What are the currently approved optional services that The N2 Company can supply to a Belocal franchisee?
Belocal Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Our affiliate, The N2 Company, is approved to supply you with optional services for your Franchised Business. Currently, these optional services include client ad strategy services and lead generation services. The service offerings are subject to change. Additional services may be approved while other existing services may be discontinued. To receive these optional services, you must enter into an N2 Franchisee Services Agreement with our affiliate. The current form of N2 Franchisee Services Agreement is attached to this disclosure document as Exhibit F. There are additional fees associated with these optional services. Future optional services may include premium versions of the client ad strategy services, content services, writing and editing services, business strategy coaching, social media management services, administrative services, consulting services, or client care services. This is not an exhaustive list of potential optional services and neither we nor our affiliate is obligated to make any such services available to our franchisees. Our affiliate may establish and change the prices for current and future services in its discretion.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 33–35)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Belocal's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, The N2 Company, an affiliate of Belocal, is approved to supply franchisees with optional services. Currently, these services include client ad strategy services and lead generation services. To receive these optional services, a franchisee must enter into an N2 Franchisee Services Agreement with The N2 Company, the form of which is included as an exhibit in the FDD. There are additional fees associated with these optional services.
It is important to note that the service offerings are subject to change, with additional services potentially being approved and existing services possibly being discontinued. Future optional services may include premium versions of client ad strategy services, content services, writing and editing services, business strategy coaching, social media management services, administrative services, consulting services, or client care services. However, neither Belocal nor its affiliate is obligated to make any such services available to franchisees.
The N2 Company has the discretion to establish and change the prices for both current and future services. This means that franchisees should carefully consider the costs and benefits of these optional services and factor in potential price fluctuations when making their business decisions. Franchisees should also be aware that Duane Hixon and Earl Seals, Directors of Belocal, have ownership interests in The N2 Company.