Marketing the franchise system – 1

What you need to know:

  • This product is the tried, tested and successful system, as opposed to the earlier situation where the product was the individual goods or services offered in the company-owned outlets.
  • Marketing from the franchisors point of view is not a transactional concept (i.e. pricing, distribution etc.) but a relationship concept such as the importance of customer/client trust, satisfaction, customer retention which would then ultimately will lead to profitability.
  • The marketing perspective of brand value is established in the images, beliefs and core association’s customers have about a particular brand, and the degree of loyalty or retention a brand is able to sustain.