| The local team |
| Regional franchise |
| Brand co-ordinators |
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Local
consultants (franchises) |
| The new area |
| Regions |
| Brands |
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What you can see now |
Becoming involved |
| How to become involved as a Regional Franchisee or brand coordinator |
| How to become involved in a franchise |
| Enquiry form |
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Information for artists and photographers |
| Handout Downloads |
Fast track involvement |
| Challenge advert |
| Seminars/events |
Specialist opportunities |
| Recruitment coordinator |
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Recruitment assistant |
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Links |
| Websites of interest |
The local team
| Do you have an interest in helping more people to enjoy
fine works of fine Art. Would you like to take on one of the challenges we
are able to make available, if so then perhaps you should join our team. As a non profit organisation, with no paid central staff and no shareholders, we don't have a driving desire to make money, however we understand that many of our partners, such as artists, image publishers and our local teams do enjoy having the opportunity to get a good income from a role that they really enjoy. As we don't need a large slice of the pie (income) that is available to share between the partners and team members involved they can each have a larger slice. The largest slice goes to members of the local team, after all they are providing the very valuable local service, on an individual basis, while publishers and artists can take a smaller slice as the sum of a number of smaller slices is sufficient for them. |
Full Steam Ahead |
No member of the local team should expect to earn less than they have previously and most will earn far more, plus of course do an interesting task that they fully enjoy.
Compared to most fine art available we spend a larger part on the production process. Much of ours is presented using museum glass which is expensive, where many others avoid this on cost grounds, and we have involved a number of technical areas that although adding cost, make the art a better long term investment. Throughout the process is organised to the very highest standards, and quality control is second to none. This allows us to provide the unique double guarantee we offer our clients. We don't pass this additional cost on to clients, but give them a far superior product at about the same price as competitors offer similar work. Most of the cost of doing this is covered by the reduced marketing costs by the publishers, and the way we have scaled the production. Artists also get a smaller share of each individual sale, but can expect to see higher sales that more than compensates for this.
The client gets a far superior deal, a fine work produced to the highest standards, in many cases with museum glass, and technical items added, superior framing, and hanging systems, and the help of the local art consultant, who not only discusses it in their own home or office, but shows them art in the environment it is to be viewed and will hang it for them if they wish. As you can see we have a win win situation, good for the clients and for all of our team.
Local team structure
The local team is made up of two parts,
- at a regional level the Regional Franchises and brand coordinators
- at a local level local consultants.
There is a regional franchise or brand coordinator for each brand, and we have 8 brands in development at this time, and expect to add more. Each Regional Franchise or brand coordinator covers a region. The UK is split into 18 regions, so as you can see we will on current estimates have a need for 108 brand coordinators. There is no cost to those who become brand coordinators, and full training is provided, you can find out more about brand coordinators by clicking here. Regional franchises includes the brand coordination role but also the recruitment or franchises and so have two income streams and more to get into straight away in a new region. We now suggest that most people look at becoming Regional Franchises instead of brand coordinators, for a number of reasons and in many reasons now are not signing up brand coordinators until we have at last one regional franchise in the region. Find out more about Regional franchises by clicking here.
Local consultants operate in local teams, and each is a franchise, however these franchises are unusual in that there are no franchise fees to start. Training and a lot of support is sponsored by other partners. There are three types of franchises, that you may like to think of as according to size and commitments, with one of the larger ones the centre of each area team, click here to find out more about the local consultants.