Franchise is only way

Sure thing Mr.Ream.

Mr. Clean why do you say franchise is the only way to go?  Thats like

saying Mexican food it the only way to go.  A franchises has its advantage

instant creditability, a proven way of doing business that works for the

company, and so on.  Franchises also have its draw backs such as

territory, prices, and the fact that you will never really own it.  You will

always have someone telling you what you can and cant do.  To me this is
why owning you business trumps all, for you are truly 100% in control.  As

far as cost when I looked into it was some time ago but think you could

start for as little as 35k down, and they would carry you on the rest. 

Considering I just spent about 60k on a truck mount and van, and then

still have advertising cost.  So would say franchise is cheaper unless they

start like you say with a grocery store machine and hatch back. You sound
very convinced that it is better, may be I don't see what you do, but

would like to hear you reasons.  Not the stupid reasons like using a

grocery rental or franchises do better work, because I take more business
away from franchises then smaller businesses.


Edited by bryan - 12/March/2007 at 11:36pm

    Yup and the guys posting on this board,saying Franchisses are the only way to go will be joining the " I wish I never did that" club right shortly.
Been there done that:(

he says mom and pop cleaners are always low balling??? Aren't the big franchises the ones that usually push prices down???

No way!  The big cleaners are the ones killing us on the prices! Maybe not chem dry, but everytime I turn around, stamely steamer has the 99 dollar deal.

I think most franchises tend to charge more. I think most ar paying 7% or more to the man.

Franchise or No Franchise? I worked 7 years for a Chem Dry Franchise and some of the homes we went into would say things like "I heard Chem Dry was bad cuz they use harsh chemicals". Well a lot of people think that. Why? Because it's a well known franchise and yes some good is said of them and some bad, but word spreads. With a franchise, you have to use the equipment and chemicals that they make you use and you have to pay a premium price for them. Your overhead goes up, while your profit goes down. You have to get premium price in order to make a living. Then you have the franchises that decide they want to grow. They don't train their techs like they should, and send em out on their own after two weeks. They don't know what they are doing, do a crap job and make it much nicer for those mom and pops that get to go in and clean up after the inexperience franchise tech. Along with all of that crap to deal with, you have to compete with other franchises that are in your area, then you are starting to make less profit because the franchise down the street will do the job for $10.00 less. The carpet cleaning market is over saturated with franchises. If one franchisee does a horrible job, he just lost you business because you have the same name as him. Think about it.

Mom and pops- Get to use any type of equipment they want. Don't have a ton of overhead. Can spend more time cleaning on one job and be able to talk to the customer and educate them. Don't have to rush from job to job to make a buck. Don't have to pay a lot for cleaning chemicals, and can make a name for themselves that they don't have to pay someone to use.

In my opinion, Mom and pops aren't so bad.

    

Edited by SuperDry - 31/March/2007 at 9:20am