Franchise Your Business with a Team Driven by Your Success!
Complete fixed fee franchise development services that cover every step of the franchising process including, strategy, legal protection, brand positioning, franchise sales discovery process, operations manual, coaching, and post-launch guidance. We’ll help you learn franchising, build for what comes next, and implement a brand focused growth strategy to spark, accelerate, and grow a winning franchise system.
Franchise Assessment
The first step is to determine if your business is ready for franchising and whether or not franchising is the right strategy for you. Just because your business is capable of franchising doesn't mean that franchising is the right fit or that now is the right time. Beyond business goals, franchising must align with your personal goals and a clear understanding of the journey ahead and what it takes to succeed.
Schedule a free initial franchise assessment conversation. During our initial conversation, we'll discuss:
- Unit Economics - The performance of your business and KPI's related to sales, profitability, growth trends, cash flow, and franchisee ROI.
- Industry - The industry that you operate in and the competitive landscape within the franchise marketplace.
- Scalability - What it will take for franchisees to successfully and consistently replicate your business model and operations.
- Founder Goals - Your goals as a founder, including reasons why you want to franchise your business and whether or not your goals align with a realistic franchise growth strategy.
We'll help you understand what comes next and make an informed decision. If franchising isn't a good fit right now, we'll discuss steps you can start taking to prepare for the future! Schedule a franchise assessment conversation.
Complete Development
Our franchise development services include a comprehensive growth strategy and process built around your business and brand including, your industry, unit economics, operations, brand story, opportunity profile, competition, and differentiators. We apply a team approach as we develop a go-to-market game plan, help you understand what comes next, and build a foundation that will help you succeed as a new franchisor and bridge the franchise growth gap where so many new franchisors get stuck!
We kick things off with an immersive Brand Discovery Meeting. This in-person or virtual meeting includes our development team and a deep dive session where we'll discuss growth goals and build a baseline for evaluating your business, brand assets, brand positioning, products and services, supply chain, operations, technology, unit economics, trademarks, and more! Although this meeting follows hiring our team and, before that, our free initial franchise assessment, if at the end of the meeting we believe or you believe, for any reason, that franchising now may not be the right fit, we refund 100% of all fees paid to us.
Following our launch meeting we'll be set a comprehensive action list and a series of structured tasks, deliverables, and meetings led by our team and with clear communication, check points, and added value resources while always maintaining an all hands on deck team approach.
Critical to our development process is economically aligning the financial performance of your business with the financial opportunity that you'll be offering your future franchisees. We'll establish a GoodFit™ franchise opportunity profile as an economic roadmap as we develop your FDD, position your franchise offering, and evaluate the financial performance of your business including, gross sales, cost data, gross profits, cash flow and industry specific KPI's.
We'll benchmark competitor and industry KPI's, prepare a competitive evaluation, and model out a recommended development strategy including, your GoodFit™ franchise profile, franchise fees, territory structures, multi-unit offering options, royalty structures, and operational data points. We'll present our recommended structure and once aligned, we'll start the development process.
Your Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) is a legal document regulated at the federal and state level. Our development platform includes your direct retention and direct working relationship with The Internicola Law Firm, PC as your franchise legal counsel, at a guaranteed fixed fee and directly accountable to you!
Legal services provided by The Internicola Law Firm, PC also includes registration of your trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, state specific franchise filings and registrations, forming your franchise company, franchise compliance training, and legal representation in your first two franchise sales. Learn more about our relationship with The Internicola Law Firm, PC. Although accounted for in our fixed-fee structure (i.e., no additional charges) the portion of our quoted fixed-fee related to legal is paid separately to The Internicola Law Firm, PC.
The operations manual is the how-to guide for your new franchisees and where you'll be documenting everything from your mission and customer service standards to your training, systems, processes, and suppliers.
Over time, after you sell your first franchise and support your franchisees, your operations manual should continuously evolve and improve. When it comes to preparing operations manuals our clients have different needs. Some have well documented systems and save money by preparing their own manual, while others require lower cost templated guidance or full support with a completely done for you manual. No matter the approach, your operations manual should serve as a real-word working tool (not just a book of forms and standard information) that, eventually, includes a cloud based learning management system tools like Trainual, and interactive videos and media.
Depending on your needs and budgets we offer completely done for you operations manuals prepared by teams that exclusively prepare manuals, and lower cost options that include templated options, and semi-custom options. We'll oversee the entire process. Our team is also Trainual certified and we'll make specific recommendations on how to deploy you manual on an LMS platform.
Led by our team and based on our BrandStory masterclass and workshop, we'll prepare your franchise sales opportunity guide, develop copy and a wireframe for your franchise sales web page, develop and train you on each step of the franchise sales discovery process from initial contact through conversion.
Once you become a franchisor, you're just getting started. Beyond issuing your FDD and starting the sales process our team is there for you to answer questions, teach compliance, close your first two deals, plus so much more. Including invites to our FranCamp conferences, access to our monthly live-streams, broker network introductions, and a team ready to answer your questions and plan ahead.
We believe in complete transparency and overwhelming value. Below learn more about our completely fixed, capital smart, and stackable development fees and the compelling value of included services.
Let's discuss franchising! Get started with a free assessment. Contact our team at (800) 976-4904 or click below.
Stackable and Capital Smart Development Fee
Our clients have different needs, sales goals, brand assets, internal resources, organic reach, and growth goals. Although the franchise growth destination is the same, there's no one size fits all strategy and pathway to get there. Your franchise development strategy needs to be capital smart and proactively focused your franchise development needs.
We offer stackable and capital smart fixed franchise development fees depending on your needs, internal resources, and growth goals. At the core of our development services is our Spark Franchise Launch Foundation that covers everything from planning through FDD development, legal protection, brand positioning, growth strategy, and post-launch support.
Everything we do is unique to you brand. We'll help you avoid the missteps and misdirection that that too many new franchisors experience.
Complete suite of franchise development services + franchise legal from The Internicola Law Firm and post-launch support. Services included in the Spark Franchise Launch Foundation:
- Development + Legal Team Approach
- Franchise Assessment and Competitive Benchmarking
- Franchise Modeling and KPI's including recommended franchise fees, single and multi-unit sales strategy, royalty fees, royalty structures, territory structures, territory demographics, advertising funds, and overall FDD infrastructure.
- Financial review and Item 19 financial performance representation development
- FDD Development and Legal Infrastructure by The Internicola Law Firm (Note)
- Trademark review, USPTO registration, and internal license agreements
- Forming your franchise company
- BrandStory and GoodFit Franchise Brand and Sales Positioning
- Franchise Sales Webpage Copy and Wireframe
- Franchise Sales Discovery Process Presentation
- Coordination of FDD financial statement requirements with accountant
- Franchise sales compliance training and FranIQ access
- Sales strategy including broker group recommendations, supplier recommendations, and understanding next steps in the franchise sales process
- Post-launch support, strategy, and closing your first two deals
- Access to GoodGrowth MasterClasses
- A team driven by your success and always there to answer questions.
Fixed Fee $30,500
Based on your needs we'll completely manage and oversee the development of your franchise operations manual by a team that specializes in operations manuals. Some of our client have well documented systems and save on development costs by preparing their own operations manual. Others rely on our team to completely manage the process. Depending on your needs, our cost-effective service options include partially done for you templated solutions to complete and custom manual development.
Fixed Fee $7,500 to $15,000
Although our Spark Franchise Launch Foundation includes post launch guidance, compliance training, representation in your first 2 deals, and a team always ready to answer questions, our intensive GoodGrowth Accelerator membership can help you get ahead even faster! We offer a significant discount to this membership program for our current clients.
What good is spending too much capital up front on franchise development, without the right resources going forward?
That's why our franchise development services are offered at a cost-effective fixed fee. After developing and launching your franchise offering, the next few months will be a critically important monitoring period. As you launch with a compelling brand story focused web presence, great franchise sales materials, and a clear discovery process, and a team ready to support, now is the time to efficiently, and cost effectively, focus on the organic reach of your brand and how friends, family, customers, and social media followers react to the announcement that you're selling franchises.
What interest do they show? What questions are they asking? How do they buy a franchise? How they react will provide critical insights and a great learning process. From there, depending on whether or not you sell a franchise organically, the next stage is to evaluate other franchise sales markeing channels including broker organizations, paid media, PR driven story development, and amplification of your messaging on your social media channels. We'll be there to guide you!
Franchise Legal
Franchising your business is, predominantly, a legal process that requires the representation and guidance of an experienced franchise law firm that will legally develop your FDD, prepare your franchise agreements, protect your trademarks, register your franchise offering, and ensure that you comply with the franchise laws. GoodSpark is the franchise development partner of The Internicola Law Firm, PC, the leading franchise law firm in the nation. GoodSpark is not a law firm (no development company is) and accounted for in our fixed-fee GoodDevelopment service platform is your direct relationship with and retention of the Internicola Law Firm, PC as your legal team. Learn more about our roots and why GoodSpark was created.
Compliance Training and FranIQ Access
Included in all of our development services is compliance training and six months of premium access to FranIQ. The FranIQ system is provided separately by The Internicola Law Firm PC and will allow you to track your FDD registrations, send FDD's, monitor your compliance process, and access a great knowledge base.