Maid2Clean MD discusses the secret of his success

Maid2Clean's MD Mike Hanrahan spoke to industry consultant Martin Chambers about his company's cleaning franchise.

Martin Chambers: Could you share your background prior to starting your business?

Mike Hanrahan: My background is in Chemical Engineering, Purchasing, Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma.

MC: When did you establish Maid2Clean?

MH: This business started in 1993 when my now ex-wife was pregnant with our eldest daughter. The franchise business was launched after 10 successful years of operation.

MC: How did you come up with the idea to start this business?

MH: We looked at a variety of home-based business ideas, but wasn’t not happy with the constraints of traditional cleaning franchises at that time so we re-engineered the best elements of the business models we had seen.

MC: What were your main lifestyle and business goals when you established Maid2Clean?

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Maid2Clean Announce Franchisee Of the Year

The number one domestic cleaning franchise has just announced the Franchisee of the Year for 2010/2011.

Bob Lambert who runs his own Maid2Clean in Beckenham has been voted franchisee of the year in recognition of innovation suggestions during the year.

Bob states: “We chose Maid2Clean because we were looking for a management franchise with a simple business model – something where the goal is to build up the business to a certain level and where semi-retirement would be possible.

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Ovenclean Franchise Invests in Market Strategy

Ovenclean has commissioned market research into consumer attitudes to professional oven cleaning services.

The UK’s leading domestic oven cleaning franchise conducted this research in order to test awareness and to refine national and local marketing campaigns, aimed at driving more leads to the franchise network.

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Maid2clean Ideal Management Franchise

Maid2clean is one the UK’s largest management franchises in the domestic cleaning franchise industry.

Its network of franchisees provides reliable cleaners to help satisfy the increasing need for domestic cleaning services. Cheshire is home of this best thought out franchises business concepts available today but has now expanded throughout the UK and started master licensing globally.

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Pest Control Franchisees Case Studies

Never a man to shy away from a challenge, Steve Dale had been self employed for 12 years when he began to look for yet another test of his entrepreneurial spirit!

After looking at several franchise systems Steve says, "Some franchises were too large in terms of investment and others too small to be anything other than a source of secondary income." He goes on to say, "I wanted something that would offer me a good level of income but didn’t involve having to rent premises and employ staff from day one."

As a result Steve decided to join NBC Bird & Pest Solutions. He explains, "I wanted to be able to go into an established business where the infrastructure was already in place, and I was impressed by NBC’s business model and ongoing support."

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