Press Release

​Staffing Industry Veteran Creates People-First Franchise to Accelerate Startup, 'Boost' Profitability and Provide Greater Work-Life Balance

​SUMMARY

• Don G. King, a veteran of franchising and the staffing industry, has founded iBoost Talent as a franchisee-first staffing concept with a core value of improving the quality of life for others.
• The name Boost relates to the people-first franchise mission, with "I" representing its focus on the individual and "boost" pertaining to the support for franchise owners to help them succeed.
• Advantages for franchisees include greater work-life balance, startup flexibility, positive cash flow at an earlier stage and a residual revenue stream.

Don G. King recognized over the course of his lengthy staffing career that the people-oriented industry didn't always put its people first. So, he set out to rectify that inequity by founding iBoost Talent, a franchisee-first staffing concept. "I understood fundamentally what wasn't working that I could fix," he says. "If we create a people-first franchise system with a core value of improving the quality of life for others, and we encourage and surround franchise owners with a team of coaches, mentors and business developers to support them in operating their businesses, then I think we've got something extraordinary."

In founding iBoost Talent, King sought to offer advantages not provided by other staffing companies for franchise owners, as well as workers placed in jobs. King applied knowledge gained from more than 30 years of experience, including his tenure in a staffing franchise system and as founder of Impact Workforce Solutions, a tech-enabled professional services firm established in 2001. King has also leaned heavily on his leadership team's 300 years of collective industry and franchising experience.

Innovative Workforce Solutions

Even as the U.S. represents the largest staffing market in the world with 10% cumulative revenue growth forecast from 2025 to 2030, according to Staffing_Industry Analysts, experts say staffing firms must remain innovative in delivering workforce solutions to meet their clients' evolving labor needs.

King explains that iBoost's innovative people-first franchise model ultimately benefits clients, as well as franchisees and workers, by increasing morale, productivity, efficiency and retention. He says the name, iBoost Talent, relates to the mission of the franchisee-first staffing model: "i" stands for individuals, including franchise owners, their recruiters and salespeople, and the individuals they're putting to work, and "boost" pertains to the support and advantages for franchise owners to help them succeed.

iBoost Talent's Franchisee-First Staffing Model's Key Components

1.    Improving Quality of Life as a Core Value

"This is real feel-good work. You sleep soundly when you're in this business because you've helped put people to work. And people need to go to work to feed their families and they need to go to work for fulfillment, to be engaged with other people," King says. "The primary, underlying motivator for founding iBoost Talent was to improve the quality of life for others, and we look for that desire in prospective franchise owners. And that's why we established it as a core value."

2.     Work-Life Balance

Like its sister company, Impact Workforce Solutions, iBoost Talent utilizes remote-enabled systems and a mobile-friendly platform to empower franchisees to work remotely as they see fit. "Lifestyle flexibility has been built into this people-first franchise system," King says. "If a franchisee wants to go see their kid's soccer game, we say, 'go.' We encourage work- life balance."

3.      Faster Startup and Positive Cash Flow

iBoost Talent provides numerous advantages to enable new franchise owners to launch and generate revenue faster. These include:

• Startup flexibility. iBoost Talent leaders encourage new franchisees to launch remotely to reduce their initial capital investment until their business volume dictates the need for a physical brick-and-mortar location.
• Immediate job orders. As soon as franchisees open with their recruiters on board, they start receiving job orders from sister company Impact Workforce Solutions through the Boost UP! program. "Right now, we have almost 600 open job orders across the country, so that franchise owners can start working on job orders that generate revenue on day one. They don't have to wait for their sales cycle to start kicking in and for people to start calling them," says Bill Tasillo, iBoost Talent's executive vice president of franchise development.
• Back-office support. The iBoost corporate team handles billing, taxes, insurance and other back-office support as part of the franchise royalty package. "The franchise owner just has to cover the costs of their local branch in the market that they've purchased, including any real estate costs they may elect to invest in up front or at a later date, and their internal staff members including a full-time recruiter and an administrative support person to help with phones," Tasillo says.
• Developer team support. King says iBoost Talent's biggest differentiator is its developer team. Developers and franchisees have frequent, regularly scheduled calls and meetings throughout the startup phase to go over activity and challenges. Franchisees also have 24/7 access to their developers to communicate as needed, King says. "Developers are going to be helping these franchise owners from day one, walking side by side with them in operating the business and helping it develop," he says.
• Residual revenue stream. Franchisees have the opportunity to partner with iBoost Talent's sister company, Impact Workforce Solutions, and introduce additional service lines within the workforce management space, such as Impact's Core2. This further enables franchisees to help customize solutions and solve workforce dilemmas for their clients, all while creating an additional residual revenue stream for their new franchise business.

The Core2 residual revenue stream is key to the franchisee-first staffing model as it provides a "boost" for iBoost franchisees to help grow their businesses, King says. The Core2 model is also advantageous for clients and workers, who receive pay increases and benefits such as health insurance. "Under this model, productivity and efficiency is increased. We're not just providing talent for the customer; we're also providing an employment tool that increases retention," he says.

"Why we created Core2 goes back to our people-first franchise mission, and our core value: to improve the quality of life for people. If you don't like people, staffing's not the job for you. If you want to treat a person like a number, staffing is not the job for you," King says. "But if you do good by people, they'll keep that job. They'll make that client proud, and that client will keep using us. So, it comes back full circle. Treat people with respect and dignity, get them that job and advocate for them with the client."