Franchise Marketing

One brand. Every location. Store-level proof.

We run paid media, local visibility, and CRM-integrated campaigns for franchise systems, including brands with 100+ locations. Budgets pace at the store level, reporting reads at the store level, and the brand stays consistent everywhere, which is how franchisees stop asking whether corporate's marketing actually works.

100+ locationsour largest franchise systems run integrated campaigns across more than a hundred stores
Store-level pacingbudgets tracked and paced per location, with alerts before overspend, not after
Franchisee-grade reportingevery operator sees their own store's numbers, not a system-wide average
Why Two Trees

Franchise marketing fails at the seam between national and local.

Brand teams optimize the system. Franchisees care about their four walls. Most agencies serve one and lose the other. The engagement is built to serve both with the same data.

Store-level budget pacing

Every location's spend is tracked and paced individually, with automated monitoring that flags overs and unders before month-end instead of explaining them after. Co-op and ad fund dollars get spent where they were promised.

Local campaigns, national consistency

Campaign structures template at the brand level and localize at the store level: geo-targeting, local copy, store-specific offers and tracking. Franchisees get local relevance without fifty flavors of off-brand creative.

Reporting franchisees actually trust

System averages breed suspicion. Every operator sees their own store's spend, leads, and outcomes, and corporate sees the rollup plus the outliers. When the numbers are visible at the store level, the validation conversations get short.

Unit economics as the north star

App downloads, online orders, booked jobs, or walk-ins, whatever the unit-level outcome is, our tracking ties spend to it per store. Marketing that can't show up in a store's P&L doesn't survive a franchisee meeting, and shouldn't.

The truth is

The ad fund is a trust exercise, and most systems are failing it.

Every franchise system runs on the same fragile agreement: franchisees contribute to marketing they don't control, and corporate promises the money comes back as customers. When reporting arrives as system-wide averages and brand-awareness decks, that agreement erodes. Operators start running their own local ads, creative fragments, budgets duplicate, and the brand pays for the same customer twice while looking inconsistent doing it.

The fix isn't more persuasive decks. It's store-level proof: every location's spend paced and visible, every location's outcomes tracked to its own P&L, and a campaign architecture that gives operators local relevance inside national guardrails. When a franchisee can see their own store's cost per order or booked job, the validation meeting turns into a budget meeting, which is the meeting you actually want.

Franchisees don't distrust marketing. They distrust marketing they can't see at their own store. Show them the unit-level numbers and the whole system moves faster.

We've built the store-level pacing, tracking, and reporting infrastructure for systems past the hundred-location mark, including the unglamorous plumbing like store-coded campaign naming and automated pacing alerts. It's operations work as much as marketing work, and it's why it holds at scale.

The difference

What switching actually changes.

Most agenciesTwo Trees
BudgetsSystem-wide pool, pacing discovered at month-endStore-level pacing with automated alerts before overspend
ReportingSystem averages in a quarterly deckEvery franchisee sees their own store's numbers
Campaign structureOne national campaign or fifty rogue local onesBrand-level templates localized per store
CreativeInconsistent, or generic to the point of invisibleOn-brand systems localized by market, production included
AccountabilityBrand awareness and vibesCost per unit-level outcome, store by store
How we work

Root. Grow. Scale.

The same three-stage framework runs every engagement. What changes is the size of your system.

Root

Build the store-level foundation

Discovery on your unit economics, ad fund structure, and franchisee dynamics. Then the infrastructure: store-coded tracking, location-level conversion data, budget pacing systems, and a campaign template built for localization.

Grow

Roll out market by market

Campaigns launch in waves across the system with local targeting and store-level dashboards live from day one. Pacing alerts run automatically, and early markets prove the model before the full rollout.

Scale

Compound across the system

Winning structures replicate to every location, underperforming markets get diagnosed with their own data, and new stores onboard into proven templates in days. The system gets smarter with every location's results.

The first 90 days

What the first 90 days look like.

Days 1–30 Foundation
  • System, ad fund, and tracking audit
  • Store-level tracking and budget pacing built
  • Brand campaign templates and localization rules set
  • Franchisee reporting dashboards designed
Days 31–60 Rollout
  • First wave of markets live
  • Store-level attribution verified end to end
  • Pacing alerts running across active locations
  • Early-market results reviewed with operators
Days 61–90 Scale
  • Full system rollout underway
  • Budgets rebalanced on store-level outcome data
  • Local SEO and AI visibility roadmap prioritized
  • 90-day review with corporate and franchisee views

The price is the price. Here it is.

Paid media fees are a published percentage of ad spend, and SEO packages are listed with exact monthly deliverables. Franchise systems typically invest $10,000 or more a month per channel across the system. It's all on the pricing page, before you've spoken to anyone.

See our pricing
Questions

Franchise marketing questions, answered straight.

The questions we hear most from franchise marketing leaders and the operators they answer to.

Can you actually manage campaigns for 100+ locations?

Yes, we run integrated campaigns for systems past the hundred-location mark today. The way it scales is infrastructure: store-coded campaign structures, location-level conversion tracking, automated budget pacing with alerts, and dashboards that read per store. Systems fail at scale when they're managed by hand. Ours are managed by systems with humans making the decisions.

How do you keep budgets from overspending at the store level?

Every location's spend is paced individually against its budget with automated monitoring that flags projected overs and unders mid-month, while there's still time to act. Co-op and ad fund allocations get spent where they were committed, and month-end reporting confirms what the pacing already showed rather than delivering surprises.

What do franchisees actually see?

Their own store: spend, leads or orders, cost per outcome, and trends, without needing to trust a system average. Corporate sees the rollup, the distribution, and the outliers. In our experience the store-level view is what converts skeptical operators, because it moves the conversation from whether marketing works to what their number should be next quarter.

How do you balance brand consistency with local relevance?

Templates with localization rules. Creative systems, offers, and campaign structures are built at the brand level, then localized per market: geo-targeting, store details, local copy variations, and market-appropriate budgets. Operators get campaigns that feel local. The brand team gets a system that never goes off-brand, because the guardrails are built into the template.

Can you tie marketing to store-level outcomes like orders or booked jobs?

That's the core of the build. Whether the unit outcome is app downloads, online orders, booked appointments, or store visits, tracking is wired per location so spend ties to outcomes at the store level. It's the same server-side, CRM-connected measurement we run in every industry, structured for multi-location attribution.

How much does franchise marketing cost?

Our paid media management is a published percentage of ad spend with a $10,000 monthly minimum per channel, and SEO packages run $2,999 to $5,999 a month with counted deliverables. All of it is on our pricing page. For systems, the more useful number is per-store economics, and we'll model those with you against your unit-level outcome targets before anything launches.

Next step

Find out what your system's store-level numbers look like.

Send us your location count, unit economics, and current setup. We'll tell you what store-level infrastructure would change, what it costs, and how fast a rollout could run. If your current program already reads clean at the store level, we'll say so.