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Entries in home maintenance franchise (7)

Thursday
04Mar2010

Qualified Plumbers Join Home Service Franchise

YourPlumber franchisee, RobertRobert and his son were already qualified plumbers, but joining YourPlumber gave them a sense of security.

The pair recognised that the home service franchise was serving an ever-growing need in the UK for professional, reliable, customer-focused plumbers.

FS Blog: Why did you and your son decide to buy a franchise?

Robert:
The initial plan was to qualify and set up on our own, but as we came towards the end of our course, it started to dawn on us what we were trying to take on.

We started to read the statistics about small business start up failures and everything that was involved and to be honest we started to get quite worried.

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Wednesday
24Feb2010

Ex Consultant Joins Plumbing Franchise

Christine Armstrong left the corporate banking sector to find a recession-proof business with YourPlumber.

Christine still has an active interest in Forex trading and also the Prince’s Trust and is very excited working with the plumbing franchise to grow a substantial multi van business.

Dan Morris of YourPlumber says: “Christine is an excellent addition to our franchise network and the opportunity to grow a business with her is very exciting for us. Her enthusiasm, ambition and aggression with which she wants to grow the business are fantastic.

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Monday
08Feb2010

Scrappage Scheme Helps Home Maintenance Franchise 

The government’s boiler scrappage scheme has boosted Blazes’ enquiries by 1,000%.

The scheme, which was announced in Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report at the end of last year and launched on 5 January, aimed to encourage the estimated 4.5 million households with G-rated boilers to replace them with A-rated boilers that emit less carbon.

The response from the public has been so enthusiastic that the Energy Savings Trust, which oversees the scheme, has struggled to clear the backlog of applications. In the first month alone, around 40,000 people applied for the £400 cash-back vouchers, snapping up a third of the 125,000 available.

Steve Bate took on a Blazes home maintenance franchise in October 2009 as a bolt-on to his existing business.

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Friday
08Jan2010

Home-Based Franchise Provides Full-Time Income

Blazes franchisee Trevor HatchBlazeshome maintenance franchise allows you to work part-time, but enjoy a full-time income.

Trevor Hatch and his wife Cheryl bought the home based franchise and were pleasantly surprised to make six sales from eight leads in his first month alone. The couple have also enjoyed a 75% lead-to-sale conversion ratio – and all from working part-time!

For 10 years, the couple have been running a candle manufacturing and retail business in Ribble Valley, Lancashire. However, due to the seasonal nature of the business, they decided to look for an additional revenue stream to supplement their existing income.

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Tuesday
29Dec2009

Plumber Franchise Owner on YourPlumber

The latest YourPlumber franchisee, Robert Haywood, has been stunned by the volume of work he’s had in his first month at the home maintenance franchise.

Robert, who covers the Romford and Ilford territory in Essex, says:

“I was really enthusiastic and excited following my business training course with YourPlumber and couldn’t wait to get going, although I obviously still had fears about how it would all actually take off.

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