What Our system offers

Why a franchise?

A franchise offers many benefits over a traditional business start up. One of the most major factors is risk, 75% of all business start ups in the UK fail within one year. You will be have the support of a team that have already been through this difficult time.

With a franchise, the trial and error stage of your business is almost completely removed, this means your franchise will be offering a premium product from a very young age. You receive training and support in ever aspect of business.

Why a franchise with I Can See The World?

Marketing and promotion.

Our franchise system is unique to us. When you take on a franchise your region will be pre-marketed. One of our sales people will have made a sweep of the area and will provide you with information on areas they believe to be profitable, local competition and most importantly, contacts. This means you will be able to trade from day one!

"Hot leads" and enquiries that come through our our studio office's from national marketing or general enquires. We will pass this information through to you to take up personally. Meaning you will not be missing out on vital business.

Marketing material will be provided for you on at least a 6-monthly basis. You will not have to spend vast amounts of time, researching and designing marketing material. New marketing material will be issues to you as part of your franchise fee. We reintroduce new marketing material every 6 months to keep a fresh feel to the marketing, we have found this very successful and through continual improvement. Our marketing material currently takes the form of, brochures, leaflet, cards, CDs, USB pens, banners, emails, and letters. We are constantly researching and testing new ways of marketing the services, so your marketing material is constantly interesting and exciting.

You will be trading under a recognized name, with a recognized logo. We have a strong reputation for image quality and a prestige position in the market.

Online Services

Our online system, allows us to get images to clients in hours, instead of days. It also eliminated one of the hardest and sometimes most tedious issues with digital photography and that is Photo-editing. Photo-editing is an integral part of imaging in the 21century. Just like in a dark room you dodge and burn photographs to get the right exposures in areas, we need to do that to digital photographs as well. You WILL NOT have to spend years learning Photoshop/Other editing programs, we do all that for you.

Please read the page titles "The Hub and Client Lounge" for more information regarding this aspect of our system.

Training and Support

You will receive the most comprehensive high level training possible, from freelance photographs. This is achieved from grass roots. We give full photographic training off the masts to begin with. This builds a foundation of technical ability which then can be applied to the technicalities of mast photography.

You will receive web space maintained by experienced web designers and unlimited use of our "PhotoHub". This allows you to have your own clients lounge and to have more control over your pricing.

Lastly you need to consider than you will have one of the major players in high level photography working on your side. You will not have another person placed in your territory, with your additional support, your technical ability, a team of photographers and photo-editors behind you, you will be a formidable force to battle with.

What does it cost you?

Our pricing (excluding equipment, which is bought outright) is broken into two parts.

The first stage is the initial franchise fee. This includes purchase of rights to use our name, logos and associated material. The right to operate in an exclusive area and the pre-marketing service offered in that area. It also includes initial costs of promotional material, including discs, brochures, leaflets, business cards etc etc.

The second stage is our service charge. This is monthly charge for our continuous help, usage of our photo-editing team, fresh new marketing material. R and D, client lounge with online collection, webspace and use of our logos and material. Please contact us for information on our charges.