electronic document storage

An Electronic Document Storage Franchise

If you are looking for a business to business franchise: to offer a quality proven solution to professional service companies, mid range corporates and the public sector; to build a business and long term relationships with regular billing clients; to potentially benefit from and contribute tonational account opportunities; to operate a business that requires no undue technical expertise and to join an exciting new concept, then the electronic document storage franchise might be the right opportunity for you.

Reducing the Paper Mountain

Our core service is to digitise document archives. Every business has a never ending capacity to produce paper records; even emails are printed before being read! Certain business sectors are required by law, best practice or by their own governing bodies and associations to keep client and business transactional records for many years. Recent legislative requirements in the wake of company law fraud (under Sarbanes Oxley guidelines for example) will inevitably further fuel the need to securely store client files and important company documentation.

A proven business concept

thecabinetoffice has provided document scanning services to its clients for 4 years. Over 18months ago we piloted our first franchise which has proven that our business model can be successfully reproduced and we are now looking to build our franchise network.

thecabinetoffice has an established client base around its Head Office in the East Midlands; they include regional law firms, insurance companies, the NHS, private health companies, local government, Higher Education establishments and larger local companies; and we have successfully built a similar client profile around our pilot franchise in East Anglia.

Last year thecabinetoffice won its first national contract with the NFU Mutual, and is now responsible for delivering services to their 340 offices in the UK. We aim to build a network of regionally based scanning centres in order that we can secure additional national contracts that can be fulfilled by franchisees as an incremental revenue stream to their locally developed business.

Our customers stand testament to the quality of the services that we provide:

“The service provided by thecabinetoffice has reduced the cost of physical document storage and the labour involved in managing this; provided a system which assists compliance with regulation; minimised the call to expand premises and has given instant access to records, importantly improving the service that we provide to our clients.” Phil Musson, NFU Mutual.

The competitive environment

The document management services sector is typically fulfilled by small local owner managed companies with turnovers under £200,000. This local service works: clients become rather attached to their records over time and they draw comfort from using a local service provider where they perceive they can access their records quickly. There is little economic sense in transporting paper around the country in order for it to be digitised before being shredded.

There are no nationally recognised companies that deliver the services provided by thecabinetoffice. This means that there is a market opportunity for a national organisation operating locally that can service local businesses and exploit national account opportunities. A franchise network is an ideal model under which to provide this service.

A view from a franchisee

The first Franchise was set up and is owned by Doug Denny. Doug (58) has a buying and marketing background and purchased the franchise after being made redundant from his previous employer. The business has quickly grown to the point now where Doug employs a team of 4 people, has a monthly turnover in excess of £10,000 and helps in the delivery of services to national accounts.

 “Owning and managing a retail or consumer oriented business wasn’t an option for me. I knew that I wanted to run a business services company and work during normal office hours, or as normal as you can when you run your own business! thecabinetoffice offered me a solution that was non technical; that was focused towards a professional client base and offered the opportunity for me to build a business based upon growing long term client relationships – and that appealed to me. I have been able to rely upon the team at thecabinetoffice to support me in the development of my business both at the outset and as my business has continued to grow. In a very short time I have built the beginnings of a very successful business, I have an established client list and I already have one eye on an early business sale and retirement! ” Doug Denny, first Franchisee

What we want from you

This is not a technical solution and you do not need any prior qualifications to successfully build your own business as a franchisee with thecabinetoffice. However it is likely that you will be someone that is confident holding a commercial discussion at varying levels in an organisation, and is comfortable in a suit, though that’s not mandatory! You have probably been a professional person (a company director, a manager, perhaps a sales person) and now have the opportunity and desire to build a business of your own. If you are we want to hear from you.

And what you can expect from us

You can expect us to be fully supportive. Our Franchise Agreement has been written in such a way to allow you the time, should you require it, to learn how to operate your business and to begin to build your customer base before incurring full start up costs. We will help to develop your initial business plan and support you in gaining your first billing clients.

You can call upon us for additional support at times where you need to provide your clients with specialist services, or for example when you are trying to cope with incremental volume.

You can expect us to be diligent in the recruitment of franchisees and to only recruit those that will maintain the quality of our brand.

You can expect us to develop the business in order that we maintain and improve the level of service to our clients.

And you can expect us to listen; we understand that we have a joint interest with our franchisees in the development of our proposition.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Finance Requirements

Total investment:£20,000-50,000

Available areas

Franchise opportunities available in the UK

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