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Franchise Opportunity Exploration Handbook
As an
overview, we have designed this Franchise Opportunity Exploration
Handbook to provide you with information to assist you in making an
informed decision whether to purchase an AmSpirit Business
Connections franchise. The topics in this Franchise
Opportunity Exploration Handbook include:
- Exploring
the Franchise Opportunity - an overview of the recommended
steps for determining whether to purchase an AmSpirit
Business Connections franchise.
- About
AmSpirit Business Connections - an
overview of answers to frequently asked questions about AmSpirit
Business Connections and its business model.
- Franchisee
Expectations - an overview of what AmSpirit
Business Connections expects of its franchisees to help
empower their success.
- AmSpirit
Business Connections Support - an overview of the
support AmSpirit Business Connections will
provide its franchisees to assist them in being successful.
- Revenue
Sources - an overview of the available opportunities to
generate revenue as an AmSpirit Business Connections
franchisee.
- Investment
Required - an overview of the investment required as an AmSpirit
Business Connections franchisee.
Exploring the
Franchise Opportunity
Review each of these steps carefully. As each step is
important in the evaluation process, AmSpirit Business
Connections will not enter into a franchise arrangement with
you until you have completed each step in succession.
- Franchise Opportunity Information Package:
After having an initial conversation with an AmSpirit
Business Connections
Franchise Opportunity Representative, we have sent you this Franchise
Opportunity Exploration Handbook. We encourage you to review this
information carefully.
- Initial Application Package:
After reviewing this information, if you are interested in further
exploring the AmSpirit Business Connections
Franchise Opportunity, please complete and return a Potential
Franchisee Personal Profile Form (Word
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included in this package. In addition, please forward to us a current
resume and a personal biography.
- Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD):
Once we have reviewed your initial application package and we have
approved you as being qualified to be a franchise candidate, we will
send you the applicable FDD as required by the Federal Trade Commission
and/or your state. In addition to providing you with important legal
and contractual information related to the AmSpirit Business
Connections Franchise Opportunity, the FDD will include a list of all
current (and past) AmSpirit Business Connections Franchisees. We
encourage you to review this information carefully with your legal and
accounting advisors. For a PDF version of our Franchise Disclosure
Document click
here.
- Behavioral Assessment:
Behavioral Assessment: If you are interested in further exploring the
AmSpirit Business Connections Franchise Opportunity, YOU MUST COMPLETE,
SIGN AND RETURN TO US Item 23 of the FDD (entitled "Receipt") along
with a check in the amount of $200.00. Once we have received these
materials, we will forward you via e-mail an online assessment to
determine your leadership personality profile. Please devote
approximately 45 minutes to completing all portions of this assessment.
When we have received the results of your online assessment, we will
e-mail a copy to you. We will also arrange to review with you the
results of your leadership personality profile and compare those to the
traits necessary to be success as an AmSpirit Business Connections
Franchisee.
- Territory: If after
reviewing the results of your online assessment, we mutually decide
that your leadership personality profile is favorable for operating an AmSpirit
Business Connections franchise, we will review your business
objectives and define a potential territory for you.
- Business Evaluation: Once you
are comfortable with the proposed territory AmSpirit
Business Connections
would be assigning, you will have the opportunity to devote some time
and attention to visiting with Directors, Chapters and members in
Columbus, Ohio (or any other operating AmSpirit Business
Connections franchise or corporate operation).
- Final Decision:
After you have completed your business evaluation and we mutually agree
to establish a franchisor-franchisee relationship, together we will
execute the Franchise Agreement and you will pay us the appropriate
franchise fee. At this time, AmSpirit Business Connections
will provide you with the AmSpirit Business Connections
Operations Manual and finalize a date for you to enter the AmSpirit
Business Connections Franchisee Initial Training Program.
About AmSpirit
Business Connections
AmSpirit Business Connections
organizes and supports Chapters of sales representatives,
entrepreneurs, and professionals. These individuals are collectively
referred to as members and the members pay membership fees to
participate in AmSpirit Business Connections
Chapters. The
members of these Chapters meet on a weekly basis to participate in a
structured meeting format where they assist one another to succeed by
creating a forum where they can exchange qualified referrals.
While
Chapter membership can be diverse, here are some examples of sales
representatives, entrepreneurs and professionals that can benefit from
the program supported by AmSpirit Business Connections:
Accountants
… Ad Specialists … Advertising Agents … Attorneys … Auto Body Repairers
… Auto Leasers ... Auto Sales People ... Bankers ... Beauticians ...
Bedding Sales People... Business Brokers ... Carpet Cleaners ...
Casualty Insurance Agents ... Caterers ... Cellular Phone Sales People
... Chiropractors ... Cleaning Services ... Collection Services ...
Commercial Cleaners ... Computer Consultants ... Credit Card Services
... Dentists ... Embroiderers ... Employee Leasers ... Employment
Agents ... Equipment Leasers ... Exhibit Displays ... Florists ...
Graphic Designers ... Health & Fitness Experts ... Image
Consultants ... Interior Designers ... Internet Services ... Jewelers
... Landscapers ... Life Insurance Agents ... Locksmiths ... Long
Distance Providers ... Marketing Consultants ... Massage Therapists ...
Mortgage Brokers ... Moving & Storage ... Office Equipment ...
Office Furniture ... Office Suppliers ... Optometrists ... Payroll
Services ... Photographers ... Printers ... Public Relations ... Real
Estate Appraisers ... Realtors ... Remodeling Contractors ...
Retirement Community ... Sales Trainers ... Security Systems ... Signs
... Stockbrokers ... Telecommunications ... Title Insurance Agents ...
Travel Agents.
As a franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
we will empower you to establish these Chapters and create an
environment where your members achieve greater success through the
interaction with others as well as the guidance that you provide.
The AmSpirit Business Connections
franchise may be right for you if you...
- Are looking for a professional environment where you can
assist others to become more successful;
- Desire to have a local client base with no required
out-of-town travel;
- Desire a relatively passive cash flow from membership dues
that is significant, consistent and predictable;
- Want to create a productive referral network;
- Want
a franchise opportunity that aggressively seeks to harness technology
to aid its franchisees in operating and communicating with each other;
- Want
to be perceived in the community as a leader as well as an expert in
the area of professional networking and business relationship
management;
- Value opportunities for ongoing personal and professional
development;
- Like interacting with a variety of entrepreneurs, sales
representatives and professionals;
- Want a franchise opportunity that will dovetail nicely with
another business or profession;
- Are looking for an opportunity to get out and meet other
like-minded business professionals;
- Want a franchise opportunity where the clientele is
encouraged and empowered to generate for you additional clientele;
- Want
a business where many of the mundane daily administrative activities
associated with record keeping and invoicing activities are handled for
you;
Franchisee
Expectations
Being an AmSpirit Business Connections
franchisee is a unique opportunity to consult with entrepreneurs, sales
representatives and professionals as AmSpirit Business
Connections
has designed this program to allow you to dovetail your current
business or profession with the franchise opportunity. Thus, there is
no requirement that you expend a full-time effort towards being an AmSpirit
Business Connections franchisee.
As it is a franchise requiring that you lead, guide and mentor
a variety of small business people, AmSpirit Business
Connections
recommends that you have a minimum of 10 years of diverse business,
self-employment or similar experience working with small business
persons or commission-based professionals.
In addition, you
must be avidly committed to assist other business professionals in
becoming more successful by establishing strong, productive business
relationship through the AmSpirit Business Connections
program. You will accomplish this by:
- Interacting in your local business community with the
intent of meeting entrepreneurs, sales representatives and
professionals;
- Making
presentations on networking to various groups in the local business
community with the intent of creating greater awareness for AmSpirit
Business Connections as well as establishing yourself as an
expert in the area of business relationship development;
- Inviting area entrepreneurs, sales representatives and
professionals to informational meetings to present the AmSpirit
Business Connections program;
- Carefully
following a formula for establishing self-sustaining, diverse groups of
entrepreneurs, sales representatives and professionals;
- Using strong leadership skills to ensure that Chapters and
members diligently follow the AmSpirit Business Connections
structured meeting model;
- Presenting
materials to and facilitating discussion among Chapter members to
encourage and empower them to undertake the activities to make them
more successful at giving and getting referrals; and,
- Serving as a catalyst for creating and maintaining positive
group dynamics among participants in various Chapters.
AmSpirit
Business Connections Support
As a franchisee, AmSpirit Business Connections
commits to providing you the following support to empower you to
succeed:
- Initial Training: As a
franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
you will participate in a multi-day initial training program near our
headquarters. At this training program, we will (i) Introduce you to
all aspects of the AmSpirit Business Connections
model; (ii)
Provide a detailed discussion of the steps necessary to start a Chapter
and the activities essential to make it successful, vibrant and
dynamic; and, (iii) Allow you to observe active Chapters that have made
successful use of the AmSpirit Business Connections
model.
- Ongoing Development: In
addition to the initial training, AmSpirit Business
Connections will periodically offer supplemental training
and development programs that you will have the opportunity to attend.
- Personal Consultation: In
addition to formalized training programs, staff at AmSpirit
Business Connections will be available via telephone and
electronic mail to address your unique situations and challenges.
- Program & Materials:
As a franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
you have electronic access to a plethora of documents needed to operate
your franchise.
- AmSpirit.Com: In addition, to
the website available to the membership and the public at large, AmSpirit
Business Connections
maintains a section of its website exclusively devoted to franchisees
and directors of its corporate-owned territories. Known as the Director
Only section, this part of our website will provide you with materials
to assist in your personal and professional development, a forum for
franchisees to share experience and logs for guiding and tracking
franchisee success.
- Member & Community Programs:
In addition to program and material documents, as a franchisee of AmSpirit
Business Connections,
you will be provided with access to a library of training and
facilitation programs that you can use to empower members as well as
work with business organizations in your area.
- Membership & Financial Management:
On your behalf as a franchisee, AmSpirit Business Connections
will manage your membership database as well as ensure that your
members are appropriately invoiced.
Revenue Sources
The AmSpirit Business Connections
Franchise Opportunity is unique in that not only will it generate
income for you from the operation of the franchise, but if you choose
you can derive royalty-free income from your enhanced business acumen
and fortified network.
One-Time Initiation Fee: As a
franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
when an entrepreneur, sales representative or professional joins a
Chapter for which you have responsibility, he or she submits a
membership application along with a one-time initiation fee for
membership in each Chapter in which he or she participates.
Quarterly Dues: As a franchisee
of AmSpirit Business Connections,
in addition to the one-time initiation fee, members pay ongoing
membership dues on a quarterly basis. Members have the option to
pre-pay four (4) quarters of annual dues at a discount.
Consultation Income: As a
franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
you develop yourself into, and others will perceive you as, an
authority in the area of business relationship development. With this,
you are encouraged to use these skills to land consulting contracts
with your area to assist businesses in developing their internal or
external business relationships.
Fortified Network: As a
franchisee of AmSpirit Business Connections,
you cannot help but expand and enhance your own professional network.
With this, you are encouraged to parlay these contacts into referrals
for customers or clients for any other business in which you are
involved.
Investment
Required
The
AmSpirit Business Connections franchise opportunity is a business
opportunity requiring a financial investment and a time commitment for
optimal success. For a detailed and current description of the complete
investment required, refer to the Franchise Disclosure Document
Circular provided by AmSpirit Franchise Corporation.
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