Are you a confident leader with a proven track record in business? Build your own consultancy with The Alternative Board
- Chair regular peer advisory boards
- Deliver 1:1 business coaching
- Run consultancy projects
- SLT development programmes
With a TAB franchise you can use your experience to REALLY help local business owners thrive.
Why choose TAB to power your business…
| Deliver far more than just coaching | The business model is very clever, enabling you to forge deep client relationships through your lucrative regular peer advisory boards. Becoming the trusted advisor of your clients enables you to target your business coaching, consultancy and development programmes very effectively and efficiently. |
| This is a booming market, proven to be even more so through periods of uncertainty, which seems to be the world we live in today! The advisory boards and coaching deliver a solid regular recuring income, with the consultancy projects and development programmes on top. | Multiple income streams |
| Client relationships average 4 years+ | TAB is very cost-effective for clients, delivers them huge ongoing value, and is profitable for you – WIN:WIN. The result is a four-year plus average customer retention, which beats other dedicated business coaching, gym and home care franchises by a mile. |
Choose your TAB business journey
| TAB Owner / SOLO | TAB Owner / SCALE UP |
| Build your own portfolio of local business owner clients, leveraging the TAB brand, systems, support and processes so you can focus on people and not paperwork. | Move from working in your business to employing and directing your own facilitators and scale up your own business consultancy, an asset you can sell in the future. |
Whichever route you take, starting your own business with the TAB franchise provides you with a proven roadmap to follow from the sector’s leading brand and a clear exit strategy. You’ll have professional content and collateral, proven systems, and ongoing personal guidance and support to call on at all times.
And you’ll be part of a close-knit network of collaborative fellow franchisees.
Join a community of like-minded business leaders
Our most successful franchisees are confident and compelling, people who care – leaders who enjoy the reward of helping business owners flourish. They utilise the power of the brand, systems, support and content to deliver ongoing value to business owners in their local area.
Leadership from a former franchisee who’s been in your shoes
Our leader – Ed Reid – moved from being a franchisee to take over as franchisor with his business partner Mags Fuller back in 2017. Ed’s been sat right where you are now and knows the TAB journey personally – he’s committed to helping franchisees by sharing his experience. And Ed's original TAB business is still trading, the franchisee who purchased it has grown the business further too!
As UK franchisor we still run a few territories keeping our finger on the pulse and testing new initiatives, before developing further with the network.
We have been in the UK since 2009, but actually trace our roots back to the USA when in 1990 our founder first developed the business concept to share the power he had experienced of non-exec directors. There are now over 400 TAB franchisees serving over 5,000 business owners each month across 25 countries.
34 territories operating in the UK, 75+ available across the country
“If you’ve been successful in your business career and you’re ready to enjoy the emotional and financial rewards of giving back, we look forward to exploring the TAB opportunity with you.” Ed Reid – TAB UK Franchisor
With very low overheads, this high margin business model delivers a regular income with an initial investment of £66,700, including comprehensive initial training and first-year marketing costs. Each high street bank with franchise specialisms knows the model well and provides funding packages appropriate to individual circumstances.
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Campbell Ure spent 13 years in the corporate world.
"I decided to exit, and I wanted to acquire a business. I looked at 40 or 50 businesses in central Scotland. I thought, it is tough running your own small business. You must be experts in everything. Once I had that thought, I questioned whether I wanted to throw all my eggs into one basket and buy a business that I might not know all there is to know.
At that point TAB came along and I honestly do not know if I found TAB or if TAB found me but when I heard the idea, it just made sense. Business owners need something like TAB. I met Ed Reid and a lot of TBOs and thought this is a good idea! I like the concept so here I am!"
"For anyone looking to be a TAB Franchisee, my advice is to look for members that you get on with and you respect. You respect who they are and what they do. If you have those positive relationships with your members, it’s only going to end in success."
"For me, TAB is about helping business owners love their business more and make more money at the same time. What’s not to love!"
My greatest member success story “This is one of my members who I mentioned earlier in the hospitality industry. He had a corporate background; he was a sales director for Coors beer. He joined TAB right before Covid and he had left corporate life and had started a drinks business where he sold drinks to restaurants, bars, hotels, etc.
With Covid his business completely disappeared over night. That was a challenge. He came to board meetings; he gave a lot of thought to what he was going to do. He ended up setting up a new business with another TAB Board Member on the same board. I’m now having to move them to separate boards!
They started an E-Commerce drink business and went from nothing to 1 Million pounds in ten months.
I am proud of it from a TAB point of view. There were a lot of challenges. He brought topics up at the board meetings and discussions were had about setting up an online business. We were all nervous about how the business was going to work but now, we feel very good about it. He’ll be great!
The big thing from a board point of view is that because they shared so much in the past, they trusted each other. Because the trust was there, they could have intimate conversations about the best way to move forward for both of them. It has worked out well.”
