A Franchise Consulting Company to help you scale your franchise business better and faster.

A Franchise Consulting Company to help you scale your franchise business better and faster.

/Franchise Scale-Up/

Definition:
To franchise your business growth by adding revenue at a faster rate than taking on new expenses.

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We are a franchise consulting company that specializes in helping emerging franchisors scale their businesses with ONE mission in mind:

To help your franchise business surpass the 100+ unit mark as fast as we possibly can.

Our goal is to make the franchise consulting process as easy and affordable as possible. How do we do this?

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We put the right franchise sales and operational systems in place to help you navigate past the sticking points on the path to 100 franchise units.

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We share our franchise expertise and methods to give you the capability and resources to execute the growth of your franchise business in a more scalable and cost-effective way.

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We introduce you to the right franchise supplier relationships to ensure you have the best-in-class resources on your team for you and for your franchisees.

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We bring a level of strategic thinking and insight to help franchise your business so that you out compete your competition.

We do all of this so that you can actually live the definition of franchise scale — to grow your revenue at a faster rate than your costs.

We discovered our love of franchising while we were building and leading one of Canada’s fastest growing and award-winning franchise brands.

Our passion grew while we helped co-found, consult to, and build a number of other franchise systems across North America. During this time we noticed a massive gap in the franchising world: almost all franchisors struggled to get 100+ units (where the magic really happens in franchising). In fact, there are so few franchisors who reach this coveted mark that it galvanized us to create a method to pave the way for more to achieve it. It’s our mission, it’s our why.

And for those franchise systems over 100 units? Well, we’ve been there too, and understand the changes a system needs to go through and the strategy necessary to prepare them for the next phase of growth.

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How do we help you franchise your business?

Step 1

You outsource the build of key franchise systems to start your new franchise business, grow your brand or support your franchisees.

Step 2

We teach you how to be a great franchisor while layering in these systems for you to execute on.

Step 3

You learn valuable best practices and strategies to grow in a faster, more efficient and cost-effective manner along the way.

Step 4

You are introduced to our best in class network of franchise suppliers including digital marketing, real estate, construction management, PR, and back office services.

Step 5

You have the option to outsource the key operations of your franchise business - Franchise Sales or Operations and Coaching.

Step 6

You grow your franchise business the right way. You learn from mistakes we made along the way with our own franchise businesses in the past.

Our franchise consulting process will save (or make) you more money than what you spend on our services. We know that emerging franchisors don’t have a lot of capital, so we provide our franchise consulting and coaching at a price that everyone can afford.

For our clients with over 100 franchise units, we zero in on three key areas:

Our Franchise Consulting Programs

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The Hartify Method for Franchise Sales

Our Franchise Sales and Development program is the main gateway into the franchise eco system. Why? Because almost every franchisor needs help with growth strategy, planning and execution. If a franchisor isn’t adding units, then it defeats the point of franchising, doesn’t it?

HOW IT WORKS:

  1. We will coach you and layer in our patented franchise sales methodology that we have used to sell 100’s of franchises that will increase your conversion rates.
  2. We will help you build and execute a lead generation strategy to drive more leads in the most cost-effective way for your brand.
  3. We will introduce you to our team of 3rd party suppliers in all areas from lead generation to website creation to PR to real estate and construction and give you access to our special franchise pricing.
  4. For select brands, we will execute on all of your franchise sales from A to Z as your Back Pocket Chief Development Officer. Application is required to this program.
  5. We will help you build a franchise  onboarding program that will optimize the success of your new franchisees.
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The Hartify Method for Franchise Operations, Coaching & Support

Your business is growing. How do you maximize franchisee performance? How do you get your franchisees to “follow the system”? How do you meet their ever-growing demands? And the big question we get from every founder is “How do you scale ‘me’?”

HOW IT WORKS:

  1. We will consult, coach and layer in our full franchise coaching and support system, including our Pre-opening System, Post Opening System and Ongoing Coaching Program that is built to drive franchisee performance AND attain high engagement levels with your system.
  2. We will help you build a culture of highly-engaged franchisees.
  3. We will optimize the franchisee unit economic model.
  4. We will introduce you to our team of 3rd party suppliers in all areas from lead generation to website builds to PR to real estate and construction and give you access to our special franchise pricing.

For select brands, we will execute on all of your franchise Coaching & Support.
*Application is required to this program.

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The Hartify Method To Franchise Your Business:

Most franchise systems start with an Operations Manual, some kind of training program and a franchise agreement. Then they suddenly realize they are in a completely different business than the one they originally started, and it is often a big wakeup call that most never recover from. This is why the average franchise brand in Canada never grows past seven units, and the majority never get past one or two.

For those companies who are ready to franchise, our Franchise Launch Program systematically builds your franchise brand to ready it for launch over a 6 to 9-month period.

We will help develop your business model to maximize your profitability, business success rate, and build the right systems to properly franchise your business. And the secret to our success (well, actually your success) is our ability to go deep into your business model and help you tweak or build the right systems from the get-go to set your franchisees up for success.

HOW IT WORKS:

  1. We will develop your business model to optimize franchisee and franchisor profitability and success.
  2. We will provide the strategy and best practices on all systems that will enable franchisee success and performance.
  3. We will build the operating system which includes operation manuals, pre-training, training and key systems to drive franchisee growth.
  4. We will build the right systems to scale your franchise business.
  5. We will build out your Franchise Development Program and your Coaching and Operations Support program.

All of our franchise consulting programs include access to our full suite of products, including:

Our Team

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John DeHart

Chief Strategist

John is our chief strategist. He is an expert and experienced franchise entrepreneur who spent over a decade compiling and executing on the best ways to build, operate and grow a world-class franchise system. Since selling his franchise in one of Canada’s largest franchise transactions of 2019, he has advised multiple brands on how to scale, chaired the Canadian Franchise Association, and launched Franchise GrowthLab. John knows how tough it is to get past single digit locations and truly scale, and he is inspired to help more franchisors accomplish this. His specialty is strategy and he provides abundant, clear insights and roadmaps to our clients.

John also helped build a company that won a Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures Award  (2011), and Canada’s Smartest Company (2014). He has been a two-time winner of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and is an experienced keynote speaker throughout North America, giving talks on building culture and brand. He is an avid soccer coach, Cross Fitter and trail runner.

The 10 Habits of Best in Class Franchisors

The Only Framework You Need To Scale Your Franchise System

John built one of the fastest growing and best operated franchise systems in the country before he exited in 2019 by being highly disciplined in using Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits checklist. Through his experience and his learnings from other best in class franchisors, he adapted this list specifically for the franchise industry. 

The Top 10 Habits checklist provides the 10 most important functions that should be on autopilot for your franchise business to grow and scale predictably and smoothly.

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The 10 Habits of Best in Class Franchisors

The Only Framework You Need To Scale Your Franchise System

John built one of the fastest growing and best operated franchise systems in the country before he exited in 2019 by being highly disciplined in using Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits checklist. Through his experience and his learnings from other best in class franchisors, he adapted this list specifically for the franchise industry.

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The Top 10 Habits checklist provides the 10 most important functions that should be on autopilot for your franchise business to grow and scale predictably and smoothly.

The Franchise Start Up Manual

TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO BUILDING YOUR FRANCHISE EMPIRE

Dear (soon to be) Franchisor,

Welcome to the most important decision you could ever make about the future of your business! Whether you’re considering expanding your successful business or have already taken the leap, you’re embarking on a journey of learning. This guide was written to provide you with a detailed starting point to guide you in your decision and help kickstart your learning.

This is not boilerplate, generic information written by some consultant who has never built their own franchise system before – let’s get that straight, right away.

Once you have read through our manual, BOOK A CALL with us! We love franchising and we are here to help you” – John DeHart, Chief Strategist and Founder