Start-Up Costs and Fees |
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| The HomeMag | Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Investment | 250000 - 350000 | 37600 - 54800 |
| Franchise Fee | 0 | |
| Royalty Fee | 6% | 5% |
| Advertising Fee | ||
| Year Founded | 2002 | 1996 |
| Year Franchised | 2006 | 2003 |
| Term Of Agreement | ||
| Term Of Agreement | ||
| Renewal Fee | ||
Business Experience Requirements |
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| The HomeMag | Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Experience | The Ideal Candidate Will Have * Strong Business and/or business-to-business sales experience * Desire and Talent to lead an Effective and Productive Team * Working and Applicable Knowledge of your Desired Market * A Full-time Commitment to your Success * The Commitment to follow our very Successful and Proven Systems | |
Financing Options |
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| The HomeMag | Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Franchise Fees | No | |
| Start-up Costs | No | |
| Equipment | No | |
| Inventory | No | |
| Receivables | No | |
| Payroll | No | |
Training & Support |
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| The HomeMag | Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Training | No publishing experience is required; we train your entire team at our Franchise Support Center and in your Protected Market. We even help you hire your personnel and find the right office space. | |
| Support | Vendors are in Place your Printers are pre-negotiated with nationally managed pricing and Quality Control. The US Postal Service is ready with your National Account status and pre-arranged postal discounts. All other Vendors including Call-Tracking, CRM/SFA system, Residential List, and a few others are in place, pre-negotiated, and waiting for you. We're involved with you from day one throughout the life of your magazine. From the initial training to your first issue and throughout every magazine thereafter, we'll be involved along the way. Our industry leading support team works with you to ensure that every Ad is created to generate leads every Issue. Our job is to Support your efforts, and that includes keeping you on task toward producing the biggest and best magazine possible month after month. We develop marketing collateral, your web presence, digital magazines, new-hire and personnel management techniques, and we also work and refine your mailing lists, your call-tracking system, and provide regularly scheduled email campaigns on your behalf to name a few. | Meetings, Internet, Field operations/evaluations |
| Marketing | ||
| Operations | Franchise can be run from home. 100% of all franchisees own more than one unit Number of employees needed to run franchised unit: 2 Absentee ownership of franchise is allowed. (100% of current franchisees are owner/operators) | |
Expansion Plans |
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| The HomeMag | Around Town Community Magazine | |
| US Expansion | Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, | |
| Canada Expansion | ||
| International Expansion |
Start-Up Costs and Fees Mobile |
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| Investment | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Franchise Fee | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Royalty Fee | |
| The HomeMag | 6% |
| Around Town Community Magazine | 5% |
| Advertising Fee | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Year Founded | |
| The HomeMag | 2002 |
| Around Town Community Magazine | 1996 |
| Year Franchised | |
| The HomeMag | 2006 |
| Around Town Community Magazine | 2003 |
| Term Of Agreement | |
| The HomeMag | 10 years |
| Around Town Community Magazine | 5 years |
| Renewal Fee | |
| The HomeMag | $5,000 |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
Business Experience Requirements |
|
| Experience | |
| The HomeMag | The Ideal Candidate Will Have * Strong Business and/or business-to-business sales experience * Desire and Talent to lead an Effective and Productive Team * Working and Applicable Knowledge of your Desired Market * A Full-time Commitment to your Success * The Commitment to follow our very Successful and Proven Systems |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
Financing Options |
|
| Franchise Fees | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Start-up Costs | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Equipment | |
| The HomeMag} | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Inventory | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Receivables | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Payroll | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
Training & Support |
|
| Training | |
| The HomeMag | No publishing experience is required; we train your entire team at our Franchise Support Center and in your Protected Market. We even help you hire your personnel and find the right office space. |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Support | |
| The HomeMag | Vendors are in Place your Printers are pre-negotiated with nationally managed pricing and Quality Control. The US Postal Service is ready with your National Account status and pre-arranged postal discounts. All other Vendors including Call-Tracking, CRM/SFA system, Residential List, and a few others are in place, pre-negotiated, and waiting for you. We're involved with you from day one throughout the life of your magazine. From the initial training to your first issue and throughout every magazine thereafter, we'll be involved along the way. Our industry leading support team works with you to ensure that every Ad is created to generate leads every Issue. Our job is to Support your efforts, and that includes keeping you on task toward producing the biggest and best magazine possible month after month. We develop marketing collateral, your web presence, digital magazines, new-hire and personnel management techniques, and we also work and refine your mailing lists, your call-tracking system, and provide regularly scheduled email campaigns on your behalf to name a few. |
| Around Town Community Magazine | Meetings, Internet, Field operations/evaluations |
| Marketing | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| Operations | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | Franchise can be run from home. 100% of all franchisees own more than one unit Number of employees needed to run franchised unit: 2 Absentee ownership of franchise is allowed. (100% of current franchisees are owner/operators) |
Expansion Plans |
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| US Expansion | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, |
| Canada Expansion | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |
| International Expansion | |
| The HomeMag | |
| Around Town Community Magazine | |