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Below is an in-depth analysis and side-by-side comparison of The HomeMag vs OurHomes including start-up costs and fees, business experience requirements, training & support and financing options.
Start-Up Costs and Fees |
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Investment | $250,000 - $350,000 | $82,000 - $125,000 |
Franchise Fee | $30,000 - $100,000 | $39,800 |
Royalty Fee | 6% | - |
Advertising Fee | - | - |
Year Founded | 2002 | 2005 |
Year Franchised | 2006 | 2007 |
Term Of Agreement | 10 years | - |
Term Of Agreement | 10 years | - |
Renewal Fee | $5000 | - |
Business Experience Requirements |
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Experience | The Ideal Candidate Will Have * Strong Business and/or business-to-business sales experience * Desire and Talent to lead an Effective and Productive Team * Working and Applicable Knowledge of your Desired Market * A Full-time Commitment to your Success * The Commitment to follow our very Successful and Proven Systems | We believe anyone who is prepared to follow a smart, clear and proven system can achieve magnificent success with the OUR HOMES™ publication. |
Financing Options |
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In-House/3rd Party | In-House/3rd Party | |
Franchise Fees | -/- | -/- |
Start-up Costs | -/- | -/- |
Equipment | -/- | -/- |
Inventory | -/- | -/- |
Receivables | -/- | -/- |
Payroll | -/- | -/- |
Training & Support |
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Training | No publishing experience is required; we train your entire team at our Franchise Support Center and in your Protected Market. We even help you hire your personnel and find the right office space. | - |
Support | Vendors are in Place � your Printers are pre-negotiated with nationally managed pricing and Quality Control. The US Postal Service is ready with your National Account status and pre-arranged postal discounts. All other Vendors including Call-Tracking, CRM/SFA system, Residential List, and a few others are in place, pre-negotiated, and waiting for you. We're involved with you from day one throughout the life of your magazine. From the initial training to your first issue and throughout every magazine thereafter, we'll be involved along the way. Our industry leading support team works with you to ensure that every Ad is created to generate leads � every Issue. Our job is to Support your efforts, and that includes keeping you on task toward producing the biggest and best magazine possible month after month. We develop marketing collateral, your web presence, digital magazines, new-hire and personnel management techniques, and we also work and refine your mailing lists, your call-tracking system, and provide regularly scheduled email campaigns on your behalf � to name a few. | - |
Marketing | - | - |
Operations | - | - |
Expansion Plans |
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US Expansion | - | Yes |
Canada Expansion | - | Yes |
International Expansion | - | - |
Join A Winning Team Imagine the prestige of owning your own successful OUR HOMES magazine. Together, we produce a gorgeous homes, decor and real estate magazine for you in your franchise territory. Whether you live in a small community or a big city, if you wish to work family-friendly hours, OUR HOMES franchises are scalable. You have the freedom of operating your own people-oriented business with little more than a laptop and a telephone. It's your choice: a magazine in a small community, a cluster of communities to create a regional publication, or a large metropolitan centre. All present great opportunities to earn extra income, replace your executive salary, or grow the business as large as you want. The magazine has been designed to be the optimum print advertising medium for homes-related businesses. It has proven itself over and over again, making it the obvious and first choice for advertisers. Your primary role as an OUR HOMES franchise is to drive revenue by focusing on the sale of advertising space. Our unique, copyrighted and hugely effective SALES FORMULA makes this easy for you. When you are awarded an OUR HOMES publishing franchise, together we will create a custom, prestigious magazine for your community or city. All our magazines exceed the highest editorial and design standards, which mean they pass the "wow" test. The success of our franchisees is a result of them becoming actively involved in their local community and quickly becoming the industry expert in their customers' industries as well as their own.