Get the Scoop on Our NEW Interest-Free Customer Financing Program!

There’s no denying that homeowners are spending more on upgrading their homes and investing in projects like flooring installation than ever before. With people spending more time at home in recent years, along with the surge in popularity from home-improvement shows on HGTV and other networks, the home services industry is surging right now, and Footprints Floors Franchise Owners’ business is surging right along with it!

However, up until now, there has been one barrier for homeowners wishing to improve their investments with flooring installation and other home upgrades: lack of funding. We all want to have dream homes with spectacular floors – being able to comfortably afford a flooring installation project, on the other hand, can be another story altogether.

Our customers asked, and we listened! Footprints Floors is proud to introduce an all-new interest-free financing program through our partners at Synchrony Bank. Here’s an in-depth look at how it works, not to mention how it can benefit both our customers and our Franchise Owners.

What We Did

Our flooring installation Franchise Owners have mentioned that there’s a problem getting customers to commit because they just don’t have easy access to financing for their projects. 

As Bryan Park, our Founder, says, “We have two customers – Franchise Owners and end-users.”

So, the executive team at Footprints Floors listened and spent a lot of time coming up with a solution. 

“We spent 5 to 6 months working on the program,” Director of Operations Rachel Simpson said in a recent interview unveiling the new financing option. 

But that process is finally over, and thanks to an all-new partnership with Synchrony Bank, we now have an easy, affordable way to roll out flooring financing nationwide.

How It Works

Perhaps the best thing about this financing option for Footprints Floors flooring installation Franchise Owners is that there’s no risk to any of our nationwide flooring franchise locations. 

When customers want financing to replace or revitalize their floors, all your sales team needs to do is refer them to Synchrony Bank, and they can apply directly for Footprints Floors financing there. Approval is quick, meaning they can apply, be approved, and schedule their installation all-in-one appointment with their Footprints Floors representative. 

Synchrony Bank offers third-party financing and payment plans to a variety of retailers across a variety of industries throughout the United States. Eligible customers who meet the credit requirements can apply easily in minutes and receive a credit card that they can use to pay their chosen service providers (in this case, our flooring installation franchise locations) for their services. 

It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s a convenient way to help your potential customers to finance their new floors. 

There are several options available for financing too, but we believe the most suitable plan is the 12-month no-interest plan with low monthly payments.

How It Helps Flooring Installation Customers

New floors can really transform a home. It can change the way a home looks and feels, and it’s often one of the biggest parts of renovating any home. 

However, no matter what kind of flooring your customer is interested in, there’s no denying that this is a big-ticket item. Customers can expect to pay at least a few thousand dollars for their new floors. 

Many people don’t want to take out a home equity loan to finance their flooring installation project, and they don’t have the necessary savings available for easy affordability. They also don’t want to use their available credit on high-interest credit cards, which will lead to sky-high minimum monthly payments for a year or more! By using the option to finance their flooring installation job with Synchrony Bank, customers have the ability to make 12 months of easy, interest-free payments without affecting their existing credit or borrowing against the equity in their home. 

It’s a quick, easy, convenient way to access financing specifically for flooring installation. So, they can get a high-quality floor sooner and with less hassle.

How It Helps Our Franchise Owners

One of the biggest hurdles our Footprints Floors Franchise Owners face when quoting customers is finding ways to remove the financing barriers they may face. Most people who get a quote for a new floor want to do the flooring installation work, but until now, figuring out how to pay for it has been a problem for some prospective customers. 

Now, our Franchise Owners can point their customers directly to our financing program with Synchrony Bank when they ask for payment terms. This makes it easy for customers to pay for their new floors and eliminates Franchise Owners’ risk. As soon as a customer’s credit application is approved, Synchrony Bank takes the responsibility of collecting the monthly installment payments from the customer, and the Franchise Owner is instantly paid in full by the bank for the entire amount of the flooring installation project.

As a Franchise Owner, you’ll have one more tool in your belt to help homeowners easily afford payment for their flooring installation or restoration project, giving you a greater ability to make the sale. The opportunity to install high-quality flooring easily and affordably will also be of great benefit to customers who would have previously had to put their home improvement goals on hold. We love it when everybody wins!

Our new partnership with Synchrony Bank is one more example of how franchising with Footprints Floors makes owning a flooring installation business simpler and more hassle-free than starting a flooring business independently. Thanks to our nationwide presence, we’ve managed to secure this partnership with a well-known and widely respected financing corporation, which goes a long way with establishing us as a trustworthy, reputable flooring installation company in the eyes of our customers.

By becoming a Franchise Owner with Footprints Floors, you’re investing in a proven flooring installation business model whose name customers associate with credibility, outstanding customer service, and stellar results! Interested in learning more about starting a flooring business with Footprints Floors? Click here.

Territories Are Going Quickly.

ANOTHER Franchise Industry Insider Invests in Our Flooring Franchise! Meet Nathan Yarusso

The Need for Speed!

Prior to getting started in the franchise industry, Nathan spent a fulfilling career in the U.S. Navy, spending 20 years as a jet pilot in aircraft carriers and a helicopter pilot. In a recent interview with Denver-based franchise development agency Raintree, Nathan mentioned that he retired from the Navy 10 years ago and worked as an airplane pilot in a private company. Following that, he served as a pilot in an airline that flies government contracts overseas, essentially in high-risk areas.

In a recent interview with 1851 Franchise, Nathan had mentioned that as a child, he loved everything that moved. Whether it was a bicycle or a skateboard, everything that could move fascinated him and piqued his interest. 

That’s how he initially became interested in the idea of flying jets. Throughout his life, he was always away from home and his family, inevitably on special occasions and during holidays too.

In 2021, he started looking for a different career path that would allow him to stay at home, and that’s when he joined Franchise Brokers Association as a franchise broker. That was the beginning of Nathan’s journey towards Footprints Floors.

What Do Franchise Consultants Look For in a Flooring Franchise?

Nathan first learned about Footprints Floors as a franchise consultant, as the company consistently came up as a great option for his clients. After recommending Footprints Floors as a sound franchise investment with a groundbreaking model to multiple clients, Nathan realized the high-growth potential of the company, especially since the brand has grown exponentially and had a lot of successful Franchise Owners in just the past few years.

With all of this in mind, Nathan and his wife Sarah decided to embark on the Franchise Discovery Process with Footprints Floors, becoming the fourth franchise consultant to join our flooring installation company as a Franchise Owner, and the first Franchise Owner to launch a Footprints Floors territory in Washington, the 33rd state we’ve entered since 2018!

In fact, the company’s expansion to over 30 states in just a short span of three years is one of the reasons Nathan became interested in the prospect of becoming a Franchise Owner in the first place. After seeing the company’s high growth potential and suggesting it as a lucrative investment opportunity to many clients, Nathan decided to take the plunge himself too.

What Drew Nathan Yarusso to Our Flooring Franchise?

In one of his interviews, Nathan described franchising to be a better option than starting your own business because building a business from scratch is a solitary process. You’re on your own, and a lot of trial-and-error comes into play.

But when you become a Franchise Owner, most of the mistakes startups commonly make ”have been ironed out,” as he puts it. Since there’s a readily available process for everything, including marketing, lead generation, and search engine optimization (SEO), you don’t have to start from scratch.

Having worked as a franchise broker himself, Nathan knew that his chances of success were much higher with a franchise since he would already be years ahead of an entrepreneur who had just begun to build a brand. When searching for franchises, he looked at handyman and home improvement type companies mainly because those are the kind of services he believed his community needed.

Footprints Floors Faith-Based, Christian Franchise came as a natural option to him for many reasons. Here are some of them:

• Personal Preference: Nathan believes that wood is a stunning attribute for any home. It also has a sense of nostalgia to it since he and his father would bond over building furniture and doing home improvement tasks together. The idea of bringing the same accented beauty to other people’s homes excited him. Since Footprints Floors is known for providing quality flooring that adds value to people’s homes, Nathan knew it was the one.
• Service-Based: Being a franchise broker, Nathan learned that service-based franchises have a higher chance of succeeding. That’s why he wanted to opt for a service-offering company.
• Sustainability: Another important component of a successful business is the ongoing need for its product or service. Nathan believes that as long as there are homes, there will be a need for home flooring services. The housing industry also has a large customer base, which ultimately ensures a constant influx of clients.
• Family-Like Culture: After meeting with Bryan Park, the Founder of Footprints Floors, Nathan realized that the owners’ and top executives’ active involvement in the company’s operation is one of the reasons behind its success. He was immediately drawn to the family-like culture since it was something ”unlike any other brand” he had come across. All in all, the combination of the executive finesse with the sustainability of the service provided by Footprints Floors Faith-Based Christian Franchise is what made Nathan believe that this is a company that’s certainly going to do well.

A Peek Into the Future

When asked what excited him the most about being a Footprints Floors Franchise Owner, Nathan said that he dreams of having a thriving business helping people beautify their homes. After seeing that Bryan Park was personally dedicated to making the company a success, Nathan felt quite reassured.

The assurance coupled with the company’s high-growth potential made him believe that Footprints Floors is something he wants to be a part of in the long run. He looks forward to working with clients who share his vision of using beautiful flooring to improve the aesthetic appeal of a home.

Moreover, he is ecstatic about the idea of having more control over his schedule. Previously, he had to work overseas, which meant being away from home for long periods. But now, he can spend time with his family.

Thanks to the freedom and flexibility that our unique franchise business model gives our Franchise Owners, many of them are able to continue in their “day job” while still owning their Footprints Floors faith-based business. In addition to owning his flooring installation franchise, Nathan intends to keep working in the franchise consulting industry, and plans to bring potential Franchise Owners into Footprints Floors and learn from his experience as a Franchise Owner to become a better franchise consultant.

As for us, we’re extremely excited to see what Nathan brings to the table with his unique franchising expertise and insight. At Footprints Floors, we offer a robust and comprehensive support system to our Franchise Owners, giving them access to flexible working hours, low entry costs, and a fully-staffed call center to handle lead generation, appointment scheduling, and more. Since these are exactly the things Nathan wanted from his new business investment, we can’t wait to see him find success and fulfillment!

Now’s the time to get in on the ground floor- visit our franchise website to learn more about the Footprints Floors opportunity!

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

Mandye Tovias Brings Footprints Floors Franchise to Melbourne, Florida!

Here we grow again! Footprints Floors is adding Melbourne, Florida to our list of U.S. cities where we offer premier flooring installation services, and it’s all thanks to new Franchise Owner Mandye Tovias!

We never get tired of hearing what led our new Franchise Owners to the faith-based Footprints Floors business opportunity, and Mandye is certainly no exception. We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Mandye and her husband and hearing their franchise discovery story. Here’s what they had to say about what led them to invest in our flooring installation franchise.

Mandye’s Road to Entrepreneurship

With an impressive resume featuring experience in industries as diverse as biotech, banking, and entrepreneurship, Mandye’s career has given her a wealth of experience that can successfully be applied directly to franchise business ownership through Footprints Floors. Thanks to her previous business ownership experience, Mandye is ready to hit the ground running as a Footprints Floors Franchise Owner, operating as the face of the business while her husband continues in his current role as a Senior Operations Manager for a major OEM corporation. 

Mandye’s rich and expansive career background has allowed her to accumulate the knowledge and skills that are necessary to own and operate a Footprints Floors home services franchise, but what led her down the path to entrepreneurship in the first place? Surprisingly, the impetus for her new venture came from an acquaintance who wanted to break free from the rat race. “A coworker of mine was disillusioned with corporate life,” she says, noting that a change to self-employment made all the difference in her former colleague’s way of life. “He talked about the weight that was lifted off his shoulders,” Mandye recalls. This piqued her own interest to the point of reaching out to a franchise consultant to look into some potential opportunities. 

After mulling over the idea and conducting her own research, not to mention taking a look at our low financial investment and outstanding potential for profitability, Mandye discovered that Footprints Floors was the franchise brand she’d most like to work with as a business owner. After some deliberation, the couple agreed that Footprints Floors was the ideal franchise investment opportunity for them.

How Footprints Floors Ensures Success

When they chose to invest in our flooring installation franchise, Mandye was far from making an ill-informed choice. To her, Footprints Floors seemed to provide the best support for their business needs, especially as a start-up in Florida’s exciting Space Coast region, which is home to Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, and numerous beach communities along Florida’s east coast.

One of the leading benefits of associating with Footprints Floors was the assurance that Mandye’s business will never be left to fade into the background. She claims to be a natural skeptic, always cautious of buying into get-rich-quick schemes and over-promising. According to her, no such treatment was received from Footprints Floors.

“Everything was laid out for us in the disclosure documents,” Mandye recalls. She was also able to hear from others who have taken the same decision before them, which was incredibly reassuring. “The low overhead and upside potential appealed to us. The support from both corporate and other owners sealed the deal.”

Beyond this, the owner of Florida’s newest Footprints Floors faith-based franchise was assured of continuous exposure to customers in need of flooring services. When asked about the leading assurances of buying into the franchise brand, Mandye’s answer was direct and simple: “The heavy marketing focus. Not just branding, but aggressively pursuing leads.”

In the end, “the emphasis on the model and the results provided” were more than enough to win Mandye over. The couple also stated that they believe our strong partnerships with vendors and industry experts across the country will extend to the continued benefit of Mandye’s business.

Why Go The Franchising Route?

Many entrepreneurs in the same position as Mandye Tovias will tell you one thing: there is a big difference between striking out on your own and starting an independent business from scratch and investing in a franchise. Even if you decide to rely on backing from investors to start your business, what these ventures rarely provide is a tried and tested formula for business success. Instead, once funding is given, they wait impatiently for your business to start bringing in a return on their investment.

Buying into any business sees you putting up your own money, to be sure, and this always comes with some level of risk, but the potential for success is far greater if you invest in a proven formula for success that comes with extensive corporate support with marketing, operations, and more. For this reason, investing in a franchise can carry a lot less risk than opening a business from scratch. Additionally, a franchise brand’s ability to provide Franchise Owners with solid guidelines on how to manage your business and, in many cases, a strong reputation to associate your business with, can help you establish a trusted brand that already has a strong positive association with customers in your community.

Building a Flooring Installation Franchise Legacy

Mandye personally states that she has no worries about the growth of her business as long as she puts in the hard work. She hopes to work with subcontractors who have the same values as she does. Later, as more employees are hired to help run the day-to-day operations, she hopes they will have the same mindset as well.

Mandye seeks to put in the hard work in the initial years of the business, then scale back over the years as employees and supervisors deal with much of the day-to-day activities.

When asked what they look forward to most, Mandye and her husband relayed their excitement to cater to the Melbourne community and its surrounding areas. According to them, working with the community and learning more about the people in it will be among the most fun aspects of starting Mandye’s business.

“We also want to dive deep into the flooring industry and build a network of friendships and professional contacts,” Mandye explains. “Lastly, we like the idea of growing a successful business to maybe someday pass on to our children.”

Welcome, Mandye, to our flooring installation franchise family We look forward to seeing you build a successful business in Florida’s Space Coast!

If you’re ready to take the plunge into entrepreneurship, why not invest in one of the top-ranking home improvement franchises in the world? We’re awarding territories across the U.S., but are selling out fast in major markets. Get started today on your Footprints Floors home improvement franchise journey by visiting our website here.