Brian Keene, CEO of Franchise Simply, explains how System Hub helped his business cut costs versus expensive custom software. He says systemizing operations can boost your bottom line 25–50% in a year, and most companies trim 25–30% of their products or services to run leaner.
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I'm Brian Keene, I'm the founder and CEO of Franchise Simply. We're a business that specializes in the franchise sector helping successful businesses and in fact new concepts to franchise their business. Going from a conventional standalone business today into a franchise group through that whole process, nurturing them if you like, through a transition of growth, using franchising as the model. So when System Hub came along, they've introduced that to us nearly three years ago now. We were delighted because we saw this as being a solution. We didn't have to go to a six figure solution, which is what the alternative is, is to create a very expensive specialized system, which some of the large franchise groups and corporates do of course, and potential to do that. So we use System Hub as a vertical, if you like, using the same process as System Hub themselves use, but adding to it all the facilities we need for a franchise group. We found people that really were very lost in the process of documenting their business were able to use the System Hub sort of format very successfully. And things such as the layout, the tag searching, if you like, the searching facility, the and the fact is cloud based meant they can start growing their groups in the beginning with a really tremendous system that offers all the benefits that currently really only larger franchise groups have got. A question we're often asked is why do we use System Hub? And frankly, I think anyone looking at improving their business efficiency, whether they're a conventional business or looking to franchise, it doesn't really matter. The fact of the matter is it going through this process in itself, I can almost guarantee you the results we see are amazing. It's not unusual to see a business improve their bottom line by 25, 50% within 12 months because they systemized. And in the process they realized, particularly with some mentoring, that they are creating a far more complicated business than they need. So they chop off maybe 25 or 30% of the products or services so they can deliver more efficiently what they are doing. And to me this is one of the biggest benefits and a great reason for using something like System Hub.
