Expert 121 with Pam Gordon, Franchising & Licensing Advisor

For all things franchising and licensing at whatever stage – from a prospective franchisee investigating a business opportunity through to an established business planning for growth.

Book a free 45 minute online 121 session with Pam Gordon, expert in franchising and licensing, for an initial conversation.

Choose from a selection of dates and times to suit you. Once you've registered, we'll pass on your details (name and email address) to Pam, who will contact you with joining instructions for your session with her:

Conversations with Pam are likely to focus on:

• Working with businesses to identify growth strategies which could include licensing and/or franchising.
• Gap Analysis and Project Planning
• Financial Modelling to support the strategic plans
• Development of the operational blueprint and manuals
• Marketing Strategy – how to profile would be licensees/franchises and find them
• Lead Management and Licensee/Franchisee Recruitment Support
• Business Mentoring with business owners and their franchisees/licences
• Finding specialist staff as the business develops to manage the network
• International licensing/franchising
• Sign-posting to other relevant parties to support plans
• Reviewing business opportunities with prospective licensees/franchisees

Pam can also offer a 121 clinic if you are looking at start-up ideas and considering business opportunities such as a licence or a franchise - things to consider and to ask about.

Expert biography

Pam is a Franchise Consultant with The Franchising Centre, she has nearly 25 years experience within franchising, having worked across many different franchise sectors in that time. The last 7 years have been with The Franchising Centre, which is a multi-disciplined team of specialist consultants who work individually and collectively on behalf of clients on licensing and franchise projects in the UK and Internationally.

Pam is a Qualified Franchise Professional (QFP) awarded by the British Franchise Association of which she is a member. She has also undertaken project managing and mentoring courses to ensure she works in a professional and focussed way with clients to support their licence/franchise projects to fruition.

The goal is always to ‘support’ the client business to become a good licensor/franchisor and take the project from the germ of a growth idea and put into practice and with a hands-on and practical approach actually make it happen.

Pam has worked mainly with businesses in the Southeast but has The Franchising Centre colleagues across the UK.

Note

The adviser is an independent professional and is not an agent or employee of the Council, nor the Library. They will be regulated by their own professional body and they will be able to provide you with details of that organisation.We will not be aware of any advice that is given to you by the adviser when you consult them in the 121 session and we do not verify or approve their advice. We therefore take no responsibility and make no representations regarding the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or otherwise of any such advice or information. Any views expressed by the adviser are their own views and not those of the Council.

This session will be held online. Once you've registered, you will receive the video call joining instructions from the business expert prior to your session.

Following the session, the expert will send you a feedback form which we would be grateful if you could complete to allow us to monitor the success of our offered expert 121s.

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Important

All our expert one-to-one meetings on offer are free, but places are limited as our business expert partners are giving their valuable time to the BIPC and to you for free while fitting these sessions into their busy schedule. Therefore, if you need to cancel the session, to give a chance for others to still book it, please give at least two working days’ notice when possible via:

• email to bipc@brighton-hove.gov.uk, or
• cancelling your booking on Eventbrite, or
• email/call to the business expert.

Please note down the experts' contact details when they get in touch with you prior to the session.

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FAQs

What is your cancellation policy?

The majority of our events are free, but places are often limited - especially for in-person events, therefore please make sure you cancel your place, if you are unable to attend. You can cancel through your Eventbrite booking or emailing bipc@brighton-hove.co.uk.

Can I attend if I'm not a member of the library?

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