Monster Tree Franchisees offer year-round tree services including Tree Pruning, Tree Removal, Stump Grinding, Shrub Maintenance, Emergency Services and Plant Health Care as a recurring revenue service offered to maintain the health of trees and shrubs.
Features of business:
- Technology Resistant – Amazon CANNOT compete
- Reliable Revenues – there will always be trees!
- Low Risk and Low Startup costs
- No Brick & Mortar rent/leases/maintenance/inventory
- High repeat customers/sales
- HUGE Tax advantages
- Turn-key Investor Model or Owner operator model available
Function of the owner/daily tasks
If the owner chooses to be a part of the day to day operations he/she can either work as a sales arborist or a manager of a tree care crew.
- A sales arborists main function is to provide sales estimates to customers and schedule jobs.
- A crew manager will ensure crews show up on time and complete jobs to the best of their ability while creating satisfied customers.
Competitive advantage of the product / service
Small, single-truck operators still dominate the Tree Care Industry. While there are some larger companies, these independent owner/operators usually both sell the job and perform the work.
Monster Tree has created programs for SEO and PPC that franchisees use to help ensure they are getting adequate leads organically online. The money that Monster Tree has invested into these programs as well as the national website has enabled 100% of their franchisees to be on the 1st page of local tree service related searches on google.
Most large national tree care companies focus on large commercial work and not residential. Monster Tree does the opposite and focuses on residential work first and then grows into more B2B and large commercial jobs later. This makes Monster Tree one of the few residential tree care companies that can offer all of the Tree services -> Tree Pruning & Trimming, Stump Grinding, Tree Removal, Shrub Maintenance, Emergency Services and Plant health care.
Franchisor support: initial training, on-going support, help lines, field support, annual meetings, advertising, central purchasing etc.
A new franchisee will receive two full weeks of training. One week of hands on and classroom training at Monster Tree headquarters in Pennsylvania followed by another full week of personal, onsite training at the franchisees location.
Monster Tree has accounts with major national and industry specific job boards where they post proven job ads at ZERO cost to the franchisees. They then screen all applicants for quality and provide the franchisee with a list of qualified potential employees for the franchisee to interview.
Ongoing support includes:
- Grand opening support
- Turn-key marketing solutions
- On-going web and in person trainings
- Purchasing power
- Unlimited phone, web and Email support
- Annual Meeting
Financial strength of franchisor
The franchisor has been in business since 2008. The corporate Monster Tree territory that has sales of $2,700,000 annually with nearly $700,000 in EBITDA a 25% EBITDA