Our Franchise system serve clients of all sizes with a focus on small and mid-midmarket companies, schools, teams, and non-profits looking to achieve a better outcome with their marketing investment. We make branding easier and help them be more visible to their customers. We create that visibility multiple ways: custom t-shirts, branded apparel, signs and banner, promotional products, and digital prints services.
Everyday we get to lead and contribute to building great teams, and making branding easier for our clients, and out business communities.
Why Instant Imprints
We offer a full service visual communications and light manufacturing business that offers the following Benefits:
-Highly Scalable investment that costs average down as you grow.
-Multiple Revenue streams with very high rate of repeat business.
-Very large, highly fragmented, and rapidly growing industry with NO major competition.
-Financially rewarding business model with $553* Avg Transaction Value, 62%* Gross Margin and $934,338 average of the top 25% of centers in the USA* (*based on Item 19 in the 2024 FDD)
-Leading Technology, E-commerce, and Marketing Engine
-Family Friendly Hours M-F 9-6
-Excellent training, mentoring, and support program.
Our Model and Options
Brick and Mortar Opportunities:
Growth Center (Single Unit Option roughly 1000-1200 sq ft)
-Basic equipment package
-Can sell all the same items will simply need to outsource more
-Easier to manage
-Class “B” retail/service based plaza
-Total investment $156,500- $275,000
Brand Center (Single/Multi Unit Option 1400-2500 sq ft)
-Full equipment package
-Service Based plaza or Light Industrial units
-Total investment $181,500-$363,000
Multi-Unit Opportunity (based on a 3 pack)
-1 Brand Center + 2 Brand Studios (500-700 sq ft showrooms with no production)
-Aggregate up to 3 locations to reduce royalties and brand fees as you scale
-More marketing control over a larger territory
-Centralized productions
-Total Investment ($207,000-$495,000) for all 3 units!
Training & Support
4 Pillars of Business Success
It is our intention to provide every franchisee joining our system with a complete understanding of the 4 Pillars of business success: SALES, PROFIT, OPERATIONS and PEOPLE, creating a foundation for success that is unique to our industry.
Our theme, at every step of the training process, is to provide MORE CLARITY and LESS STRESS. Every credible franchise teaches the fundamentals of operations, in our case, sign making, apparel decoration, and the sale of promotional items and print services. But that is not enough for us. We want to make sure that our Franchisees are empowered (empowerment = knowledge motivation) to build the business that they want.
Instant Imprints training:
5 Week Initial Training
-1 Week of in-center pre-training
-2 Weeks of classroom training in a training center
-1 Week of in-center training/work experience
-1 Week of on-site support and store setup
About 4 weeks after soft opening:
16 Week Fast Start Program
-16 Week mentoring and coaching program (roughly 1-1.5hrs a week)
Between months 12-18 (geared for Multi-Unit owners)
16 Week Think like a CEO coaching program
-16 Week mentoring and coaching program (roughly 1 hr a week)
-Transition the mindset from being a small business owner, to being more of a CEO
What makes a great franchisee?
It is all about fit. Our franchisees have backgrounds as unique and diverse as their stores. But they do share some common traits that make a big difference:
-Coachability and willingness to follow a system
-Curious and Resourceful
-Outcome driven teambuilders
-Action oriented and community minded
-Marketing and Business Development focussed
