Are you open to doing things differently?
Your time matters. Your money matters!
Wondering how, when and where to get started with your First Franchise Business? Still clouded with suspicion and indecisiveness? At #FirstAndBeyond, we don’t sell you a brand franchise based on your propensity to spend and appetite to invest. We scout what suits your geography, your ROI expectations and your level of involvement.
#FirstAndBeyond is about doing things differently, in the same ecosystem, without causing any disruptions. Because what we are about to do, is what should have been done in the first place.
- Structuring assets worth $2.7 million
- Expanding businesses valued at $14.2 million
- Getting started 139 first timers
First & Beyond
We are an idea that originates from the belief that given a choice most people would choose to do something of their own. But then, designing a business and choreographing business strategies and converting those into business profits does not come naturally – it not only takes experience but also mitigation of risk that comes with this plunge.
We do not pick off the shelf products to franchise. We design products with brands – projects that can be rolled out as franchised standalone business units. Wherein we become a tri-party with the brand and the franchisee to oversee and support the invested party through and through to the date that the business becomes financially sustainable.
Bridging your time between First and Faster!
We are advocates of your rights as an investor, and torchbearers of your interests in the business and not just facilitators of a brand negotiation and closure. We do promote what the brand is about. But we focus more on the derivatives of your time and money in reference to the brand you sign up for.
An educated, experienced lot from the IIM, ISB, ICAI with exposure to international business practices in entrepreneurship, market research, product design, forensic audit and customer segmentation roar #FirstAndBeyond differently because what’s being happening isn’t working any more.
Franchise stores open and close. The brand is busy expanding. The franchisee is busy diversifying. The store staff is busy running operations. We fill in the gaps – creating business sustainability that reflects in ROI and subsequently profits. And we do this much before the cracks appear and the enterprise is at a risk of falling apart. #FirstAndBeyond is your causeway between investments and returns.
At #FirstAndBeyond, we ensure that your First Steps into the business journey as a skeptic are so well defined with data mapping, industry BI and course-correction that the Faster Mover in you is enthused to take the next steps as a well thought out opportunity and not challenge or risks.
Life @ First & Beyond
Breaking growth strategy into steps
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Evaluating the opportunity both ways
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Evaluating active outlets of the brand together
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Closing the loop on paperwork
10.
Running marketing campaigns to attract footfalls
02.
Subscribing to Business Intelligence about the brand / industry you choose
05.
Assessing geography and catchment understanding
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Coordinating store fit outs and opening
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Designing promotions and schemes to activate conversions
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Exercising the pros and cons of the industry and the brand on offer
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Crunching numbers on feasibility and ROI
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Enabling tech onboarding with payment gateways, billing hardware, etc
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Ensuring business sustainability towards profits
Assessing the opportunity
When it comes to taking a franchise and replicating an already successful model, one needs to assess –
- How much investment I can make without creating debt?
- How much time I can directly dedicate to the business?
- Do I have any BI of the trade or am relying on the brand entirely?
- Do I know how to manage a team, or am I Mr or Miss DIY?
- Will I be able to manage working capital from pocket?
The most pertinent being – Are you willing to give the business what it takes – effort, sleeplessness, fatigue and losses. Because you are not going to make profits in the first month, may be not even the quarter, not even the first year perhaps. But eventually you will. We work with you till that date – Closing the loop of paperwork, compliances, setting up of supply chain, vendor shortlisting and management, staffing and stocking, retailing, falling flat and then the P&L and profits.
Exploring different ways of getting there!
We are sure you have heard this before –
“We are franchising experts. You sit back and relax. We will setup up the business. And it will run itself. You just count the returns.”
Perhaps everyone selling a franchise says the same in a mumbo jumbo of words not in the same order may be. And the day you get stuck, you are asked to read between the lines on some terms you have signed; much like the Force Majuere of ‘Will of God’ from the blockbuster OMG.
At #FirstAndBeyond, we work with enterprising individuals who are willing to let go of the old and to make room for the new. We handhold them through the #LetsStop, #LetsReflect, #LetsAssess to the #LetsAskHow to the #LetsDoThis #FirstAndBeyond stage of their business.
We are with you through your first step to the next and beyond. We partner you for your first business, the next and beyond.
