Love your town? Love sales? Want to make a difference?
With more than two decades of experience, Town Money Saver is a monthly advertising publication that is delivered right to the door of consumers and businesses every month. Currently, we mail to over 25 million homes and businesses annually.
Being a part of the Town Money Saver family gives you the ability to operate your own business with virtually no overhead expenses. Our franchisees enjoy the freedom of being their own boss, while we handle everything on the back end. Most importantly, owning a TMS franchise offers you the opportunity to make a difference — not only to you and your family but also to the businesses and communities you serve.
We strive to offer local business owners high-quality advertising that attracts repeat customers and maximizes return on investment.
Why Buy a Town Money Saver Franchise?
Rapid Start-up with Quick Franchise Growth: Town Money Saver has been structured to provide you with the tools and management knowledge to effectively and profitably produce a monthly community publication. There is no storefront, inventory or employees required to start your Town Money Saver franchise. Town Money Saver handles your graphic coordination, printing and mailing – allowing you to focus on customer relationships and growth.
We’re Here For You: Your customers develop and build relationships with you — we provide the tools and services to help you strengthen and grow those relationships. You will benefit from our experienced and hard-working professional staff who are all focused on your needs. From training and ad design to printing and mailing, our team is here to support you in all aspects of your franchise. Find out what it means to be part of the Town Money Saver family.
Award-Winning Hometown Company: Town Money Saver has been recognized as a Weatherhead 100 Upstart Company by The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. Town Money Saver has been growing small businesses since 1992, due in large part to thousands of repeat customers.
Town Money Saver University: Achieve your potential at our training center in Lucas, Ohio, where we will help you build a strong foundation of sales techniques, relationship development methods, effective ad design formulas, ad performance tools, and operations & business management knowledge. Town Money Saver University also provides continuing educational opportunities via classroom, field and web training. It’s our passion to help you grow your business!
Brand recognition: As the franchise grows and the marketing widens, the brand name will bring more clients to you and provide a competitive advantage that independent businesses could never afford.
Territory: You'll receive a territory that meets our demographic requirements. We'll discuss your choice of territories and the development of your territory before you purchase the franchise.
Simplicity: Town Money Saver does your graphic coordination, printing, and mailing for you. Your job is to let your community know about your service with our proven sales methods and to sign up your clients for your community-based mailer. You don't have to trot out a zillion other products - just concentrate on the effective product that we offer.
Intermarket revenue without additional work: Many of our clients have multiple units and want to market in all communities in a wide area. If a franchisee sells a client on advertising in multiple areas that includes your publication, you'll receive a portion of that ad without any effort on your part.
Extra income from your sales into other territories: If you sell advertising space in other franchisees’ territories, you can earn a portion of all income from these sales.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to know in order to run a Town Money Saver business?
You’ll need three to five years of outside sales experience, a full-time commitment toward building your business, and some computer experience. The Town Money Saver corporate office coordinates your graphic design, printing and mailing for you!
Do I have to be artistic and design ads?
No. We’ll train you on how to submit an ad, and our designers will put together the graphics for you. There’s no need for you to waste your time sitting in front of a computer and trying to draw — your time is best spent helping your clients.
Do I get a territory?
Absolutely! We will work with you to determine a territory that meets our demographic guidelines. Our territories are community-based so that your clients will get excellent response from your ads. You are offering LOCAL monthly advertising in a format that families tend to keep around all month. We mail to hundreds of markets with thousands of satisfied clients.
How do I make money?
You make money in several ways:
You receive revenue for selling advertising space to your client.
You continue to receive revenue from that satisfied client because of our high percentage of repeat business.
You’ll receive income from inter-market sales from other franchisees with no extra work on your part.
You’ll earn income from selling space in other franchisees’ mailers.
Your monthly revenue grows with every client you add and allows you to build a residual income.
Town Money Saver has a proven business system that offers your clients an effective, local advertising channel, which translates into business growth for you.