Supporting Strategies Franchise

At Supporting Strategies, you will enjoy:

– Low initial investment

– Home-based, virtual business with low overhead

– Revenue & costs closely matched

– Recurring revenue model with high earnings and profit potential

– Included onboarding, talent acquisition and technology support desk services

– Full marketing and sales enablement support, with no ad fees

Exclusive Marketing Territory

With Supporting Strategies, you won’t just own a bookkeeping franchise, you’ll also own a designated territory and the opportunity to serve businesses in your community. Receive  exclusive marketing rights to operate within your protected territory and provide assets and tools customized to your unique territory brand.

Marketing Kit

It’s all about the leads. Marketing is just one component of the brand’s responsibility to its franchisees. A cohesive marketing and sales enablement strategy is a key differentiator for Supporting Strategies. In addition to an overarching plan leading the brand sentiment, promotion, and integrity, the company provides personalized territory-specific tactics, approach, and support to ensure you have everything needed to market your business, generate sales, and outshine the competition.

To make the most of your exclusive marketing territory, the brand encourages franchisees to take full advantage of a suite of perpetually innovating marketing resources. Some examples:

• Search engine optimized & natively mobile corporate Supporting Strategies website with dynamic franchise location microsites (coming soon!)
• Social media strategy, marketing and content supported by the Growth team
• Branded assets including display banners, letterhead, business cards, and a broad variety of sales and marketing collateral in English and Spanish languages
• Event planning, promotion, and support by the Growth team
• Ad design and layout services
• Email campaign development and support
• Much more!

Operations Manual

Supporting Strategies provides everything you need to develop, manage, and grow your team and business including: a comprehensive Operations Manual, covering everything you need to know from using our proprietary technology, a value pricing recurring revenue model, building a referral network, providing exceptional customer delight and hiring and retaining qualified staff to name just a few. They are committed to making sure franchisees are well-equipped to succeed. As innovation is critical to continuing success, they provide ongoing training, knowledge, and network engagement to keep all teams up-to-speed on industry trends, practices and ahead of the curve with what’s new and next via a progressive product and service roadmap.

WorkPlace™ and Supporting Strategies University

The company’s proprietary workflow management software helps them keep a competitive edge with a sophisticated, high-tech toolset that evolves with the needs of your business. WorkPlace™ allows you intuitive one-stop access to everything you need to effectively operate and grow your franchise.

• Business Management — Track employee time and create billing invoices for client billing. Also, easily utilize payroll data and analyze budget variances.
• Supporting Strategies University — A complete library of solution-focused and video-based courses, as well as customized templates and articles on operations, business development, human resources, and bookkeeping.
• Team Management — Let WorkPlace™ help you manage team budgets, employee demographic data, and more.
• Client Management — WorkPlace™ gives you all the tools you need to conveniently store and retrieve client information. It also provides easy access to the specific procedures needed to serve each client.
• Task Management — Having client information at your fingertips is crucial; WorkPlace™ makes it easier than ever to consolidate critical client information.

Virtual Key and Virtual Cloud

The company’s Virtual Key and Cloud system provides every franchisee and team member with the hardware (technology provisioning), software, and support needed to succeed in their role. A cloud-based management model allows for safe, more efficient, and accurate bookkeeping and the ability to turn system access on/off via a simple support request.

Franchise Support

As a new franchisee, it’s important that you feel like part of the Supporting Strategies family. When you sign on, you will be assigned a dedicated Onboarding Specialist responsible for helping you establish and launch your business by coordinating your systems training, product and service education, tech set-up, etc. and serve as your ‘go-to’ resource through year one. Additionally, you’ll work with our Growth and Network Engagement leaders and teams to develop a sales and marketing strategy and hone your skills. A Talent Acquisition Team supports all facets of your hiring needs. At the one-year mark, you will be assigned to a Franchise Support Network group with 6-8 other franchisees. This is a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship, where members are encouraged to support and advise each other as you transition from ‘rookie’ franchisees to prosperous business owners.

• Corporate Address: 100 Cummings Center 207P, Beverly, MA 01915
• Contact Name(s): Lynn Stewart
• Contact Email: [email protected] 
• Website: supportingstrategies.com