Rapid Refill - Franchise

Rapid Start^TM

Rapid Start allows you to launch your business with a laser focus on the most important driver of success: Attracting Customers

3 reasons to investigate Rapid Start

1. Low initial investment
2. Minimal overhead
3. Powerful customer acquisition tools

With a low initial investment compared to other franchise concepts, minimal overhead because you are based from your home, and powerful customer acquisition tools, the Rapid Start franchise model could be the opportunity you've been looking for.

Rapid Start allows you to launch your business with a laser focus on the most important driver of success: attracting customers! Rapid Refill has exciting programs and explosive tools to help you build your business.

Low Initial Investment – the franchise fee for Rapid Start is just $15,000.00. Your total investment will range between $23,200 and $46,400. This includes an IPAD loaded with all of the marketing tools needed to sell product, an initial supply of the best selling Ink and Toner cartridges, Marketing and Lead Generation products, and travel expenses for training at our Minneapolis headquarters.

Minimal Overhead – because you will be operating your business out of your home, or a small market office, your overhead is drastically reduced as compared to expensive real estate. However, you will have an option of opening a retail location after you have developed a strong recurring revenue stream.

Powerful Customer Acquisition Tools - Rapid Refill has developed a multi channel approach. It's easier than ever to capture new customers, award their loyalty and quickly, efficiently and effectively build a recurring revenue stream. The Rapid Refill University will teach you how to attract customers via:

• Online Retail Store – using the latest Search Engine Optimization methods
• Direct Commercial – Personalized Marketing and Lead Generation programs
• Retail Reseller Racks

Why Rapid Refill Franchise?

Print supplies is a huge market and is expected to continue its growth! Estimated to reach $80 billion in the next few years, the proliferation of handheld devices and print applications is creating new print opportunities that didn't exist a few years ago. Now people can snap a photo with their cell phone and send it to their wireless printer for an instant memento. Dynamic web content and childrens' activity sites are creating new print volume in homes across the country. A rebounding economy is fueling demand for printed pages from home offices to large corporations.

Your business model is built on the principal of recurring revenue. This is what allows you to build up your business and then reap the rewards from your efforts again and again and again. With exceptional print performance, superior local service and strong retention marketing programs you can keep your customers coming back for more.

Ideal Candidate

As a Rapid Refill franchise owner you share our core values, you hire friendly people to represent your local brand, and you get involved in the community through various civic, networking and charitable organizations. As a family company, our core values drive everything we do. More than anything else, we're looking for partners that share these values.

• We cultivate opportunity.
• We have a passion for excellence.
• We are community ambassadors.
• We act with collaborative respect.
• We empower associates to act with integrity and always do what's right.

Products and Services

Green is growing, and it isn't going away! Consumers, businesses and government are all driving the growing trend towards sustainable behaviors and local buying practices. Rapid Refill is here to provide new answers for the next generation's printing needs. Our value proposition is all about helping people and our raving fans just keep growing. As a Rapid Refill franchisee, you deliver affordable print performance with superior local service. It's Printing. Smarter.

High value products and services that deliver tremendous savings, strong satisfaction and a convenient buying experience have helped create our strong brand loyalty. All backed by our Satisfaction Guarantee and Rapid Delivery. Products you will carry include:

• Printer Ink and Toner Cartridges are a staple of our business, repeat sales based on strong customer loyalty and an outstanding product line.
• Printer Maintenance Services keeps your customers' printers running smoothly, driving satisfaction and retention. We have the expertise you can rely on.

About Us

We seek to Cultivate Opportunity for our franchisee partners so that they may fulfill their financial dreams, achieve their professional ambitions, create wealth, and positively impact the community and others around them.

The Rapid Refill concept was established in 2002 in Eugene, Oregon at a time when the country was eager to embrace and appreciate the cost savings that comes from the process of remanufacturing inkjet and toner cartridges. Along the way, our growth has attracted experienced franchise and print industry talent, bringing significant enhancements to the company's business model, training and support infrastructure, and marketing engine. Now, with a thriving retail brand, the Rapid Refill concept is primed for a period of high growth. Our objective: to gain significant market share in the retail ink and toner marketplace.

From everyday printing to leading imaging supplies, Rapid Refill is your neighborhood source for all of your print solutions. Rapid Refill is committed to being involved in every community we reach and our local store owners make that happen every day. Cleaner and friendlier, we want to make our communities a better place to live.

Rapid Refill offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to create the business of their dreams, whether you start based out of your home, grow into a single retail location or expand to a multi-unit operation. Beyond our core beliefs of great product value and exceptional service, the Rapid Refill business model is unique and scalable, focused on helping franchisees grow their businesses fast!