[*foxman]

if you lose your house because you've bought into a franchise then it's your own fault.

The whole point of a franchise is that it is a proven business model that works in a variety of areas. Starting/buying a franchise that is only operating in one area is very foolish. Any viable franchisie would have a few operations working before they 'sold' themselves on to be credible. It's laughable to see window cleaning companies say 'i'm starting a franchise' when they are the only one working it, and if you buy into anyone who does that without a proven record you are really not suitable to be in business!!

[Clive McDonald]

I guessed something of the sort david.

There's not much training needed. Vivaro's are the van of choice although I drive a scudo.

You want something to take a min 650l (650kg) tank, but a 800 would be better.

Get designing your leaflet and signwriting.

[www.mrgutters.co.uk]

he didnt buy a franchise he invested money into the actual business ...this was when they first started selling franchises .

just a little warning to people not to part with there hard earned cash .. some companies are just dodgey!

shawn

[Ian Gourlay]

very  interesting post

Do not visit this section often

But when I left Retailing 20 years ago I saw an advert  for a Home Cleaning Company

Budget for  Little Cars Charging I think £15 an hour that time ago

I think eventually they were taken over by this company which I thought at one time was a division of a  large PLC



One of the Guys said they lie on Sales Calls what sort of lies.?

As far as the Window Cleaning side is concerned ,, the question to ask would be what can they do for you that you cannot do for yourself

Traing opportunties appear good in Water Fed Poles  etc


As I see it the hard bit is finding customers at an economical cost.


The contract cleaning franchises get mentioned a lot in The General Cleaning Section.

Most post warn people away. Just to avoid confusion I am  a Moderator on the Carpet Cleaning Section

[Clive McDonald]

My neigbours got a chemdry, he's happy.

On your side of things(general) molly maid etc sell themselves as management franchises. I don't know how true that is, but there are a lot of very smart wc's on this section who operate several vans and employ, but they still have to get their hands dirty.

[Spursboy1972]

My home are very heavy into passive marketing. They have only been trading for 4 years and are a plc.

Cant tell you much more as we are going to see a regional director soon under the pretense of being interested. I want to know as much as |I can mainly for curiosity.

[Clive McDonald]

In the jims mowing book (see ww if you want a copy) he was on the stand at the exhibition getting all the info, methodolgy, leaflets etc, and asking all the stupid questions when the big boss came back and did recognise and threw him off the stand.
He put many of these ideas to good use.

Similarly Felix Dennis tells the story of meeting and trying to sell to his hero, spider man creator stan Lee, and he too got thrown out of the building.

Let us know how you get on.