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Easy-ID is to launch its photo booth franchise at The National Franchise Exhibition in Birmingham

“Each franchisee is targeted to achieve a good turnover, which should give a net profit of around £30,000 in year one, building year on year to around £200,000 in year five.” You don’t need to be great at sales to take up an Easy-ID franchise. All you need is a desire to be successful and a strong urge to keep going until you build up your business to achieve your own targets.

The five-day residential training programme at Easy-ID’s head office in West Lancashire will give you all you need to ensure you get off to a great star t. with your franchise.

The training continues with a fur ther week in your own area and then Easy- ID’s franchise suppor t team will assist you with all your ongoing training needs.

The main role, especially during the early par t of the franchise term involves researching your area to identify the best places to site your photo booths. You will use all the tools available to do this including the internet, the telephone and getting out in the fresh air (and even in the rain sometimes) to have a look at all the oppor tunities around your area.

As you identify the good locations, you will negotiate and arrange installations into some of the best sites you have found. Easy-ID helps with your installations, but you will want to be present to ensure everything goes as planned. Promoting the booths after they have been installed is also one of the topics covered in the training programme.

One of the best par ts of the business is collecting the cash from the machines on a regular basis. As soon as you install your first machine you will star t earning and obviously the better the location the more income you will expect!

Each franchisee is targeted to achieve a good turnover, which should give a net profit of around £30,000 in year one, building year on year to around £200,000 in year five.

Easy-ID supports you with national adver tising and attends various exhibitions throughout the year. It also provides you with brochures and letters to help you into the good locations, and local marketing materials to promote the booths once they are installed.

Since Easy-ID was established in 2000, it has installed around 500 photo booths in the UK. These have been installed on either a sale or an operated basis. However, the most lucrative method of placing a booth is on an operated basis where the site owner receives a commission for the space, and it is this method that the Easy-ID franchise model has been based on. The franchisees’ main role is to build up a network of operated booths in their own area while still having the option to ‘sell’ booths, if that is the best solution for the individual location.

Easy-ID intend to recruit 10 franchisees over the next 12 months in areas all over the UK. Easy-ID is the only photo booth franchise and has only one main competitor in the UK. It stands out from the competition by offering a very high standard of customer suppor t to our site owners. Easy-ID franchisees have a special uniqueness, which builds on our standards by offering a true local service that will never be bettered by our competitors. This service is extremely impor tant to Easy-ID, and potential franchisees should share this philosophy with us.

Easy-ID will be launching at The National Franchise Exhibition in Birmingham in October, where you will be able to meet Easy-ID’s suppor t team and its first franchisee who has recently completed his initial training.