Franchise

Big jump now to full on Ultimate Tinting professional. A business in a box, a turn key business. All the initial tools and film supplied, uniforms, van livery, and marketing material. We have by far the best, most informative brochures/fliers out there. You’ll receive as much advice as you need up to the point where you can stand on your own 2 feet, but also full, on going support. BUT don’t expect me to run your business for you as has happened in the past, it’s YOUR business and if you run it to my model it WILL work.

You’ll also, if you want, get visits from myself every now and again, to perhaps help you approach main dealers to get work, or help on a stand at a show. I have plenty of different pop up stands you can borrow, which are a great way of attracting business. Basically this is the full on franchise option but with no tying contracts.

I’ve learnt from past experience, people are very unhappy being dictated to, for example:-

• YOU WILL SPEND A MINIMUM OF £5k A YEAR ON ADVERTISING
• YOU WILL GIVE ME 12-15% OF YOUR PROFIT EVERY MONTH
• YOU WILL WORK 8-6 MONDAY TO FRIDAY
• YOU WILL BUY YOUR STOCK FROM US
• YOU WILL TAKE ON A BIG SMART COMMERCIAL UNIT
• YOU WILL BUY THIS COMPUTER CUTTING MACHINE AND PAY MONTHLY FOR THE PRIVILAGE.

This is what it can be like buying into a franchise, don’t believe me, then try it! 

What I’ve learnt over the past few years is that are plenty of people who would like to get involved in this industry, they’ve got the money but are put off by either the up front cost of the “franchise” or by the restrictive contract.

• I have no contract,
• I don’t ask for a cut of your profits.
• I advise you where to buy film from not force you buy from a certain place.
• I won’t force you to buy any unnecessary computer cutting equipment.
• IT’S YOUR BUSINESS
• You will have your own clearly mapped out territory, this also means I’ll no longer train anyone else on your "patch"
• You can operate under the "ULTIMATE TINTING" trading name.
• You will receive enough film included in your package to cover the cost of your franchise.

All I ask is for a small fixed monthly fee, to cover your listing on the site, the internet advertising and on going development of marketing material. To give you an idea this fee is about the same as the profit from ONE average car tint A MONTH! A bargain yes?

There are several reasons as to why I’m doing it this was as opposed taking a cut of YOUR profits. The main reason is when your up and running, you will begrudge paying this fee, and start coming up with all sorts of reasons not to pay it. If you have a small fixed monthly fee, you can budget for that easily and also, hopefully, you see the benefits to having yourself listed on my site, by the amount of e-mails and calls you’ll be receiving through it. You’ll be happy paying the fee. There are several other reasons, just ask and I’ll explain them.

Because there is no contract, if your not happy, stop paying the monthly fee, simple, I’ll remove you from the site and you can carry on on your own, not using the Ultimate Tinting name or material but just carry on yourself. SIMPLE. SIMPLE SIMPLE.

Oh and I won’t try and sell you any smart looking cutting machines either. Hands up the professional tinters out there, who do less than 20 cars a week that use one!!  I was chatting to a guy the other day who has one. In his own words “it’s s##t”. The templates it cuts very often don’t fit . In theory it’s a brilliant idea, works great in America where just to make a profit, tint shops need to tint 5-10 cars a day and hence their work is pretty poor because they don’t have time to do a decent job. Give it a few years and they might be getting these templates somewhere near right on our European cars, but from what I understand at the moment, don’t bother, you’ll be able to do it just as quick by the time you’ve loaded and unloaded the machine with various shades of tint, and from what I hear you’ll end up doing it “ the old fashioned way” anyway. However they are good if you want to go along the paint protection route, or tint art or repetitive flat glass patterns. I personally can’t see much point for the automotive tinting, yet.

Below is an fictitious example of a busy week, once your up and running . However, even though it is fictitious, there is absolutely no reason why this shouldn’t happen once you’ve got yourself established. The Total hours are based on how long it would take me to do the work. The job descriptions and how they come about are very very common and happen all the time.

Monday.

Hyundai  Santa fe, To protect the kids in the back from the sun. From the web-site £240.00.
BMW, 5 series touring M-Sport. For the looks,  referral from previous customer £280.00.
In Total 4 HOURS WORK

Tuesday

Price up a conseratory job on way into work. Seen the advertising on your van in Tesco’s.
2 X Range Rover sports from a local dealer £520. Internet search, regular work now.
In Total 5 HOURS WORK

Wednesday

Provide privacy tinting for Office other side of town,£600. From BNI networking meeting.
Renault Clio  £180 friend of Hyundai person from Monday
In Total 7 HOURS WORK

Thursday

Friday

Fit film to the conservatory you priced on Tuesday £850
In Total 6 HOURS WORK

Saturday

Was to be a day off but had a call from a friend of the person you did the Corsa for on Thursday, wants his doing ASAP, so £180 for 1 ½ HOURS WORK

I’ll let you add  that up, and the hours, and call me and I’ll give you the price of the film you’ve actually used. You’ll be amazed.  These aren’t pie in the sky figures, they’re taken from a busy weeks work. But hey, say you only get ¼ of that, that is still serious money.

• Now add to this 4-6 phone enquiries from the internet
• And 7-8 e-mail enquiries
• 2-3 drop ins
• 2 enquiries off the van
• 1 enquiry from your t-shirt

You see how it works? This won’t happen over night but it does happen, over and over again, week in week out. Yes you do get quiet weeks but who doesn’t.  Even if at the start lets say you ONLY get 2 average cars a week, that’s £440.00, how long does it take you to earn that now? That’s an easy mornings work. Some people think this is a get rich quick scheme, it isn’t, it takes a lot of hard work, lots of blood, sweat and tears, particularly at the start while your finding your feet, but work through it and you will get there.

Here’s another couple of ways of looking at it. Valeting, HARD WORK, how many proper, full valets you can do in a day? 3 lets say 4. That’s a competitive market so the most you can charge is £40, no say £60 each, so your ceiling for earnings is capped at £240. That’s the most you can physically earn in a day without being silly and working till midnight. That’s a  hard days work, trust me, my first stab at being self employed was as a valetor. Anyway, that’s assuming you have 4 cars in and are able to charge £60 each. If it’s only 2 full valets at £40 each, that’s £80 for a days work…£240 is the same money as a 5 door Ford Focus tinted in 2 hours!!

Wheel Referbishment  and dent repair. What can you charge for that? £20-£40 a wheel. £20-£50 a dent, even flat out you’d be VERY lucky to do more that £250 a day there.

I think you’re starting to see where I’m coming from now. With a lot of businesses out there, there is a physical ceiling to the amount you can make in a day, and you’d have to work bloody hard, day in day out to make decent money. Also it’s very hard to up sell in the majority of these businesses. This is where you provide a service for your customer then when you’ve done that service, you can sell them another of your services. As an example, once I’ve tinted someone’s car,  I’ll ALWAYS leave one of our excellent residential tinting brochures in their car for them to read. Sometimes you’ll get a phone call a couple of days later saying “ I’ve read your brochure, what a good idea , never thought of that. Can you please come and give me a price to do our conservatory”.  Because you’ve  done a good job on their car, they already trust you, your 9 tenths there. See how it works.

Wheel referb’ guys, what is your target and ONLY market? People with damaged alloy wheels.

Valeting guys, who is your target? People with dirty cars and if your adventurous you might do the odd carpet or curtain.

Window tinting guys, who are your target customers? ANYONE WITH GLASS, you show me a piece of glass and I’ll give you a reason to film it!!

This is such an interesting business to be in, everyday is different and you get to see some wonderful and interesting things.

For more information on any of the above , just call me for a chat or even come and visit me which would be better. As I’ve said before all my testimonials are up to date and TRUE!!! Please do speak to some of the guys who’ve done my courses, for your own piece of mind.