- Lead generation budgets
- Cost per lead
- Cost per sale
- Top producing lead sources
- Top producing digital lead sources
- Industries exceeding goals
- Lead to deal close ratios
- Application to close ratios
- Discovery day to close ratios
- Development personnel compensation structure
- Broker results and commissions
- Resale percentages
- ……… and much more.
- Industry category:
- Food
- Retail Food
- Retail non-food
- Service brick & mortar
- Service without brick & mortar
- Cost per unit
- Investment range
- Annual systemwide revenues
- How does your sales budget compare with other brands in your segment?
- Are your closing ratios in line with your industry and investment level?
- What conversion rates should you expect from your website?
- Is your online spending paying off? How do you know?
- Are your brokers delivering—and is their price per deal too high?
- Are you using referrals, and how much are you paying for them?
- How are franchisors using social media to recruit candidates?
- Some franchisors are exceeding their sales goals. What are they doing differently from those falling short?
2024 AFDR
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The 2024 Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR) delivers data collected from franchisors with responses organized by industry, unit investment, system-wide sales, and more. The annual report provides franchisors with the ideal tool for studying their development practices, benchmarking their sales and recruitment budgets against their own industry categories, and setting goals and budgets for the year ahead. The report also includes research into online recruitment practices, the growing use of mobile and social tools by prospects, and best practices by franchisors.
The survey information is segmented by industry sector, systemwide revenue, total investment, B2B/B2C and exceeding, below or on target with goals.
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The AFDR Offers Benchmarking Opportunities
The 2024 AFDR is packed with timely information and benchmarking data that can help your franchise system grow faster and close more deals—while saving thousands of dollars in cost per sale. Based on in-depth surveys from franchise companies, this thoroughly researched report reveals the success drivers that are sure to boost the output and quality of your sales department.
Filled with the most comprehensive sales and lead generation data in franchising, the 2024 AFDR, at almost 300 pages, is a must-buy tool for franchisors, development consultants, and advertising, marketing, and technology suppliers—and is ideal for benchmarking and building budgets and media plans.