Schooley Mitchell Strengths

Most businesses will say their people are their biggest asset. And yet, they don’t really act that way, or treat their people that way. At Schooley Mitchell, we really do. Our great support team and our wonderful Franchisees are people who love to interact with each other, and we could not be prouder of what we have created here — together.

Our strengths are many, and we thought we should summarize some of them here for you so you can get a feel for the elements of our system. There will be more detailed descriptions to these items to help you with a deeper understanding as you continue through the due diligence and qualification process. Of course, we are more than happy to discuss any elements of our system with you in detail as well.

Professional Business

  • Helping businesses increase their profits
  • Business-to business (B2B) service — not residential
  • Operate during business hours

Huge Marketplace

  • Every business and organization needs our help — small, medium, and large
  • Our goal is to penetrate and dominate the market and expand upon our presence as the largest independent cost reduction consulting company in North America
  • Trillions of dollars are spent every year on the services we consult about at Schooley Mitchell
  • Almost all companies pay more than they should for these expenses

Scalable Business

  • No territories — get clients throughout North America if you choose
  • Hire additional people — or not, your choice
  • No restrictions on how many clients you obtain or how much revenue you earn
  • No demographic limitations

Web-Enabled System and Tools

  • Called ‘The Warehouse’ — very robust multi-million-dollar system with constant improvements by internal programming team
  • Software tools and databases for client solutions and reports — proprietary code
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) included for contacts, prospects, and clients
  • Work-In-Process (WIP) system for client assignments and tracking of each client
  • Training systems
  • Communications systems
  • Libraries, Discussion Board, Help Section, and much, much more

Exit Strategy

  • Great resale value — a franchise sold recently valued at $4.5 million, and another for just under $2 million
  • Every client you obtain adds to the value you can sell whenever you wish to exit the business

Training Systems

  • Initial training — five-day virtual training course with live interactive instructors
  • Initial training — additional specialized webinar training while you are operating the business throughout your first few months
  • Distance Learning — full training system for your review
  • Ongoing training — monthly webinars and special enhancements training
  • Annual Conference — great event where everyone is educated and updated annually

Support Systems

  • More than 150 employees at Head Office to provide support/advice/training whenever required by you
  • Skilled analysis teams to do analytical work — all expense categories
  • RAMP Program — you will be assigned a one-on-one coach to provide A-to-Z advice about operating your Franchise for maximum results
  • Sales and Marketing training — through our RAMP training program, we provide extensive sales & marketing training on an ongoing basis
  • Support provided for all facets of your business

Appointment-Setting Programs

Two optional programs:

  • Basic — four weeks (20 days) of calling to set appointments for you
  • SMARRT Turbo Program — includes 15 weeks (75 days) of calling to set appointments for you — plus one-of-a-kind relationship building program to help with client referrals and renewals (Schooley Mitchell Attracts Referrals & Renewals by Building Trust)

Marketing

  • Full team to generate content and maintain a social media presence for you
  • Graphic design team to provide design and artwork — print and digital
  • You have your own website within our URL — customized for you
  • Video marketing — Head Office video team to provide and increase multimedia for all Franchisees
  • Email and drip marketing programs at your fingertips
  • Online store for branded promotional items, marketing materials, clothing, etc.
  • RAMP team to support you

Research & Development

Department to analyze market needs and bring on new services to increase Franchise profits

  • Telecom — 2004
  • Merchant Services — 2013
  • Shipping — 2017
  • Waste — 2019
  • eSignature — 2020
  • ELD — 2020
  • Compressed Gases — 2021
  • Fuel — 2021
  • SaaS (Software as a Service) — 2022
  • LTL (Less Than Truckload) Shipping — 2022
  • Facilities Supplies — 2022
  • Uniforms & Linens — 2022
  • UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) — 2022
  • Office Supplies — 2023
  • Packaging & Shipping Supplies — 2023
  • Breakroom Supplies — 2023
  • Preventative Care Maintenace Program — 2024
  • Image Creation (Copiers, Printers and Scanners) — 2025

Vendor Relations

  • Maintain large databases of vendor information — contacts, services, locations and pricing
  • Negotiate specialized pricing for Schooley Mitchell
  • Vendor Bid Board — to obtain vendor quotes and information quickly
  • Database of thousands of client recommendations to provide negotiating clout and knowledge

Franchisee Network

  • Tremendous resource to each other — sharing of ideas, advice, best practices
  • Collaboration and job sharing are common
  • Coast-to-coast in United States and Canada
  • Our biggest asset/value is our Franchisees

Of course, there are many more strengths to the Schooley Mitchell system but hopefully this summary gives you some good insight in terms of what is provided to you.

We provide you with a professional business with a huge marketplace that is fully scalable and portable. There is very little competition, demographics and economic conditions don’t affect you, and we provide great training, support, coaching, and the most progressive tools possible.

We provide specialized marketing help, appointment-setting services, great vendor relationship programs, a great exit strategy, and great Franchisee relationships. And we’re not sitting still as we continue to research new profit capabilities for our Franchisees.

We simply need good people to operate our business model.