Financial Assistance
Provided: Yes
Site Selection Assistance:
Yes
Lease Negotiation
Assistance: Yes
Recruiting Assistance:
Yes
Cooperative Advertising:
Yes
Training:
Scout & Molly's is
committed to ensuring you are ready to go when you open your chic,
new boutique and that you have the tools and training you need to
operate a successful store.
During our training
program, you will be taken through the important processes in
running your own business. All aspects of the Scout & Molly's
franchise are systematized to make it easy for you. Hundreds of
hours of trial and error over the years have resulted in a
comprehensive training program delivered in the classroom,
virtually and in the field.
Training
includes:
1 week at our corporate
office for the owner and store manager.
Field Staff will provide
Grand Opening assistance, including 2-3 days onsite at your new
store to help you prepare for your debut. All field support staff
are knowledgeable, experienced and available to
franchisees.
Throughout the year,
training may take place via webinars, e-training, video tutorials,
small group meetings, or one-on-one, as needed.
Scout & Molly's corporate
has created a password-protected Resource Center for franchisees to
access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This online portal provides
forms, documents, branded material, videos, social media images,
marketing resources, and more. A forum to ask questions and share
ideas with fellow owners and/or the corporate team is also
available.
When you become a
franchisee, training begins immediately. A member of the corporate
team will initiate the relationship with a personal phone call to
kick start this exciting process.
An operations specialist
will then follow-up to walk you through the welcome packet, the
pre-opening checklist and the resource center within days of the
first phone call.
Franchisees receive and
have access to ongoing training and coaching, including assistance
with each boutique's build-out, curating and creating inventory for
the Grand Opening and beyond. Ongoing field support will begin once
the franchisee's store has opened. The corporate team will be on
the road ensuring each store and owner is meeting and exceeding
expectations for success.
As well, franchisees and
reps from Operations, Marketing and Merchandising have individual
quarterly check-in calls. These calls provide opportunities for the
franchisor and franchisee to review sales goals, actual sales and
overall progress on their financial strategy as well as addressing
questions or trouble shooting on tech and software. Marketing calls
include discussion of new campaigns, corporate tools and resources
available, promotions for special events, and more. Franchisees
also have regular calls with our Merchandising experts who teach
and guide franchisees on how to buy merchandise, manage their
inventory, run their sales floor, plan for sales and other events
and more.
Our annual national
conference features a variety of lively, interactive classroom
style training sessions. Topics may cover fashion trends, inventory
management, financial analysis of your business, best practices in
staffing, customer interaction, social media and
more.
Franchisees have easy
access to the tools and resources in our Scout & Molly's Corporate
Support Center.
We also provide weekly
inventory analyst & productivity calls with each
franchisee.