Owning your own franchise is an exciting opportunity, especially when you have the chance to manage your own learning center. Not only do you get to make education more accessible to the public, but you also get to be a part of the future generation’s journey. Make sure your franchise is a success, matching the expectations of all sister branches, by following our exclusive tips and tricks! With these five suggestions, your learning center will soon become a household name.
1. Hire Great Teachers and Competent Staff Members
One of the most important things to do as a franchise owner is to make sure that your staff is nothing short of exceptional. This will build your center’s credibility, reputation, and establish a strong connection with your clientele.
Great teachers are a pivotal piece of the puzzle to ensure your franchise’s success. Hire professional and experienced educators who can creatively pass on their knowledge to their students. Not only should the teachers you hire know how to teach, but they should also be warm and friendly. Students should feel comfortable with them in order to do their best. Exceptional teachers will build your center’s reputation and make you more popular in your community.
Excellent staff members are another vital element needed to manage your center more effectively. All assistants and management staff should have multiple year’s experience in their particular field and should be ready to offer a helping hand whenever needed! From scheduling classes, making appointments, or talking to clients, staff members should be professional and reliable at all times.
This method will ensure that your center is in good hands whenever you’re not around.
2. Always Communicate
It’s essential to keep the lines of communication open between your staff, teachers, and clientele. Establish a sense of trust between all three and your facility will solve issues quickly and efficiently.
Create a safe environment for your teachers and staff where they feel they can voice their opinions and come to you with any issues or concerns. When your employees feel like they can trust you, they will be more open to communication as well as criticism.
This also gives you the opportunity to learn from fellow franchisees who are managing sister branches. You can exchange ideas and feedback in order to strengthen your particular franchise.
In addition, open lines of communication are the fastest way for problems to get solved. If staff, teachers, and clientele all voice their opinions, any issue will be swiftly nipped in the bud!
3. Market and Advertise your Services
As a franchisee, it’s important to market your school’s services to the public. Though your franchise has already made a name for itself in your community, it’s important to uphold its reputation through your own promotional efforts.
The best way to do this is to understand your target audience. This can be done in several ways, but one of the most effective is by creating a buyer persona. A buyer persona is your ideal client and essentially, who you want to market your services to. Create a fictitious client and try to come up with all aspects of this person, from age and location to challenges and fears. This way, you can begin to understand who you are targeting your marketing towards and speak to them on a personal level. Once this has been established, you can come up with a certain tone and strategy that you feel would best resonate with them.
Take advantage of local marketing methods such as radio stations and daytime shows to spread the word about your school. Social media is another great, free promotional tool where you can have direct access to your audience and prospective clients. This is a platform which allows you to create engaging posts, in the form of information about your franchise, events you are hosting, competitions, and much more!
4. Ask for Feedback from Clients and Act on Them
Feedback from parents is essential when managing your own school. As outsiders, they can raise important points which can help your facility flourish.
It’s important to build relationships with your clientele in order for them to tell you how they are really feeling about your services. Once you gain their trust, listen to the comments they make and if they have any concerns. If so, act on it immediately, showing the client that you value their feedback and will do whatever you can to accommodate them.
This will surely boost your client retention rates as parents will feel heard and appreciated. Once clients feel acknowledged and valued, they will stick with your facility as they know you truly care about satisfying their needs.
5. Learn from the Franchisor
Our last and possibly most important tip, is to learn everything you can from your franchisor. With years of experience under their belt, they can guide you through any obstacles you may face.
Your franchisor should be there to offer you a helping hand through every step of your journey. From the moment you sign on, they should provide you with information, training, as well as ongoing support. Never hesitate to approach your franchisor with any questions or concerns you may have. You are now partners in this business venture and should have an honest and open relationship with one another. Take advantage of all their knowledge in the industry and soak up all the advice they give.
Choose Inspiration Learning Center
Inspiration Learning Center is a tutoring facility and private school which is always looking to expand with new franchisees. Help educate the future with us!
At our facility you will be a part of an extremely close knit and supportive team. In addition, ongoing support and guidance is always provided by the franchisor in order to ensure that all 14 branch locations are running smoothly.
Call us at 416 819 2644 or email us at info@inspirationfranchise.ca to book an appointment and learn more about franchising opportunities with Inspiration Learning Center!
Sources:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-run-a-successful-f_b_7904608
https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/running-a-successful-franchise–cms-21663