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ABOUT SMB FRANCHISE ADVISORS

  • About SMB Franchise Advisors
  • Strengthen Your FDD
  • SMB Franchise Advisors & Pastanito
  • The Ultimate Growth Guide
  • SMB's Capabilities
  • How SMB Succeeds
Whether just starting out as a franchise, looking to take your franchise to the next level, or as an established concept looking for best practices, brands want to have consultants with industry experience & who have their backs. In order to properly assess where your brand stands in its lifeline, SMB performs its proprietary 10 point assessment, in which our veteran team thoroughly combs through your brand's assets to ensure you are telling the right story with the right systems, process and execution.
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When Is the Right Time to Strengthen Your FDD?

SMB Franchise Advisors delve into critical franchisor topics, addressing how to prevent franchises from going "dark" and ensuring long-term success. Jorge Quintana shares actionable strategies to keep your system thriving. We also explore the importance of FDD renewal, emphasizing clarity and growth optimization. We demonstrate how KPIs and P&L statements are vital for strengthening operations and enabling sustainable expansion. In just four minutes, we provide insights that franchisors can use to effectively scale and elevate their franchise model.

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How Pastanito Fast-Tracked Franchising

Toni Calderone, founder of Pastanito, shares her inspiring journey into franchising and how we at SMB Franchise Advisors were instrumental in her success. From her initial meeting with Steve Beagelman, we guided her through the FDD completion and registration, accelerating her path to finding her first franchisees and realizing her vision. Toni reflects on the decision to franchise, emphasizing how we empowered her to share her successful model with others. She highlights how we saved her time and money by helping her avoid costly mistakes, and stresses the value of having our supportive team and community readily available. If you're considering franchising your business, Toni's story demonstrates how we can provide guidance and support every step of the way.

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Franchise Your Business: The Ultimate Growth Guide

Our CEO, Steve Beagelman, shares valuable insights into the intricacies of franchising, tailored for business owners aiming to expand their reach. Drawing from his experience guiding over 550 brands, Steve provided expert advice on preparing businesses for franchising and navigating the process with confidence. In this video, we cover key aspects, including the motivations behind franchising decisions, evaluating business readiness, comparing franchising to other growth methods, identifying readiness indicators, strategies for finding franchise owners, common pitfalls to avoid, and maximizing franchise conventions. Whether you're exploring franchising or seeking to enhance your existing franchise systems, our expert advice will empower you to make informed decisions and proceed confidently. Decide if franchising is the right path for your business and learn how we at SMB Franchise Advisors can assist you in preparing, launching, and achieving effective growth.

SMB Franchise Advisors has in-depth capabilities to provide assistance across all facets of your franchise business. Whether it is franchise sales and development, training, manuals, operations or financial services, we have the experience and core competencies to help you execute your plan to drive franchise growth.

Our expertise in franchise consulting enables us to base decisions on best practices and knowledge of what works and what doesn't. Our team of dedicated advisors will get to know you and your concept. Understanding your goals, dreams and objectives will enable us to provide a plan to help you grow your business. Most importantly our team will listen, to you, your employees, franchisees and customers so that we can help you optimize current business practices and think outside the box to accomplish the goals of the company.

Executive Q&A

Executive Q&A with SMB Franchise Advisors

Q&A with Steve Beagelman, President & CEO of SMB Franchise Advisors

What about SMB makes it unique within its industry?
When you look at other consultants, they do a good job; they write a good operations manual and create a good FDD. But, the difference with SMB is the great relationships that we bring to the table and the contacts and experience we have in the industry.

What have been some of SMB's most important milestones over the past five years?
We started as a regional franchise consulting firm based in the Northeast. After a few years, people we knew kept contacting us through referrals and asked for us to help them in the Midwest and beyond. A major milestone was taking on a project outside of our area and now the business has boomed and has grown across the U.S.

What plans does the brand have in the coming years (to highlight momentum)?
We plan to continue to evolve throughout the United States with emerging franchisors. In the next five years, we’d like to continue to expand with new franchise clients but also to continue our services to include working with private equity firms with some of our clients.

What types of franchise brands do you typically work with?
We work with emerging franchisors in various industries including food, retail, service, children's education, fitness and pets. We educate them on what franchising a brand actually entails and how becoming a franchisor of a brand is much different than running one of their corporate locations.

We also work with existing franchisors to implement better systems and processes. When franchisees are struggling or a brand has validation issues, we’ll come in and figure out what areas to focus on, educate the management team and help them improve the support to their franchise system.

What do you want potential franchisors to know?
Brands looking to franchise need to be profitable. Franchisees need to make money. If they don’t make money that is a problem. It doesn’t matter how good of an idea you have if franchisees can't become successful. Brands also need to have certain systems in place in order to think about franchising. If the owner has to be at the location every minute of every day, then this is not the time to franchise.

Also, people looking to franchise often think they’re going to make money on the first day they are a franchisor. People need to know they’re probably not going to make money in the first few years. It’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint. It takes time to build a successful franchise system.

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