“I was forced to think through all my internal and external components and factors that I had not had time or the capacity to review before. It changed how I operated my business and how I perceived the company overall.”
Launching Your Franchise
Franchise Brand Standards and Operations Manuals for Emerging Brands
Some emerging brands consider their franchise operations manual a legal formality when launching their franchise, something to complete in order to create an FDD and begin selling units. Our franchise manual experts customize your manual to make it easy to keep up to date. We can advise you on best practices for marketing, unit development, and support systems that make franchisees more successful.
We tailor products to your specific goals.
A System for Growth
Franchise Brand Standards and Operations Manuals are the foundation for a strong system, but a custom operating manual is only the beginning. Our experience creating over 200 franchise operations manuals means you get practical advice from seasoned writers. Our online publishing system and custom search makes updating information as simple as it is to find.
Plan for Change
You’re not perfect, and you never will be. But gaps in your system and processes will be exposed with your first franchisee. Having experienced advisors can make those gaps smaller and more manageable, requiring less re-work between franchisees one and two (and two to three).
Streamline Support
A good measure of how good your processes are is to ask yourself “Can I train a dentist to run this business?” – because your franchisees will come from all walks of life. Your operations manual is the basis for your training programs, especially at first. Train them. Support them. Help them succeed.
Franchise Essentials
You need a solid start and you need it fast. Sometimes documentation runs ahead of operational maturity. Our Franchise Essentials is a fully compliant franchise operations manual which incorporates best practices and baseline content every franchise needs, and give franchisee guidelines for not-yet-developed processes and policies.
Custom franchise operations manuals with a system to keep information updated is essential to growing your business.
Full-Service Operations Manual
A more extensive process with experienced advisors to help you refine your policies and procedures for consistency and compliance. Simply documenting what it is you currently do is always enough to enable you to scale. We help you arrive at the best balance between brand integrity and franchisee creativity, without compromising either.
Your Franchise Brand Standards and Operations Manual isn’t only about SOPs for franchisees. It’s also a guide for building your franchise systems and giving franchisees tools to succeed. We provide best practices and expert advice to help you get to world-class systems and support faster.
We’ll help you get your franchise operations manual ready.
Tailored to your stage, goals, and budget.
People are saying…
“I was forced to think through all my internal and external components and factors that I had not had time or the capacity to review before. It changed how I . . .
“[We] would recommend other companies build their procedures out fully, before starting an operation. It gave us a better foundation for training, and helped us communicate our standards more clearly.”
“Our existing operations documentation was disorganized, with a lot of the knowledge being verbally communicated. These playbooks enable us to scale.”