Franchise is only way

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Me neither

SuperDry has to be Kenny ...........................

Which part of it did you not understand?

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

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