more than you would think. We will look at where you actually are in your franchising journey, tell you what is working and what is not, and build a plan from there rather than starting you over from scratch.
Not hourly. Our packages are fixed price for a set duration, billed monthly, with a defined timeline and a defined list of deliverables. A typical engagement covers FDD consultation, marketing collateral, sales and compliance training, development strategy, a franchise launch action plan, and a full operations manual built on your current standards. You know the scope and the cost before you start. What franchising a business costs overall is a separate question, and one worth understanding early.
With SMB It's All About the Relationship
