Replicable or it isn't an offer
The test for a premium service in a chain isn't whether the best branch can deliver it, but whether the median branch can. A service advertised group-wide and delivered well in three locations out of fifteen damages the brand in the other twelve.
Price uniformity follows from that. A service priced differently by branch tells clients the price is arbitrary, and in a chain clients do compare, because the brand invites them to.
Training is what makes the difference between a launch and an announcement. A service introduced without training becomes available where someone took the initiative, which is exactly the outcome that centralising was meant to avoid.
What determines success
The chart is qualitative and shows the weight of each factor in a group-wide launch.
How to launch it
Test in the median branch
Not the best one.
Train before advertising
The order matters.
One price everywhere
Clients compare within a brand.
Check delivery
Where it isn't happening, the problem is training.
Across the group
- Test it in the median branch, not the best one.
- Train before you advertise.
- One price everywhere: clients compare.
Testing in the median branch is the discipline that keeps group launches honest: the best branch will make almost anything work, which tells you nothing about whether the offer is real.
Training before advertising sets the order correctly. Once a service is advertised, the branches that can't deliver it are producing disappointed clients every day the training is delayed.
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