Why a Franchise is the Best Choice for Flexible Working

Running your own successful business is always going to require some hard work and it may not be the first thing you think of if you’re looking for flexible working.

And when you have other responsibilities such as caring for someone (children, an elderly relative or a loved one with poor health), it can seem like an impossible dream.

After all, don’t you have to be master of everything, from marketing and sales, to admin and management, as well as putting in long hours?

A business model for flexible working

Although the above may be true for some businesses and start ups, if you really do want to run and grow your own successful business, there is one business model that gives you the opportunity of flexible working and that’s an educational franchise.

What’s a franchise?

If you haven’t come across one before, a franchise exists when someone establishes a successful business (the franchisor) and then licenses its know-how, procedures, intellectual property, use of its business model, brand, and rights to sell its services to a franchisee.

In return the franchisee pays certain fees and agrees to comply with certain obligations. In short, franchising offers business ownership, but with the security of a proven system and a strong support network.

In our case, we’ve been providing private tuition in one form or another since the 1970s. During that time, we’ve perfected all aspects of our business. And that includes not just the services we provide, but our marketing, branding and sales, and our internal procedures.

In 2004, we realised if we shared our experience and knowledge, others could replicate our success. So, we started to refine and improve what we did and put it in a format which is easily accessible to others.

Our first franchised tuition centre opened in September 2007 (and is still running today) and there are now MagiKats principals in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

We understand our market, what works well and what needs to be done in order to succeed and we’ve packaged that knowledge in an easy to access, off the shelf format. Everything is documented and ready to go.

What’s so special about an educational franchise?

As the name suggests, an educational franchise is a franchise that provides services or goods in the education sector. Our franchise provides private tuition in maths, English and reasoning to children aged 5 to 16.

With increased pressure on schools, increasing class numbers and greater pressure on children, the demand for private tuition has never been greater. But with so many private tutors charging prohibitive fees, there’s also an ever-increasing demand for affordable tuition. We meet that demand.

Why an educational franchise works so well for carers:

Flexible working

What’s more, because we provide small group tuition in a workshop setting, it allows you, the franchisee, huge flexibility. You can set the times for the workshops (provided they are reasonably sensible) and can decide how many you want to hold a week. You can also decide how hands-on you want to be in the workshops or whether you want to leave the actual tutoring to the mentor in charge.

That means, you have almost complete flexibility of where, when and how much you work! You can choose to run just one Tuition Centre or you can choose to expand and manage a whole network of centres. And you can adapt your business to fit both your lifestyle and your own unique business goals.

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