Guide2TheWorld.com is the most exciting and unique Internet franchise opportunity that exists today. It is quite simply your chance to own part of our world, to become part of a fast growing global franchise business, and to create your own thriving company.
Guide2TheWorld Internet franchise opportunity for towns cities and countries across the world
The Internet Franchise Opportunity
Guide2TheWorld franchise site specialises in providing English language internet guides aimed at English speaking residents, tourists and property buyers across the world. We aim to have a Guide2theWorld site in every continent, country, city and town on the planet. We aim to meet our ambitious expansion plans by franchising out the opportunity to run a Guide2TheWorld site to entrepreneurs seeking a business that will provide superb financial rewards, stand the test of time and also create a business of real value to yourself and the community.
Reasons to become a Guide2TheWorld franchise partner
- The size of each potential market is huge. Take a minute to consider how many businesses operate in your territory? Each one of these businesses is a potential client.
- We offer more content to our visitors than our competitors, which means increased numbers of visitors spending longer on each of our sites, meaning more chance of our advertisers’ ads being seen. It also means more pages referenced on search engines and more chance of being found.
- Huge potential readership: the total number of residents in your territory combined with the total number of tourists to the area and total number of people looking to live in your area.
What skills do I need to run a successful Guide2TheWorld franchise site?
Sales experience is not necessary, although a commercial background would be an advantage. The most important ingredient for success is enthusiasm and hard work. We are looking to work with partners from all different backgrounds and walks of life, we´re as interested in what you want to achieve as in what you already have.You are not required to be a journalist; no specific writing skills are required other than being able to construct a sentence, use spell check in word and keeping an eye out for local events and news. Most of this content can be supplied for you by local organisations such as Tourist Boards – we´ll show you how to gather content easily.
No specific IT skills required, nor knowledge of HTML or web programming. We use a content management system that makes adding new content a little like “painting by numbers”.
How do I make money from a Guide2TheWorld internet franchise?
There are two main forms of revenue potential: advertising and commissions.Advertising
There are plenty of opportunities to sell sponsorships, banner and button advertisements, property listings, accommodation listings, directory listings, classified ads and newsletter ads. We have packages to suit all budgets and requirements.Commissions
These are revenues where you make a commission on the sale of someone else’s products. They might be pay per click ads, currency sales, airline flights, books, insurance, tickets etc - anything you can persuade someone to sell over the web or that you can refer to someone else’s website.What can I earn from a Guide2TheWorld Franchise?
This depends on so many things: you, the size of your territory and the time you’re prepared to put in.As each of our territories is so different we prefer to discuss this with you once we know which area you’re interested in. We would expect our smallest areas to be achieving a minimum of £30,000 revenue in year 1, whilst our larger areas have the potential to achieve significantly more.
What is the relationship with Small World New Media?
Small World New Media owns Guide2TheWorld. We will grant Guide2TheWorld Partners the exclusive rights to develop content and revenues for a specific territory. A territory can be anything from a town to a city, an entire Region or a whole country.The Guide2TheWorld franchise will include:
- Use of the Guide2TheWorld content management technology (incl. set up advice and training)
- Use of the Guide2TheWorld brand
- Commercial advice to do with content, advertising sales, search engine optimisation, running a successful business and more.
How much does it cost?
Franchise Fee:
This is a one-off fee that buys you the exclusive rights for your territory and pays for the cost of initial site configuration, training and advice. The fees vary with the geographical scope and financial potential of the territory you have in mind. The average cost of a territory is £5,500; however some of our smaller territories start from around £3,000. Provided certain minimum revenue thresholds are met in the first three years, and subsequent periods, there will be no franchise renewal fees. Don’t worry the minimum revenue thresholds we set are easily achievable and are set not so much as a target but more as an absolute minimum bar that you should pass in order for you to be able to make a living from the site.Management fee:
We operate a fixed management fee of £150 a month regardless of how much you earn. This is to cover support, hosting and ongoing technical and commercial developments.Revenue share:
This is a percentage of any revenue you earn from advertising or commissions on your regional site that you pay back to Small World New Media. This is a fixed fee of 10%. You will keep 90%. This is paid monthly. We are committed to ensuring that every single one of our franchises is a successful and viable business, thus ensuring the long term success of our business and the Guide2TheWorld franchise.