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Starting up a new business can be fast and furious.
Direct Business Advice helps You and Your clients to succeed.
Join us as a Regional Director and be part
of our winning team! |
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Direct Business Advice has been successfully supporting and advising local businesses in and around
Harrogate since 2002. We’ve become well known for providing face to face assistance characterised by
expertise, honesty and flexibility.
Following the closure of the Business Link network, demand for our unique service has increased and it is
not uncommon for us to receive enquires from potential customers hundreds of miles away. This has
resulted in a unique franchise opportunity and we need business professionals like you to manage your
local region by joining us as our Regional Director. If you are commercially aware, enthusiastic and have
the ability to get on with people from all walks of life then a Direct Business Advice Franchise may be the
business you have been waiting for.
Understanding the demand for the service you’ll be offering
Using external business advisors and outsourcing certain functions is nothing new to british businesses,
they have been doing this for many years in one form or another. Many SME’s in particular have benefited
greatly by hiring IT specialists, Telemarketers, Bookkeepers, PR companies and so on giving them niche
expertise without the regular payroll costs. It is estimated that Britain’s outsourcing industry is now
almost as big as the financial services sector, generating more than £200 billion a year. (Source: The
Times, Outsourcing Industry review May 2011). The demand for Direct Business Advice is huge and as
companies large and small cut back on staff costs our opportunity increases.
As a franchise owner there is virtually no business sector that you can’t help which means there are no
restrictions on your income. This breadth of opportunity will give you the chance to build your business
whilst at the same time letting you make time to find the right work/work life balance to suit your needs. |
How your franchise works.
Unlike business coaches you won’t just dish out advice, your
clients will love you because you’ll help them at a very
practical level on and off their premises. You’ll find that
when you are with your clients they’ll appreciate sharing
their experiences with you and using you as a sounding
board for new ideas and not just hiring you to complete
certain tasks or projects. In any given week you’ll have real
variety, some of your clients may require regular book
keeping assistance others may want business plans and
some may ask you to help with People issues we even
attend board meetings and help those businesses to define
and implement their strategy.
In addition to working within your own capabilities you and
the rest of the Direct Business Advice team will utilise our
business hub which has specific details of skilled individuals
and companies that can help you. You will also use the DBA
Academy with it’s unique SME Zone which is a comprehensive online resource with procedures and advice
for running a small business. Together the hub and the academy give a total solution to the issues that
any of your clients are facing. You and the hub members can provide assistance in areas including
Finance, Operations, Sales and Marketing and People whilst retaining your profit opportunity and your
one to one client relationship. A client gets the full benefit when we implement a total solution with you
at the helm. |
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What experience do I need?
We have found that clients like our down to earth approach and appreciate that our broad ranging
experience can give them access to advice and good judgement on the issues that exist within their
business. In broad terms you will deliver advice that you have expertise in, e.g. marketing or financial
management and then utilise the hub and your colleagues within Direct Business Advice to carry out any
other work, either with you directly or on your behalf for your customers. The DBA Academy provides
invaluable reference materials and tools as you go along. It is important that you have a commercial
background and the gravitas to speak to small business owners but you don’t need to be a former PLC
Chairman or super successful high flyer, we’re looking for a professional demeanour with common sense
and with your commitment to learn new skills we know that you’ll be successful with our unique business
blueprint..
What can I earn?
A Direct Business Advice franchise can be run as an owner operator business or, in due course, as a
management franchise where you coordinate your own team who look after certain specific requirements
e.g admin support or sales help. Just on your own though, we’ll recommend a typical fee structure that is
proven in our line of work whilst allowing you the freedom to negotiate your own terms with your clients.
Either way, you can expect a minimum professional daily rate for your time equivalent to £50,000 in the
first year and a six figure income potential in future years.
We’ll also grant you an exclusive territory to market your franchise in whilst preserving the right for you
to work with your own personal and professional network where ever they are in the UK. |
Training & Support.
We’ve made it our business to provide assistance and guidance to small business owners so you can be
sure that when you join Direct Business Advice you’ll benefit from a comprehensive initial and ongoing
training programme designed around your previous experience and your income expectations.
Direct Business Advice is an accredited SFEDI centre of excellence which
means your opportunities for personal career development are unrivaled and
you can work towards a number of formal qualifications with us that
complement your business and the direction you’d like to take in the future.
SFEDI (Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) is the government
recognised, not-for-profit standards setting body for both Business
Enterprise and Business Support.
Remember, our whole business revolves around growing small businesses so
there is no one better than us in the franchise industry to help you succeed.
Launch Assist Programme
Getting your customers is the most important aspect in any small business,
and we should know because many of our clients seek our guidance on this
very issue! Your franchise launch is a special moment and we have designed
a LAUNCH ASSIST PROGRAMME that gets you in business and talking to
clients from Day 1.
Using a variety of marketing techniques including fax and e-shots,
conventional direct mail, telemarketing, social media and PR we’ll launch
your campaign with a bang whilst you are in training and teach you all that
you need to know to deal with enquiries and then grow your business in the
crucial early months. |
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Franchising works!
Franchising is proven to be the most profitable route into self
employment with around 90% of all franchises trading profitably.
This is because when you acquire a franchise you are, in effect,
replicating an already successful business model.
All franchisees get the immediate benefit of a successful business
owners research and development, allowing them to hit the
ground running and avoiding the costly mistakes that going it
alone often entails.
When you are a franchise owner you are in business for yourself
but not by yourself and it is for this reason that franchising
attracts many shrewd investors and entrepreneurs.
Perhaps the most attractive part of franchising is that you are
creating a business that can be sold on at a future date for a
multiple of its annual profits.
Source: BFA/Natwest Annual Survey
"Screw it, let’s do it!"
Richard Branson, Founder Virgin Group
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