 From the same highly
successful ORCA Websites team, the
ORCA Local franchise enables you to start and run your own internet
business helping local businesses promote
themselves to local people.
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Dean Watmough, Managing
Director |
Everyone has a close affinity
with their local town and their local community, but if local
people do not spend with local businesses, that means less revenue
is injected in to the local economy. The vast majority of local
businesses survive and thrive on referrals, word of mouth and
advertising campaigns within their local area. When times get hard,
as they currently are, the first thing they do is abandon their
advertising spend (particularly in the local papers)
inorder to cut
costs.
Your role as an ORCA Local franchisee is to work with local
business owners to arrange exclusive offers that they are
willing to make available only to ORCA Local website members and
ORCA Local Key Card holders.
As more people visit your ORCA Local website and register as
subscribers, or register their ORCA Local Key Cards, they opt-in to
receive regular emails from you about the latest offers your
clients are advertising on your ORCA Local
site.
 
The Key Card is simply a plastic
card that attaches to a key ring. Key Card holders are then able to
claim the exclusive offers that your clients (local businesses) are
promoting on your ORCA Local site and to make life even easier,
your clients display the ORCA Local Key Card window sticker to
ensure that Key Card holders know which businesses are
participating.
Magnus De Woul, Business
Development Director |
People still spend in
recessions, they just become more bargain conscious and more
prudent about what they buy. And
where is the best place to find bargains? The
internet!
Although the majority
oflocal business owners are aware of
the internet and even use it in their
personal lives, they simply haven’t incorporated it in to
their business lives. Dramatic as it sounds, the internet is the
future of business and those not using it effectively are fighting
a losing battle. | 
John
Walker, The Federation ofSmall
Businesses |
The timing for this venture is absolutely perfect. Small
businesses need customers now and ORCA Local gives them the
opportunity to reach local people fast.
The ORCA Head Office Business Development Team contact local
business owners on your behalf to offer them a free listing on your
ORCA Local website.
You then send them the ORCA
Local letter and brochure to introduce them to the site and the
ORCA Local Key Card scheme.
The Business Development Team then follow up your letters with
telephone calls to set meetings with the business owners so you can
talk them through their ORCA Local opportunities in more
detail.
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Your two-day residential training programme has been
designed to give you a thorough insight in to the principles behind
the ORCA Local internet business model and it is an extremely
rewarding and enjoyable experience.
On completion of your training, you will
literally be up and running and earning
money! However, we take your continued development extremely
seriously and you will therefore be supported on an ongoing basis
by one of the finest franchisee support teams in the
industry.
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Your earnings potential is
substantial, with your first year’s turnover expected to be
between £25,000 to £40,000.
With the very limited overheads you will carry, the majority of
this is profit! The original ORCA Local Skipton pilot site
www.orcalocalskipton.co.uk) was generating over £1000 per week
within just 7 weeks!
What’s more, business owners were calling us to see how they
could get on board! | |  StuartHarling, ORCA Local
Franchisee
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