TAB

What is a TAB Business Owner?

We call our franchise owners TAB Business Owners, or TBOs. They are more than “franchisees”—they are talented business owners who share a success mindset, a commitment to excellence, and a desire to make a meaningful difference by helping others.

Unlike owning a typical business-to-business franchise, TBOs are business owners in every sense. They enjoy incredible flexibility and independence, are part of a world-class community of peers, and receive unparalleled training and support. They can also leverage their experience and achievements rather than reinvent themselves and their careers. They can apply their knowledge to help others become more successful.

TAB also provides a subscription model, which gives TAB Business Owners more peace of mind about how much money is coming in each month. TAB’s marketing support, contract facilitator model, and protected territories also mean our TBOs can quickly grow their businesses. It also frees up time to earn even more from consulting or to create a more rewarding work-life balance.

Here is what our TAB business owners have to say!

The TAB Difference

Do you want to be your own boss?
Have more independence and flexibility?
Earn what you’re really worth?
Make a difference in the community?

With today’s corporate environment, chances are you’ve already thought about being your own boss and owning your own business. As a franchise business owner with The Alternative Board (TAB), you will have the opportunity to be “in business for yourself, but not by yourself.”

Since 1990, TAB has helped over 25,000 business owners achieve their personal and professional goals through monthly business advisory boards and coaching. We’re looking for business professionals who are leaders in their local areas. You could be a consultant, coach, business owner or senior business professional looking to combine your passion for business and helping others succeed.

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Subscription Model

TAB Board Members love TAB. The average TAB Member stays with us for years! This means predictable income for you and a chance to make a real difference to a company and its leadership team.

No More Travel

TAB Board Members love TAB. The average TAB Member stays with us for years! This means predictable income for you and a chance to make a real difference to a company and its leadership team.

Business Hours

Hours of operation are strictly business hours. Apart from a few breakfast networking meetings, the majority of your working day will be 9-5. This means you’ll be working smarter, not harder and be home for all the important family and social events.

Proven System

We offer a proven system that has been in operation since 1990 and has been named the No. 1 Business Coaching and Consulting Franchise. This means that we know what we are doing and exactly what you should be looking for in a franchise partner.

Accounting

We take care of all the accounting for you. We do all the invoicing, collect dues from your Members and pay you the same day each month.

Make a Difference

You get to wake up each day and make a difference using your business experience and skills.

Home Office

You can work from your home office. Being a business services business means there’s very little overhead to run your business.

World-Class Training

We provide world-class training from people who have successfully launched franchisees all around the world.

Facilitating

Following the proven TAB system, each month you will host multiple 4-hour (physical / virtual board) meetings made up of business owners in your local community. You will be instrumental in making sure each TAB Board Member gets maximum value from each TAB Board meeting by helping draw out actionable ideas and strategies to help improve the business and the business owner.

Coaching

Each of your TAB Board Members will meet (physically / virtually) with you each month, where you will be their accountability partner to make sure what they promised to themselves (and their Board) is implemented in their business.

Networking

You’ll attend business networking events in your local community or virtually, and even host a few of your own. You enjoy connecting with your local community and knowing a lot of people in the business community. You will deliver topic talks on business growth by local networking events where you will firstly provide value and explain why TAB offers a great benefit to the small to medium-sized business community.

Developing your Business

You’ll use multiple marketing and sales tools, including direct dialing, social media, email outreach, and in-person or virtual networking to explain what TAB does and how it can help business owners. You’ll meet face-to-face with potential strategic alliance partners, event hosts, and prospective TAB Board Members to determine whether there’s a good fit for potential partnership.

Consulting

As a trusted business advisor, you’ll get occasional business consulting assignments from your TAB Members. The scope of this opportunity can be as niche or as broad as you’d like to make it.

Facilitating

Coaching

Networking

Developing your Business

Consulting

As a trusted business advisor, you’ll get occasional business consulting assignments from your TAB Members. The scope of this opportunity can be as niche or as broad as you’d like to make it.

What’s included in a TAB membership?

Business Advisory Boards

As a TAB Member, you’ll gain community, confidence and strategic clarity. You’ll join a carefully selected group of 6-8 peers in your area, coming from a range of non-competing industries. In these monthly, half-day sessions, you’ll get the kind of practical advice and objective perspective that you can’t get from employees, family or friends – helping you make better, faster decisions. By sharing accountability and informed feedback, you’ll gain the personal and professional momentum to confidently achieve your goals.

One-to-one Executive Coaching

Beyond your TAB Board, one-on-one coaching will help you leave conflict, stress and roadblocks behind. With an experienced coach in your corner, you’ll get the personalized guidance you need to make difficult choices and hone your leadership skills. Your coach can help you clarify your vision, prioritize goals, set long-term objectives, gain objective insight into leadership challenges and much more. You’ll be able to enjoy profits and weekends again.

Strategic Tools

With TAB, you’ll get access to proven strategic business planning tools focused on forming your vision for both a successful business and a fulfilling life. Our Business Builder’s Blueprint™ will help you demystify the strategic planning process and provide a clear picture of how to achieve your strategic direction and vision. We can help you retire earlier and truly enjoy everything you’ve worked for.

Global Connections

Leave loneliness behind with your access to TAB Connect – our exclusive, online business network platform. You’ll connect with business owners from diverse backgrounds in similar verticals around the world – who all share TAB’s commitment to improving their businesses and changing their lives. Ask questions, get feedback and collaborate with other successful leaders.

Desired Skills

We’re looking for a business partner who will represent the TAB brand in the right way.

You may be the perfect fit if you exhibit these skills and attributes:

Business Expertise

You’re a growth expert in business, someone who has the ability to help a business grow through its people, its systems and its innovation.

Good Communicator

You’re someone people naturally like to converse with and open themselves up to. You understand that how well you listen is as important as what you say.

Expertise and Curiosity

You don’t have to know everything, but you do have an area of expertise. Perhaps even more important, you’re passionate about learning all areas of business.

Networking

TAB is looking for people who are prepared to spread the TAB message in their local community. This means meeting and sharing our great story with a lot of people in your business community.

Positive-Minded

TAB is an organization that helps local business communities. We’re looking for people who have a glass-half-full mentality, and who will represent what we do and our culture well.

Hardworking and Hungry

You know this is your business and are willing to work hard to build it to the level you need it to be. You consider yourself competitive, wanting to blaze new trails and break company records.

Steps to Become a TAB Business Owner

First Contact

First conversation
Learn what we do
Take several assessments, so we can make sure it will be a good fit for both sides

Discovery Day

Meet the Home Office Team
Attend a Board Meeting
Talk to other TAB Business Owners

Decision

Decision if it is a good fit for both sides
Sign agreement

Get Started

Attend virtual training or training at TAB’s Home Office
Launch your TAB Business

Allen Fishman, Founder and Executive Chairman:

The Rewards of Being a TAB Business Owner

Ramas Krishnan, Managing Director of TAB India:

The Rewards of Being a TAB Business Owner

Franchise investment ranging from ₹7.5 Lakhs – ₹25 Lakhs, in phases depending on available territory.

Our TBO Speak

“After the launch of my TAB business, I swiftly expanded it to include 15 TAB members within a matter of months. A crucial piece of advice I offer to prospective partners is the willingness to cultivate their own enterprises as TAB Business Owners, fostering positive change within the SME domain. The power of the TAB community and its established worldwide methodologies should be leveraged. It’s worth noting that TAB Facilitators, much like any other business proprietors, must maintain an openness to learning and personal growth.”

Ramesh Kumar Mani

TBO, TAB Chennai

“In my role as a TAB Business Owner, I’ve seen how I can help SME owners in Chennai discover their true potential in business and personal life. Introducing TAB to Chennai allows me to achieve my business and personal goals while supporting other business owners to do the same. With the support of the global TAB team and using proven tools that have worked for three decades worldwide, along with the peer board process, joining TAB could be one of the smartest investments you make for yourself and your business.”

Surendranathan Ardhanari

TBO, TAB Chennai

“TAB has given me the chance to leverage my experience and connections in the SME space that I have gained over the years. Your love for business and willingness to connect and collaborate with people is all that is needed to succeed”

– Madhavan Natarajan, TAB Business Owner, Puducherry