Budget Blinds Redefines its Business Model Because of the Coronavirus

Now, after implementing and finding success with virtual consultations to meet customer demand during the coronavirus, locally owned Budget Blinds franchises have added a best-in-class, web-based consultative service for homeowners wanting to complete the window covering design process 100% online. Returning customers can choose between traditional in-home and virtual consultations to complete their home renovations.

More than Budget Blinds franchises in the U.S., Canada and Mexico provide custom window coverings for residential and commercial customers through in-home and in-office consultations that allow franchise owners to serve their communities while adhering to social distancing and other virus-prevention practices.

Implemented in February after the CDC and local and state authorities mandated shelter-in-place orders, the Budget Blinds virtual consultations allow local designers to meet with homeowners, take measurements, present design options and provide finished blinds, shutters, shades, drapery and other customized solutions without actually visiting the customer’s home.

“Budget Blinds is officially reopening in the communities we call home to serve the customers that are also our neighbors,” said Doug Phillips, Budget Blinds president. “While we’ve been able to serve customers virtually the past few months, today’s reopening gives our franchise owners more options for transforming homes than ever before.”

“What I’m proudest about from a customer service standpoint is being able to take the popular Budget Blinds in-home consultation and convert it into a 100% virtual process without sacrificing our reputation for personalized service and results.”

Budget Blinds is the largest window covering franchise in North America. Collectively, Budget Blinds small business owners across North America employ thousands, serve more than 10,000 communities and have dressed more than 25 million windows since 1992.

Budget Blinds is one of four home improvement brands owned by Irvine, Calif.-based Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) along with Tailored Living®, Concrete Craft® and AdvantaClean®.

In addition, as part of the its long-term Heart & Home community service initiative, Budget Blinds partners with such organizations as Home for our Troops and Wounded Warriors Canada to help veterans and others realize their dreams of work, career advancement, home ownership and transition after military service. Budget Blinds also actively supports Working Wardrobes to provide job training, placement and wardrobe services to give those in need the chance to take their place in the workforce.

Budget Blinds® is the largest window covering franchise in North America, offering custom blinds, shutters, shades, drapery, and more for residential and commercial consumers in more than 10,000 communities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Budget Blinds’ nearly 900 business owners have dressed more than 25 million windows since the brand’s founding in 1992. Budget Blinds is part of the Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) family of home improvement goods and services brands.

Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) is one of the world’s largest franchising systems in the home improvement goods and services space, among the world’s largest franchise businesses and a recognized leader in franchisee-franchisor relationships. HFC’s four brands including Budget Blinds, Tailored Living®, Concrete Craft® and AdvantaClean® are consistently rated at the top of their categories and supported by more than1,700 franchise territories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.