ShelfGenie works hard to win clients for your business
We’ve got the concept, the experience and the blueprint for success — all the pieces you want in a startup business. But what about the clients? ShelfGenie can help you there, too. This is one home-based franchise that goes the extra mile to support our franchisees, up to and including helping generate a client list.
Training and support are key to helping franchisees be successful, and that’s why we focus so much of our resources in those areas. Having a solid client list to start out with is important, and if we left franchisees on their own to generate that, with little more than a list of guidelines and a weekly coaching call, that could cause a lot of undue stress. So here’s how we help you build up that all-important client list:
Our Business Support Center
This is a great benefit for anyone looking to own their own business. If you were in business for yourself, you might have enough startup capital to recruit an administrative assistant. Then again, it could take a while, and you’d be devoting a lot of energy toward finding just the right person, with no guarantee that they’d perform the way you wanted them to.
With ShelfGenie, you don’t have to roll the dice and hope for the best. We provide a world class Business Support Center at our Home Office in Atlanta, with 10-15 people trained in sales and client services as well as administrative tasks.
Among their duties, the Business Support team actively recruit new business for your ShelfGenie franchise. If you’re busy consulting with a client, for instance, our team members answer phone calls and are trained to answer any questions a potential client has. People who are considering your services are impressed when they’re met with a responsive, knowledgeable, friendly salesperson.
Talent like that could eat up a lot of your revenues if you had to recruit a sales professional on your own. With your ShelfGenie home-based franchise, that support is included. The Business Support Center also schedules jobs for you and your designers and installers, routinely interacts with clients throughout the project to ensure consistent satisfaction and stays on top of social media reviews, both positive and negative.
Our franchisee-focused culture
When a prospective franchisee visits our Home Office in Atlanta, every team member hands them a business card. On one side, it reads: “Because I said I would.” On the other side, there is a handwritten sentence about what they will do to help that franchisee run their home organization franchise.
That kind of personalized approach between franchisees and Home Office team members is important, as many people who join ShelfGenie have been treated like a number in the corporate world. They are looking for a place that will treat them as individuals with talent, goals and ambition.
“It is a personal commitment from that team member to a franchisee,” says Gillian Harper, Chief Development Officer with ShelfGenie. “It establishes a personal connection from day one from everyone at the home office to a franchisee. This separates us from other franchise systems: Our franchisees are people who run a business; the business doesn’t run them. We want them to have a proper work-life balance, and we’ve invested significantly in our training and support to give our franchisees the tools to make this a reality.”
Grow your business faster
What’s the biggest gripe most people have about their homes? Not enough storage. ShelfGenie helps homeowners get much, much more out of their existing space, and with the average age of America’s housing stock at 35 years old, there’s huge demand for our services.
Our mission is to transform clients’ lives by designing custom home solutions that put everything within reach. We take a point of pain and stress and turn it into a source of joy. That’s not unlike the experience our franchisees have with the help of our Business Support Center.
How many home-based business opportunities offer support like that? You’ll be freed up to learn the ins and outs of your own business, and with the strong support services we provide you can ramp up to break-even more quickly, helping you grow and scale the business much sooner than you might otherwise be able to.
Learn more about ShelfGenie
A home-based franchise, for some up-and-coming entrepreneurs, is the dream — especially when it’s with a franchise that goes the extra mile for franchisee support. If you’d like to learn more about our home storage solutions franchise, please fill out the no-obligation form on this page to start and conversation and download our free franchise report. We also encourage you to explore more about our company on our research pages.
