Bloomin' Blinds Franchise Cost and Requirements for 2025

Onboarding

• Extensive work (4 weeks of onboarding) is done before the 2-week training in Dallas via coaching calls and an online learning management system (LMS). During the onboarding training we will cover:
• Business infrastructure: Setting up your corporation, EIN, business checking, merchant services, software, iPads, vendors, van(s), vehicle graphics installed, and more
• Window Covering basic education regarding products available for sale, repair procedures, general industry vocabulary
• Intro to software and systems: Bloomin' Blinds utilizes a robust combination of CRM and window covering specific quoting software. Detailed training will come during the full two-week training, but intro and basics are offered in advance

Hands-on Two-week Training in Dallas, TX

• During the two-week training, we will cover the fundamentals of:
• Window Covering sales and presentation (role play)
• Window covering repair techniques
• Window covering installation techniques
• Comprehensive training of all software systems
• Marketing beyond our AI driven automation and understanding how the automated marketing works
• Intensive education regarding exterior roller shades and motorized products
• By the time the two-week training is complete, franchise participants should be fully prepared to return home and begin taking appointments right away. Like any trade, it takes real-life repetitions to develop your skills, but the basics will have been delivered with enough depth to get you going

On Going Training

• Founders directly involved in business coaching/mentoring with new owners
• Local manufacturer reps offer training on their products and services
• Owners can send employees to the 2 week training - no fee - we want to train your team!

On Going Support

• Bloomin' Blinds has an extensive support system to ensure that franchise owners have someone to talk to, or answers can be found in a moment's notice.
• Monthly Q&A session for NEW owners: Agenda-free virtual team meeting where we can talk about anything you like amongst your peers.
• Monthly marketing calls for any and all franchisees to participate in
• Regular business growth calls - dividing owners by thirds based on revenue
• Dedicated franchisee support call center: Franchise owners have a dedicated team of industry veterans that can help with "should I, shouldn't I" and "can I, can't I" questions. Questions can range from technical questions with products, installation help, customer service, business management and growth
• Learning management software: Self-directed courses created to answer many of the day to day (FAQ) questions brought up by franchise owners
• In-house business coach: Our VP of Business Operations has been building home service companies for decades and is focused on coaching and mentoring our franchise owners to achieve their personal goals
• Intranet with vast franchise resources and marketing tools
• National call center: handling inbound customer calls generated by our marketing. Franchise owners can focus on their customers while our call center agents are setting appointments and ensuring we do not miss a call
• Annual franchise convention
• Preferred vendor programs, negotiations, perks, and benefits

Marketing Strategies
Expert customer acquisition...
If only it was as easy as, "if you build it, they will come"! The leadership team of Bloomin' Blinds has been in tens of thousands of living rooms, have asked the customer, "why us", and heard firsthand why they chose Bloomin' Blinds...before and after the internet. We have seen the Yellow Pages come and go, tried the door hangers, and spent the time in the networking groups, but nothing works as well as an innovative digital strategy and exceptional execution. Bloomin' Blinds has added the intelligence of an AI system, that it owns, filled with over 100,000 customer demographics, countless transactions, marketing wins and losses, and over 82,000 recorded phone calls. Utilizing time-tested, community-based, marketing strategies that are paired with the predictive ability of an AI system managing PPC, SEO, and website development, franchise owners are often struggling to manage the excess of lead flow vs scraping the bottom looking for anything they can find.

Confirmation Day Structure

2-Day Event at Corporate HQ in Dallas, TX (Plano)

Day 1 of Confirmation Day (half day with travel to Dallas that morning)

• Dinner with leadership and support team

Day 2 of Confirmation Day

• Meet in hotel lobby for transfer to the coporate office
• Tour corporate office- overview with the leadership team, meet and greet with the support team and call center.
• Transfer to the training facility for lunch with leadership and support team
• Tour training facility - hands on repair, product overview and technology demo
• Group Q&A with executive team and franchise development
• Depart for the airport