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What if we told you that if you were to pee on a certain ad to prove you were pregnant, you could use it as a 50% discount on a cot in a shop? You would think we were crazy. However, this is exactly what IKEA did in a magnificent and extremely clever marketing ploy in order to increase brand awareness and sales.  However, other advertisers have used bright ideas to sell their products. Ads that can be touched, smelt and tasted, (there is a Fanta tasting advert). And these ads have one...

DOR-2-DOR has been outlining how its unique door drop leaflet service can help businesses drum up extra orders in the run-up to Christmas.As Christmas draws closer and closer, most of the UK’s companies are putting their final marketing plans into action to make sure they’re able to capture as many of the UK’s festive shoppers as possible. Marketing franchise Dor-2-Dor has been showing how its print-based and door drop marketing service can help businesses get ahead of the competitors this Dece...

In the UK, our door letter boxes are unlike the traditional American mailboxes, usually situated at the end of a driveway. These mailboxes are the ‘sole domain of the US Mail’ in which independent businesses are not allowed to access them or post marketing material. Can you imagine... No more takeaway leaflets!In order to get around this many US businesses have established a co-operative system of shared envelopes containing promotions from local shops and businesses who then use the US mail to...

At Total Clean we understand that the decision to purchase business and/or a franchise is a major “life” decision. For the vast majority of people starting a new business will involve significant, mostly positive, changes to virtually every aspect of their lives. This is obviously a decision that should not be taken lightly and it would be wrong to “sell” or persuade. We therefore prefer to take the approach that we will provide candidates with all the relevant information they need to help the...

With pubs, restaurants, cinemas and other establishments in the hospitality sector all being closed at some point over the last 15 months, things are beginning to open and stay that way. With that in mind, we look at some ways that you could become a franchise owner and get involved in the profits that come with it. The last year has seen us all completing Netflix, take up running and then subsequently give up running, become Mary Berry and then just buy a Tesco’s own instead. What I am ge...

Your Mortgage Plus franchisee managed to process a mortgage application, receiving an offer in only 8 days due to their capabilities, experience, and insight, all of which came together to enable an unbelievably quick turnaround.The mortgage application was submitted by a sole applicant for £331,000, covering 84% of the purchase price on a £390,000 property in the London area after the £59,000 deposit was factored in.The applicant, a First Time Buyer (FTB), had been referred to one of our adviso...

Joy Dowell, Your Mortgage Plus franchisee managed a tremendous achievement of completing a staggering 16 mortgages throughout March this year. That averages out at just above one mortgage completed every two days!  Of the 16 cases, approximately 60%-70% were Buy-To-Let (BTL), with one client completing 3 re-mortgages for their properties. As a Your Mortgages Plus advisor, Joy is directly regulated with the FCA which allows her to place both regulated and unregulated BTL cases. The rema...

Your Mortgage Plus used their knowledge to help secure a mortgage for a client who was an employee at a major high street bank, who was refused on her first application. Darren Street, a regulated advisor of our network, has recently placed a case with Halifax for a client who is an employee of a different major high street bank who were not willing to lend to her. The client, an underwriter at her bank, was not able to access funds from her place of work, as she had a number of defaults 5...

In certain industries such as travel, recent statistics show that women are opening 1 out of ever 3 new franchise businesses. It was once historically a very male-dominated industry, franchising is slowly but surely have been changing this over the past decade.  “Across the last 6 months, we’ve seen just over 50% of our new franchisees to be women.” The Travel Franchise Generally speaking women have strong communication skills, are good at building relationships, networking and often...

Ross joined The Travel Franchise at the end of 2020 and was part of the last training group. After his music production business slowed following the pandemic, Ross went with our Elite franchise package to start his instant travel business.After a £76k holiday booking came in we couldn’t pass on the chance to hear more from the man himself.Tell us more about this £76k holiday booking… “The booking was for a family of eleven and it’s multi-generational! They are all going to Orlando f...

David Walker of the Not Just Travel franchise has just hit £10 million in sales! He claims his success is down to a genuine love for giving customers the best-ever experience.Never one to be idle, David used to sit planning holidays while watching TV, so becoming a personal travel consultant, running his very own travel business felt like the obvious move. Now seven years down the line, he said he’s never been happier.David, who runs The Travel Snob, is a homeworking travel consultant. He starte...

The Travel Franchise's Reshma, aged 39, lives in Essex with her family. Reshma decided to leave the corporate world behind and launched her business back in October 2020 and she has just achieved the Money Back Challenge. She is now a successful travel business owner.“I’ve achieved the Money Back Challenge 6 months after first starting my travel business. After being an at-home mum of 3 for 7-8 years, to hear this news has really given me a feeling of a sense of achievement. I’ve worked incredib...