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We offer two routes to market:

Easy Track: suitable for someone starting from home with the aim of eventually trading full time.

Fast Track: sutiable for someone who wants to start a full-time studio based business within a few months.

With little or no experience of photography, our training will give you the knowledge and skill to set up a full or part time wedding and portrait business. Our tutors are simply the best, most experienced and successful in Portrait and Wedding Photography today.

Easy Track Franchise

Full Portrait and Wedding franchise £8,500 + VAT
This is designed to be totally flexible to help you get off the ground. An Easy-Track franchise can be full or part-time, whatever you need or want to do. If you want to concentrate on babies and families, then fine. If you want to do the whole Wedding and Portrait package, that’s fine too. After three years we would expect you to progress to operating full-time from your own studio.

Fast Track Franchise

Full Portrait and Wedding franchise £12,500 + VAT
•    Run your own professional studio within 2-3 months
•    Full training to take cutting-edge images
•    Business leads from day one
•    Excellent earnings potential

A Faster Route to Success

Responding to market demand for people who want a faster way to join the Barrett & Coe franchise we will give you all the training and support you need to become a professional photographer, operating out of your own studio within three months of being accepted.

Barrett & Coe Training and Support

Barrett and Coe training courses are exceptional. Our training includes regular seminars, one-on-one tutoring and the opportunity to accompany photographers on assignments.

All our leaders Andrew Coe, David MacDonald and Elaine Sheppard are experts in their field with proven stunningly successful career achievements.

We aim to be the best supported franchise network in the UK. We help you every step of the way, making sure that you are equipped with the knowledge and skills required to run your own photography franchise. You will benefit from ongoing training and support from us at the launch and on an ongoing basis as well as continuous network support from fellow franchisees.

You will also benefit from national promotions. These form a major part of Barrett & Coe’s support to franchisees. National promotions and partnerships are set up at Head Office level and generate franchisees additional booked sessions in their diaries or in some cases leads that they are able to follow up on and convert.

Be sure it’s right for you

You may be wary of committing a large capital sum to buy a franchise. Our training allows you to “try before you buy”. You can attend a one day seminar or one of our nationally recognised training courses to help you decide if our franchise is right for you. To take this route you will require a minimum of equipment

What we look for in a franchisee

Customer focussed
Committed to learn
A strong team player
Organised and disciplined
Customer driven
Business minded
and above all….. a very nice person

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Name: Julia Taylor
Location: Worthing
Franchise: Barrett & Coe – Fantastic Photography

Having worked in a corporate environment in the financial services industry for 20 years, the thought of becoming a full time photographer seemed completely out of reach as I had no experience. I had always been a keen amateur photographer and was always the one taking photos during social events with friends and family. Ready for a change in career, I started researching the various courses on offer and talking to colleges and training establishments. Then I found out about Barrett & Coe. It was very clear to see that their training programmes were extremely comprehensive and effective, and their support mechanisms were well established. I decided that I wanted to set up my own studio and opted to progress along the fast track franchise route. This option provided me with a comprehensive programme of photography training and business support and gave me all the knowledge and skills I needed in order to be up and running with my own studio in a matter of months.

The investment is worth it but you have to make sure you have enough to keep you going in the first few months you are starting, as there are obviously some outlays first before you start taking money!

We have ongoing training and help to ensure my business was running effectively, along with regular visits to the studio which included observations and feedback on viewing processes. We are also helped with ongoing National marketing initiatives and with identifying those local to us.

I will not say it was an easy 6 months to get started, as there was a lot of work involved in setting up the business, alongside all the photography training. However, I’ve never been shy of hard work, and did not begrudge the long hours I was working (after all, I was working for myself now) and I knew I would be the one to benefit from it in the end.... I also loved the challenge that I was giving myself. The support provided by Barrett and Coe was superb, with someone to help me along every step of the way.

The studio is progressing well. My diary is kept busy. There is never a quiet time, be it a shoot, a viewing, editing, admin, marketing, accounts etc, all such varied elements... I can honestly say that I absolutely love my job, and will never go back to the life I had before. I meet great people every day and its tremendous buzz to see them walk away so happy with the results of my work.