Start-Up Costs and Fees |
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| Gift Card Monkey | Growing Roots | |
| Investment | 10950 - 27600 | 25100 - 45100 |
| Franchise Fee | ||
| Royalty Fee | 4% | |
| Advertising Fee | 1% | |
| Year Founded | 0 | 0 |
| Year Franchised | 0 | 0 |
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Business Experience Requirements |
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Financing Options |
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Training & Support |
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| Gift Card Monkey | Growing Roots | |
| Training | Training is conducted prior to opening your business and it is conducted by our professional team, which may consist of both corporate-based trainers and Regional Trainers. The initial training is typically conducted at our headquarter location in Miami, Florida and is free of charge to you. You are responsible for your travel expenses. We also offer free ongoing refresher trainings which will continue to help you become familiar in modern sales and marketing techniques. When you complete the initial training you are ready to start your business and through this training you have acquired the skills to: Be completely ready to open and operate your store. Be ready to hire and manage employees for your business. Be comfortable with people management. Manage your inventory. Perform effective advertising and marketing campaigns, public relations strategies in order to establish and grow your business. Perform and handle the day to day operations of your business. Command the computer and hardware/software and POS systems needed to operate your business. Implement new sales and merchandising strategies to improve and maximize sales. Understand Gift Card Monkey business reporting & requirements. | An extensive initial 5 day training at Headquarters and off-site. Before the initial training in Long Beach, CA, you will be sent a package with pre-training materials including manuals, DVD's and books to review in order to get you familiar with interior plantscaping. Training will consist of but not limited to, study materials on plant identification and proper care, hands-on lessons, nursery tours, business training and review of the expansive Operations Manual. |
| Support | At Gift Card Monkey, we are extremely proud of our franchisee support. Our philosophy is extremely simple. Our franchisee's success translates into our success and their failure translated into our failure. It is therefore to our best interest to support our franchisees without any restrictions or boundaries. One of the main advantages of purchasing a franchise and a main reason why most franchises succeed as compared to individual businesses is the support you will receive from the headquarters. You will never feel that you are alone. You will consider us your partner in this endeavor, every day. As our franchise network grows, with every new franchisee you have gained yourself a new partner. We all go to work every day and we all share the same goals and the same ambitions. Our goal is to grow the Gift Card Monkey brand, constantly provide new products and services and ultimately make the business more profitable for all of our partners (franchisees). There is absolutely no limitation in the amount of available support. You can call us for any reason including advertising consulting, technical help, additional training or sales support. As you contact us, you are always priority. Once again your success directly translates into our success and we take this very seriously. | Access to on-going support for all of your questions and concerns via phone and e-mail. Franchisee's will also have the opportunity to attend franchisee meetings and training sessions in order to share ideas and thoughts that will strengthen the franchise system as a whole. We will also set-up franchisee meetings at Industry seminars and trade shows so we can take advantage of the time to learn and grow. |
| Marketing | *Vehicle rear window decal *Promotional banners personalized for you *An on-line vault for information sharing with other franchisees *Email marketing *Direct mail campaign *Text message campaign *In-store LCD and LED promotional products *Balloons, banners, yard signs, etc. And much more | During the initial 5-day training we will cover marketing and advertising techniques as well as going over the marketing materials we utilize. You will be provided with some of the select marketing materials during training and the information for preferred printing vendors. As part of advertising, we will provide assistance in creating the proper signage for your specific vehicle with the Growing Roots logo using our preferred vendor or an approved local vendor. |
| Operations | ||
Expansion Plans |
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Start-Up Costs and Fees Mobile |
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| Franchise Fee | |
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| Royalty Fee | |
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| Growing Roots | 4% |
| Advertising Fee | |
| Gift Card Monkey | |
| Growing Roots | 1% |
| Year Founded | |
| Gift Card Monkey | 0 |
| Growing Roots | 0 |
| Year Franchised | |
| Gift Card Monkey | 0 |
| Growing Roots | 0 |
| Term Of Agreement | |
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| Renewal Fee | |
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Business Experience Requirements |
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Financing Options |
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| Equipment | |
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| Inventory | |
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| Receivables | |
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| Payroll | |
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Training & Support |
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| Training | |
| Gift Card Monkey | Training is conducted prior to opening your business and it is conducted by our professional team, which may consist of both corporate-based trainers and Regional Trainers. The initial training is typically conducted at our headquarter location in Miami, Florida and is free of charge to you. You are responsible for your travel expenses. We also offer free ongoing refresher trainings which will continue to help you become familiar in modern sales and marketing techniques. When you complete the initial training you are ready to start your business and through this training you have acquired the skills to: Be completely ready to open and operate your store. Be ready to hire and manage employees for your business. Be comfortable with people management. Manage your inventory. Perform effective advertising and marketing campaigns, public relations strategies in order to establish and grow your business. Perform and handle the day to day operations of your business. Command the computer and hardware/software and POS systems needed to operate your business. Implement new sales and merchandising strategies to improve and maximize sales. Understand Gift Card Monkey business reporting & requirements. |
| Growing Roots | An extensive initial 5 day training at Headquarters and off-site. Before the initial training in Long Beach, CA, you will be sent a package with pre-training materials including manuals, DVD's and books to review in order to get you familiar with interior plantscaping. Training will consist of but not limited to, study materials on plant identification and proper care, hands-on lessons, nursery tours, business training and review of the expansive Operations Manual. |
| Support | |
| Gift Card Monkey | At Gift Card Monkey, we are extremely proud of our franchisee support. Our philosophy is extremely simple. Our franchisee's success translates into our success and their failure translated into our failure. It is therefore to our best interest to support our franchisees without any restrictions or boundaries. One of the main advantages of purchasing a franchise and a main reason why most franchises succeed as compared to individual businesses is the support you will receive from the headquarters. You will never feel that you are alone. You will consider us your partner in this endeavor, every day. As our franchise network grows, with every new franchisee you have gained yourself a new partner. We all go to work every day and we all share the same goals and the same ambitions. Our goal is to grow the Gift Card Monkey brand, constantly provide new products and services and ultimately make the business more profitable for all of our partners (franchisees). There is absolutely no limitation in the amount of available support. You can call us for any reason including advertising consulting, technical help, additional training or sales support. As you contact us, you are always priority. Once again your success directly translates into our success and we take this very seriously. |
| Growing Roots | Access to on-going support for all of your questions and concerns via phone and e-mail. Franchisee's will also have the opportunity to attend franchisee meetings and training sessions in order to share ideas and thoughts that will strengthen the franchise system as a whole. We will also set-up franchisee meetings at Industry seminars and trade shows so we can take advantage of the time to learn and grow. |
| Marketing | |
| Gift Card Monkey | *Vehicle rear window decal *Promotional banners personalized for you *An on-line vault for information sharing with other franchisees *Email marketing *Direct mail campaign *Text message campaign *In-store LCD and LED promotional products *Balloons, banners, yard signs, etc. And much more |
| Growing Roots | During the initial 5-day training we will cover marketing and advertising techniques as well as going over the marketing materials we utilize. You will be provided with some of the select marketing materials during training and the information for preferred printing vendors. As part of advertising, we will provide assistance in creating the proper signage for your specific vehicle with the Growing Roots logo using our preferred vendor or an approved local vendor. |
| Operations | |
| Gift Card Monkey | |
| Growing Roots | |
Expansion Plans |
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| US Expansion | |
| Gift Card Monkey | |
| Growing Roots | |
| Canada Expansion | |
| Gift Card Monkey | |
| Growing Roots | |
| International Expansion | |
| Gift Card Monkey | |
| Growing Roots | |